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OK,, I write it down, maybe later it is very useful info..

I tried this web many mths ago, I think it is another clone of youtube, only specific on funny video. In US, many of this websites,
so what is the revenue model ? This is a big question, be careful, don’t addict to the “apple information malware”, sometimes the news in apple are faked or boosted.. 我綜合一些其他資訊來源,總結一下這個9gag 有何特別之處?

Now coming to other source..

http://evchk.wikia.com/wiki/9GAG

9GAG的意念來自屯門「屋邨仔」阿Ray(27歲，陳展程)及其弟Chris(24歲，陳展俊)，兩人同是港大生，Ray修法律，Chris修建築。4年前兩人及現時任職投資銀行拍檔Derek創業，為了避免「挨貴租」，他們在友人居屋家中搞網站。 當時facebook尚未普及，阿Ray想到「笑是全球共同語言，好多人喜歡用電郵轉發無聊搞笑圖片和YouTube影片，我們放眼全球，9GAG就這樣誕生。」

Chris大學畢業後當iPhone App設計，下班回家更新網站，經外國傳媒報道，大量海外網民灠覽，廣告公司主動叩門，令收入激增，現時每年營業額過千萬元。9GAG更在美國矽谷創投基金注資下，開發新項目Singboard網上卡啦OK。
http://mashable.com/follow/topics/9gag/
9GAG is a startup image-based social media website launched in 2008, which centres around user-uploaded, usually comical, images dubbed “gags”. Similarly to websites like reddit and Digg, users can vote and comment on images, with the newest and most popular appearing first. The website user base is mostly pre-teen and teen and is known to copy content from other websites, such as reddit and tumblr.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/07/20/dark_knight_shooting_in_colorado_did_4chan_try_to_connect_9gag_to_the_crime_.html

This morning, amid reports of the terrible shooting at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado, a rumor began to spread: that the perpetrator may have posted his plans to—and been encouraged by users of—the social image site 9gag.

But there seems to be no evidence to support this theory. It’s probably just another shot in the ongoing war between 9gag and the infamous website 4chan, as Mashable and researcher Whitney Phillips point out. But 4chan may come to regret this.

Traffic Trend:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/9gag.com
http://www.google.de/trends/?q=9gag&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0

9gag.com has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 248. Compared with all internet users, the site’s users tend to be under the age of 35, and they tend to be childless, less affluent Hispanics, men, and college graduates browsing from school and home. Search engines refer roughly 2% of visits to this site. While approximately 8% of 9gag.com’s visitors are in Germany, where it is ranked #189, it is also popular in Romania, where it is ranked #59. Visitors to this site spend approximately 89 seconds on each pageview and a total of nine minutes on the site during each visit.

Let summarize the info..
1st market: NOT Hong Kong, Romonia, Germany.. (Haha.. Apple don’t mention)
2nd target audience: pre-teen and teen , funny..user-uploaded
3rd interaction: comment, like..

咁都得
revenue model: Ads.., it got 2 million from seed fund
Why popular recently: related to Colorado Shooting (Batman) event!!