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