Google announced a real time “premium” analytics product last week. Pricing? Contact them to find out.
It’s $150,000 per year. Wowza.
Thanks for your interest in Premium. The program has a flat annual fee of $150,000 which we invoice monthly ($12,500 per month).
The Premium features (including faster data, unsampled reporting, more custom variables) can be enabled on your existing GA account within 2 business days of you joining the program – no retagging necessary.
Please let me know if you’d like to set up some time to discuss further.
Thanks again
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LOL @ “This e-mail is confidential.”
when Google will have over 90% of the SE market shares, also the web searches may have a price
Well, he was the right addressee…
Could you get sued by google for disclosing this email? Just curious.
Google isn’t stupid to sue Arrington, or anybody else, for such a stupid reason. Imagine the kind of ridicule they’d face if they did.
LOL no.
You’re killing it, Mike. Thanks for getting back to old-school blogging.
Who would pay for this?
if i were twitter or some other hot shot startup that can afford it, i would pay for it, because google takes care of all the server, processing, up time, load time, and calculating stuff i just add a couple of lines of code in some file and that’s it.
How is that different from ChartBeat which is much cheaper?
Name and reputation. Tell me how many webmasters have even heard of ChartBeat? Probably next to nil relative to how many have GA installed.
Cheaper than Coremetrics, probably better service too.
Love how you kept in the legal disclaimer which i’m told doesn’t hold any water (which is why you put it in there, correct?)
They are competing with likes of Omniture & Web Trends with premium for big publishers. IMO, they are accustomed to pricing like this.
There’s nothing confidential in this email as the pricing leaked hours after it got announced, but it’s a ridiculous price. The bad thing is that this can make companies like chartbeat hike their prices.
Shame on Google
>_
whos.amung.us and histats.com offer the same!
This is super PRICE I ever seen
The “legalese” only says not to forward it if you were not the intended recipient. Since Mike was the intended recipient, it’s not asking him not to forward/publish it.
Also, that “do not forward” text is clearly phrased as a request, and doesn’t claim to be legally binding.
The pricing isn’t crazy if compared to Omniture or Coremetrics but the flat fee structure makes no sense. The others charge based on some token system this will charge sites with many visits and page loads the same as smaller websites that may also be interested.
Doesn’t appear to be a well thought out strategy by GooG.
The flat fee is great for large enterprises, though — the overage charges from Omniture are insane and this is actually an attractive alternative!
Ad Age mentioned this a few days ago… http://adage.com/article/digital/google-analytics-launches-150k-paid-service/230125/ if you think about the amount huge brands are spending on analytics – this is actually about right.
$150,000 per year…that’s all?! I guess the premium version is mainly meant for enterprises.
“Let me tell you something… You know your getting ripped off… If people will not tell you the price of something, it is a big indication you are about to be ripped off. And I hate hate hate when it’s not clear how much something costs.” — Jason Calacanis to Jon Ferrara (Nimble.com) talking about competitor SaleForce.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAB7aCH98ME @ 34:30
Thanks Arrington!
150k too much
Google must have hired some wise guy to do the pricings this year.
It’s crystal clear that I made a tragic mistake by becoming a blogger and new media entrepreneur. Should’ve invested my time coming up with a great tool for people to analyze their traffic.
$150,000 – it’s much, but if you run a big site, and you want to nail the numbers down – not ‘almost perfectly,’ but 100% perfect – it may make sense as an investment.
Wow. I think everybody will either stick to the free version or go to Woopra which is fairly similar!
This is TOO PRICEY! Only the Internet millionaires can afford this package I guess.
Haha … thanks AOL for firing Mike. We finally got him back!
That’s mice nuts. You can pay more than that to be blackmailed by Return Path and their ISP cohorts. At least with Google you’re getting something for your money…
-mike
For large websites not using sampled data is a big feature.
Hmm… maybe some kind of Yelp deal: “you pay us the $150k, and you might suddenly find yourself at the top of Google searches…”
Wowza.
Hmmm … $150K per year sounds VERY reasonable … My company is paying more than $12.5K per month on Amazon bill for analytics … Maybe there’s a way we can just feed data off to Google Analytics and run stuff from there instead ….
Morgan Freeman go poopy !!!!!!!!
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Wonder if they’ll open this up and cheapen it for the average small business.
Just to clarify… the Real-Time feature is for everyone, not just Premium users. Real-Time in GA is free to all. As for the Premium features, if you don’t want to pay $150k, then don’t. You still get everything GA is today for free and I think they’ll certainly continue to add features to it. But, for companies using other “enterprise” paid solutions, a flat $150k fee is probably a lot lower than what they’re paying already.
-Caleb
Tru dat. Dont know why everyone likes to jump on to google’s back with a knife.
Mike, I believe you should have provided this information as well as (if possible) a price comparison.
WoW Gooogle! WoW! We can buy our own server and make a custom data tracking system for such an amount! And we won’t pay 150 grand per year in the long-term picture…
Great.. go create everything urself.
I’m in. Not.
Wow, 150K is ridiculous for something that many other companies, including GoSquared (http://www.gosquared.com) offer for free for 1 website and then for tiny amount of money in comparison for more than 1 site…!
This is crazy! Have they gone mad?
I see many many people here that doesn’t know how much Webtrends and Ominture charge for the same amount of feature. Michael, ask them a quote for 1billion pageviews, then do a comparison!
This is for enterprise only.
Having access to more detailed analytics would be great. How much does it cost…. DOH!
It’s really not that bad at $150K/annually when you consider Omniture (Adobe), the other widely adopted analytics platform, charges a a minimum of 60k annually, but can range as high as $150K.
I can help you out with Web Analytics Michael, for free…
I”m sure it’s more GA is more complex but I get free real-time analytics for free with WordPress’s Jetpack plugin. I don’t even bother to check my GA stats anymore. But I’m not selling anything so I suppose there’s more to it.
150K/year ain’t bad for analytics – most of the products in this space are much more expensive.Depends on what features GA offers though.
It’s not cheap, but it’s reasonable if you know anything about enterprise tracking solutions.
Small bloggers can’t afford such a huge annual fee
It is clear that this is to limit the number of requests which are already hire due to Google instant 🙂 — if you know what i mean.
and then.. ask yourself.. do you really need premium services???
Google isn’t stupid to sue Arrington, or anybody else, for such a stupid reason. Imagine the kind of ridicule they’d face if they did.
Anyone tried MixPanel?
http://mixpanel.com/streams/?from=partner
If the pricing is fixed it’s a far better price for the large enterprise than Omniture/Adobe. The variable “event” based pricing at the latter is murder in stable companies who need to predict expenses.
Anybody know the price of CoreMetrics?