Frey Chu
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I mean, OK, yeah, but that's actually a really good guess.
And I totally agree.
I think on the surface, this looks simplistic, but everyone needs gas.
I mean, pretty much everyone.
But this directory is getting 1.1 million organic monthly visitors annually.
And they monetize in two main ways.
They make a ton of money on ads.
So with this amount of traffic and tier one traffic coming from the US and Canada,
I wouldn't be surprised if they're pulling in on the lower end $30,000 a month just in ads, which if we clicked around we'd start seeing.
But their big play is actually a debit card.
And so if we go over to GasBuddy Plus Premium, they have this debit card that they partnered up with MasterCard to create.
And it basically allows you to save money on gas.
It's
$10 a month or $99 a year.
And so they have a ton of members here.
I love this one.
This is my favorite one of the list because I think crowdsourcing gas prices is so simple, but extremely difficult.
So I went back to 2004.
They started in 2002, but I wanted to understand how they even incentivize people to get gas prices because that's like, why would anyone want to take time out of their day?
And, um,