awesome-revenue

This amazing list is from here: https://hackpad.com/Web-And-Mobile-Revenue-Models-final-EgXuEtSibE7 Let's work on it here (fork) and when we made significant changes we can ping Alex and Igor with a patch.

Funding and Crowd Investing

• https://www.kickstarter.com/

• https://www.indiegogo.com/

• https://wefunder.me/

Advertising

• Display Ads - ex. Yahoo!

• Search Ads - ex. Google

• Text Ads - ex. Google

• Video Ads - ex. Hulu

• Audio Ads - ex. Pandora

• Promoted Content - ex. Twitter, Tumblr

• Paid content links - ex. Outbrain

• Recruitment Ads - ex. LinkedIn

• Lead Generation - ex. MoneySuperMarket, ZocDoc

• Affiliate Fees - ex. Amazon Affiliate Program

• Classifieds - ex. Craiglist

• Featured listings - e.g. Yelp, Super Pages;

• Email Ads - as done by Yahoo, MSN

• Ad Retargeting - ex. Criteo

• Real-time Intent Ad Delivery

• Location-based offers - ex/ Foursquare

• Sponsorships / Site Takeovers - ex. Pandora

Commerce

• Retailing - ex. Zappos

• Marketplace - ex. Etsy

• Crowdsourced Marketplace - ex. Threadless

• Excess Capacity Markets - Uber, AirBnB

• Vertically Integrated Commerce - ex. Warby Parker

• Aggregator - ex. Lastminute.com

• Flash Sales: Gilt Groupe, Vente Privee

• Group buying - ex. Groupon

• Digital goods / downloads - ex. iTunes

• Virtual goods - ex. Zynga

• Training - ex. Cloudera (??), -> Coursera

• Pay what you want - ex. Radiohead

• Commission - ex. SharesPost

• Commission per order - ex. Seamless, GrubHub

• Auction - ex. eBay

• Reverse Auction - ex Priceline

• Barter for services ex. SwapRight

Subscription

• Software as a Service (SAAS) - ex. Salesforce

• Service as a Service - ex. Shopify

• Content as a Service - ex: Spotify, Netflix

• Infrastructure/Platform As A Service - ex. AWS

• Freemium SAAS - ex. Dropbox

• Donations - ex. Wikipedia

• Sampling - ex Birchbox

• Membership Services - ex Amazon Prime

• Support and Maintenance - ex 10gen, Red Hat

• Paywall - ex. NYTimes

• Voice and video-conferencing - ex. Uberconference

Peer to Peer

• Peer-to-Peer Lending - ex. Lending Club,

• Peer-to-Peer Gambling - ex. BetFair

• Peer-to-peer buying - ex Etsy

• Peer-to-peer insurance/home/car - ex (??)

• Peer-to-peer computing (CrasPlan storage, or SETI@home)

• Peer-to-peer service - ex. Mechanical Turk, TaskRabbit

• Peer-to-peer Mobile WiFi/Tethering - ex (??)

Transaction processing

• Merchant Acquiring - ex. PayPal (Online / Offline), Stripe (Online), Square (Offline)

• Intermediary - ex. IP Commerce (POS 2.0), CardSpring

• Acquiring Processing - ex. Paymentech

• Bank Transfer - ex. Dwolla

• Bank Depository Offering - ex. Simple, Movenbank (spread on average deposits)

• Bank Card Issuance - ex. Simple (interchange fee per transaction)

• Fullfilment - ex. Amazon

• Messaging - ex. Peer-to-Peer SMS, IM, Group Messaging

• Telephony - ex. termination/origination in public telephony networks (skype out/in)

• Telephony - ex. termination/origination within private telephony cloud (e.g. native skype)

• Payment Gateways: Mobile -ex. Braintree

• Platform Monetization ("Tax") - Facebook Credits; iO6 30% cut.

Licensing

• Per Seat License - ex. Sencha

• Per Device/Server License - ex. QlikView

• Per Application instance - ex. Adobe Photoshop

• Per Site License - ex. Private cloud on internal infrastructure

• Patent Licensing - ex. Qualcomm

• Brand Licensing - ex. Sesame Street

• Indirect Licensing - ex. Apple Volume Purchasing

• Custom Server Licensing (via Amazon DevPay)

Data

• User data - ex. BlueKai

• Business data - ex. Duedil

• User intelligence - ex. Yougov

• Search Data - ex. Chango

• Real-time Consumer Intent Data - ex. Yieldbot

• Benchmarking services - ex. Comscore

• Market research - ex. GLG

Mobile

• Paid App Downloads - ex. WhatsApp

• In-app purchases - ex. Zynga Poker

• In-app subscriptions - ex. NY Times app

• Advertising - ex. Flurry, AdMob

• Digital-to-physical - ex. Red Stamp, Postagram

• Transactions - ex Hailo

Gaming

• Freemium - Free to play w/ virtual currency - ex. Zynga

• Subscription- ex. World of Warcraft

• Premium - ex. xBox games

• DLC - (Downloadable Content) - ex. Call of Duty

• Ad Supported - ex - addictinggames.co

MOAR

• http://digitalenterprise.org/models/models.html
• http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/05/25/the-9-types-of-online-business-models-which-one-do-you-use/
• http://book.personalmba.com/12-standard-forms-of-value/
• source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647