Facebook “Flyers” A Complete Waste

In early May of 2006 Facebook launched a new feature, “Facebook Flyers.” The idea behind this was that any Facebook user could buy a small block of text on the left sidebar of Facebook. This block would appear on every student’s page who belonged to the chosen college/university. The cost of this service is a mere $5.

Looking at Boston Universities “Current Flyer Board” there are only 7 advertisers who spent the $5. In reality, when using Facebook, the average user sees more “sample flyers” made by Facebook than real flyers made by the students. As of right now, this marketing tool is completely useless to students since anyone can simply make a group or an event to advertise what they want… for FREE. Not only would this service be free, but effective.

Just to make sure this notion was true, I tested the “Facebook Flyer.” I bought a spot to see how many visitors I could send to a popular Hip-Hop site my friend owns. I put up the $5 flyer, and posted it at the University of Houston. The results? 2 unique visitors in a 24 hour span. Facebook rules!

PerSecondPodcast Pricing Update

Over the weekend we wrote about PerSecondPodcast, a new project/service released this month, which sells audio time to be used for music, advertisements, blogs, stories, rants, or anything you want. The audio time purchased will then be played on the internet, college radio stations, and other media outlets. Read the full article here.

This morning, Joseph Citarrella, one of the people behind PerSecondPodcast emailed us to give up an update on their new and much lower pricing structure.

Here is the email with the updated pricing information.

Hello,

This is Joey from the PerSecondPodcast team. I read your blog on our site, and think it’s great! Thanks for your support.

I just wanted to fill you in on a correction. Our prices are currently BRONZE: $1/sec, SILVER:$2/sec, GOLD:$3/sec, PLATINUM: $4/sec, as opposed to the significantly higher prices we had earlier and which are posted on ibloggedthis.

Naturally, feel free to email us at any time and to encourage your guests to do the same. Thanks again!

Best,
Joey

PerSecondPodcast : Own a piece of audio history

Launched June 1st 2006, PerSecondPodcast is an online audio time capsule and innovative advertising solution. Remember the Million Dollar Home Page? Well, this is the audio version of it.

This service allows anyone to purchase audio time from PerSecondPodCast to be used for music, advertisements, blogs, stories, rants or messages to the future. You can basically create a PodCast about anything you like with the audio time you purchase.

PerSecondPodcast promises that they will be online at a minimum of five years, and in addition to serving the audio content on their website, there will be an rss feed for iTunes, as well as college radio airtime, and possibly XM/Sirius Satellite radio airtime.

There is a limited amount of time available for purchase. Once all the time has been sold, copies of all the audio will be place in several iPod time capsules to be burried.

Priced at per second, the current rates are as follows:

$4$1 per second for the BronzeCast – Total of 24 hours available.

$8$2 per second for the SilverCast – Total of 12 hour available.

$16$3 per second for the GoldCast – Total of 6 hours available.

$32$4 per second for the BronzeCast – Total of 3 hour available..

Happy Podcasting!

(Tip by James)

Update: Pricing information updated here