Adult friendly banner networks?
One of my fellow webmasters is thinking about starting
a hentai (adult Japanese animation pictures) website. I
am trying to determine if this is economically
feasible.
One of the necessary conditions of the website is that
it not charge any membership fees, i.e. viewing content
is free. The problem is, this would run up the
bandwidth costs pretty quickly, so there would have to
be some way of recovering the costs.
I looked into running pay-per-click ads for non-free
hentai sites, but found in the small print that they
require 1/500 of the clickthroughs to sign up in order
to pay for every click (known as a ratio). I talked
with some other free hentai webmasters and they said
that they were not able to satisfy the ratio, because
people who visit free hentai sites are generally the
kind of visitor who will spend hours searching for free
content instead of paying for membership at a non-free
site, so they generally don't sign up. (The
aforementioned free hentai webmasters are paying for
bandwidth costs out of pocket.)
So I am trying to find other options. The big banner
networks I know of like Advertising.com and Flycast.com
do not allow adult sites. In particular, I'm wondering
if there is a good banner network that allows adult
websites to display their ads (not necessarily a
network that only displays adult banners; in fact, I
would not have any non-animation adult banners to be
displayed on my site because some visitors only like
animated pictures). Does anyone have suggestions of
networks to look at, or good directory sites for this
etc.?
Thanks,
-Philip Mak
(mfraser_at_seas.gwu.edu)
Received on Tue Jul 25 2000 - 18:10:53 CDT
