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Hi guys,

A sound designer friend of mine talked to me about the impact this site had and suggested I should take a look. I have an MA in Music Business, and I'd be very interested to know how many visitors/ pageviewers you have on average... Because to me you look popular enough to attract advertisers, or an offer for a take-over from a big firm . Was/ will be something like that part of your plans?

Just curious...
matinaki

I don't speak for the site, but let me be the first to say 'Good gawd, I sure hope not!' You may know some good examples of that kind of thing, but every time I've seen it done has been disasterous to the original community.

Given the creative commons license that this site enjoys granting people in the use of these samples, there is hopefully something a little incompatible with heavy commercialization. If it became sponsored by Sony tomorrow, I would immediately stop contributing. (Just as an example). I didn't lose any 'rights' or anything, but when mp3.com went fully commercial, they did nothing to help the original community, and all the original music was absorbed into the ether, never to be heard again. Look at it now, same old crap seen around the on-line music world.
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Enough of me. Lets hear from the sysops on this topic....

hi guys, i checked www.alexa.com and it says that freesound is somewhere between 50.000-100.000 visitors a day....but these statistics are usually inacurate...

m.

Free sound being taken over would be a nightmare. I would want my samples back*

*unless the same open source mentally prevailed

Free sound being taken over would be a nightmare

Second that.

freesound is owned and paid for by a university ( http://www.upf.edu ).
there is no fear of us being "bought", so everyone, relax

on average we havout about 10 to 15000 unique IP visitors per day, which roughly translates into 100000 page views / day, if you really want to know.

- bram

Bram
freesound is owned and paid for by a university ( http://www.upf.edu ).
there is no fear of us being "bought", so everyone, relax

Ok, relaxed... and lets hope the winds of modern economy never reach upf.edu in the future
(I'm aware the gale do hit other public services in Spain now. You know, 'la pela es la pela')

Bram

on average we havout about 10 to 15000 unique IP visitors per day, which roughly translates into 100000 page views / day, if you really want to know.
- bram

Nice to know that, as it could represent a shelter for the storm. For instance, Wikipedia organizers are weighing up the inclusion of advertisements (not that I want this, but sometimes you have to sail away to escape)

saludos

Dob

I can confidently tell you that if this project was part of the London University I once worked at, it would be sold as soon as an offer came in!

I'm glad Spanish government seems to have more intellectual integrity