10 .Tuts+: $175,000 per month
Envato Tuts+ helps you learn creative skills and shape the life you want.Envato Tuts+ offers video courses and written tutorials to help you learn creative skills in code, design and illustration, photography, video, music, web design, game development, business, and more.
Tutorials are available to you completely free all 24,760 of them!. Based around specific projects, they include step-by-step written instructions and screenshots to help you practice and master the skills needed to create a practical outcome. For example you could learn to:
Stream video in Android apps
Record jazz instruments
Make hoop earrings in different shapes
Draw a realistic dog or wolf
Create a minigun muzzle flash in 3D Studio Max
Create a starlight time lapse video
Apply the anatomy of web typography
...And much more!
https://tutsplus.com/
9.Smashing Magazine: $215,000 per month
Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Smashing Magazine is, and always has been, independent.Smashing Media was founded in March 2009 by Sven Lennartz and Vitaly Friedman, Smashing Magazine provides a range of services for the international Web design community.
All articles are carefully curated, edited and prepared according to the high standards set in the magazine’s Publishing Policy. These guidelines are continually revised and updated to ensure that the quality of the published content is never compromised. Smashing Magazine is always expanding to provide more quality content for professionals working in Web design.Smashing Magazine’s Experts Panel
Before an article is published, it’s reviewed by independent reviewers — respected members of the design community who provide feedback to authors and review technical details.
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/
8.Gizmodo: $325,000 per month
Gizmodo is a design, technology, science and science fiction website that also features articles on politics. It was originally launched as part of the Gawker Media network run by Nick Denton, and runs on the Kinja platform. Gizmodo also includes the subsite io9, which focuses on science fiction and futurism.
A Gizmodo blogger captured the first photos from the floor of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2007,and according to Reuters, journalists at the (simultaneous) Macworld debated whether Gizmodo or Engadget had the better live coverage of Steve Jobs' 2007 keynote.
Gizmodo makes the majority of its earnings through advertisements. On its home page, which is its most valuable digital real estate, you won't find an abundance of ads, but you will find ads that often repeat. For example, a large ad on the top will be parlayed along with ads for the same company on the side as you scroll, often repeating with each scroll and capped off with a large ad on the bottom of the home page. Subsequent pages often feature a variety of differing ads, likely based on historical traffic.
http://www.gizmodo.in/
7.Perez Hilton: $575,000 per month
The LA Times calls Perez, "like US Weekly, the Star, the Enquirer and Life & Style all rolled into one sweet yet snarky, sagacious yet salacious gay man."Perez was named the #1 Web Celeb for 2007, 2008, and 2009 by Forbes Magazine and has recently been tapped as one of the 15 most influential Hispanics in the US by People in Espanol and named 2009 Hispanic of the Year by Hispanic Magazine. Since launching in 2004, PerezHilton.com originally named PageSixSixSix.com has become one of the leading go-to sites for celebrity news garnering over 300 million hits a month.
Lavanderia's acting career didn't flourish, but his blogging did. Today, he earns his income primarily through advertisements from a variety of sponsors that appear across the site and Lavanderia himself continues to make appearances on television as a celebrity gossip commentator and has reached a certain level of notoriety and fame on his own.
http://perezhilton.com/?from=navbar_perezhilton#.WfB7q2iCzIU
6.CopyBlogger: $1,000,000 per month
Since January 2006, Copyblogger has been teaching people how to create killer online content. Not bland corporate crap created to fill up a company webpage. Valuable information that attracts attention, drives traffic, and builds your business.
These days, that’s called content marketing. Copyblogger founder Brian Clark has been building businesses with online content marketing since 1998, before anyone used that term.
Copyblogger started as a simple one-man blog. Its known as Rainmaker Digital — a digital commerce company with more than 200,000 unique customers.
No advertising. No venture capital. No outbound sales team.
https://www.copyblogger.com/
5.TechCrunch: $2,500,000 per month
TechCrunch is a massively successful blog that primarily covers news in the technology industry. Originally founded in 2005 by Michael Arrington and Keith Teare, the site was subsequently acquired by AOL in 2010. Today, many notable columnists for the blog feature heavyweights in the startup and venture capitalist fields.
It is also known for its Disrupt conferences that it has started hosting around the world in numerous locations with founders competing for a prize check to help get their companies off the ground. Its TechCrucnh Disrupt conference was also recently featured in the hit television series, Silicon Valley.
https://techcrunch.com/
4.Mashable: $2,000,000 per month
Pete Cashmore started Mashable in 2005 from his home in Scotland. The site grew with Cashmore's dedication to producing excellent content on a consistent basis. He wrote fortuitously in those early years, and in 2009, Time Magazine called Mashable one of the 25 best blogs in the world.
Since then, the blog has ballooned in size and reach, with a significant focus on social media, the company continues to reach droves of viewers through a variety of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. It primarily garners its income through advertisements in various different formats.
http://mashable.com/?geo=US&utm_cid=mash-prod-nav-geo
3.Moz: $4,250,000 per month
Rand Fishkin is the purveyor of the world's most successful blog about search engine optimization. The company, which originally started out as a family-run design business, eventually morphed into a search engine optimization shop. But it was the blog that helped gain them a massive audience and international appeal.
Today, Moz (formerly known as SEOMoz) generates an impressive amount of income and has been funded with several injections of venture capital. The site makes its money from a membership area that features professional tools and services for the avid search engine marketer looking to gain saturation, reach and visibility in the online space.
https://moz.com/
2.Engadget: $5,500,000 per month
Engadget is another wildly-popular blog with humble roots that was also founded, originally, by Peter Rojas of Gizmodo around the same time the other site was started. The site conveys advice and reviews on technology and consumer electronics. It was acquired and has been operated by AOL since 2005.
The company makes a vast fortune from advertising and employs a number of writers and editors that are constantly providing sound advice on every type of gadget possible.
https://www.engadget.com/
1. Huffington Post: $14,000,000 per month
Arriana Huffington's wildly popular Huffington Post is the stuff of legends. The site was launched way back in 2005 by Huffington, providing a very liberal view on life and politics. In 2011, Huffington, who is of Greek descent, sold the blog by her namesake to AOL for $315 million, while being kept on as Editor in Chief. She has since stepped down from that role.
HuffPost or HuffPo, as it is now referred to, makes it money from sponsored advertising revenue through banners and other digital ads across its variety of channels. It is by far the most successful blog of its kind, likely valued today at well over $1 billion, making it a clever investment for AOL.
https://www.engadget.com/