Twitter Ad Sites: Who Makes the Money?
There are some brokers on Twitter that will charge an advertiser for exposure on Twitter. Then they find publishers (Twitter users) that will allow the ads or links to be displayed on their respective Twitter page(s). I have seen one or more of these broker sites that do not say what they pay the publishers (or if they do, it is difficult information to locate) … I suppose you find out after you sign up. In my research I stumbled across one of these broker sites that had cultivated about 1,000 followers and with their related traffic they were able make a case for selling the domain. They ended up selling the domain to someone at auction, for $6,000. Actually, they sold it early with a Buy-It-Now-Bid. There’s another idea there. What I found interesting about this particular Twitter business sales pitch, were some of the comments they made about the site, the revenues and the payouts, during their attempt to sell it. Read more
Mobile Phone Ad Trends
Mobile Advertising is catching on in different markets. Some of the larger companies that have been using mobile advertising have been primarily using banner ads and mobile display ads, according to the Wall Street Journal. Now, they report there appears to be a shift by some of the those companies to using search advertising, due in part, to the limitations of mobile devices and the apparent intrusiveness of the banner and mobile display ads.
Whether or not the pattern becomes a trend or not, I think there is a strong impetus to see this shift unfold in the upcoming months. For one, mobile advertising targets a subsection of the online market. People on the go, in a hurry, who are socially active and social media receptive, are a demographic that substantially represents this market. I recently read in Paul Gillin’s ‘Secrets of Social Media Marketing’ where he quoted Giovanni Gallucci, cofounder of Dexterity Media, stating “People on MySpace aren’t running away from pedophiles and stalkers. They’re running away from marketers and advertisers.” Read more
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