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Some leaked emails at the MediaDefender-Defenders has granted The Pirate Bay the proof it needed to file charges against several media companies. These emails prove that some major record labels and film production and distribution companies have hired p
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Notice that Google called these videos "purchased" and "download to own" -- as though by buying them, they became your property. Funny kind of property, that. Imagine if these were DVDs: one day, a man from Virgin Megastore shows up at your door and says,
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If you search Google for Jason Bourne in the US, you’ll hit upon an undisclosed blue-background ad taking up the top part of the search results. The box reads: Become an agent in the Ultimate Search for Bourne with Google The Ultimate Search for Bourne
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YouTubers: If you want me to EXPOSE a YouTuber that you think is either cheating, may be an actor, or an actress, a viral marketing campaign or just trying to "game the system" to become the next "YouTube Celebrity", then email me, TVTalkShows.com Webmast
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TellyAdder is a YouTube adder... a friend bot for YouTube. TellyAdder will gather user IDs on any YouTube page. With these IDs you can send automated friend requests, comments, etc... Doing so will he
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“Rat Monster Joke” returns a result from YouTube competitor Metacafe. What’s odd, however, is that the Flash player below the result isn’t from Metacafe - it’s a Google Video player, streaming the video form Google’s servers. All the links h
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For SMD, which seems to sell movie downloads, the process goes something like this: 1. Find an interesting YouTube video 2. Add your own site branding and URL 3. Upload to an account and disable comments so no one complains about you taking their clips 4.
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They seem to be pulling videos from different feeds like Blip and Google. They repost them to their site with a preroll video ad...and an image ad all around the video. They put a MyHeavy watermark on the video. They resize the video from the origin
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As we all know I'm no longer working on Netscape. So, these are my observations as someone who is no longer affiliated with the service. I've figured out exactly how you can get almost any quality story on the home page instantly.
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NYT does a story about how some content sites, like Entrepreneur.com and others are using pop-ups to inflate their traffic number. In this case, no, they’re not using pop-up ads on their sites, but serving themselves up in those ads units on other site
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Services like Revver or Metacafe, on the other hand, who pay users for their content, do have a problem. Users who cheat the system into believing more people watched their videos, could steal a lot of money from them. For these services, it’s not the n
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There’s nothing unexpected or inherently bad about this — we just need to remember how quickly “social” can become “commercial” and managing the “community” can become managing the “marketplace.”Companies charge as much as $15,000 to g
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There are lot of ways to catch cheaters: * Do the views come from the same subscriber? * Did views skyrocket in a certain period with a steady instead of random growth rate? * Did a user view more videos in a period than possible? * Is the ratio of views/
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Social media sites continue to change the way we interact with data but expect more activity and content shaping in the future from marketers targeting the social media space for a quick link injection.Opportunists will continue to jump into new networks
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Social media sites and search engines need to stay on top of this new form of content creation, continually analyzing data and scrubbing out the dirt. Sites overrun with web spam quickly lose their utility and might be banned from search engines.
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All of this points to a real problem in the social media world. The only yardsticks we use to measure the trustworthiness of a source are purely based on popularity - e.g. in-bound links, votes, etc. Now often popularity and quality are closely aligned. H
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Of course, a few thousand rogue links on a site with over 100 million profiles is pretty insignificant, but these repeated attacks on MySpace users show that social networks are becoming a prime target for phishers and badware vendors. Although a few of t
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If YouTube doesn’t police commercial video spam, users will be alienated. Google, for its part, will lose part of the revenue opportunity it bought YouTube to capture — brand marketing via online video.
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Now if you want to show up ranked highly on nielson all you need to do is direct traffic to their download pages. Nielson claims that 45,000 -70,000 users in europe have their software installed.
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I complained over the weekend that YouTube is increasingly being gamed by users. I decided to test out how hard this would be - as it turns out, it’s exceptionally easy to rank among the most viewed videos and channels by simply refreshing the page.
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The normal ratio for reviews to viewership is about 1:100 but many videos that rank highly for the day, are 1:3 or 1:2. In our casual observation, this seems to happen most in the morning, when we speculate that people are battling each other, jockeying f
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The dirty little secret of Silicon Valley is that no one knows exactly who is going where on the Web. That flies in the face of the impression that online advertising is the most dependably trackable ad medium of all time, a big reason spending on Web ads
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Spike the Vote works on a point system. Each day I give you a mission with several stories to Digg. 20% of your mission involves digging stories submitted by users in this community, while 80% of of your mission is completely random. This is to eliminate
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User/Submitter users are then given the chance to digg your submission and other stories for $0.50. After your submission has reached your desired number of diggs, you will be emailed a report.
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Some 56 percent of active English-language blogs are spam, according to researchers at the University of Maryland. A survey by Mitesh Vasa in December 2005 found that Blogger.com was hosting more than 100,000 sploggers
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Einache Erklärung was Click Fraud ist und wie es funktioniert. Das generelle Problem ist wie stelle ich sicher, dass auch wirklich jemand am Computer sitzt oder noch wichtiger wie sichere ich Informationen vom Computer zur person.
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14.1% der Clicks bei Suchbezogener Werbung sind betrogen.
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Noch mehr zum Clickbetrug bei Suchmaschinen. Außerdem die Überlegung dass man über CPC auch CPM Werbung erfüllen kann und in der Differenz verdient.
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Auf grund der Click Fruad fälle überlegen sich bis zu 30% der Werber ob sie nicht ihre Ausgaben reduzieren oder zurückhalten bis es sinnvolle gegenmaßnahmen gibt. Außerdem sind Cost per Action modelle in Sichtweite
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Click Fraud ist eine ernste Gefahr: $800 Mio (14.5% der Clicks) wurde dabei letztes Jahr verbrannt. 1/4 der Werber haben daraufhin ihr Budget gekürzt. Viele Denken über Cost per Action nach und Google u. Yahoo mussten viel zurück zahlen.
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Auf der Suche nach dem Ausweg. Pay-per-Click ist in der Click-Fraud Falle und muss abgeändert werden.Am Start sind Pay per Percentage: Man kauft einen Prozentsatz der Einblendungen von Keywords oder Cost per Action.
