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Failures

by Mike Masnick

Tue, Dec 18th 2001 4:24pm





AdCritic Shuts Down

from the but...-but...-where-will-I-get-to-see-the-Superbowl-commercials? dept

We've discussed adcritic here before. It was definitely one of the more useful sites out there, but the big question was always whether or not they could ever find a business model. It turns out, in the end, they couldn't figure out any business model, and so they're out of money. No matter what business model they worked out, it would have been difficult, because the more people who use their site, the higher their costs go, since streaming video takes up so much bandwidth. It's too bad they couldn't come up with something valuable, though.

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    Kontiki or one of those other p2p distro platforms

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 18th, 2001 @ 4:42pm

    They should have tried Kontiki or one of those other p2p media distribution platforms that let the cost curve scale more gracefully with the number of users...

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    No Subject Given

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 18th, 2001 @ 5:38pm

    It's really sad because I had emailed them a proposal for an "AD Critic" Video show that would have been able to receive sponsorship and make money for their site. This proposal was sent to them over six months ago. I never heard one response from them and I also called and left several messages. Oh well... The answers were right in front of them and they didn't realize it.

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    SO...

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    mhh5, Dec 18th, 2001 @ 6:17pm

    What happens to all of their "content"?

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    Re: Proposal

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    Rakim, Jun 2nd, 2002 @ 12:07am

    Hi,

    I was wondering if you could send me the proposal because I'm looking to launch a site like AdCritic.com and Ads.com.

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