RIP: We Loved You But God Loved You Better

Introduction

People over the centuries have often looked for ways to earn a living. As they are supposed to support themselves and their families livelihood, they have laid their hands on anything which can earn them revenue. With the coming of the internet, many saw an avenue which can be used to make an extra time to put food on the table. It therefore goes without say that the internet is one way of earning a livelihood.

One can sell nearly everything on the internet. There are ready customers eager enough to purchase your goods. Services come in handy too.

Video creators, content writers and other services also find a market for their services on the net. It is on this background that revenue sharing platforms emerged. Yet not all of them were successful. Some died on the way and we're buried.

Why do sites become defunct?

. There are site owners who become greedy. They want to consume all they earn and deny those they promised to share with. This is a disease so common with human beings and can be found in any sphere of life.

. There are site owners who promise to pay their contributors much more revenue than what they earn. Mostly site owners earn through the ads displayed on their sites by companies like Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Amazon or eBay. These companies pay according to the clicks on their ads. As you may know, not all the months have the same amount of clicks. Some are high while others are low. It therefore happens that the revenue sharing sites promise a constant payment per view, like or comment. This amount grow and may be higher than what they receive from the ads. This will make it hard to pay its subscribers and end up going under.

. There are sites which pay too little making the contributors grow tired and stop posting. The companies therefore lack money to keep them afloat and die a natural death.

. Some sites are just prone to fail. If maybe you are doing it because so and so is doing then you are prone to fail.

The Sites Which Became Defunct

Bubblews

Bubblews was a mixture between being a revenue-sharing site and a social networking site like Facebook.

It used to pay $0.01 per view to your post  and $0.01 for every comment, like or social media share you received on your post of 400 characters. One was supposed to make a maximum of 10 posts per day.

Payment was through PayPal once you had earned $50.

Freelancers made a lot of money as they were not looking for polished English. As long as one could communicate in English, the better. Punctuating your work was not even an issue.

Yet Bubblews went under. Its founder Avi Dixit invested in another venture but I do not know how it went.

BlogBourne was another content sharing site. It also promised to share revenue 

One could write engaging articles in the site. There were many contests in the site. One contest, 'forty knives', was the best. One was supposed to write a fictional story based on the person who was operated and forty knives were found in his stomach.

Narrative

Narrative also came online. They we're paying monthly.

Narrative was a Crypto Social Media. It had its coin named Nrve. It took the internet by wave but the owners decided to stop. They paid the Nrve they held to its members and went under. RIP Narrative.

Niume

This was another site which was a collaborative site. A person could join different spheres and post.

Niume also went under.

Tinycent

This was one site that was prone to fail. Its name suggests it was tiny. It came and went just in the same way.

 

Lesson To Learn

All that glitters is not Gold. All people must beware of the sites which spring up online.