27,766 members today---active vs. archived? :D

[grodog]

Hi guys---

ENWorld has 27,766 members as of right now, and my question is, how many of those members are active on the site vs. inactive (haven't posted in the past three months)? This would be useful info for potential advertisers.

 

[Crothian]

That really wouldn't be that useful as there are 364 out of 847 pages of people with zero posts. That's over a third of the people who have signed up. They just don't post but that doesn't mean they don't read the boards.

 

[Piratecat]

This is one of those things that are always fun to estimate -- but, as Crothian says, it's board activity and not board posts that are important to advertisers. There are roughly 14,000 active registered members, and average unregistered visitors (lurkers) of at least three times that amount. We've got a lot of folks.

 

[grodog]

Thanks for the thoughts guys.

So, if I wanted to advertize, given the larger number of lurkers vs. member (and/or members who don't post), what are some good estimates for how long banner ads and leaderboard ads last?

 

[Dinkeldog]

Yeah. Just because Crothian is really bad at lurking doesn't mean everyone else is, too.

 

[Crothian]

Yeah. Just because Crothian is really bad at lurking doesn't mean everyone else is, too.

Didn't you read above? There are about 10,000 people who have signed up but haven't posted. Someone has to pick up their slack......

 

[Crothian]

Thanks for the thoughts guys.

So, if I wanted to advertize, given the larger number of lurkers vs. member (and/or members who don't post), what are some good estimates for how long banner ads and leaderboard ads last?

Good question. You might want to ask some of the people who do have banner ads and see what thier experience with this is. Perhaps a thread in the publishers forum would be of mor ebenefit to you guys. Good luck, Valus rocks!!

 

[the Jester]

Didn't you read above? There are about 10,000 people who have signed up but haven't posted. Someone has to pick up their slack......

I guess you've posted one for each of them, and the rest are for you.

 

[grodog]

So there's no statistically average info that you guys have about long it takes to burn through 10,000 impressions, or 100,000 impressions, etc.???

 

[Michael Morris]

It depends on how many ads are in the system honestly. Given the current ad load 10,000 ads tends to run about 2 - 3 weeks, and 100,000 will run around 10x that naturally.

That said, Russ tracks the figures closer than I. He's the one to ask.