[OSM-dev] Seperate Advertisements fom osm stuff please

[80n]

Nick
Approximate revenue split:
Google = 0%
Storage Depot = 40%
Donations=50%
Misc=10% (Amazon, etc)

IMHO Google are doing themselves no favours if they don't exercise any
quality control over their advertisers.

80n

On 1/16/07, Nick Hill <nick at nickhill.co.uk> wrote:
>
> How much revenue do those ads actually draw?
>
> Does most of the money come from donations?
>
> Is it possible we could have more donations without the ads?
>
> How could we use that space more effectively for OSM if it wasn't used for
> ads?
> Eg would the space be used for effectively with a call for donations (Like
> wikipedia?)
>
> These are not rhetorical questions.
>
> Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) wrote:
> >> Can we PLEASE make really clear which is advertisement and what is
> OSM-stuff.
> >> I think, simply adding someting like
> >
> > Reminds me of how I recently drew ridicule from a colleague to whom I
> > preached about the benefits of having free and open map data. He said
> > that Google Maps was all he needed, and I was stupid enough to reply
> > something along the lines "and even if these commercial services are
> > free of charge, you always have nasty advertising" - prompting him to
> > point out the advertising on the OSM pages.
> >
> > Bye
> > Frederik
> >
>
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