Hi all, 

Some of the posters here have been discussing (me as well) the possibility of attracting people that have a community already behind to make bbs grow. I think this is a great approach. Many of us came as part of the Banter family and are now spread across many boards (… and some are board owners of quite successful boards as well). Now, how much needs bbs to grow in order to be attractive for a “professional” content creator?

Say that a content creator wants to make 1000 bucks net, and needs to pay 20% taxes. So, 1200 per month. If you work 8 hours and need 20 minutes to create a good post (I need more but I expect a pro to be better than me). You could make 24 posts per day. If you work 22 days per month, you can create 528 posts per month. I would expect these to be spread across different boards. Now, knowing that you pay 10% for cash out, you need to make gross 1334 $ a month, on the 528 posts created. So, you need to make 2.52$ per post on average. Current averages at 50 CPM in the best boards are between 1.2 (metabbs) and 0.7 (several of the top boards). You can see the calculations in this post

Hence we need an adoption three times bigger than what we have now, provided that the current 50CPM boost is kept. With time, when the boost is over we would need to multiply by five the adoption, in order to be self sustainable at a CPM of 10, which is in line with the advertising market.  I think tripling the current adoption levels is very reachable. We have actually been there before. BBS can be offered to content creators. An influencer with a decent number of followers could establish a board at even more attractive conditions