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Posted on October 8, 2008 - by Steven Finch

Tribal Fusion: A Top Tier Ad Network Really Worth Joining

Tribal Fusion has to be one of the worlds leading online ad networks. Tribal Fusion works in the same way as most ad networks in that they select various sites in various verticals and then sell run of the networks ads. This allows them to get some great advertisers on board because of the amount of total impressions running in those verticals.

Tribal Fusion is quite exclusive and sometimes hard to get an account, it mainly depends on if their campaigns on are target. If you are lucky enough to get a Tribal Fusion account then you can expect $1 - $3 CPM rates, however the split is 55/45, 55% going to the publisher. Thus, after Tribal Fusion take their cut you can really expect an eCPM of about $1.00 on average.

Recently Tribal Fusion launched their new ad serving platform, Expo 9. Expo 9 allows all publisher the ability to control their remnant ad serving. Expo 9 is easy to set up remnant tags and also the ability to use their ad server to sell private ads. That all being said expect a fill rate of approx 50 - 70% for most blogs.

Tribal Fusion is what I call a top tier ad network, in that they provide one of the highest CPM rates in the industry. If you get a chance make sure you head over to Tribal Fusion and give them a go.

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Posted on September 17, 2008 - by Steven Finch

Adify: The White Label Advertising Network Provider That Will Make You More Money Than Most Ad Networks

Adify is growing into one of the largest advertising technology provides on the web. Adify was recently purchased by Cox enterprises for $300 million back in April. Adify provides a unique white-label advertising network solutions.

Currently Adify has some of the worlds largest media conglomerates using their platform to serve advertising, Forbes, The Guardian, Reuters and more. They have over 20 vertical networks that are using their service.

What does this all mean for the average web publisher? Well web publishers are able to opt in to use the Adify platform, then they can apply to join their vertical networks to sell the advertising. Thus, a publisher could have Forbes, Reuters, Break and IDG, all selling advertising for your site at the same time. Therefore, this normally provides a great eCPM for the publisher and gets them a lot more money than they would get elsewhere.

If you are a web publisher looking for a great advertising solution, make sure you head over and check out Adify, because in times of the US Dollar being quite poor, they will be sure to make you more money than most advertising networks.


Posted on September 10, 2008 - by Steven Finch

Admob: Making Online Mobile Advertising As Simple As 1-2-3

There are so many advertising networks popping up these days its hard to know which ones are actually going to be useful to your needs. However, when it comes to mobile advertising networks, there is only one that really stands out from the crowd, Admob.

AdMob connects people who want to buy ads with people who want to monetize their mobile traffic through the AdMob Marketplace. Admob makes advertising and publishing easy with solutions and tools to meet your unique needs.

Mobile is very dominant in countries like Japan, and advertising to these clients is still not developed fully. Admob offers everything a normal online advertising network would offer, but they simply make moving into the mobile revenues generation space easy.


Posted on August 7, 2008 - by Steven Finch

50 Online Applications and Sites That Everyone Should Test Out!

Chris Brogan has put together a great list of the top 50 online applications and sites to consider. The list is very indepth and there are really some great tools that everyone should try out.

50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider

    Blogging

  1. Blogger - free blogging and hosting.
  2. Movable Type - paid software, needs host.
  3. TypePad - paid blogging and hosting.
  4. WordPress.com - free blogging and hosting.
  5. WordPress.org - free blog software, needs host.
  6. Tumblr - free blogging and hosting.

    Microblogging

  7. BrightKite - microblogging, mobile, location.
  8. FriendFeed - microblogging/ aggregator.
  9. Identi.ca - open source microblogging.
  10. Jaiku - microblogging, mobile too.
  11. Posterous - microblogging, and/or sends to other sites.
  12. Pownce - microblogging and file sharing.
  13. Plurk - microblogging and threaded conversations.
  14. Seesmic - video microblogging.
  15. Twitter - microblogging and mobile.
  16. Utterz - microblogging, mobile, video.

    Social Bookmarking

  17. Delicious - bookmarking.
  18. Ma.gnolia - enhanced bookmarking.
  19. Sphinn - bookmarking/voting.
  20. StumbleUpon - bookmarking and browsing.

    Social News Sites

  21. Digg - social news.
  22. Mixx - social news.
  23. Reddit - social news.

    Social Networks

  24. Facebook - general networking.
  25. Flickr - photo and video sharing.
  26. Last.fm - music sharing.
  27. LibraryThing - book lovers.
  28. LinkedIn - professional social networking.
  29. MySpace - general networking.
  30. Ning - white label social network.
  31. Pandora - music sharing.
  32. Yelp - rating restaurants and businesses.

    Miscellaneous and Useful

  33. Twitter Search (formerly Summize) - search for what matters to YOU.
  34. Picnik - free online photo editing. Good for avatar pic touchups.
  35. Evernote - online and desktop note syncing/storage.
  36. Upcoming.org - event sharing site (great for finding cool conferences).
  37. Netvibes - web start page (has Ginger social features now, too).
  38. Twingly - blog search.
  39. Compete - web ranking analysis.
  40. AideRSS - rates your blog posts.
  41. Skitch - screen capture tool (mac).

    Video Platforms

  42. Blip.tv - video hosting, sharing.
  43. Google Video - video hosting, sharing.
  44. Viddler - video hosting, sharing.
  45. Vimeo - video hosting, sharing.
  46. YouTube - video hosting, sharing.
  47. Mogulus - live video platform.
  48. uStream.tv - live video platform.
  49. BlogTV - live video platform.
  50. ooVoo - live video chat.

Posted on April 7, 2008 - by Steven Finch

162 Million Websites are Online Right Now

The folks at Pingdom have come up with a graph that shows the growth in the number of web sites over the years.


Posted on April 4, 2008 - by Steven Finch

Amazom Relaunches Latin Music Store

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the relaunch of its Latin Music Store, www.amazon.com/latin, with Earth’s largest selection of Latin music titles. Focused on delivering Tu Musica, Tu Sabor (Your Music, Your Flavor) to customers, the newly updated Amazon Latin Music Store carries nearly 140,000 unique titles and brings both English-language and Spanish-language content to Amazon customers. The store features nine categories including, Latin Pop, Latin Rock, Regional Mexican, Tropical, Urban, World, Latin Children’s, Latin Christian and Latin Jazz along with 23 subcategories.


Posted on April 2, 2008 - by Steven Finch

Whos.Amung.Us: The Widget To Show Real Time Reader Stats

Want to know who’s on your site and where they came from, in real time? Then Whos.Amung.us is the tool for you. Whos.amung.us is a very simple widget that is embedded into your site and it shows how many people are actually on your site at any point in time. The code itself is simple and will take about 10 seconds to implement.

The question is however, do you want everyone to know how many people are on your site at any time? If you have a large site with great throughput, then it is idea. However, if your site is either small or is of a medium size but in decline, then this widget is not for you. It really only aims to boost the ego of the publisher and not too much else, but has a nice little novelty factor.


Posted on March 31, 2008 - by Steven Finch

Revision3 Acquired By Fox News?? Hmmmmmm

It has been about 3 months since Revision3 launched the new version of their site and now they have been acquired. Techcrunch reports that in Episode 143 of Diggnation: Hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht announce the sale of Revision3 to Fox News at about the 2:05 mark. Rose says “Well, ah, we basically have a big announcement for everyone. Revision3 has been acquired by a bigger company. We’ll be moving to Fox News.” He added “I’m thinking of getting a fox tattoo, its kinda part of my signing bonus, if i do it i get a little extra money.”

It’s an early (very early) April Fool’s joke, of course. Jump to the 3:45 mark. They are clearly playing off a story from two weeks ago, spread quickly via a credulous Robert Scoble Twitter message, that CNET had acquired Revision3 for $58 million. Bloody April Fool’s jokes. I think the American companies take it a lot more serious than any others. Well it was a nice way to get publicity and damm it, i fell into the trap!


Posted on March 17, 2008 - by Steven Finch

LimeWire Download Store Finally Launches

After about 6 months of announcing plans, the LimeWire store has finally launched. The site is completely separate from the LimeWire peer to peer file sharing application. The company is planning on slowly integrating both services and then finally moving to a legitimate store. All tracks are available as 256kbps MP3 files. Pricing is $.99 for a single track. Or you can get 25 downloads per month for $9.99, 50 for $14.99 or 75 for $19.99. At that last price, you essentially get 75 songs for $.27 each, assuming you actually download 75 tracks each month.

Limewire has already announced some great partnerships including Nettwerk and Redeye. It is going to be very interesting to see how they can prevent customers from downloading music from their store and then sharing the music via their free P2p network.

Disclosure: LimeWire is a partner of RouteNote in which I am currently CEO.


Posted on February 5, 2008 - by Steven Finch

Emote Games To Unveil Social Gaming Technology At GDC

Emote Games a specialist production company founded by industry veterans Morgan O’Rahilly and Dave Rose to fund and produce cross-platform, interactive entertainment and to exploit emergent digital channels, will demonstrate its pioneering technology platform to select partners at the forthcoming Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

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