Smiley Central

[AndyH]

How do they make money if they don't bundle in Spyware/Adware/whatever-ware with the download?

[cameron]

I think they do bundle something with it.

[incka]

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]

Didn't Azoogle used to pay a lot more than $0.70 per download? What happened?

[incka]

The maximum they have ever paid is $0.75 a download.

[Westech]

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?

[Mike]

$7? I doubt it

[incka]

I said £7 for free 888 casino on net download AGES ago, perhaps you are confusing it with that?

[Westech]

I must be. Please ignore me from now on. $7 per dl would be nice though...

[Mike]

I'd be nearly a millionaire if it was

[incka]

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]

I don't think his comment was made to be taken literally .

Anyhow, thanks for the replies.

[Mike]

No it wasn't meant to be taken literally

[incka]

Sorry, I can never tell if someone is being sarcastic or no, and it doesn't help not being able to see their expressions.

[Kyle]

In time, you'll pick up on these things even though all you have to go by is words, and smileys!