Around and Around | Champaign, Illinois, USA | Nov 2008
You are a walking advertorial:
You thought that a system that auctions keywords to search terms was smart – it was after all smart enough to create and cement a multi-billion dollar search/online-ad monopoly. But wait until this advertising extends into the digitally tagged physical world - [...]
Tag Archives: advertising
What are you advertising?
Photrade: A photography sharing, licensing and syndication service without a compelling value proposition
Photrade combines photo sharing and a stock photography licensing marketplace into a photo syndication service that helps photographers control and license their images.
While Photrade offers a variety of sharing and licensing services, most of the attention about Photrade will focus on one aspect of its business model, the advertising-supported photography licensing and syndication [...]
Conscious consumption requires a different approach to marketing
Social | Bangkok, Thailand | Aug 2005
Albert Wenger at USV:
There are good reasons to believe that structural change to smaller units and individuals will continue and offers opportunities for new marketplaces.
Marketplaces as organizations; exchanges instead of firms.
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In the near future, advertising will no longer be the default revenue model for web startups. To start: [...]
Profits will follow passion
One of the current questions on the web: How do you monetize MySpace? Of course MySpace is finding a way to monetize their content and userbase by signing search deals with Google, launching music sales, etc., but that fails to reap the full potential of the passionate users.
You provide a way for MySpace [...]

