'Contributor' where Google ads disappear and donations are distributed to each site

Thanks to users' viewing and clicking on advertisements, the website can earn revenue, but "You can donate directly to the website administrator without having to display the advertisement! Services that you can donate directly to the siteContributor"Will start. When a user donates to a website through "Contributor", the advertisement of the website participating in "Contributor" disappears and a message of gratitude to the donor will be displayed instead.

Contributor by Google
https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/


Google launches Contributor, a crowdfunding tool for publishers - Tech News and Analysis
https://gigaom.com/2014/11/20/google-launches-contributor-a-crowdfunding-tool-for-publishers/

The usage of "Contributor" is simple, it sets only the monthly donation amount, and supports the creator of the website monetarily. If the monthly donation amount is from 1 dollar (about 120 yen) to 3 dollars (about 350 yen) and wishes to do more donation, it is "OK if you visit a lot of websites you want to support".

Participating in "Contributor"Urban Dictionary,The Onion,ScienceDaily,WikiHow,Mashable,ImgurCurrently it is only a website of the United States on a website such as. Among them, Mashable is the only user whose number of unique users exceeds 40 million monthly, which means Google wants to start "Contributor" from a small place and to figure out how many users actually use it Because it is thinking, it seems to be.


If you make a donation, the advertisement disappears from the participating website and a message of gratitude to the donor will be displayed instead.


"Donate ads if they donate" meansGIGAZINE also started a similar mechanism over a year agoAnd YouTube alreadyProvide "Music Key" in beta version to clear advertisementTherefore, this trend is likely to accelerate in the future.