Online Revenue Models

Problem: The socioeconomic demographic of users that click on ads is poorer than average site visitors, and they make up only about 6% of visitors as a whole. Therefore, business models that depend on advertising alone to pay for content (or a web app) will struggle unless they have a big enough market/can reach a sufficiently large audience.

Solution: The cable company, for the Internet. Bloggers, content publishers, or web app developers choose which content they want to offer as premium, or even the entire site.

This puts up a pay-wall for users that aren't subscribers.

The visitor can choose to either watch an ad, or pay $3.99/month to PremiumContent (insert catchy name here).

The user will then have access to all PremiumContent-affiliated web sites.

Content providers are paid from the user's monthly payment proportionately based on which ones are used most by the PremiumContent subscriber.

Economies of scale would allow each individual web site to realize more profit (instead of paying Paypal fees), so it's kind of a micropayments solution.

Subscribers would be able to influence the pay-out to a specific URL with an "I like this" button.

This would allow journalists to write more well-researched articles that aren't tainted by the political conflict of ad sponsors.

Please critique and thank you for reading.