Wetlook World Forum

We would love to be able to evolve to the point where 100% of everything can be free on the site, but we are not at that stage of evolution yet...not yet. Sites like UMD and this forum and Youtube all have one thing in common....i.e. they are 100% free...because their operating costs for their servers and bandwidth are supported by Ad sponsors. At the moment theWambank has no advertising sponsors at all, and we are operating 3 servers and have to pay for massive amounts of bandwidth each month.

In order to make the site 100% free, we will need to have as many Ad sponsors as UMD and Nigel have....i.e. at least 20+ producers wanting to advertize on the site. We have so far held off launching an ad campaign program on the site, cos that is going to mean you will be see a lot more ads and banners....and I don't think the fans would appreciate the site being littered with too many banners on it.

Your point is well taken though....I wish we could be like "Youtube" too....but we are merely a small site serving a tiny tiny audience, and without any sponsors to pay for our servers, the site cannot be 100% free at this time. We are doing the best we can....i.e. look at the download stats on the home page...i.e. 75% of all downloads have been FREE downloads.....we have given away 308,000 free dowloads this year. There is no other wam site or wam producer in the entire wam world that has given away more free downloads than we have.

We can't be 100% free at this time (until we get ad sponsors support), but we are giving 75% free downloads at this time, so we are doing the best can do, cos we have to pay for 3 servers and we consume over 10 times more bandwidth each month than UMD or this forum does.

Hope that answers your question.

MK