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I thought of a new advertising revenue model for the Internet.
My sorta new hard drive, the Maxtor 160 GB SATA 6Y160M0, has been starting to show problems again. You see, the last time I had this drive, it would start to time out and occasionally just disappear from Windows. Since it was my primary drive, that is Windows was installed on it, this caused all sorts of problems. There were also many bad sectors. So I sent it back to Newegg for a replacement. The new drive worked wonderfully -- until a couple days ago. It started disappearing from Windows again. I tried formatting the drive. (After DAYS of moving files off of it... it's not like I can pull 160 GB of empty space out of thin air.) It seemed okay, but only for one day. Now I've tried doing an sfc.exe /scannow and I'm about to low-level format it. So here I am, logged into pyrallis while I watch CHKDSK grind away on my second monitor. Thinking of advertising revenue and drinking chocolate milk.
Some web sites provide a service, for free. Let's say this service consists of taking photos for royaltee-free use. (Thanks Brandon.) These web sites make money displaying advertisements, which we all know don't work often, and certainly aren't effective, except for maybe on sites like SourceForge where the demographic is pretty narrow. So let's say I start a web site that provides ChadService. In order to get ChadService, you need to pay with ChadDollars. In order to get ChadDollars, you are given puzzles by the ChadService web site that require you to learn about a specific product or service provided by another company. Example: "How much storage, in megabytes, does gmail.com provide?" A correct answer is rewarded with some amount of ChadDollars. How does ChadService make money? Since these puzzles are much more in-depth advertisements than simple images, they're worth more. The company pays ChadService and gives it a number of puzzles, which ChadService gives value. (These will probably have to be refreshed over time... the answers will get out.) Consumers get to use the service at the cost of a small amount of time, the service makes money, and the company gets non-passive advertising.
(I could start poking holes too, but it's generally not a good idea to do that... ideas are like babies, they need protection and nurturing before they're ready to fend for themselves in the real world.)
p.s. I just realized I could name all of my projects after myself. ChadSideScroller. ChadAudioLibrary. ChadWebSite. ChadGameCreationSystem. Then my name would become a brand. Then I'd have to defend it. heh.
p.p.s. Listen to Assemblage 23 if you get the chance. Ownage.
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Definitly an interesting idea. The best kind of ad is an interactive ad, previously my favorite being the flash/java game-ad.
An interesting idea, but I think you underestimate how quickly chadanswers.com would be registered ;-)
Yeah, the idea about 'advertising' sounds pretty cool ^-^ Be sure to work on it more! Uh and I'm really interested in "a vital mcpunky's playlist-update" these days so I'm waiting for ya to come back on waste so that I could put my ears on Assemblage 23. Also, I'm looking for something like Bush, I've downloaded Our Lady Peace from ya last night, but they aren't that cool as Bush are. So any ChadRecommendations? :)
Such an advertising model is subject to people cheating, and any form of "interception page" model tends to turn people off the service.
Yahoo does interception type ads on it's email and yahoogroups services, I can't personally stand to use the web interface since every second message puts a full page interception ad up.
It has to be consistant with the content. Like for webcomics it simply wouldn't work because the time to play with the interception ad exceeds the time required to view the comic.
However, a download site it would be more useful for since there is a "download time", simply combine it with the download manager, as long as you are playing with the ad, the download speed increases. This does have a disadvantage however, since dial-up users will not benefit, and people on capped broadband would get slightly annoyed if they play with the ad, yet their speed doesn't increase. Though IMO it's a much more appropriate solution than "subscription" based download priorities, which people would rather just bittorrent it from someone else at a non-gauranteed speed as long as they get it.
Flash "loading games" are an example where you can not only get away with it, but you can't have it skipped unless already downloaded (hence saving the bandwidth,) Even sims 2 has an "installing game", where you can play with the quiz game and match game untill the actual game completes installation.
You have to target the ad types based on the content. Visual advertisements (images) go with image content. Text ads go with text content. Interactive ads need to take advantage of the end user waiting for something.
Clearly that's a problem that would need to be solved, but I wouldn't just dismiss the idea because I found a flaw right away. We'd never get anywhere in society if that were the case. :)
When my hard drive works again, I'll be back on WASTE... :|
Hm. Apoptygma Berzerk, Icon of Coil, Stromkern, Haujobb, Wumpscut, Seabound, Covenant. That's a start. ;) I dunno, I really like all of the music I have on my computer.
It's not the same as an interception page. The service is no longer perceived as being "free", but instead being cheap, with the cost being some of your time. But you're right, it would turn some people off. As a service provider, that's a judgment call.
Good points.
No no no...I'm not saying it should be dismissed. It's an interesting idea & could put some sites in the black if the kinks can be worked out...I just like finding said kinks. ;-)
I like the quote about ideas being like babies that need nuturing and care ToT