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Have you stumbled upon StumbleUpon?

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

I’m a big fan of innovative tools, ideas and gadgets.

I’ve recently come across StumbleUpon and for someone who struggles to keep up to date with their bookmarks it’s a pretty good tool to use to share what you like with your friends, your peers, your family etc.

Social media is turning into really big business. Twitter, Facebook continue to post impressive growth in terms of users, indeed if you saw the post we did on Facebook Facts and Figures even though that research was done only 9 days ago there are already so many more Facebook users than on the 7th March and Twitter is experiencing even faster growth.

Well, with 7.2 million members using StumbleUpon it is a social networking lightweight, call it second tier. That said, with the service you can do pretty cool things.

So what can you do with StumbleUpon ?

Good question. Here are just some of the things you can use the site for :

Random surfing – perfect for killing time on your mobile phone or at the end of your lunch. You can set up preferences of the sorts of sites you want to StumbleUpon and it will do it randomly based on popularity.
Save and share your bookmarks.
Download a StumbleUpon toolbar and use it to thumbs up or thumbs down the sites that you visit while Stumbling.
View StumbleUpon channels, including News, Videos, Art, Music, Sports, Technology and more.
Add friends to your profile so you can Stumble the things they like, it’s akin to having thumnails of their bookmarks.
Make new friends by meeting people that share your interests.
But here is the killer – you can advertise on StumbleUpon.

So, in the random sites served as part of your Stumble based on what you say your interests are – i.e. you are a man, living in California, interested in golf, dating tips, electronic devices and travel then you will see sites served up in those categories. Some of the sites shown will be paid ads, and, the more people like the sites (aka your ad) you show (so notice no keyword, no title, no description) the more your sites get shown to other Stumblers with similar interests, and the traffic costs 5 cents only per view.

You can set up campaigns to have a certain budget per day, so no nasty surprises on your credit card bill. You can choose to receive a certain number of visitors (between 100 and 5000 per day, not sure what happens if it goes above that, but I doubt many will venture above that, unless it becomes extremely popular.

You can choose certain pages, ideal if you are an affiliate with landing pages for certain offers.

The only thing we didn’t like was that they only seem to take PayPal at the present time, but no doubt this will change eventually.

In terms of demographic targeting :

You can target by Country.

You can target by US or Canadian State.

You can target by Major global City (so Dublin, Glasgow London, Bangalore…….New York, Vancouver)

You can target by sex (not whether you have it or not)

You can target by age (from 18), but it goes up in chunks of 5 years until you get to 99.

If nothing else, spend $25 (the minimum to populate an account, it will be good research. The number of users shown above is in hundreds of thousands. So for health they have 290,000 users.

They provide reporting on number of times your page showed and how many thumbs up vs. thumbs down it got. Might be useful as a way of doing some usability tests in advance of spending money on other traffic generation methods.

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Facebook Facts and Figures

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Facebook Ads have been around for a little while now and I thought it would be a good idea to try and unravel some of the more pertinent facts and figures.

Thanks to Facebook and Wikipedia for having such great data available.

I started by asking myself a few questions :

Which countries had the most Facebook users ?
What are the populations of those countries ?
Where are the areas with the most growth potential ?
What surprised me most ?

I’m going to post my own thoughts in a comment.

I’d be really interested to see what surprised you most, so be sure to comment below.

I’ll do this exercise on a monthly basis (for as long as I can get the data) and I might segment it a bit more based on male/female and do some age group, education profile, marital status, demographic based on location (i.e. big cities). Let me know what else you’d like to see.

Every affiliate I have spoken to that has done well with Facebook Ads has said that segmentation is key to their success. Hopefully this information might lead to some light bulb moments for you. I know it did for me.

Enjoy!

Top 10 Countries by Number of Users

Country	Facebook Users 7th March 2009	Users Rank	Population	% Using Facebook	Rank
Argentina	3,255,980	11	36,260,130	8.98%	35
Australia	5,088,400	7	21,370,800	23.81%	7
Austria	419,120	41	8,316,487	5.04%	46
Bahrain	62,000	87	1,046,814	5.92%	42
Bangladesh	250,640	54	150,448,340	0.17%	89
Belgium	2,008,180	16	10,666,866	18.83%	13
Bolivia	190,220	61	9,119,152	2.09%	59
Bosnia & Herzegovina	300,960	47	3,981,239	7.56%	38
Brazil	271,280	50	196,342,592	0.14%	90
Bulgaria	222,620	58	7,640,238	2.91%	54
Canada	11,590,560	3	33,553,000	34.54%	4
Chile	4,111,540	9	16,763,470	24.53%	6
China	278,360	48	1,321,851,888	0.02%	95
Colombia	4,441,860	8	44,760,630	9.92%	33
Costa Rica	100,320	76	4,133,884	2.43%	57
Croatia	645,260	33	4,453,500	14.49%	20
Cyprus	127,400	73	801,600	15.89%	16
Czech Republic	393,380	42	10,424,926	3.77%	50
Denmark	2,064,580	14	5,511,451	37.46%	3
Domincan Republic	145,200	67	9,904,000	1.47%	63
Ecuador	148,780	66	13,922,000	1.07%	71
Egypt	1,122,280	25	75,500,662	1.49%	62
El Salvador	82,140	81	6,948,073	1.18%	69
Finland	1,121,020	26	5,327,490	21.04%	10
France	8,618,360	5	65,073,482	13.24%	25
Germany	1,745,400	19	82,060,000	2.13%	58
Ghana	76,300	83	23,000,000	0.33%	84
Greece	1,363,560	22	11,216,708	12.16%	29
Guatemala	114,360	75	13,000,001	0.88%	74
Honduras	65,780	85	7,483,763	0.88%	75
Hong Kong	1,658,980	20	6,985,200	23.75%	8
Hungary	129,060	72	10,034,000	1.29%	67
Iceland	159,200	63	319,756	49.79%	1
India	1,360,040	23	1,147,995,904	0.12%	91
Indonesia	2,026,620	15	237,512,352	0.85%	76
Ireland	540,400	36	5,981,448	9.03%	34
Israel	989,100	28	7,282,000	13.58%	24
Italy	8,439,880	6	59,905,225	14.09%	22
Jamaica	80,980	82	2,804,332	2.89%	55
Japan	243,580	56	127,433,494	0.19%	87
Jordan	303,720	46	6,198,677	4.90%	47
Kenya	192,120	60	37,953,840	0.51%	80
Kuwait	130,140	71	3,399,637	3.83%	48
Lebanon	434,960	40	4,099,000	10.61%	31
Lithuania	65,700	86	3,350,400	1.96%	60
Luxembourg	93,100	77	480,222	19.39%	12
Macedonia	139,880	69	2,061,315	6.79%	40
Malaysia	1,054,520	27	27,730,000	3.80%	49
Maldives	38,320	92	350,000	10.95%	30
Malta	58,580	88	410,290	14.28%	21
Mauritius	72,600	84	1,264,866	5.74%	44
Mexico	1,890,100	17	109,955,400	1.72%	61
Morocco	457,840	39	31,352,000	1.46%	64
Netherlands	484,180	38	16,440,113	2.95%	53
New Zealand	670,860	32	4,280,000	15.67%	18
Nicaragua	38,020	93	5,603,000	0.68%	77
Nigeria	256,240	52	148,000,000	0.17%	88
Norway	1,840,880	18	4,805,437	38.31%	2
Oman	32,180	94	2,577,000	1.25%	68
Pakistan	491,260	37	172,800,000	0.28%	85
Palestine	83,060	80	2,407,681	3.45%	52
Panama	211,900	59	3,309,679	6.40%	41
Paraguay	26,700	95	6,158,000	0.43%	81
Peru	380,620	44	29,180,900	1.30%	66
Philippines	839,220	30	90,500,000	0.93%	73
Poland	246,300	55	38,116,000	0.65%	79
Portugal	123,680	74	10,676,910	1.16%	70
Puerto Rico	634,020	34	3,994,259	15.87%	17
Qatar	90,380	78	1,541,130	5.86%	43
Romania	84,640	79	21,504,442	0.39%	82
Russia	144,400	68	142,008,838	0.10%	93
Saudia Arabia	379,080	45	27,601,038	1.37%	65
Serbia	783,300	31	7,395,000	10.59%	32
Singapore	962,980	29	4,839,400	19.90%	11
Slovakia	275,780	49	5,379,455	5.13%	45
Slovenia	270,160	51	2,053,355	13.16%	26
South Africa	1,231,220	24	47,900,000	2.57%	56
South Korea	131,600	70	49,540,367	0.27%	86
Spain	3,831,620	10	46,157,822	8.30%	36
Sri Lanka	189,160	62	19,668,000	0.96%	72
Sweden	2,086,600	13	9,234,209	22.60%	9
Switzerland	1,389,020	21	7,700,200	18.04%	14
Taiwan	151,400	65	23,000,000	0.66%	78
Thailand	234,000	57	63,038,247	0.37%	83
The Bahamas	50,480	90	330,549	15.27%	19
Trinidad and Tobago	158,900	64	1,252,800	12.68%	27
Tunisia	383,960	43	10,327,800	3.72%	51
Turkey	9,821,320	4	71,517,100	13.73%	23
UAE	569,040	35	4,621,399	12.31%	28
UK	17,696,080	2	60,975,000	29.02%	5
Ukraine	49,380	91	46,179,226	0.11%	92
Uruguay	253,360	53	3,477,779	7.29%	39
USA	54,319,600	1	305,936,000	17.76%	15
Venezuela	2,306,280	12	28,199,822	8.18%	37
Vietnam	53,520	89	86,116,559	0.06%	94
Total	175,241,640		5,672,087,060	3.09%

Top 10 Countries by % of population

Country	Facebook Users 7th March 2009	Users Rank	Population	% Using Facebook	Rank
Argentina	3,255,980	11	36,260,130	8.98%	35
Australia	5,088,400	7	21,370,800	23.81%	7
Austria	419,120	41	8,316,487	5.04%	46
Bahrain	62,000	87	1,046,814	5.92%	42
Bangladesh	250,640	54	150,448,340	0.17%	89
Belgium	2,008,180	16	10,666,866	18.83%	13
Bolivia	190,220	61	9,119,152	2.09%	59
Bosnia & Herzegovina	300,960	47	3,981,239	7.56%	38
Brazil	271,280	50	196,342,592	0.14%	90
Bulgaria	222,620	58	7,640,238	2.91%	54
Canada	11,590,560	3	33,553,000	34.54%	4
Chile	4,111,540	9	16,763,470	24.53%	6
China	278,360	48	1,321,851,888	0.02%	95
Colombia	4,441,860	8	44,760,630	9.92%	33
Costa Rica	100,320	76	4,133,884	2.43%	57
Croatia	645,260	33	4,453,500	14.49%	20
Cyprus	127,400	73	801,600	15.89%	16
Czech Republic	393,380	42	10,424,926	3.77%	50
Denmark	2,064,580	14	5,511,451	37.46%	3
Domincan Republic	145,200	67	9,904,000	1.47%	63
Ecuador	148,780	66	13,922,000	1.07%	71
Egypt	1,122,280	25	75,500,662	1.49%	62
El Salvador	82,140	81	6,948,073	1.18%	69
Finland	1,121,020	26	5,327,490	21.04%	10
France	8,618,360	5	65,073,482	13.24%	25
Germany	1,745,400	19	82,060,000	2.13%	58
Ghana	76,300	83	23,000,000	0.33%	84
Greece	1,363,560	22	11,216,708	12.16%	29
Guatemala	114,360	75	13,000,001	0.88%	74
Honduras	65,780	85	7,483,763	0.88%	75
Hong Kong	1,658,980	20	6,985,200	23.75%	8
Hungary	129,060	72	10,034,000	1.29%	67
Iceland	159,200	63	319,756	49.79%	1
India	1,360,040	23	1,147,995,904	0.12%	91
Indonesia	2,026,620	15	237,512,352	0.85%	76
Ireland	540,400	36	5,981,448	9.03%	34
Israel	989,100	28	7,282,000	13.58%	24
Italy	8,439,880	6	59,905,225	14.09%	22
Jamaica	80,980	82	2,804,332	2.89%	55
Japan	243,580	56	127,433,494	0.19%	87
Jordan	303,720	46	6,198,677	4.90%	47
Kenya	192,120	60	37,953,840	0.51%	80
Kuwait	130,140	71	3,399,637	3.83%	48
Lebanon	434,960	40	4,099,000	10.61%	31
Lithuania	65,700	86	3,350,400	1.96%	60
Luxembourg	93,100	77	480,222	19.39%	12
Macedonia	139,880	69	2,061,315	6.79%	40
Malaysia	1,054,520	27	27,730,000	3.80%	49
Maldives	38,320	92	350,000	10.95%	30
Malta	58,580	88	410,290	14.28%	21
Mauritius	72,600	84	1,264,866	5.74%	44
Mexico	1,890,100	17	109,955,400	1.72%	61
Morocco	457,840	39	31,352,000	1.46%	64
Netherlands	484,180	38	16,440,113	2.95%	53
New Zealand	670,860	32	4,280,000	15.67%	18
Nicaragua	38,020	93	5,603,000	0.68%	77
Nigeria	256,240	52	148,000,000	0.17%	88
Norway	1,840,880	18	4,805,437	38.31%	2
Oman	32,180	94	2,577,000	1.25%	68
Pakistan	491,260	37	172,800,000	0.28%	85
Palestine	83,060	80	2,407,681	3.45%	52
Panama	211,900	59	3,309,679	6.40%	41
Paraguay	26,700	95	6,158,000	0.43%	81
Peru	380,620	44	29,180,900	1.30%	66
Philippines	839,220	30	90,500,000	0.93%	73
Poland	246,300	55	38,116,000	0.65%	79
Portugal	123,680	74	10,676,910	1.16%	70
Puerto Rico	634,020	34	3,994,259	15.87%	17
Qatar	90,380	78	1,541,130	5.86%	43
Romania	84,640	79	21,504,442	0.39%	82
Russia	144,400	68	142,008,838	0.10%	93
Saudia Arabia	379,080	45	27,601,038	1.37%	65
Serbia	783,300	31	7,395,000	10.59%	32
Singapore	962,980	29	4,839,400	19.90%	11
Slovakia	275,780	49	5,379,455	5.13%	45
Slovenia	270,160	51	2,053,355	13.16%	26
South Africa	1,231,220	24	47,900,000	2.57%	56
South Korea	131,600	70	49,540,367	0.27%	86
Spain	3,831,620	10	46,157,822	8.30%	36
Sri Lanka	189,160	62	19,668,000	0.96%	72
Sweden	2,086,600	13	9,234,209	22.60%	9
Switzerland	1,389,020	21	7,700,200	18.04%	14
Taiwan	151,400	65	23,000,000	0.66%	78
Thailand	234,000	57	63,038,247	0.37%	83
The Bahamas	50,480	90	330,549	15.27%	19
Trinidad and Tobago	158,900	64	1,252,800	12.68%	27
Tunisia	383,960	43	10,327,800	3.72%	51
Turkey	9,821,320	4	71,517,100	13.73%	23
UAE	569,040	35	4,621,399	12.31%	28
UK	17,696,080	2	60,975,000	29.02%	5
Ukraine	49,380	91	46,179,226	0.11%	92
Uruguay	253,360	53	3,477,779	7.29%	39
USA	54,319,600	1	305,936,000	17.76%	15
Venezuela	2,306,280	12	28,199,822	8.18%	37
Vietnam	53,520	89	86,116,559	0.06%	94
Total	175,241,640		5,672,087,060	3.09%	#N/A

What do you think ?

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US Offer – Dish Network

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Dish Network is one of the leading providers of satellite TV. Sports fan and movie fans go crazy for watching TV, HBO, ESPN, the list of channels goes on and on.

The offer is for US only traffic.

The commission is paid out on every successful subscription.

This is an offer we have been running internally for some time and many of our e-mail affiliates have done very well with it, we just wanted to let affiliates who don’t work with us to have an opportunity to benefit from a top offer.

The payout for the offer is $7, but if you think you can do higher volume we can go a little higher, but we’ve cut the margin pretty tight already. But if you think you can do more than 50 sales a day we should talk.

If you are not already a Global Direct Media affiliate and want to run this offer then sign up as an affiliate today using the button below. Our turnaround time for account approval is one of the fastest in the industry.

If you are working with us already then login to your account to download the latest creative bundle and start making money on this offer now!

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US Offer – Pedi Paws

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Quite simply this has been one of the most solid offers on the network over the last 6 months or so.

It’s not a sexy product but it is the product that every pet owner must have. If you’ve ever had the pleasure of cutting the toe-nails of your cat or dog you will know what we mean.

According to the Kansas City Star there are 73 million Americans that own cats and 68 million Americans own dogs. That is a lot of people who would benefit from having one of these Pedi Paws devices.

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of cutting the toe-nails of your cat or dog you will know what we mean.

The offer is for US traffic only, but it accepts all forms of traffic from two different advertiser partners. One is solid for e-mail and the other is good for everything else, so make sure you take the right creatives or you may not get paid for your efforts.

The payout is $8 for every sale but for bigger volume we can push that higher, so be sure to speak to your affiliate manager if you can do more than 25 sales a day on this offer.

It converts particularly well on e-mail traffic and also on social media targeting pet owners. Current conversion rate is around the 4-6% off the click.

Pedi Paws will be one of those offers you will shake your head in disbelief at the conversion rates you achieve and how much volume is there.

If you are working with us already then login to your account to download the latest creative bundle and start making money on this offer now!

Tags: cats, dogs, pedi paws, pedipaws, pet nail trimmer, Pet Offers
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