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Originally Posted by tony404
Actually that's going to be changing soon. I read an article that the news sites are going to be starting a pay subscription model. Ads doing work and I think there are so many ads on line people become blind to them. I dont think they are getting the result the ad buyers want especially when you add ad blocker plugins.
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The pay subscription model for news is pretty much a "fail" from the word go. Even the very best news organizations that have tried it have backed away from it pretty quickly. The internet is awash with news, so there is no reason to pay for news. Unless CNN, Drudge, and Foxnews suddenly start charging, there is little chance that anyone else would do it and retain a huge audience, unless they are massively niche.
People only pay for what they cannot get for free. If everyone else gives it away for free, there is no reason to pay.
@HP: I have looked all over, and I have not found a third route to go down. Even the most advanced sites out there still end up either as paid shills or as free sites with paid advertisers. The internet aggregates eyeballs, and that is the value.
Where does the money come from? It comes from your own pocket, advertisers, or users. There is effectively no ISP premium content market (although there may be some market for selling PPV events to ISPs to distribute to their local users). But still, that gets back to one of three sources of income. Is there a fourth source of income I am not seeing?