Tag: PAID

Ning, the company that makes it easy for anyone to create a free, custom social network, is dropping the free part of that equation. After a little business analysis, Ning determined that a whopping 75% of their traffic was coming from paid "premium" networks, not the free networks that most people associate with the company. In response, they're dropping free networks -- and a big chunk of the ...

Upon hearing that YouTube has decided to shut down its video downloads service for the time being, your first reaction might very well be "Wait, YouTube had a video download service?" Indeed, it launched in February, and allowed content creators to post both free and paid downloads to YouTube. Apparently, YouTube hasn't quite figured out how to make this scheme profitable. Users who had ...