When I got into work this morning, I checked my RSS aggregator to see what new posts were out there in blog/news land. I found this article on Neowin.net called “Million Dollar Man (Almost At A Million).” It’s about a student who sells advertising on a website. Sounds pretty basic, huh? Well, not this site. Alex Tew sells advertising by the pixel…all on one page. Here is an exerpt from the Neowin post:
Run by 21 year-old Alex Tew, a university student from the UK, the homepage offers viewers the chance to purchase a pixel for $1. The site’s relative novelty appears to be the main cause of its success – quantified at a staggering 25,000 hits per hour – and highlights yet another unique advertising / marketing mechanism found online. Alex told Reuters news agency that he’d not done much with the money, but had treated himself to a new car. ” I’ve only just passed my driving test so I’ve bought myself a little black mini”.
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This guy takes the pixel thing a step further…
SaveMyPenis.com.
A little nutty, but I got a laugh from the blog entries.
Haha…great find, Jeff. That is definitely taking it TOO far. I haven’t had a chance to read the blog entries, but wow…
My hat goes off to Alex Tew, he certainly found a unique idea to sell ad space. I actually took his idea one step further… selling ad space by the BYTE! There are so many “pixel pushers” out there now that I needed to put a spin on the pixel advertising concept. Check out http://www.buckabyte.com
I believe that Alex’s site still generates some indirect value for advertisers at least by improving their visibility in search engines. It has a PageRank of 7 and many still continue to add links to it (by the way, this article has just added one link). So, getting the link from website with such a high PageRank for as low as 1$ it is clearly a reasonable investment. Good luck to all the copycats
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