Thursday, June 14, 2007

More Ad Placements for Widget Creating Web Sites

Widgets, or applications that consumers can use to produce videos, photo slideshows and music playlists, are posted on sites such as MySpace and Facebook and attract millions of viewers.

According to The Wall Street Journal article, “Widgets May Snag More Ads”, the companies creating the widgets, such as Slide Inc. and RockYou Inc. are not generating much revenue from their own content. Instead, the majority of their income comes from selling ads on their own sites because MySpace does not allow it and Facebook only allows the ads to run in certain places, which do not include personal profile pages.

Recently, some social-networking companies like Bebo Inc., have started to include ads with widgets on its profile pages, which should increase revenue for Widget creating sites.

Links to widget sites:
Slide
www.slide.com

RockYou
www.rockyou.com

PictureTrail
www.picturetrail.com

Photobucket
http://photobucket.com

BunnyHero labs
www.bunnyherolabs.com

BlingyBlob
www.blingyblob.com

POQbum
www.poqbum.com

Brightcove
www.brightcove.com

Layoutstar
www.layoutstar.com

Musicplaylistus
www.projectplaylist.com

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