Monthly Archives: January 2007

… and that is only in the US, according to this article. For arguments sake, lets double that figure (to include the rest of the world)… and round it off to 100 million. Ambisonics cant, right now, access that market. … Continue reading →

I dont understand why Google doesn’t let me help it decide what are the best ads to put on ambisonicbootlegs. I know my audience very well. I can tell what kinds of ads they might consider following up. Google are … Continue reading →

So now are exciting times, because Ambisonic Bootlegs’ potential audience is about to expand by several orders of magnitude. Currently, the surround sound audio files are only available in Ambisonic format. Given that there are very few sites on the … Continue reading →

Here’s a screenshot of Google’s adsense report for the last 7 days. It basically says that for 501 page impressions, I have had 11 clickthroughs (Note that Google ads dont appear on all my page impressions). That’s around 2.2% of … Continue reading →

Now about 10 minutes after having put Google adsense on ambisonicbootlegs … it seems to have discovered that the site is about audio and engineering! There’s an ad for Manchester Midi School … Courses on Sound Engineering …hmmm, that is … Continue reading →

I’ve just added Google Adsense to the site … check it out. I’m disappointed! …. because I was hoping that Google would have enough smarts to put up ads for surround sound stuff …. you know, stuff that the people … Continue reading →

On the Yahoo podcasters list, this post discusses how Techpodcasts and Podcast Connect aim to operate. Its that same model of paying the users … sharing the revenue with those who contribute according to how much traffic they generate with … Continue reading →

So based on that last post, I think it is becoming apparent that certain kinds of sites will be more amenable to offering ‘value added’ advertisements than others… and hence can more reasonably rely on advertising revenue than others. Youtube … Continue reading →

Many sites are relying on advertising revenue to sustain their activity, expecially the new sites like youtube and myspace (from what I can tell they have no other major income… if you know differently, please let me know). Many people … Continue reading →

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, launched a new WIKI style encyclopedia a few months ago.  Its called WIKIA and it is a commercial site. Associated with WIKIA is OpenServing. I recently discovered OpenServing when I was looking for free … Continue reading →