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Monetization Via Social Networks

Monetization — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:54:10 +0000

Does monetizing social networks make them lose value as members shy away? One early web pioneer Bo Peabody, thinks that may be the case, but makes the case for niche networks that have perhaps transient memberships.

On the contrary, monetization via niche networks like Classmates.com may have to compete with general social networks like Facebook. And trading off less traffic from users to paid traffic of users is not an all-or-none proposition.

The launch of Buzz also has given speculation as to how to monetize social conversations via Adsense or other options.

And Activision reportedly says social gaming monetization is speculative, and focuses on content (with reporting all-time highs in digital revenues, including downloads & subscription-based revenue).

Update – Content Monetization, Click to Call, iPad Apps

Monetization — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:58:09 +0000

Content With Money: There is a wealth (literally?) of information in this Neilson survey results post, which includes conclusions that selling musicand games is potentially more lucrative than selling access to text or user-generated content.

For those running text ads on websites, there is the promise of using click to call as an additional revenue source (and the flip side is businesses can get people searching via mobile phones to call just at the moment they want to speak with someone).

Monetization of the Big(ger) Screen? And with the announcement of the iPad, monetizing it (along with iPhones and iPod Touches) may be easier for bloggers with services such as iSites combined with Admob. A future post will give a list of services such as iSites that allow for easy mobile app creation.

Media : Monetizing new media continues to grow as old media struggles to monetize.

Online video monetization may be helping filmmakers who need to monetize their audiences, and sites such as Hulu are trying the pay option.

Paying For Content – Barry Diller

Monetization — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:16:15 +0000

Recently Barry Diller was interviewed by CBS’ Katie Couric, and the brief clip below includes his views on paying for content online. In the discussion he states that the internet was started by techies who cared more for technology and less for business areas, and that the internet is still young.

Watch CBS News Videos Online

(The video may start off with an advertisement.)

Monetization update

Monetization — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:58:52 +0000

Monetization is in the news more than ever it seems… can it save old media? Will Twitter ever be monetized as much as others are monetizing it for things like bands & brands promotion?

Is there a way to monetize video? People think YouTube may have finally cracked the code, helped in part by the ever-lowering cost of hardware & bandwidth. And others continue to try.

There is continued growth in the mobile monetizing potential, especially apps… even if some apps don’t immediately monetize. Reaching people on this “third” screen (after TV & computer browsers) is being targeted. Mobile gaming is a money-making area to watch (or participate in).

And online games are also generating more revenue in new ways, including enticing players to perform some monetizeable action in order to get virtual currency.

Social networks are having their most popular apps be some sort of game, making social games a hot target for revenue generation.

One social networking site is monetizing by getting their members to pay a fee to enter a contest. And there are always helpful lists of ways to monetize a blog, for which there seems to be a pattern of starting with Adsense, and then covering ad sales (banners/video/etc), donations, selling e-products, affiliate marketing. This monetization website (we share similar background with) is also covering a broader spectrum of how to address monetization in general and understand it as applied to entrepreneurial efforts online & offline.