MySpace will be testing the ad supported music waters this March with punk band Pennywise. Fans will be able to go to the MySpace profile of Textango, a mobile indie music distributor, and after adding them as a friend be able to download the entire album for free.
Users Prefer Ad Supported Content
If they have a choice 72 percent of Internet users would favor viewing ads to pay for Web content instead of paying to access content according to a Direct Marketing Association study.
Ad Supported P2P Networks
Close to three-quarters of U.S. Internet users are open to viewing ads in exchange for free downloads, according to the Intent MediaWorks "P2P Usage Survey" from May 2007.
Measuring Ad-Supported Content Success
Part VIII of a Series on Functionalism and Web Analytics – (You may want to visit http://www.semphonic.com/resources/whitepapers.asp and download the White Paper on Functionalism as a detailed technical companion piece to this series).
Chinese Journalists Supported On Yahoo Video
The new video service from Yahoo now matches competitors YouTube and Google Video in permitting users to upload videos to the service for sharing with others; two videos that made it to the system may be a bit embarrassing to Yahoo.