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On those numbers Digg has revenues of approx 3 US cents per unique visitor. Not too bad, surely? How much could they charge for advertising?

It costs Digg about 5 cents per visitor. Where is that going? Seems excessive for bandwith + servers. The content is user generated, I cannot believe that they are spending much of that $14m on development or administration.

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Where's it going? The 80 person staff is a good place to start.

http://digg.com/about/

There's no reason the site couldn't be run by five people.

It REALLY depends on page views. Unique visitors has nothing to do with revenue. 3 cents per visitor is very low if they have high pageviews per, which I'm guessing they do.

Yes, I was thinking unique visits, rather than visitors - my mistake. They probably have a lot of people who visit daily, so the number of visits is easily hundreds of millions, page views could be billions.

3c per visit sounds excessively high. How often do you click on advertisement?

It's 3c per visitor. If it were per visit, they'd be rich.

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