AMBot | 02/05/2002 | Reading Time: 3 Min.
While sites like www.projectanime.com, www.animesolutions.com, www.animecity.com, etc.
once started with great concepts and now only exist as web corpses, there are still a few major sites that are resisting their final demise!
Here is likely one of the largest anime archives in the world:
BestAnime.com.
The following text is reproduced in full from its chief operator:
"Hello! This is Paul, the chief operator of BestAnime.com.
First of all, I would like to appreciate all of you visitors for making what we are today.
Without your support and patronage, we would not have been able to come this far.
To go further, we will be adapting a "Members Only" model to better serve our visitors.
I would like to take a moment to tell you about our circumstances.
BestAnime.com is currently tallying around 70,000 visitors per day.
This is not the number that we expected to serve when we opened our BestAnime.com thus we are financially in trouble, if continuously operated.
Rather than not supplying our world-famous Multimedia DB and our other contents & services, we have decided to change our business model to guarantee the basic necessity in continuing the operation.
We at BestAnime.com sincerely hope that visitors will understand this intricate situation and continue to show us your patronage.
Thank you again for your support."
The reasons for the extinction of the big web dinosaurs are the exploding costs and ad prices, which have hit absolute rock bottom.
BestAnime.com has now made a last-ditch effort to survive by restricting access and introducing a paid membership area.
This certainly won’t be an isolated case... because the willingness of web surfers to pay is abysmal. High-quality websites are practically forced to beg just to earn something or at least cover their costs.
Fingers crossed for BA!
(edited on Feb 6, HD: Typo, also thought about the site BigMog.com. By the way, it’s also not what it used to be...)
once started with great concepts and now only exist as web corpses, there are still a few major sites that are resisting their final demise!
Here is likely one of the largest anime archives in the world:
BestAnime.com.
The following text is reproduced in full from its chief operator:
"Hello! This is Paul, the chief operator of BestAnime.com.
First of all, I would like to appreciate all of you visitors for making what we are today.
Without your support and patronage, we would not have been able to come this far.
To go further, we will be adapting a "Members Only" model to better serve our visitors.
I would like to take a moment to tell you about our circumstances.
BestAnime.com is currently tallying around 70,000 visitors per day.
This is not the number that we expected to serve when we opened our BestAnime.com thus we are financially in trouble, if continuously operated.
Rather than not supplying our world-famous Multimedia DB and our other contents & services, we have decided to change our business model to guarantee the basic necessity in continuing the operation.
We at BestAnime.com sincerely hope that visitors will understand this intricate situation and continue to show us your patronage.
Thank you again for your support."
The reasons for the extinction of the big web dinosaurs are the exploding costs and ad prices, which have hit absolute rock bottom.
BestAnime.com has now made a last-ditch effort to survive by restricting access and introducing a paid membership area.
This certainly won’t be an isolated case... because the willingness of web surfers to pay is abysmal. High-quality websites are practically forced to beg just to earn something or at least cover their costs.
Fingers crossed for BA!
(edited on Feb 6, HD: Typo, also thought about the site BigMog.com. By the way, it’s also not what it used to be...)
This article was originally published in German. It was translated with technical support and editorially reviewed before publication.
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