Shazam Currently Boasts 30 Million Total iOS and Android Users
According to Mobile Entertainment, music discovery service Shazam now has 25 million iPhone and iPod Touch users and a total of 5 million users using its Android application, continuing to add more than one million users a week.
With so many users interacting with its service, Shazam’s app now tags 3 million tracks a day, facilitating between 250,000 and 300,000 track purchases, a conversion rate that fluctuates between 8-10%.
In December we noted that Shazam has surpassed the 100 million users mark, it has now become clear that this accounts for all of the people that have used the service in the ten years since the platform launched.
Mobile Entertainment estimates that Shazam earns between $10,000 and $15,000 a day from music referrals (using a track price of $0.99), equating to $300k – $450k a month, almost $6 million a year. Shazam offers a free smartphone application but also charges $5.99 for its premium iPhone and iPad app, so its revenues will be substantially higher from the figures quoted just for its affiliate sales.
The company also has sponsorship and advertising agreements in place, this week we brought you news of its partnership with Spotify to allow the playback of tracks using the service.
Whatever way you look at it, Shazam is dominating. The service provides perhaps the simplest of services and its users love it, it’s a money making machine.
Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser Accused Of Being Affiliate Toolbar Scam; Facebook Says It's Never Heard Of The Company
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There have been numerous reports lately concerning just how much money Facebook is making on ads. That's part of the reason it was able to get that otherworldly $50 billion valuation from some. However, some are noticing something fishy in the Facebook ad business. After seeing an AdAge article mention in passing that the third largest advertiser on Facebook is not a household namebrand, but rather Make-My-Baby.com. Google's spam-catcher-in-chief Matt Cutts did some digging and quickly noticed that the site appears to be a sketchy toolbar installer that tries to switch you to using Bing, and then it gets an affiliate cut of any search ads you click on going forward. Cutts also points out that the URL to tell you how to uninstall the toolbar leads to a 404 page not found -- and many folks have had difficulty uninstalling the toolbar.
Marshall Kirkpatrick, over at ReadWriteWeb, digs in deeper and wonders if anyone at Facebook or Microsoft is actually minding the store. Even if they didn't directly know this was happening, if this is really the third largest advertiser on Facebook, both of those companies had to know something was up, just based on the numbers. A company like Facebook is intimately aware of its third biggest advertiser, and if the company is really driving that much traffic to Bing, then Microsoft would surely know about it as well.
Of course, this is where the story gets more bizarre. While Microsoft's response to this story was to cut off the company, Facebook's response was to claim that the company isn't an advertiser at all, let alone the third largest advertiser on the site. So how is it that reports suggest the company is the third largest advertiser, when Facebook claims they're not an advertiser at all? The company does have a slight hedge, by saying that "any affiliates that try to push people there we would shut down." So it's possible that it was hidden through some sort of affiliate setup before Facebook caught it -- but no one seems to be revealing any of the details.
Either way, all of this sounds quite reminiscent of the old adware days, where all sorts of sketchy companies would trick people into installing software to scrape up affiliate revenue. We hadn't seen much of that lately, as many of the old players eventually got wiped out, but it's hardly a surprise that similar schemes would quickly jump up in a Facebook world, whether or not it was officially through Facebook's advertising functionality.
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Shazam Currently Boasts 30 Million Total iOS and Android Users
According to Mobile Entertainment, music discovery service Shazam now has 25 million iPhone and iPod Touch users and a total of 5 million users using its Android application, continuing to add more than one million users a week.
With so many users interacting with its service, Shazam’s app now tags 3 million tracks a day, facilitating between 250,000 and 300,000 track purchases, a conversion rate that fluctuates between 8-10%.
In December we noted that Shazam has surpassed the 100 million users mark, it has now become clear that this accounts for all of the people that have used the service in the ten years since the platform launched.
Mobile Entertainment estimates that Shazam earns between $10,000 and $15,000 a day from music referrals (using a track price of $0.99), equating to $300k – $450k a month, almost $6 million a year. Shazam offers a free smartphone application but also charges $5.99 for its premium iPhone and iPad app, so its revenues will be substantially higher from the figures quoted just for its affiliate sales.
The company also has sponsorship and advertising agreements in place, this week we brought you news of its partnership with Spotify to allow the playback of tracks using the service.
Whatever way you look at it, Shazam is dominating. The service provides perhaps the simplest of services and its users love it, it’s a money making machine.
Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser Accused Of Being Affiliate Toolbar Scam; Facebook Says It's Never Heard Of The Company
from the just-like-the-old-days... dept
There have been numerous reports lately concerning just how much money Facebook is making on ads. That's part of the reason it was able to get that otherworldly $50 billion valuation from some. However, some are noticing something fishy in the Facebook ad business. After seeing an AdAge article mention in passing that the third largest advertiser on Facebook is not a household namebrand, but rather Make-My-Baby.com. Google's spam-catcher-in-chief Matt Cutts did some digging and quickly noticed that the site appears to be a sketchy toolbar installer that tries to switch you to using Bing, and then it gets an affiliate cut of any search ads you click on going forward. Cutts also points out that the URL to tell you how to uninstall the toolbar leads to a 404 page not found -- and many folks have had difficulty uninstalling the toolbar.
Marshall Kirkpatrick, over at ReadWriteWeb, digs in deeper and wonders if anyone at Facebook or Microsoft is actually minding the store. Even if they didn't directly know this was happening, if this is really the third largest advertiser on Facebook, both of those companies had to know something was up, just based on the numbers. A company like Facebook is intimately aware of its third biggest advertiser, and if the company is really driving that much traffic to Bing, then Microsoft would surely know about it as well.
Of course, this is where the story gets more bizarre. While Microsoft's response to this story was to cut off the company, Facebook's response was to claim that the company isn't an advertiser at all, let alone the third largest advertiser on the site. So how is it that reports suggest the company is the third largest advertiser, when Facebook claims they're not an advertiser at all? The company does have a slight hedge, by saying that "any affiliates that try to push people there we would shut down." So it's possible that it was hidden through some sort of affiliate setup before Facebook caught it -- but no one seems to be revealing any of the details.
Either way, all of this sounds quite reminiscent of the old adware days, where all sorts of sketchy companies would trick people into installing software to scrape up affiliate revenue. We hadn't seen much of that lately, as many of the old players eventually got wiped out, but it's hardly a surprise that similar schemes would quickly jump up in a Facebook world, whether or not it was officially through Facebook's advertising functionality.
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Econbrowser: The employment <b>news</b> is good (I think)
The employment news is good (I think). The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday that the unemployment rate has fallen from 9.8% in November to 9.0% in January, as big a two-month drop as we've seen in the last 50 years (hooray! ...
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Econbrowser: The employment <b>news</b> is good (I think)
The employment news is good (I think). The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday that the unemployment rate has fallen from 9.8% in November to 9.0% in January, as big a two-month drop as we've seen in the last 50 years (hooray! ...
Jeddah: City with a survival instinct - Arab <b>News</b>
At no time will Arab News attempt to alter the core meaning of a comment. 3. Reject the message, edit the message when the moderators judge it to be a personal attack, defamatory (or potentially defamatory), abusive, incite hatred or ...
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Anthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining ...
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Shazam Currently Boasts 30 Million Total iOS and Android Users
According to Mobile Entertainment, music discovery service Shazam now has 25 million iPhone and iPod Touch users and a total of 5 million users using its Android application, continuing to add more than one million users a week.
With so many users interacting with its service, Shazam’s app now tags 3 million tracks a day, facilitating between 250,000 and 300,000 track purchases, a conversion rate that fluctuates between 8-10%.
In December we noted that Shazam has surpassed the 100 million users mark, it has now become clear that this accounts for all of the people that have used the service in the ten years since the platform launched.
Mobile Entertainment estimates that Shazam earns between $10,000 and $15,000 a day from music referrals (using a track price of $0.99), equating to $300k – $450k a month, almost $6 million a year. Shazam offers a free smartphone application but also charges $5.99 for its premium iPhone and iPad app, so its revenues will be substantially higher from the figures quoted just for its affiliate sales.
The company also has sponsorship and advertising agreements in place, this week we brought you news of its partnership with Spotify to allow the playback of tracks using the service.
Whatever way you look at it, Shazam is dominating. The service provides perhaps the simplest of services and its users love it, it’s a money making machine.
Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser Accused Of Being Affiliate Toolbar Scam; Facebook Says It's Never Heard Of The Company
from the just-like-the-old-days... dept
There have been numerous reports lately concerning just how much money Facebook is making on ads. That's part of the reason it was able to get that otherworldly $50 billion valuation from some. However, some are noticing something fishy in the Facebook ad business. After seeing an AdAge article mention in passing that the third largest advertiser on Facebook is not a household namebrand, but rather Make-My-Baby.com. Google's spam-catcher-in-chief Matt Cutts did some digging and quickly noticed that the site appears to be a sketchy toolbar installer that tries to switch you to using Bing, and then it gets an affiliate cut of any search ads you click on going forward. Cutts also points out that the URL to tell you how to uninstall the toolbar leads to a 404 page not found -- and many folks have had difficulty uninstalling the toolbar.
Marshall Kirkpatrick, over at ReadWriteWeb, digs in deeper and wonders if anyone at Facebook or Microsoft is actually minding the store. Even if they didn't directly know this was happening, if this is really the third largest advertiser on Facebook, both of those companies had to know something was up, just based on the numbers. A company like Facebook is intimately aware of its third biggest advertiser, and if the company is really driving that much traffic to Bing, then Microsoft would surely know about it as well.
Of course, this is where the story gets more bizarre. While Microsoft's response to this story was to cut off the company, Facebook's response was to claim that the company isn't an advertiser at all, let alone the third largest advertiser on the site. So how is it that reports suggest the company is the third largest advertiser, when Facebook claims they're not an advertiser at all? The company does have a slight hedge, by saying that "any affiliates that try to push people there we would shut down." So it's possible that it was hidden through some sort of affiliate setup before Facebook caught it -- but no one seems to be revealing any of the details.
Either way, all of this sounds quite reminiscent of the old adware days, where all sorts of sketchy companies would trick people into installing software to scrape up affiliate revenue. We hadn't seen much of that lately, as many of the old players eventually got wiped out, but it's hardly a surprise that similar schemes would quickly jump up in a Facebook world, whether or not it was officially through Facebook's advertising functionality.
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Econbrowser: The employment <b>news</b> is good (I think)
The employment news is good (I think). The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday that the unemployment rate has fallen from 9.8% in November to 9.0% in January, as big a two-month drop as we've seen in the last 50 years (hooray! ...
Jeddah: City with a survival instinct - Arab <b>News</b>
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Econbrowser: The employment <b>news</b> is good (I think)
The employment news is good (I think). The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday that the unemployment rate has fallen from 9.8% in November to 9.0% in January, as big a two-month drop as we've seen in the last 50 years (hooray! ...
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Econbrowser: The employment <b>news</b> is good (I think)
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Econbrowser: The employment <b>news</b> is good (I think)
The employment news is good (I think). The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday that the unemployment rate has fallen from 9.8% in November to 9.0% in January, as big a two-month drop as we've seen in the last 50 years (hooray! ...
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Econbrowser: The employment <b>news</b> is good (I think)
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A lot of people are intimidated when it comes to finding ways to make money online. Don't be; it's a lot of fun once you get it. I'm going to give you some good, extra money-making ideas. Once you get the hang of these ideas, you can move on to bigger and better things. Oh yeah, before we get started: If you're not familiar with HTML code and dread it, here's a Web site for you that'll teach you the basics for free: www.html.net. It's not that hard! It might come in handy if you learn this stuff. OK, here we go ...
1.) Taking Surveys Online: this is a fun ,easy way to earn anywhere between $3 - 15 sometimes even more. Companies want consumer opinions on products to make their products better and get them ready for the market, and in return, they compensate you for your time. There are alot of websites out there that want to charge you for a list of companies... DON'T PAY THEM; you can find these companies yourself for free on a good search engine. It'll take you a while to find the legitimate companies, but once you find them and become a part of their online panel, your email inbox will be filled with survey invitations. The more companies you join, the more money you earn- obviously, I'm sure you knew that. So sign up with as many companies as you could find. I recommend you get a free email account to be used only for surveys or else your inbox is going to be a mess mixed in with your other emails - BIG HEADACHE trust me. There are a variety of ways you can search for these companies, I'll start you off; type in " Market research panel " in your browser search box, I recommend using "Google" that should get you going. Now lets talk a little about Focus Groups. Focus groups are similar to online surveys except with focus groups you're not alone... yup you guessed it, you're in a group. This could be an online group or an offline group( in person) in a facility near your town. Focus groups pay you even more, ranging anywhere between $50 - $150 for 1-2 hr sessions, maybe more if you're lucky.
TIP: Once you activate your account with these companies, they will have a profile section for you to fill out... MAKE SURE YOU FILL IT OUT. This is how they get to know you and decide which type of surveys to send you. If you don't fill it out it you might not get survey invitations at all. Also, before every survey they give you a pre-survey questionnaire to see if you qualify for their survey. They dont want you to be a part of a market research or advertising company- so choose "no" for everything related to advertising.
2.) Affiliate Programs: There are many affiliate programs out there that pay you every time someone clicks on their advertisement and that click ends up in a sale. This advertisement is placed on your website or blog- this could be in the form of a banner or text link. This type of program is called "Pay-Per-Sale". You are paid a commission when someone clicks on their link or banner which is placed on your website or blog, and the person actually purchases a product from them. When searching for affiliate programs, try not over do it; you might want to sign up with thousands, but just try a few at a time and see how it works out for you. The other one is PPL or Pay -Per -Lead. In a pay per lead agreement, the advertiser only pays for leads if the person you referred to their website, signs-up, enters his/her contact info- email address etc. No payment is made for people who don't sign up. Searching for these programs isn't difficult. Also Google has a program called "GoogleAdsense" for publishers of websites or blogs. Click this GoogleAdsense link to more. To get you started here are a few links www.affiliatebot.comwww.roirocket.com and www.clickbank.com
TIP: To give your website or blog plenty exposure and get alot of people to click on your ad for a higher probability of making a sale, you have to get your website or blog out there into the world wide web. This can be done by submitting your website or blog address (URL) to search engines. Google and Yahoo are the 2 top dogs for this. You can join social networks and make some new friends that way; give them a link to your site. Besides the usual Myspace check out this site here Rotatrixfriends
3.) Referrals: With this method of making money, It's all about the referrals. You can refer people with the affiliate link that your affiliate partner provided you with. Also, some survey companies have referral programs - so be on the lookout for that.Remember, the key to making money here is referrals. Refer your friends, you'll make money and they'll make money referring their friends and so on and so on. The more people you refer the more money you make- So make some new friends. Here are a few links to companies that offer referral programs. Hits4pay.comSendMoreInfo.com
Okay, so once you learn how this all works you're well on your way for bigger and better things. Making internet money is not hard; you might want to check out this website, good stuff entrepreneur.com . it's been good, GOODLUCK !
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Econbrowser: The employment <b>news</b> is good (I think)
The employment news is good (I think). The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday that the unemployment rate has fallen from 9.8% in November to 9.0% in January, as big a two-month drop as we've seen in the last 50 years (hooray! ...
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Econbrowser: The employment <b>news</b> is good (I think)
The employment news is good (I think). The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday that the unemployment rate has fallen from 9.8% in November to 9.0% in January, as big a two-month drop as we've seen in the last 50 years (hooray! ...
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