Weekly M&A: 10 Listings, News & Analysis

WebAcquisition’s DealFeed tool found 372 online businesses for sale with 29 new listings over the last 7 days, and 157 aged listings sitting on the market for too long. 163 deals had recent valuation changes. 111 deals had recent changes in multiple.

🚀 Broker Listings

We cover businesses for sale that are new, aged, or undervalued.

$8.1K/mo Photography Site (listed 5 days ago) – $377,235 valuation at a 47X multiple. This 3 year-old site earns primarily through affiliate programs (86%) and ads (14%). Half of the advertising earnings are through the YouTube channel with 65K subscribers. Traffic increased significantly in 2022 and the site received over 90K pageviews in November. View on Empire Flippers

$1.8K/mo Dating and Romance Site (listed 5 days ago): $71,937 valuation at a 44X multiple. 2-year-old site earns primarily through display ads (82%) and affiliate (18%). Includes an email list with 1K subscribers. Traffic has been trending upward with over 150K pageviews in each of the last 4 months. View on Empire Flippers

$1.5K/mo Home Heating and Cooling Site (listed 9 days ago) – $52,718 valuation at a 33X multiple. 2-year-old site earns from affiliate programs (66%) and display ads (33%). Traffic appears seasonal but with two high seasons (summer and winter). It may not meet Mediavine requirements at current traffic levels. View on Investors Club

$3.6K/mo Marijuana Site (listed 9 days ago) – $137,503 valuation at a 38X multiple. 5-year-old site earns from Amazon and multiple other affiliate programs. 150+ articles published receiving over 25K pageviews per month. View on Motion Invest

$1.2K/mo Patio Site (reduced by $10,650) – New valuation at $34,340 valuation at a 29X multiple. The site earns through Amazon and Ezoic. 250 articles published. Traffic appears seasonal. View on Motion Invest

$2.4K/mo Home Heating and Cooling Site (reduced by $6,750) – New valuation at $66,120 valuation at a 27X multiple. The site earns through Amazon and Mediavine. Over 700 articles published and the site received over 40K pageviews in November and December. View on Motion Invest

🤞 Auction & Off-Market

We cover listings where more “effort” is needed since there is no prospectus. You need to bid and/or ask questions to obtain data.

$2.4K/mo Men’s Grooming Site: 8-year-old site earning via affiliate and AdThrive. Hundreds of articles and 2.9K linking domains. Around 30K pageviews per month. Includes YouTube channel with 2.4K subscribers. Asking price is $99,000. View on Flippa

$8.6K/mo Dating Sites: 22-year-old site with a network of 27 additional sites. 90K unique visitors per month but over 8 million pageviews per month. Monetized only by Adsense so adding affiliate programs could increase revenue. Hosting expenses are high at about $3K per month and about 20 hours of work per week is required. Asking price is $300,000. View on Flippa

$500/mo Dog Site: 3-year old site earning with Mediavine and Amazon Associates. 315 articles published with 1.5K linking domains. Includes Pinterest account with 1K followers. Traffic is on a downward trend so it may not meet requirements for Mediavine. Reserve price at $21K. View on Flippa

$500/mo Screenwriting Contest Site: 3-year-old site earning via screenwriting contest submission fees. The asking price is $11,000. View on Facebook

📰 M&A News

Check out the new happenings in the acquisitions industry.

Display Advertising Rates Expected to Fall in January

Following typical annual trends, display advertising rates are expected to decrease at the beginning of January to the lowest level of the year. Display ad revenue in January can decline by 40-70% for site owners compared to December. This will increase in the number of website listings as sellers attempt to sell while earnings are depressed.

MilkRoad.com Acquired 10 Months After Launch

Milk Road, an email newsletter about cryptocurrency, grew to 250,000 subscribers and was acquired in just 10 months after launching. The newsletter was co-founded by Shaun Puri who co-hosts the popular My First Million podcast. It was purchased by Michael Wittmeyer, the founder of JM Bullion, and Kendall Saville, the founder of i15 Media and PlayUSA Media.

📈 Analysis: Buyer’s Market in January

January can be a good time for sellers to list their site because the higher Q4 earnings can make the average monthly earnings appear higher. The last 6 month average (L6M) will typically be at the highest point of the year in January.

If you are looking to purchase a site there will be more options due to the increased supply of listings. You can be more selective with your criteria and are in a better position to negotiate on price.

Keep an eye out for any recent drops in organic traffic as there were several Google updates in Q4 including the December 2022 Helpful Content Update and December 2022 link spam update. If a traffic drop was recent, the L6M average earnings can be misleading because it includes time before the update affected the site.

According to DealFeed, the average list price multiple is currently 35X across 372 online business listings.

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