The Google Ads banners here produce revenue when people click on the banners. We currently are only receiving about 5% of the funds we were receiving twelve months ago. Google will most likely drop us from the program soon.
Our internal Sponsors banner ads produce revenue when we patronize our Sponsors. Each of our Sponsors collects the data concerning how many page views their banner ad receives which also helps them to determine if advertising here is beneficial. Sponsor banner views have dropped from over one million per month to about 40,000.
As you can see the problem we are experiencing is catastrophic. Its not just our Contributors or even Members because the majority of our banners were being seen by unregistered Visitors who are now using ad blocking software and that's probably 80% of our problem. Today over 40% of the access here is from mobile devices and vBulletin doesn't feed our banners to mobile users. Converting to Xenforo will solve this issue until someone comes up with blocking software for mobile devices.
If we don't resolve our problems in the next eleven months we won't have any choice than to convert to a subscription based service and I am not a fan of that option.
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