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Advertising on Crenk Has Never Been So Cheap!

Here at Crenk we have recently partnered with Adphilia as our new advertising platform. All fixed price advertising will now go through the Adphilia platform as you can already see in our sidebar.

Current Opportunities:

300 x 100 ad = $100.00 per month – Purchase Here.

We will be offering a monthly round up article in which will include details about all our sponsors and what they offer.

Over the next few months we really hope to bring in more cheap fixed sponsorship opportunities on Crenk, with the aim of really helping startups grab cheap exposure that can really help drive returns.

I also wasnt too sure whether to offer 300×100 ads or 125×125. What do most readers and advertisers prefer?

Crenk Twitter Accounts Everyone Should Be Following!

Crenk – http://twitter.com/crenk
Steven Finch – http://twitter.com/steven_finch
Dean Sherwin – http://twitter.com/deansherwin
Augusto Alvarez – http://twitter.com/augustoalvarez

Crenk Looking for New Writers in Several Areas

Here at Crenk we are looking to expand our writing staff. Currently we have openings for writers on the following topics:

• Advertising
• Blogging
• Mobile Apps
• Products
• Search Engines
• Software

If you are interested in any specific topic then it would be great to hear from you. If you can send over a brief intro with some previous work, then we can discuss the finer details.

Thanks, Crenk Team.

Why Aren’t You Already Following Crenk on Twitter?

Follow Crenk on Twitter! I havent written an article about our Twitter accounts in a little while, so thought I would just let everyone know about all our accounts.

Crenk – http://twitter.com/crenk

Steven Finch – http://twitter.com/steven_finch

Dean Sherwin – http://twitter.com/deansherwin

Augusto Alvarez – http://twitter.com/augustoalvarez

John Steppens – http://twitter.com/johnofthewest

Top 10 Web 2.0 Blogs on Blogs.com

I was lucky enough to be asked by the Sixapart team to post a guest list on Blogs.com. My list was titled Top 10 Web 2.0 Blogs and here is the list below.

Crenk Recession Watch

Undoubtedly, the recession wasn’t really hitting the internet as hard as what it was other industries. Sure we has a bit of trouble over at Microsoft but that’s because they are also a trading company in the real world. What I mean to say is that the online world was fighting off the worst of it.

In fact, companies such as eBay and Amazon actually didn’t do so bad. People began to sell their stuff when they needed the cash and others bought them because they didn’t have too much cash to splash. It was all making perfect sense until the internet could take no more as real companies started to turn their back on it.

Advertising is plummeting. A new report states that advertising on a worldwide scale is down by five percent. In America, the figure is even bigger at 7% worth an estimated 0.4 Billion dollars. Companies who usually do quite well from advertising such as Monster reported that they lost 31% compared to last year.

Wouldn’t you know it; internet giant Google is the only ad publisher to report a growth, however even this is in single digits.

Now that advertising is failing the next sector to be hit will be entertainment. Big companies that have real world trading have more of a chance of survival but for online magazines and games where they often depend on advertising alone to keep the ship afloat – there may be trouble ahead indeed.

The IDC, who released the report did have some good news however.

“We think the industry will continue to see losses in the third and fourth quarters, but the growth rates–or the loss rates, if you will–will eventually begin to improve,” Karsten Weide, program director for digital media and entertainment at IDC, said in a statement. “However, we also believe the industry may have to wait until mid-2010 until it sees real growth again.”

Invesp: Comprehensive Blog Directory

There are so many different types of blog directories out in the market at the moment. Today we received an email from Invesp who have created their own blog directory and it seems to be more comprehensive than most others. Additionally it is great to see Crenk already in the directory and doing well. In the term “startups” we are already in the top 10 blogs, with many other top sites including Techcrunch, Venturebeat, TheNextWeb and Killerstartups.

I know that most of these directories aren’t really comprehensive and they don’t tend to include all blogs in the right areas, but who really cares, it is just a bit of fun.

New Crenk Facebook Group and Fan Box

Here at Crenk we have been making a huge amount of changes with the site in the last week or so. Regular readers will notice that the design has had an upgrade which we hope now is a lot more reader friendly. Additionally, today I wanted to announce that we have a new Facebook group and we have added the new Facebook Fan Box to our sidebar within each individual post. The Facebook fan box and group aims to help our readers follow our articles via Facebook and build more of a community around the site. Here at Crenk we are really trying to provide our readers with what they want, but this is hard without a solid community around the site and a place for everyone to vent their opinions, this is what our Facebook group aims to do.

If you like Crenk and would really like to contribute to our community then please become a fan!

Click here to join!

Twitter Accounts for Crenk and our Writers

It has been a while since we promoted our own Twitter account on site so I thought I would just drop a message to everyone to make sure they follow us. Any Retweets are also very much appreciated.

Crenk Twitter Account = http://twitter.com/crenk

Steven Finch = http://twitter.com/steven_finch

Luis Sandoval = http://twitter.com/pandaran

Augusto Alvarez = http://twitter.com/augustoalvarez

Thanks to Our Sponsors and Partners for May

I would like to thank all of our sponsors and partners for the May. May has been a very exciting month here at Crenk. Crenk released a new theme for the site in which we are constant working on providing the features that our readers want to see and use. Our traffic has really stepped up and we have seen some great results for this and our RSS readers. Plus Twitter is at an all time high and on the rise.

Please follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/crenk

Please subscriber to our RSS feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/crenk/feed

At Crenk have also hired a fulltime writers to the site who will bring in a lot more quality content faster. Welcome Luis and Augusto.

Luis is a writer who has been working on Crenk for a long time and now he has taken the plug into fulltime journalism. Luis is based in the USA and will be bringing our readers some of best and newest startups from that part of the world.

Augusto is a computer geek and fan of the latest technologies, specially those within IT. Augusto has worked as an IT consultant and operations manager for a couple of years. Microsoft Student Partner, MCTS and MCITP.

If you are interested in writing for Crenk then please get in touch and we can see if you fit the bill.

Thanks to our Sponsors and Partners

Adphilia – Adphilia is our CPM advertising partner. Adphilia has really help us develop a constant income stream which allows us to grow our team and site. The advertisers Adphilia provides are top quality and the results have been great.

RouteNote -RouteNote is a digital music distributor that is send artists from all over the world to the leading digital music stores (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon).

Popurls – Popurls is the original single page news aggregator. Popurls is the leading destination to find out what is happening in the world of technology and other topics by simply just visiting one page.

If you would like to become a sponsor or a partner with Crenk then please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any ideas you might have.

Microsoft Has Launched Bing

Bing is the new search engine by Microsoft which was due to launch on the 3rd of June, but for some reason it has launched today!

After using the service for the last ten minutes or so there seems to be do real major difference between Live.com and Bing.com. Search results are still terrible and it is really only the interface that has improved and only slightly.

I cant see Bing in its current form taking any search share from Google. In fact I think in its current form it is probably going to do the opposite and give Google more share of the market. Im amazed that Microsoft cant get a good search algorhythm and that Google are just so far ahead in actually providing quality results.

Microsoft really seems to just lack originality when it comes to search and the majority of their online products. MSN has never really done too much, Windows media player is completely outdated and hotmail needs a revamp but never seems to change much, now bing is the search engine that couldnt.

It would be great to hear your thoughts on the new Bing search engine. The best example of the results is that I searched ‘Crenk’ and the our own website came up 9th! Terrible!

Crenk Reaches 1,000 Post!!!

This is Crenk’s 1000th post. Crenk has been running for a bit over a year and a half and in this time we have produce hopefully some great articles that our readers really enjoyed! In this post I thought I would just share some basic site stats with our readers.

Posts: 1,000

Unique Visitors Since Launch: 364,876

Pageviews Since Launch: 749,590

Comments: 3,856

Twitter Followers: 1,532

In the first year it was very much just a hope for me in which I posted one article a day if I was lucky. Recently we have been trying to post more and more articles that will really help our readers find new, interesting and useful startups and applications. In the next few months we hope to bring in some more writers full time on the site and push it to the next level even quicker. If you are interested in writing for Crenk then please dont hesitate to contact us.

As well as writing more interesting content we are also interested in moving forward with our site design and potentially add in a lot of new features and offerings to our service that our readers will like. If you have any suggestions of what we should add to the site please let us know!

I would also like to thank all the services that have help us promote our site, Popurls, Alltop, Google News, BlogBurst and Blogrovr.

I just wanted to say thanks for everyone who is visiting, reading and commenting on Crenk. We couldnt have got to this current level without your help, so thanks. We looking forward to producing some cool content for you in the future.

Thanks!