How Much Money is there in MySpace?!
MySpace is the most popular site for people who have a lot of time. But it is also very popular for making money
It is not only that MySpace is most popular social-networking site in the USA (79.9$ of the market), but it is also the most popular Web site in America (4.46% of all Internet traffic).
But they sat even such popularity is not enough to make social-networking sites real business models.
Steve Mansfield, CEO of social search engine PreFound.com, has been watching MySpace and the rest of the social-networking market.
Banner adsense does not make a Web site as much money as a sponsored link on a search results page.
Sponsored links go directly to the Web site and banner advertisers only make an impression on a visitor.
In addition to the problem is the fact that MySpace doesn’t even get the lucrative blue-chip brand advertisers to buy those banner ads despite the fact that its member demographic is the young and malleable crowd after which marketers lust.
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