I had to do a similar thing for my gif maker https://gifmemes.io when I've tried monetization through ads. Luckily for my users, the revenue was less than 10% of what it makes through watermark removal sales, so I've removed ads and dummy content all together. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

My biggest side projects come from being almost mad that a certain project does not exist. For example, I've seen a lot of gif memes on the internet, in which the text was always very badly jumping around and it was very difficult to make them. So I've spent a few hundreds of hours making https://gifmemes.io. (actually as my bc. Project :D) Another project I'm working on right now comes from my frustrations with... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

My favorite job interview was when we just talked about my project: https://gifmemes.io most of the time. Got the job. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

My GIF making site https://gifmemes.io made over 1k, totally maybe >5k at this point from watermark removals and donations. What was crucial for growth was a few reddit frontpage memes with the link in the comments. Then just slow and steady google traffic increase and now it's stable for the past few months. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

No gif skills, I used https://gifmemes.io/ which has motion tracking. Source: about 1 year ago

Today is the day Jimmy learns about 9gag. Source: 12 months ago

9gag.com is an international English website but most of its users are German. Source: about 1 year ago

I have a website which has Indonesian traffic, and it is very similar with 9gag.com. Here are the stats over the last 28 days:. Source: about 1 year ago

To sum up, are you saying AdSense could still be beneficial for my scenario if I change ad placements? I have 6 different ad sizes and they are on the same CTR & CPC. There is no other alternative for the ad placement, as my website and the ads literally looks like 9gag.com. Source: about 1 year ago

My current content is very similar to 9gag.com model, it is a user-generated-content website, and I slip an ad between every 8 posts. Source: about 1 year ago