Forum:Wikia Achieves Profitability

http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia:Press:_Profitability_and_triple_digit_growth

What does this mean for the ads? -- LordTBT Talk! 18:44, September 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * They'll probably stay, because it's the only way to earn money (except for donations). Mark (Tedjuh10) - Talk 19:01, September 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * The purpose of the excessive ads to was to reach this point, given that profitability has occurred I would think a bit of a de-escalation would be nice. However if we still only got more ads I wouldn't be surprised. -- LordTBT Talk! 03:20, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * The article was only covering the increase of user; it didn't mention how much money was made or lost. As far as we know, Wikia may still be not making any money. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 19:26, September 11, 2009 (UTC)


 * I recommend viewing the article again. The article is about achieving profitability AND user growth. This growth allowed Wikia to achieve profitability a year early and to further expand its engineering, sales and community teams. They couldn't expand those sectors without more money. -- LordTBT Talk! 02:51, September 12, 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that link – very good news because it means our wikis are likely to continue to exist, and the support will continue. Given that Wikia is a business, I would expect them to want to make a profit for at least a year before they think about scaling back the adverts. Wikia needs to get to a position of power: where advertisers want Wikia to take their ads. If Wikia gets too pushy too early, the advertisers could depart, which would lead to the demise of the structure which provides our wikis. JohnBeckett 10:13, September 12, 2009 (UTC)