Give me a break. Slashdot is not an advertiser's dream, that's so naive. Yahoo makes tons of money off advertising because it's a *consumer* site. Cars, beauty products, entertainment companies bring in lots of ad revenue cause they appeal to the masses. Geeks are not a popular audience for consumer advertisers and that's why the CPM is really low for geek sites. They're also extremely unlikely to buy thousands of dollars' worth of conputer systems, like management and other decisionmakers.
So yeah, i wonder how Andover thinks they're going to make money on their new purchases. And whether investors will buy it.
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Give me a break. Slashdot is not an advertiser's dream, that's so naive. Yahoo makes tons of money off advertising because it's a *consumer* site. Cars, beauty products, entertainment companies bring in lots of ad revenue cause they appeal to the masses. Geeks are not a popular audience for consumer advertisers and that's why the CPM is really low for geek sites. They're also extremely unlikely to buy thousands of dollars' worth of conputer systems, like management and other decisionmakers.
So yeah, i wonder how Andover thinks they're going to make money on their new purchases. And whether investors will buy it.