Million-Dollar Homepage
Is it just me who thinks there is something odd about the Million Dollar Homepage story? Congratulations to Alex Tew, the founder of the homepage, not least for his talent for self-publicity. But why on earth would anyone actually want to own space on it? After all, it is hard to imagine that anyone is going to make the rather ugly looking page that has resulted their homepage. Indeed, in a few weeks it is hard to believe anyone at all will ever look at it - even the obscure shopping chanels on Sky have some nice looking girls on them, and Tew’s page doesn’t even have that. Somebody has been fooled….and perhaps it is the media that has covered the story so enthusiasticly.
20. January 2006 at 12:37
an excellent point matthew. I’d say the pixel fad has a few more months in it then curtains.
If I was the kind of person who bought pixel ads, and let me stress I’m not because it’s so untargeted, I might go for something like companybattleships.com which seems to have some quite nice programming behind it and is doing well on Google for “pixels for sale”.
23. January 2006 at 20:25
News from http://www.millionairepixels.co.uk
‘a Devon business with global ambition’
Date: Monday 16 January 2006
Australia asks Devon Designer for Help
Devon internet businessman and web designer Alan Wheeler has launched an innovative web advertising service which has already attracted an international company to sign up.
Bovey Tracey based Mr Wheeler has also been asked by Australian charity ‘Hope for Children’ to help them design and set up a similar web-based advertising service.
His web-service http://www.millionairepixels.co.uk enables businesses to buy a square of pixels, on the web page. Customers click on the coloured pixels and are immediately transported to the advertiser’s web site.
With each block of 100 pixels costing just £60 (60p per unit) it is, believes Mr Wheeler, one of the best value advertising and promotion options for businesses of all sizes and a potentially valuable boost to tourism related services.
And, in the longer term, advertisers could end up bidding for space on what is being described as internet ‘real estate’.
Mr Wheeler, aged 42, said “It’s a quick and easy way for people to find a service or firm and it also gives competitive advantage to the businesses because, with the millions of web sites available, this will draw potential customers to them much more easily.â€
“Without a doubt there are people globally willing to pay for quite gimmicky advertising solutions. The internet is a fast moving place with over eight million web pages added on a daily basis. For a website to stand out and generate sales it needs to stand out from the rest,†he added
Last autumn university student Alex Tew set up the Million Dollar site and since then has been overwhelmed by the success of a venture intended to raise enough money to pay for his way through university.
Alan Wheeler’s http://www.millionairepixels.co.uk is, he says, the next big step in the concept because, in effect, businesses are ‘leasing’ virtual real estate on the web to promote their businesses.
Launched just two weeks ago, http://www.millionairepixels.co.uk has already won the backing of international business Optis Europe Ltd, an operations management company, which is using the site to promote its business.
With more customers advertising it is, says Mr Wheeler, inevitable that like real property, some of the pixels on his site will become increasingly valuable for their ‘owners’ as more business is generated.
However, the last 1200 pixels, or advertising blocks, will eventually be auctioned off in support of the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, said Mr Wheeler.
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29. January 2006 at 08:22
Readers
Pixel Pages……fad or trend? Wish I was smart enough to know.
Hwever, I do think that I have found a company that will make, and
possibly make you a LOT of money…at least in the near term.
Check out the Alexa ratings. They are off the chart for a
nascent company.
Would I suggest that you put a lot of cash in here? NO, NO
Put in a little…absolutely.
http://www.pixmeup.com/moadams
31. January 2006 at 22:15
Hi Mo,
Reading your comment, I understood how you put backlinks to be google-friendly. Time to be more carefull.
http://www.milliondollarscreenshot.com/attract/
3. February 2006 at 13:47
I bought the big target in the centre of the MDHP, the daily response has been absolutely phenomenal (reach a peak of 5000 referrals / day). We’re just glad that we got in there early and took the chance with spending quite a lot of money on it. With regards to copycat sites - I’m looking for something with even 10% of the initiative, to no avail.
6. March 2006 at 04:31
I’m not a brain myself, but I wished I had come up with the original idea too!
I quite like the http://www.onemillionpound.net.
I think it’s cute!