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Image: /tus @ Flickr. Living On Virtual Fish Tim Howgego Keywords: Affiliate advertising, website monetarization, virtual worlds, gaming, wow.
Source: fishtycoon.com.
Source: WoW, Blizzard Entertainment. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
1. The “Learn2Play” Market
“ The game [book] publishing biz might just be the biggest industry you’ve never heard of. Publishers rake in about $100 million a year. … The Halo 2 guide sold nearly as many copies in its first week as Bill Clinton’s autobiography did.” Source: Marketplace, publicradio.org.
Source: elsanglin.com.
Virtual fishing guides… WTF? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Easy to Learn, Hard to Master Game Complexity Extent of Play Mass market? Hardcore?
$2+ mil book sales revenue/year Estimated from Amazon rankings.
$1.5+ mil ad revenue/year? Very rough estimated total for Affinity Media.
$1.5+ mil sales  revenue/year Estimated total for commercial online guides. Spugnort network $1+mil alone.
2. Publishing with Affiliate Advertising
“ Don’t apologise for advertising!” (But do decide on the division of advertising and content.)
Iterative Improvement Guess Evaluate Improved Guess Evaluate Balance displays
$0.25 Equivalent earnings per thousand page views – first month average. $1.50 $5.00
Watch Some Metrics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
0.22% clicks/view
0.34% clicks/view
x 100 + 2-3 months Cashflow Equation:
But in the future… More varied advertising  Aiming for more repeat visits Guides not selling as well as they used to More competition to sell + game changes This isn’t sustainable? MMOGs don’t last forever
3. Monetarization Based on Nothing?
Referred from a Website Buys Access to Paid Online Guide Uses that Knowledge in a Virtual Environment Player Seeks Knowledge of Game
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],What’s so special?
Image: clickr_clickr @ Flickr.
Source: Hot-or-Not. Sold 100,000+ in the first year.
“ 5 years from now [2006], I think the impact of their work will be widespread and deeply meaningful in ways we can't even comprehend yet.” James Hong on Hot-or-Not's Virtual Flowers.
Art: simianuprising.com. Tim Howgego tim @ capsu.org tim.capsu.org www.elsanglin.com

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