Anime Piracy Website Voluntarily Closes Due To Removal Of Ads

Anime piracy web site, AnimeKisa TV, not too long ago introduced that the location has voluntarily shut down resulting from a scarcity of funds after they eliminated adverts from the web site.

The employees revealed that after the removing of adverts 18 months in the past since its debut in 2018, AnimeKisa began a donation marketing campaign to fund the web site. Nevertheless, these donations might solely lengthen its life for a number of months.

“In case you’ve been right here since a number of months in the past, you most likely keep in mind us working a donation marketing campaign. Ever since we eliminated adverts a yr and a half in the past (excluding third-party ones which might be unattainable to take away), AK’s pockets dried up, because of your donations we have been capable of lengthen AKs life for a number of months,” wrote AnimeKisa.

Additionally they said that the web site has closed completely and “is rarely coming again on-line”.

Since most pirated web sites gather income by adverts, AnimeKisa suggested its customers to seek out higher alternate options by avoiding AnimeKisa copycats infested with malicious adverts and itemizing quite a few pirate web sites.

“AnimeKisa copycats are on the market, and so they’re usually infested with the worst sorts of adverts. AnimeKisa might shut down, however please don’t use the background imitation web sites as there are significantly better alternate options, the above are a few of them.”

In line with the monitoring service SimilarWeb, AnimeKisa had greater than 18 million hits monthly in the course of the months of December 2021, January 2022, and February 2022.

“In line with AnimeKisa announcement this week, it eliminated most adverts about 18 months in the past. Visitors estimates from SimilarWeb present a web site in good well being, with between 18 to 21 million visits monthly in 2022 and a well-liked sub-Reddit and Discord channel for dialogue. None of that might pressure folks to donate, nonetheless.”

Supply: Anime Motivation, AnimeKisa Official Website