Vooks turns 25 years previous in 2025, and we’ll have been bringing you all of the Australian and worldwide Nintendo information, opinions, bargains, movies, and podcast for 1 / 4 of a century.
For the longest time, the positioning has been self-sufficient and in a position to preserve its independence utilizing varied revenue strategies to pay for the positioning and podcast internet hosting, safety, and all the opposite little charges concerned.
Thankfully, the positioning is doing fairly effectively; we’re consistently breaking new site visitors information, and issues are on the up and up. It’s an attention-grabbing drawback as a result of regardless of site visitors being up, nearly all of the methods we pay for the positioning’s existence are down. Adverts aren’t bringing in as a lot, fewer affiliate buys, plus nobody has any cash for discretionary spending, so bargains, normally our bread and butter, aren’t doing too scorching both.
So, as a result of site visitors is up, we are able to’t transfer to any form of smaller internet hosting. The a whole lot of hundreds of people that learn the positioning a month chew by the bandwidth, so what to do then?
Everyone seems to be having a tough sufficient time. As an alternative, utilizing the instruments we have already got, there may be some methods to help us with out doing an excessive amount of totally different. We’re not seeking to make a tonne of cash right here , simply sufficient to maintain the lights on with out impacting our pockets.
All the beneath on their very own gained’t cowl the whole lot, but when there’s something you are able to do – please take a learn.
Promoting
Internet adverts suck; both they take up an excessive amount of area, get in the way in which, decelerate your telephone or simply aren’t related to you in any respect. Worse nonetheless is after they’re too related and snoopy. Vooks has had adverts for years; in some months, they work effectively, and in others, they create in nearly nothing.
There’s in all probability an advert proper right here for some form of topical butt cream ⬇️
In the event you run an adblocker, take into account turning it off on Vooks. However should you discover them too annoying, what? We don’t blame you. Block away.
Affiliate Purchases
For years, we’ve accomplished discount guides and roundups to save lots of everybody cash. Then, Amazon got here to Australia, and affiliate hyperlinks grew to become a “factor.” Some individuals on social media make it their total life and make some huge cash off it. We now have our discount guides, they usually have some affiliate hyperlinks in them, however we want to allow you to determine the place to purchase from even when it doesn’t web us something. We would like you to save lots of.
You may help Vooks by shopping for from discount guides and utilizing our hyperlinks to purchase something—it doesn’t should be video games as effectively.
By clicking any of our Amazon hyperlinks, Huge W hyperlinks, or heck, even LEGO hyperlinks, you’ll undergo us, and we’ll get a portion. Do you want a carton of Pepsi Max or some pet food? You may assist us out even only a tiny bit with these hyperlinks.
Like, Remark, Subscribe and Watch
With Google shitting the mattress just lately, and social media networks and their algorithms being what they’re – it’s even tougher for us to be discovered than ever earlier than. It’s a brag, however out of the hundreds of people that comply with us on social media, only a handful of individuals ever see these posts – even should you like/comply with/subscribe to our channels. It’s sucks, and it’s solely going to worsen as Daddy Google slurps up our knowledge and makes use of it.
So, should you like our work, please share it and let individuals learn about our web site—we’re a small area of interest inside a small area of interest. We’re additionally consistently posting the Vookcast video and gameplay clips on YouTube —should you can like them and depart a remark, it does assist. (even depart it on within the background!)
It’s a cliche, however they wouldn’t say it except it have been true, would they?
As a reminder, we’re on
Patreon
Most individuals use Patreon to provide you unique content material or a separate stage of content material – for years; we’ve used it as a method for individuals to help the positioning and get a number of little perks. Sadly, being based mostly in America (particularly California), Patreon has a complete bunch of boring guidelines about with the ability to do enjoyable issues like contests, so with the ability to giveaways to our Patreons has been stopped lifeless in its tracks for actually years. However individuals get that the Patreon is only a approach to help the positioning (and people little perks).
Even only a greenback a month goes a great distance.
Merch
Individuals have been asking for Vooks merch for years—not many individuals, however it’s at all times one thing we needed to supply however couldn’t discover the appropriate approach to do it. So now we now have the Vooks Merch store with a variety of cool issues that we’d purchase ourselves (and have!).
We’ve saved the margin as little as attainable, so we get a bit of for every merchandise. However we actually simply needed to supply a method for individuals to purchase one thing to help the positioning and put on it out and about.
Like something, delivery is the killer, and we’ve tried to select merchandise which can be made and shipped from Australia so the prices are low. However so many cool merchandise aren’t made right here in order that it might blow issues out.
In the event you’ve learn all the way in which to the top, thanks for studying it – thanks for being right here on our web site in any respect. We truely recognize it.
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