India’s leading entertainment based social network Indyarocks.com has made a very customer friendly announcement according to which all of the advertising revenue of Indyarocks.com will now be shared by it’s evergrowing user-base. From now on, contextual ads via Google AdSense will be shown on all the content pages (including User profiles, Photos, Videos, Blogs and Classifieds) uploaded by Users on Indyarocks. 100% of the revenue generated through Google AdSense around User content will now be shared with the member who has posted the content. The entire process is automated and users will get payment from Google directly.
According to Dr. Vishnu – COO of Indyarocks.com – “Google AdSense is the standard for monetization of long tail content on the web across the world. We are confident that our users will benefit from this program immensely. We are sure this will propel a revolution in the Indian social networking market”. Again, all this is just another face of social media. The content that is uploaded on the web sphere is mostly used by users as mere information, but such a revenue model integrated into a social network will not only help it’s growth but will attract people very often to their social web – world!
This is the dumbest idea I have come across. They pretty much killed any investors who are interested, if any .. Do they even realize what exactly it means ?
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Bold move,but very useful for users.Every one know its very difficult to get an adsense account,if they make it easier,i think its TOTALLY GREAT.I have been trying for an adsense account for the past 2 yrs,if i can get it through indyarocks i will be very thankfull to them
Nothing new/ genuine – Fropper.com has already been doing this for the blog content, that encourages users to post interesting blog posts and earn some money out of it. Though the earning/user is trivial, the feature does motivate some users to start blogging.
I think it is a pretty cool idea. Blogger.com does it too.
As Debjit rightly pointed out, this move will drive usage and content on Indyarocks.
@what? I am sure there is a commercial reason behind their decision to share the revenue with users.
I’ve tried but still rejected.