Transparency Reports for December 2013

Greetings! I've prepared the last report of 2013, a little later than usual. Thanks for being patient! I'd like to extend a special thanks to one very generous donor who single-handledly paid for nearly all of our operating costs this month. Thank you!

In December, MediaCrush served media to 206,698 unique visitors, spread out over 367,420 page views. Most of them arrived on Chrome, and nearly all of them came from Reddit.

Please note that this month, we have made some changes that affect reporting.

• We have removed advertising from MediaCrush, and thus we are no longer reporting adsense revenue
• We moved from AWS to Voxility this month for hosting, which has a number of implications:
  • MediaCrush hosting now has a fixed price of $199/mo, and we will not produce a unique report for hosting costs
  • The new server is located outside of the United States, which addresses the concerns of some privacy-concious users
  • Our dedicated Voxility server is capable of much faster processing and has much greater storage at a lower price
  • Speed is noticably affected in some regions coming off of the AWS CDN. We are working on a solution, stay tuned.
• The donation report is no longer included, and the information previously found there is available in each generic financial report.

Interesting reports are shown in bold.

• 2014-01-01-Analytics-Browser-and-OS.csv
• 2014-01-01-Analytics-Browser-and-OS.pdf
• 2014-01-01-Analytics-Overview.csv
• 2014-01-01-Analytics-Overview.pdf
• 2014-01-01-Analytics-Referral-Traffic.csv
• 2014-01-01-Analytics-Referral-Traffic.pdf
• 2014-01-01-Financial-summary.md

You may view all reports, including previous dates, here: https://mediacru.sh/transparency

A copy of the financial report is shown here:

In the month of December, the following expenses were accrued:

• Hosting: $199.00

Total USD: $199.00

The following revenue was generated:

• Donations:
• Coinbase: 0.25 BTC, converted to USD for $191.33
• Dwolla: $0
• Flattr: $6.73

The operating profit for October is $-0.94 USD

Cumulatively, over the lifetime of MediaCrush, the operating profit is -1349.38 USD.

As always, thanks for flying MediaCrush!