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AndyH
09-21-2004, 09:47 PM
How do they make money if they don't bundle in Spyware/Adware/whatever-ware with the download?
cameron
09-21-2004, 10:34 PM
I think they do bundle something with it.
incka
09-21-2004, 11:38 PM
A search bar which has the buttons for using the smileys/cursors/screensavers/history-swatter on. I would expect about 1 in 3 users use the search bar regularly for their searches. Thats about 2 searches per day per user average (active doing 6 searches). 60 a month. Let's say 1 in 20 searches result in people clicking the ads on the side. Each ad pays on average $0.25 estimate to smiley central. That's $0.50 a month per user. AzAds currently pay users $0.70 per download, I expect they get about $1.00 per download. Smiley central makes it back in just 2 months. No ad-ware or spy-ware needed.
Westech
09-22-2004, 10:07 AM
Didn't Azoogle used to pay a lot more than $0.70 per download? What happened?
incka
09-22-2004, 11:00 AM
The maximum they have ever paid is $0.75 a download.
Westech
09-22-2004, 11:16 AM
Then who was it that used to pay $7.00 per download? I thought I remembered you talking about them a while back incka... Or am I just imagining things?
incka
09-22-2004, 12:40 PM
I said £7 for free 888 casino on net download AGES ago, perhaps you are confusing it with that?
Westech
09-22-2004, 02:16 PM
I must be. Please ignore me from now on. $7 per dl would be nice though... :)
I'd be nearly a millionaire if it was :)
incka
09-23-2004, 05:06 AM
Really? The maximum you could have earned is $33.98 (how much I have got for referring you) * 50 (2% referral) * 10 ($7 is 10 times $.7) = $16990, which is no where near $1 million.
You could argue that because of the higher earnings you could pay more in promotion, however their would be more competition so I have chosen to ignore this in my sum above.
AndyH
09-23-2004, 06:01 AM
I don't think his comment was made to be taken literally ;).
Anyhow, thanks for the replies. :)
No it wasn't meant to be taken literally :)
incka
09-23-2004, 08:19 AM
Sorry, I can never tell if someone is being sarcastic or no, and it doesn't help not being able to see their expressions.
In time, you'll pick up on these things even though all you have to go by is words, and smileys!
intelliot
09-25-2004, 10:31 PM
I can't tell either. If you're going to be sarcastic, make it REALLY sarcastic :)
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