Make Money with Your Facebook Profile

Written by Pablo Palatnik on December 18, 2007

OK, so ever since I got a Myspace profile I tried everything possible to get adsense code in there with my publisher ID so I can make money of the clicks…unfortunately that never happened.

I always thought advertisements on the profiles should be shared with the user, after all, we put all the time and effort in getting our own traffic, designing our site, etc.

Ads-Click, a company from Switzerland which has some presence in the U.S., has developed a Facebook application for users that allows users to put a code and deliver targeted ads to their users sharing 80% of the revenue (80% goes to you.) So, depending on your content from your profile and that of your visitor, it will display a relevant ad by text I believe, once they click, you get 80% of that click and 20% goes to them.

{If Facebook and Myspace offered this to their users with Adsense or any other contextual ad programs, there would be more of an incentive for profile users to drive traffic, refer friends, etc. I guess it comes down to SPAM and how the public will react}

It is called MicroSocialAds and should be out soon. How will Facebook react to this if they do? Facebook not getting a cut of advertising done through their site?

Paramount Releases Jackass 2.5 Free Online

Written by Pablo Palatnik on December 17, 2007

Good content = visitors. Visitors = advertising. Advertising = money. Great content = a lot of visitors. A lot of visitors = Big advertising.

“Paramount Pictures, MTV and Blockbuster have partnered to distribute the latest feature length film from the daredevil reality franchise in an ad-supported environment,” reports ClickZ.

ClickZ also reports, “From December 19th through the 31st, the film will be distributed by movie rental firm Blockbuster’s Movielink service as a streaming video over Microsoft’s Silverlight media player. The movie won’t be directly available from Blockbuster, but instead will be distributed by the movie’s own site at blockbuster.jackassworld.com. As co-sponsor, Blockbuster will manage advertising for initial distribution of the film.
Blockbuster will also sell pre- and post-roll video advertising, and has signed on Clearspring to manage its inventory. Additionally, interactive marketing firm Deep Focus will support the release, according to CEO Ian Schafer.”

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Web 2.0 Bubble: Grow or Burst?

Written by Pablo Palatnik on December 13, 2007

This post is inspired by a video maybe a lot of you saw already, but I’m sure a lot of you haven’t.

As ANY bubble eventually burst, the web 2.0 bubble is growing. Search engines (Google) and social media sites (Myspace, Digg, Facebook) are changing the landscape of the internet.

Social Media: Game, Addiction, and Obsession.

Written by Pablo Palatnik on December 10, 2007

GAME: There was a great eBook released today called, “The Web: Hidden Games,” which talks about social media being an actual game. Is it a game? Of course…As online marketers we try to game these sites for our own purposes (monetization, links, etc) but for the actual users, it’s still considered a game, maybe physiologically. The eBook describes the reason for it being a game comes down to two major reasons: Goals and Competition. Each site has a goal, each one gets competitive.

Digg- Get to the front page competing against THOUSANDS (maybe millions) of users and submitted stories per day. Start a network of friends who will vote on your stories to make it to the top. Be the first one to find the most interesting story and submit it faster then anyone else. Not in that order, but hey, that sounds pretty cool and sounds like a game…hence the most active Digg crowd is a young demographic for the most part.

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