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Later still, Google developed a system to maximize the profitability of the ad-based model.
On a call with analysts, Jim Meyer, SiriusXM's chief executive, said the acquisition would enable Sirius to try to keep listeners who did not want to pay for music by diverting them toward Pandora's free ad-based model.
"It's hard to do that on ad-based model".
In an industry of shrinking ad rates, even the idea of a partially ad-based model is a tough sell.
The ad-based model is the leading model used for app monetization, and as the statistics show, it performs better than IAPs.
Moreover, the issues of slim margins on ads that even exist for large, world-famous publications are only compounded for smaller ones: they have a hard time getting the economies of scale needed to make the ad-based model work.
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Dunham and Konner told AdAge they always intended to fund the newsletter through advertising: "We knew we couldn't pay for it out of our own pockets forever, so we considered both subscription and ad-based models.
"Pre-October, most business plans were ad-based models, and all of a sudden the entire world decided they were virtual goods or subscription models, and I just find those overreactions crazy," said David Sze, a partner at Greylock Partners who has invested in ad-supported sites like Facebook and Digg.
The current business model involves some advertising, but Eldon has always disdained purely ad-based models for supporting editorial products.
All of this plays strongly into the technology and startup ecosystem, both in terms of the companies that are growing up around these innovations, but also because such a large part of the tech world is built around the consumer internet, and much of the consumer internet is built on free, ad-based models.
Facebook would love to diversify from its ad-based revenue model and leverage its 2.5 billion plus installed user base into generating payment-based and transaction-based revenue.
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