Lots of Comedy Material

How to Monetize It?

[Jane_Doe]

What would you do if you owned the copyright on a volume of assorted original jokes, one liners and one frame cartoons? A lot of it is actually pretty funny.

Put it on a web site with Adsense? Sell the content to someone else? If so, where?

[edited by: Jane_Doe at 5:30 pm (utc) on Nov. 29, 2007]

[stapel]

Jane_Doesaid: What would you do if you owned the copyright on a volume of assorted original jokes, one liners and one frame cartoons?

The answer will depend upon your level of expertise and the time and effort you want to invest.

If you have no experience with web-site development or management, and haven't the time to delve into all of that, then you might want to contact some "humor" sites about selling the rights to your collection.

If you have the web knowledge and the time, then you might want to develop your own site, ask for some in-links from related sites which offer such, get some steady traffic, and then put up ads to pay the bills.

Or you might want to get the site going, just enough to prove that visitors will come, and then see about offering the collection (with or without the domain) for sale. (It could be worth more if traffic is proven.)

Just my $0.02, of course.

Eliz.

[piznac]

I would start a blog,.. start link building. Carefully place some ads on it,.. and start adding content slowly over time,...

[eventus]

Nowadays...

I would sell it or license to a wire service or content aggregator

[andyll]

I would give it away in some type of 'joke of the day' widget to other websites that provided links and/or traffic to another website you wanted to promote.

Andy

[Rosalind]

None of these, actually. I would put it into a book, and use a website to promote it.

My reasoning is that a lot of humour is general and hard to tailor to a specific product, so something like Adsense won't work very well. People reading or looking for humour are also not looking to buy anything else, on the whole.

I do have a small amount content online that people find funny, and it tends to attract traffic from places like StumbleUpon, and a few links. But when it comes to converting that traffic into advertising revenue, it's poor.