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metaThought

I'm not sure if it's my network or the video, but it ends abruptly in the middle. I tried it twice and it ends at where Ron asks him "How did you do this" or something like that.

benjamin44

I have the same problem. Video abruptly ends after about 5 minutes.

ZippyV
Fired Up

I checked out plentyoffish.com and I'm not impressed: the search function is broken, lot's of pages don't exists, comboboxes are too small, the style of the site is awful.
I'm surprised people still sign up.

rojacobs
Ron Jacobs

Sorry - I've been using the beta version of the Expression Media Encoder which may be causing the problem. I've re-encoded with different settings and you can download the video from http://files.skyscrapr.net/users/arcast/tv/ARCastTV20070802-PlentyOfFish2.wmv

If you want to see it in the silverlight player mode check out http://files.skyscrapr.net/users/arcast/tv/silverlight/default.html

P.S. I'm trying to update the show episode but for some reason it won't take.

dutch_guilder

> ZippyV: I checked out plentyoffish.com and I'm not impressed

PlentyOfFish.com isn't pretty, but Mr. Frind has said in interviews that:
- it earns a profit "North of $5M per year"
- he only works less than 2 hours a day
- it handles 1B pages/month on 1 web + 2 db servers and no tech staff

And a much smaller competitor was recently been acquired for $75M.
Impressed yet?

nailed_to_a_tree

What's with the WMV? Can you re-post in Flash so everyone can see it?

krs1

" - it earns a profit "North of $5M per year"

Really, is that just purely from Google Ads, as the site doesn't charge a joining fee.

I'd be interested to know if anyone has any more information on the revenue model for this site, very interesting case, considering as many have pointed out that the website itself is quite poor.

dutch_guilder

POF gets revenue from AdSense. Here is link from to Markus' famous $1M (almost) cheque from Google in Feb/06: http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/07/small-companies-google-adsense-is-the-future/

dutch_guilder

Also interesting is that POF gets 100% of its revenue from Adsense, but people like www.johnchow.com say that Adsense is a poor way to monetize a site. JohnChow says that Adsense generates only about 6% of income on his sites, so applying JC's business model to POF would generate North of $90M/yr!

http://www.johnchow.com/john-chow-dot-com-blog-income-report-july-2007/