What are the ways to monetize an Internet project?

Question

Monetization

Hello! There is a good resource on the topic of "urban media" with interesting and well-designed content, adaptive design, with popular groups in social networks attached.
I don’t want to cover the site with banners, maybe someone knows interesting examples of monetization of such resources? The city itself is located in the suburbs, not very large (those who wish to throw a link in a personal).

Answer 1

If advertisers come to you with offers, then review their products in separate posts, and you'll be fine - there is never a lot of content, and it seems like you are advertising them, don't stupidly sell them - buy, namely, an independent review of the merits of the product for which you are paid these same advertisers, such an unobtrusive presentation of information for your audience.

Answer 2

Custom or promotional articles. But for this, 100 events-exhibitions-presentations per month should really take place in your city, to make sense. In order not to depend on banners, you must be a really cool and large media outlet (Lenta.ru 11.7 million visitors/month). Even Puchkov, who makes videos all day long, sits on banners with 70k uniques a day: oper.ru/rek