Hello, i have a question. Is our internet users still interested in funny pictures, comics, fails and etc. blogs? As we know we have really lot of them. Is this is the good topic for blog with which is possible to earn money?
It would be a good idea to do a little keyword research to which way you should go with something like that... but personally, I still love those types of blogs~
Everybody needs a good laugh so an entertainment or funny blog will always be welcome online. You need to do some market research and build a list of your target keywords first. There are plenty of blogs/sites in the same niche so you need to work out what sub-niche you can dominate.
Fun and Entertainment are those things whose demand will never end. In this fast life everyone wants some fun and entertainment to relax. So, go ahead.
yes everyone needs entertainment for time-pass however advertisers pay less for entertainment related websites than tech/finance/health niches. so better re-think about your niche if you've interest in other areas that i have mentioned.
I think advertisers will pay much regardless of the niche a site in as long as that site is popular (i.e. high rank in search engines, massive traffic). I remember flowgo being a small site before but is now huge. I am pretty sure that advertisers pay to get a banner on their site.
Yes, I think people are always interested in fun and I think its demand never end. The main thing you had to focus is that don't copy/paste the old pictures and jokes that people already know. It will bore them and they will not came back again. People are always looking for new things and new stuff. So if you had some great and new ideas , I think your site will definitely run.
I also think that entertaining blogs are interesting to people. My friend runs a blog about satirical situations on tv and he's quite successful with it. But i don't know whether he tries earning money with it! anyway make a research of the existing blogs on this topic and you'll see wether it's worth to put efforts in creating of such a blog!
Entertainment has got incredible potential as a theme for a blog, but you should keep in mind the quality of content which is posted, it should be really interesting and rather laughable. The design of such blog should reflect its theme, be bright and colorful. There should also be used an array of marketing strategical moves to increase the blog's rating
The content by itself won't make your humor site a success if success means money. As far as humor/funny/laugh being a valid pull for traffic, absolutely! The quickest way for me to prove this is by just asking you to look at the view counts on YouTube videos that would fit within the genre. Some of the most viewed videos on YouTube, usually only falling behind music videos from huge entertainers (like the Beebs), are humor related videos. People love to laugh (aside from your grumpy uncle who refuses to do anything with his mouth but smoke, drink, complain, and frown) and there will always be room for another site in the humor genre, as long as that site is willing to provide the content that people want. Humor is highly competitive so you will need to be aggressive and resourceful to carve out your own small piece of the market. One of the reasons that it is so competitive is that it is so hard to get unique content that is truly brandable. Regarding the comment about needing unique content though, that is absolutely unnecessary. Unless it is something unique that you can brand, and repeat that over and over with more unique stuff, unique doesn't give much of an edge when it comes to things like videos and images. Everyone will be grabbing it up and throwing it all over the place, including just copying your content to their site, with or without giving credit. Your best bet is to provide a steady stream of good content while working extra hard at building up a loyal group of followers. Take full advantage of social media and web 2.0 platforms. Make use of newsletters and get obsessed with scoping out your competition to make sure you are staying on top of everything new that they have and you don't. A humor site is tough to get a footing with, but once you get a nice number of recurring visitors, they should help you snowball if you are treating them right and pushing them in the right direction without scaring them off.
Yet, I guess that the humorous content you're offering at the site should be unique to a certain extent, I'm not saying it won't be copied, even without any credit to you. But still,this is what you will attract your audience with (they haven't seen this or that image/video yet) and, thus increase your traffic
I agree Tom that having your own unique jokes, videos, pics, etc is a great thing and will help attract an audience, but one thing to remember is "What makes content unique to a user". The wonderful thing about people is that nobody has the exact same experiences, knowledge, or memories as someone else. That is one of the great things about being human, we are all individuals. That said, what makes content unique to a user is whether or not they have seen it yet. The amount of funny/humorous stuff out there is vast, way more than a single person could likely experience in a lifetime (I would say guaranteed, but this is one of those things that would be left up to theory). You don't want to think of unique content for users in the same way that you think about unique content to "the all seeing eye" of the great Google bot. Your average user has seen a miniscule amount of what is out there, and your obsessed (10 hours a day looking at funny stuff, assuming there are some people out there who do that) user will be limited to seeing a few percent of the total. Having this amazing amount of funny stuff out there makes it easier to create a "unique" site by recycling content that already exists because of how many people have not seen it. Having you own content is great, but in this niche, it is all too easy to just use what is already available and have it be new to a large percentage of your users, on a piece-by-piece basis. Even taking something that another site posted 6 months ago, there is a great chance that many of the users of that site haven't seen it, and an even great chance it is new to the users on your site. Don't forget that what makes us laugh ones has a decent chance at making us laugh again. It might not be new, but we might have forgotten about it and the memory of it doesn't necessarily ruin it for us upon seeing it again.
A website like that is rarely profitable nowadays. First of all the competition is huge if you can't provide original and fresh content daily. Secondly, advertisers pay really low to advertise on sites like that due to the low converting traffic.
Yes, in fact stuff like that is still growing in popularity. Anything that you can use to drive a lot of traffic, you can then make money with! Fails and stuff like that tend to go really viral.
Well, I guess that the thing is that you should work with your fun site much (the content and its promo in social media at least) to get sufficient traffic. Then, the advertisers would care to pay more