With all the press this has been getting you know the government is just waiting to sink their teeth into his profits, maybe he should of set his company up as a charity since it's for his education...
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With all the press this has been getting you know the government is just waiting to sink their teeth into his profits, maybe he should of set his company up as a charity since it's for his education...
It'd only be for his education up until it covers the cost of his tuition. After that, it's money for beer and weed LOL Knowing the UK gov't, they'll find some way of shafting him ;)
It will be 40% tax thank you very much (give or take, and mostly take!).
Gordon Brown rubs hands in glee.
There are a bunch of knockoffs to the million dollar home page, but it looks like people are starting to get more creative with it. http://www.daniel.org/blog/?p=363 lists possible new features, such as zooming, and http://www.mikimap.com allows short animations and mouseover sounds on their pixels.
Do you think this might turn into a new marketing technique as people start adding more and better features?
I think only the first one will get any traffic. Any others will have to have something majorly new to get any press attention which is what made the first one successful.
Exactly... it was the press attention and the novelty of this that made it successful.
Not a chance. People are paying to advertise and the only way they will get a return on their investment is from people looking at their ads. The only reason people were looking at the ads on milliondollarhomepage is the media attention.Quote:
Originally Posted by jlorfing
If someone adapted it to such an extent that it got similar levels of media attention, then it might work for them. But it'll never be a new mainstream marketing technique because no one really wants to look at a page of ads. Just take a look at it - it's like a page of spam! :) But good on him!
Check out the current price on ebay for those last 1k pixels!... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ME:L:LCA:UK:31
The only thing I could imagine.. is if a site owner auctioned off the ad inventory in a large header of their site or a sidebar. By selling it in units it would give smaller advertisers to get impressions for a fraction of the price while ensuring all the inventory was sold. However, I'm skeptical about the amount of value you can get out of buying 100 pixels of advertising space. Its a struggle to get clickthroughs now of days even if you have purchased an entire banner. Additionally, large spenders may not want their ads right up against some other company's ads.
However, as far as the "permanent" part of the idea goes, no. I can see an advertiser buying ad inventory long-term like is currently done on the futures market, but "forever", just doesn't make any sense. Hell, with MSN being sold out for the next 16 months or so this could make sense. This would also be a way for website owners to limit their risk if there is an economic downturn in the future which resulted in a slower advertising market. Of course, there would be a trade-off in profits in a strong market upswing. Right now its pretty clear that internet advertising is experiencing a sharp upswing so this idea probably wouldn't be too attractive until there was some sort of wide-spread economic uncertainty.
Hahah, I think I just really went off topic in that last paragraph.
I liked the first idea much better. Think about itQuote:
Originally Posted by AndyH
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