Advertisers leaving bodybuilding sites - RX downsizing

[Stormcloud]

Excerpt from Dave Palumbo's decision to downsize.

"And now it’s time for Rx Muscle to evolve once again and get back to its roots; that which made it great and fun and such a “great ride”. As of Monday Dec 8, 2014, Rx Muscle has downsized it’s staff and consolidated its resources and will now focus on giving the fans the most hardcore, in-your-face reporting and content you’ve all grown to love from us in the past. Why am I doing this at this point in time? Well, the sad truth is that Rx Muscle pays its bills based entirely on advertising dollars, and without the advertiser’s support, there can be no content. For whatever unexplained, unfathomable, reason, over the last 12 months, most of the advertisers have pulled their support of Rx Muscle; and sadly, I can no longer afford paying the salaries and travel expenses necessary to run the website the way it was done in the past. Rx Muscle has tremendous traffic and countless daily hits to the website, yet companies are choosing not to support the effort. This saddens me; especially in light of the fact that magazine sales continue to plummet and most are on the verge of bankruptcy."

http://www.rxmuscle.com/articles/latest-news/11914-rx-muscle-of-the-people-by-the-people-for-the-people.html

[Army of One]

Just saw this on CNN

[BigNJ]

Bodybuilding is about to finish the full circle. From underground to underground. Death of bodybuilding is near.

[Skylge]

There are still people that don't have ad-block on their browsers??

[Rami]

Maybe the "tremendous traffic and countless daily hits" was not real

[Galvatron]

I don't give a shit about 'hardcore' or competitive bodybuilding. Muscular development etc, I don't read that crap. I can't stand the bodybuilding.com movement either with all those fake naturals and their 'scientific training and eating'. Those people seem to think that they are elite athletes and even worse think that recreational bodybuilders need to be 'optimal' in everything they do and live bodybuilding 24/7. So you have a bunch of 16 year old kids worrying about things like whey vs casein etc. What a joke.

I'd much rather read about guys with street physiques who are interesting characters. Combine that with some good information about nutrition and training without turning it into a science speculation blog.

[Papper]

Good! Hope bb crashes and burns.

The Mr Olympia as it stands today is shot!

Misery and crap physiques.

Maybe it can rise anew like a phoenix in a brand new suit

With the hard core gutted and health and beauty as a substitute

[insider]

"For whatever unexplained, unfathomable, reason"

lol

[HTexan]

No market for huge bloated men in thongs pageant shows?

[thegamechanger]

im surprised they havent done it sooner, they go all over the usa and even internationally to cover all kinds of shows hardly anybody cares about, they put on videotaped shows, muscle in the morning?! and all kinds of silly stuff.

[WannaBePro]

im surprised they havent done it sooner, they go all over the usa and even internationally to cover all kinds of shows hardly anybody cares about, they put on videotaped shows, muscle in the morning?! and all kinds of silly stuff.

I actually like watching muscle in the morning. I think it should be called something else since it rarely gets uploaded every morning, but still a good overview of what's going on in the bodybuilding world.
Rx actually has pretty good coverage, especially video-wise, better than MD even. Does Flex even do video anymore? They seem to have dropped off the face of the earth.

[Lexus II]

By
Dave Palumbo

What everyone needs to acknowledge is that RX MUSCLE might have less advertisers right now......we might have staff and community immaturity.........we might have people who offend anyone and everyone..........we might not be politically correct all the tiime..... we might be too honest........... we might not even "make sense"......but we got one thing "right"........everyone wants to know what we're saying..... and whether they post here or not... advertise here or not......... admit they look at the site or not.......... THEY'RE ALL HERE WATCHING WHAT WE DO NEXT........and that my friends is called an "audience"....... And I have a special message for our audience: "You ain't seen nothing yet!" Keep watching!

[littledumbells]

  Dave......Ill take interest in pro bodybuilding again when teh pro's can actually do a vacuum with their gut.......until then carry on with the pregnant blobs

[Fortress]

Bodybuilding's years as a moderately successful sport are over.

I'll always be a bodybuilder at heart (despite my focus now on pure strength development), and it pains me to say this, but it's the truth.

There is too much ill health, shady shit and bad judging to equate to anything else but doom.

It's all drugs, cock-sucking and greedy and criminal fart powder companies. 

[SaintAnger]

By
Dave Palumbo

What everyone needs to acknowledge is that RX MUSCLE might have less advertisers right now......we might have staff and community immaturity.........we might have people who offend anyone and everyone..........we might not be politically correct all the tiime..... we might be too honest........... we might not even "make sense"......but we got one thing "right"........everyone wants to know what we're saying..... and whether they post here or not... advertise here or not......... admit they look at the site or not.......... THEY'RE ALL HERE WATCHING WHAT WE DO NEXT........and that my friends is called an "audience"....... And I have a special message for our audience: "You ain't seen nothing yet!" Keep watching!

Advertisers fled because his traffic has practically stopped.  Then so did everyone else.  I heard him also state advertisers left despite traffic numbers being as high as ever.  Palumbo seems delusional if he really believes that.

[Walter Sobchak]

Excerpt from Dave Palumbo's decision to downsize.

"And now it’s time for Rx Muscle to evolve once again and get back to its roots; that which made it great and fun and such a “great ride”. As of Monday Dec 8, 2014, Rx Muscle has downsized it’s staff and consolidated its resources and will now focus on giving the fans the most hardcore, in-your-face reporting and content you’ve all grown to love from us in the past. Why am I doing this at this point in time? Well, the sad truth is that Rx Muscle pays its bills based entirely on advertising dollars, and without the advertiser’s support, there can be no content. For whatever unexplained, unfathomable, reason, over the last 12 months, most of the advertisers have pulled their support of Rx Muscle; and sadly, I can no longer afford paying the salaries and travel expenses necessary to run the website the way it was done in the past. Rx Muscle has tremendous traffic and countless daily hits to the website, yet companies are choosing not to support the effort. This saddens me; especially in light of the fact that magazine sales continue to plummet and most are on the verge of bankruptcy."

http://www.rxmuscle.com/articles/latest-news/11914-rx-muscle-of-the-people-by-the-people-for-the-people.html

Vince Goodrum = OP

[Neymar Barca]

last month in the radio show he mentioned many times how MD has gone from 500 to 160 pages,that Blechman fired many athletes cause add dont pay as much as before...

then he said that now is too costly to cover shows but he didnt mentioned any RX MUSCLE financial problems...and today am listening to Heavy Muscle Radio and Palumbo is saying "I announced before to my employees that am going to fire them cause adds are not paying as before and am not paying willing to pay from my pocket to cpver the shows.I will cover them if promoters pay my bills for the flyight,hotel,food,I dont have to go to the shows I can cover them from my home,it is too expensive"

so what do you guys think why suddenly he is not interested in covering shows etc and before he was like "we are going to cover this and that,we are the frst in the world to do this"

[Big Chiro Flex]

You must be a real hoot at parties.

[WalterWhite]

He just got married and has another mouth to feed along with his fish, snakes and dogs.

Can't waste money paying people and covering shows.

[Never1AShow]

Jesus Christ that kid is gonna have a horse face.

[The Abdominal Snoman]

Look at the fukcing feet on this Bozo

[visualizeperfection]

Who teaches these fuckers how to dress?

[SOMEPARTS]

Jesus Christ that kid is gonna have a horse face.

Hahaha.

[WalterWhite]

Best man.

[FermiDirac]

Congratulations to Palumbo for the marriage anyway.


But, to the more pressing matters, has this been confirmed by Vince G?