OzBargain
👤 Scott Yang (Solo dev who ran it 5 years as a near-zero-cost hobby (2006-11), letting Australia's deal crowd compound before he needed a wage.)🌐 sitescottyang.com𝕏LinkedIn
A site that sells nothing cracked Australia's top 100 — the crowd posts the deals, advertisers pay for the crowd.
Will it work? · our read
Deep but capped. An 18-year community moat almost nobody can dislodge inside Australia — yet it's capped by geography and dependent on Google for traffic and ad rates. Deep, not scalable.
01How the money moves
Users post & up-vote deals (free UGC)
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Millions arrive via Google + daily habit — 40M views/mo
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Display ads on every page turn views into revenue
02The numbers
40M+Statedpage views/month
2022-09
the sentence on the page
morphed and upgraded to the community based website that we know and love. 🔋🔋 Ozbargain reaches around 40 million views a month (That’s about 1.3 million a day) with 1 million probably coming from…
Absolute revenue is undisclosed; figures are reach and growth, not dollars. See honesty. Publift
Undisclosed. Est $2-6M/yr in ad revenue (our est from about 40M views/mo).
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You have the verdict. Members get the work behind it.
- The CENTS scorecard — where it's strong, where it's soft
- The founder's key move, and the counter-move
- How it could die — the evidence, and how sure we are
- The case against our own call
- A 🚀 launchpad prompt — the case, as a plan for your business
We rate our own confidence — and argue against ourselves. Nobody else in this category does.
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Publift — 40% annual ad-revenue growth, 68% CPM lift (ad-partner case study)Rice n Mics podcast #35 — Scott Yang: about 40M views/month, founded 2006The New Daily (2016) — 'the website that sells nothing'Scott Yang on LinkedIn — founder, OzBargain.com.auOzBargain — ad-funded, opt-out affiliate, community deal voting
OzBargain does not publicly disclose revenue. The widely-cited $12.4M (ZoomInfo) is an unverified aggregator estimate — treat with caution. Our $2-6M/yr is a reasoned estimate from about 40M monthly page views at typical display RPMs, not a disclosed figure (sourced EST, verified false). First-party confirmed: founded Nov 2006 by Scott Yang; a part-time hobby until it went full-time in 2011; about 40M views/month (Yang); 40% YoY ad-revenue growth and 68% CPM lift (Publift); 100% ad-funded with opt-out affiliate for logged-out users; about 4 staff; an Australian top-100 site. No dramatic pivot — it won on patience and community neutrality. The 'sells nothing' positioning is documented; the read that neutrality built the moat is our interpretation [our read]. We never score you.