Am I Jealous That Bleacher Report Is Going To Be Sold For 200 Million?
Allthingsd- Bleacher Report and Turner, which have been circling each other for months, are edging closer to a deal. People familiar with both companies say they haven’t agreed on final terms, but are now negotiating exclusively and have agreed on a price: If the transaction goes through, Time Warner’s cable network unit is set to pay more than $200 million for the sports site. The logic for the deal is that Turner has a small presence in online sports — it manages sites like PGA.com and NBA.com, but doesn’t own them — and Bleacher Report’s nine-million-plus visitors will help fix that.
So naturally everybody is rubbing this in today. “Hey Pres you dumb jew Bleacher Report is about to sell for 200 million. How much are you worth you tiny dicked big nosed motherfucker? HA! You suck!” This begs the question of whether I’m jealous of them. Hell yeah I’m jealous. How could I not be? I want 200 million as much as the next guy. But it’s not like this was Barstool Junior that was sold. It’s a totally different model so I’m not that pissed.
More importantly though this sale just shows how stupid some people are. Seriously Time Warner has to be the biggest bunch of morons on the planet to buy that site. I don’t care how many fucking visitors they claim to have. It’s all smoke and mirrors. That site is crap. It’s a zillion crappy little sites packaged together into one huge crappy site. Barstool has 1 billion times the influence they do on the internet. Like people actually pay attention to our shit and what we say. On the flip side people don’t even know Bleacher Report exists. Honestly do you know anybody who ever talks about them? Off course not. That’s because the only time somebody ever reads it is when they click on a link and they don’t even know where they are going or how they ended up there. They stay on the site for a second and then go back to where they came from. It’s all SEO bullshit. This is what advertisers seemingly always overlook. Influence matters. Good writing matters. Loyal audiences matter. Bleacher Report has none of that. We have all of that. If I owned a company and could advertise on either site I’d choose us 100 out of 100 times. Would I rather be them than me right now? Of course I would, but that still doesn’t mean what I just said isn’t true because it is. We reach more people in a real way everyday off camera everyway.
Din’t read one word of that article, but u see how much that old lady is up to in donations…?? $299,851 fucking insane
I agree, Bleacher Report is weak city. Serious question though, how many visitors visit this site daily? Do you have an average number?
“Good writing matters”. Off course it does pres.
If bleacher report sells for 200 mill, I have alot of moon rocks to sell to time warner
I bet bleacher report has an office building with receptionists, elevators, janitors, night security, every employee has a secretary…you have a run down shit hole with a bald sales guy who doesn’t sell and a desk that looks like it belongs in an episode of hoarders
and the only time i have ever been to bleacher report is if i google something and its the first link. look for 1 sec and exit becasue that site sucks
Not exactly like Turner wants to pay $200 million to run their ads next to pictures of baby dick and Purple Starwish Swag ads. Not really hitting their target audience.
The nice thing about Beacher Report is the have back buttons and you can actually access the site better than 1 in 3
I’m sure this will work out for Time Warner just like when they bought AOL.
You could probably double your site’s net worth just by proofreading.
well maybe if you actually wrote about sports once in a while. when was the last time we saw a red sox blog?
You’re 100% right. That’s exactly my visit history on bleacher report. I hit a link, it brings me to that sight, I read the story (usually a top 25 type story) then leave. It kills me that a semi literate unoriginal ogre like yourself has made a career off of this, but BSS has to be worth a ton if bleacher report sold for $200mm.
jackofspades, how does a bunch of useless overhead increase the value of the site? If anything bss is more valuable because you don’t have to take on all that useless cost.
since when has advertising worked, and what company has profited from placing a barstool banner ad? #doublefail
That back button is the bain of my existence…..
Bleacher Report > jew
How long would 200k worth of baguettes and iced coffee last you? A week?
maybe if your spelling and grammar wasn’t so awful people would take this site more seriously
of, not off
was beaten to it but, ” Good writing matters” – c’mon now…
that site is absolutely terrible. all their slideshow lists suck and have no merit. i can’t think of one time i’ve read a good article on there..thats like the ‘yahoo contributor network’ getting bought for 200 million.
on the flip side, this is a good website..but for sports? ehhhhhhhhhh
i love all the headlines, but this is barely a sports website anymore, and the blogs you do have about sports…are meh. its just three cities writing extremely biased shit about their teams and players, but they make up about a tenth of the blog posts
And this is one crappy site packaged into one crappy site…difference is Bleacher Prez gots 6 figures in his account and you got foam parties..
I could be wrong and maybe Pres gets offers everyday but, the single reason BSS doesn’t have the same value to a Time Warner that Bleacher Report does would be the content. The mush brains at these places have all the money but don’t want to be associated with “explicit” content. If BSS was clean, Pres would already be on some island downing baguettes and propecia and shredding gnar all day.
if you want to know average visits to barstool or any site go to freewebsitereport.org – definitely some flaws in the reporting but pretty good on views. it doesnt take into account things like t shirt/merch sales, blackout parties etc which pres makes $ on. its strictly domain worth
Appartently the only thing bss followers do pay attention to is your bad writing, well i guess somebody has to.
Funny when you use that website thing and check barstool sports it gives you Prez’s address. Hilarious.
Oh and his phone number.
Pres is 100% right here.
Ive been in media, sports media specifically for about 13 years and BR is a network of sites essentially. They can tell advertisers that they have 60 million pages views because a majority of their “content” is photo galleries…..eash time you forward to the next photo, its a page view…it is smoke and mirrors. They can also tell advertisers that their site reach is so big, and in the “black and white cooked” numbers it is I guess, but all they are really doing is selling umbrellas in a shit storm….nobody will see the advertisers ad. I can promise you that the CTR is probably around 0.01%….with NO ROI what-so-ever.
But I will say Pres, at least BR has sports on their site.
by elpresidente on June 21, 2012 at 4:26 pm
That back button is the bain of my existence…..
interesting that you would compare a back button malfunction to an elite consulting firm…..or did you mean “bane”? pwned.
Honestly, I am kind of surprised the page views is under 250,000. Maybe because its blocked on some peoples computers at work?
Are you still using hotmail Pres? Do you still use a rotary phone?
Sorry for trolling, but you should have also sold the site on December 9th 2011…..at 8 AM.
Mark my words, if Pres plays it right he will be a multi millionaire in a few years. The smut aspect of this site is why it thrives but also why the valuation will be lower. The key is to keep growing in other cities, expand your college coverage and find the right buyer (Playboy, Maxim, SpikeTV?). Of course, the eventual litigation from either copyright infringement or some college kid dying at these ridiculous events, may crumble the empire.
According to freewebsitereport.org… Barstool has 208,570 pageviews per day, generates $626 dollars per day in advertising and has a net worth of $456,769, it is ranked the 5,274 most popular site in the world. This does not include merchandise or those “sick” foam parties that big nose probably rakes in plenty of cash from charging 50 bucks a ticket.
Different business models, different management emphasis, different outcomes. BSS is like a townie bar…decent food, beers on tap, not for everybody but locals swear by it. BR is like a Vegas casino….good restaurants, dance clubs, glitzy, controlled content. Not in the same league. Time Warner is probably looking for a tax break as well.
The site also says that it was worth 591,000 at it’s peak in december. Shoulda sold when you were relevant and on the news lost yourself almost 140K. I thought jews were supposed to be smart with money?
I dunno. I went on the Bleacher Report on my iPhone and it didn’t crash Safari, so that makes it better
Also, until Barstool can clear that whole “rape culture” hurdle, many companies are going to have a hardtime selling an acquisition of Barstool Inc to their shareholders.
Bleacher Report = articles actually about sports.
Barstool = driven by comment section full of racist, rape culture jokes. Also, where the site owner thinks showing toddler dick is funny.
Good luck finding a buyer.
Barstool is a glorified diary of a 35 year old man. And yes, Kay, the fact that I believe that and still come here everyday does have me a little worried about my sexuality. I wish I didn’t think out loud.
elpresidente…
The reason you never made it past Round 1 of consideration can be summed up by your own words:
“Good writing matters.”
Preceded by:
“Hey Pres you dumb jew Bleacher Report is about to sell for 200 million. How much are you worth you tiny dicked big nosed motherfucker? HA! You suck!”
Look in the mirror dude. Why would Turner place existing relationships with Fortune 500 advertisers next to that standard of editorial. Let’s be real now.
Hey Portnoid, stop living out your frat boy fantasy & run BSS like a business.
1. Contact Live Nation & have them co-promote the barstool foam parties world wide, they handle a lot of the red tape with the venues, insurance and other bull shit.
2. Contact the company that made Four Loko to come out with a Barstool energy drink.
Multi-thousandaire by the end of the year.
If good writing matters, only Barstool NY would be left.
That said, I agree that bleacher report is the worst fucking site ever. I know more than every one of their writers when it comes to sports. They suck the cock of every tired old cliche and run from statistics. Who wants to read a list of top 50 highest paid NBA players??? what journalism!!!
You could hit 200 mil if you proof read once in a while
Nobody wants to buy from a fucking ugly big nose bald gay jew boy. I hope u die 2 days before ur site is bought. Haha Jew fuck kill the jews
Nobody wants to buy from a fucking ugly big nose bald gay jew boy. I hope u die 2 days before ur site is bought. Haha Jew fuck kill the jews
I’m surprised you guys don’t like Bleacher Report. It’s basically the comment section, but a bigger platform.
“Good writing matters.”
HAHAHAHA!
I spit out my cum and I wasn’t even sucking a dick…
This site will be shut down before you ever sell it. Your staff is terrible. I mean, you post videos of how awful they are, think about it. Got a sales guy that doesn’t make outbound calls? That’s funny? No, that’s a life sitting in a shitty office basically featuring your comment on a youtube video, cause you thinks it’s the best. Good luck trying to win the internet ya fag.
Problem you have Portnose is that this isn’t a sports site as much as you want to pretend it is.
Pride in packaging prez, stop fucking up the little shit. That being said you should go all porn and throw in the random link on the enticing normal looking link (or very strange looking link). It’ll pump up your numbers and you never know who will fall in to the rabbit hole and pump your link status through the roof.
Im sorry Dave but you can never sell your site Dave, even though you wont read this. You do the writing, you’re why its funny. If you sold it, you’d just be working for someone else. You can NEVER stop blogging. I barely even fuckin check this site when I know youre gone cause I know fuckin Fietleberg will be writing and he fuckin sucks, A LOT. Jerry is great but he cant keep up with the content. So whatta you do? Sell it and then have to work for someone else telling you what to do and censoring shit? You cant stop writing cause NOBODY will want to read this blog anymore. Sorry bro, but I think youre handcuffed for life.
Maybe when you stop doing everything in your power to alienate anyone with the maturity level above a 20 year old, you might actually get out of neutral.
But alas, this site has unfortunately become a tired, one trick pony.
“Barstool has 1 billion times the influence they do on the internet. Like people actually pay attention to our shit and what we say. On the flip side people don’t even know Bleacher Report exists. ”
Are you out of your god damned mind, kid? Nobody gives a shit about you.
Never heard of bleacher report. Also, all of these loser commenters trashing BSS need to just stop going to the site. You sound like absolute retards talking shit everyday while refreshing every 2 seconds.
the three commenters above are a perfect example of complete tool bags. Lets trash the site you go to 400 times a day. You guys are so pathetic its rediculous!
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