How Does Drudge Make Money?
May 25th, 2008 by Micah Tillman | 6 Comments |
If you visit the Drudge Report, you’ll no doubt have noticed how often the advertisements aren’t displayed properly. Frequently, adverts appear in spaces that are too small for them, leaving parts (sometimes large parts) of the advert undisplayed.
Take the following screenshots for example:
Included above you see partially-displayed advertisements for classmates.com, Fisher Investments, American Apparel Store, University of Phoenix, and some company the link to which is here, but isn’t working.
Because the advertisement was cut off on that last company, and the link wasn’t working, I have no idea who they are or what they’re selling. Are they getting their money’s worth out of the Drudge Report?
In fact, I’d like to see what advertising packages DrudgeReport.com offers its advertisers, such that some of their advertisements end up getting only partially displayed some of the time. Is there perhaps a package they could upgrade to which would provide full display of their advertisements all of the time?
Magic.
Like a goose who lays golden eggs maybe?
Btw, wouldn’t such a goose drive down the general market-value of gold by making it less scarce? Don’t you really need a goose who steals other people’s golden eggs?
Yes, the goose would indeed drive down the market price of gold. Nevertheless, the person with the gold would still do pretty well since he’s getting it for nothing and the gold would still be worth something. Actually, the goose would have to lay a fairly phenomenal amount of golden eggs to really impact the price of gold too much.
The Spanish, after coming to the Americas, brought a great deal of “treasure” back (gold and silver). Spain then experienced inflation of about 300%. Spain ended up with a lot more money, but no more wealth, much to their surprise. Considering the vast riches in actual wealth the Americas had, it was like Spain robbed a bank and only took the deposit slips. Of course, they had no idea this would happen. David Hume had not yet explained monetary phenomena like this one.
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