Community – Discord
Discord is an online community platform where you can communicate by text, video chat, and more in different groups known as servers. It competes with larger platforms like Facebook. Discord has an interesting revenue stream because they have a strict no ad rule. They do not display any advertisements or get any revenue from advertisements on their platform.
Discord, and many other platforms, uses a freemium model where you can pay to upgrade your membership to get premium assets not available in the free or lower tier subscriptions.
They have teamed up with larger companies like Spotify &Tencent to host events in different communities like music and gaming.
They also had their own game store where you could purchase games only available on Discord. This didn’t do very well and shortly after launching it was discontinued in favor of allowing game developers to sell their own games on their servers with Discord taking a cut of sales.
They also allow group makers to charge subscription fees to access their servers with Discord taking some of that profit as well.
Discord also offers server boosting which allows a group maker to boost their community with different things like added emojis, better audio and video quality, larger uploads allowed, different backgrounds, custome urls, and more.
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