Two days ago, David Dsouza put up a challenge through my bio page. The challenge was pretty simple but tricky — he wanted me to review a startup monetizing site called Blogertize. I did a few researches and reviews on the site, and thought that it’s well worth a try and a topic.
Blogertize is a newly-established blogger advertising firm, which combines the mindset of affiliate marketing, social networking, and e-commerce. The idea is simple: To make all the information available at your fingertips. Be it knowing about latest gizmos/gadgets, experiencing excursions sitting at home, updating one with the latest happenings in politics, sports & corporate world, you’re just a click away.
Instead of the usual search engine banners and links, Blogertize offers ads in forms called ‘Pixels’ — color-coded blocks where you can put your ads. In total, there four (4) types of Pixels:
- RED Pixels (100×80 px in size) worth 150 USD;
- YELLOW Pixels (100×60 px in size) worth 80 USD;
- GREEN Pixels (100×40 px in size) worth 40 USD;
- and BLUE Pixels (100×20 px in size) worth 15 USD.
Buying a Pixel is particularly easy and rewarding. Each Pixel is displayed on Blogertize’s Pixel page, under the category where your blog (or your ad) falls. For example, if you choose to buy a Pixel under the Techies’ Corner category, your ad will be visible on the Techies page together with all the other bloggers who bought Pixels there. What’s more, each Pixel that you buy can last up to three whole years! Imagine that! $15 for three years!
Plus, if your ad receives multiple clicks per day, in can go up in rank and be featured in the Top 10, where it will receive further exposure and visibility. Talk about smart advertising.
The Blogertize team is not all about money talk. They reward users who they deem worthy with additional Pixels without any further charges. That’s what exactly happened to their 1,000th blogger, Elizabeth Baarlan from Netherlands (read the article on their blog).
Blogertize’s mission is unlike any other;
Our aim is to popularize the information culture through innovative internet advertising. In this quest we engross partners who recognize the value of creating information properties for themselves as well as the community.
A popular style of internet advertising is pixel advertising which was introduced in UK but not explored at its fullest. A pixel-page is an advertising concept where advertisers buy a block of pixels in which to place their ad.
Instead of selling pixel buttons to big corporate houses, we intend to sell the space to rich content blogs & forums which have appealing articles and enlightening discussions respectively on topics ranging from sports, online gaming, current affairs, politics & health to lifestyle, travel & tourism, science, psychology, history et al.
From: About Blogertize
NGO’s and Social Work blogs would not be charged anything to advertise under the Social Responsibility section. Talk about innovation and charity, all within the mainstream of information.
Despite the fact that Blogertize’s site doesn’t look well at its current phase (with many glitches and downtime of the Forums), its team is working to deliver a better experience for its customers. A lot of bloggers have already found Blogertize an interesting prospect, with a big fraction of them already investing on the startup. It may still be on its infancy, but Blogertize already delivers the Roundhouse kick of advertising.
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Hey I came across this startup on digg a couple of days ago. Pixel advertising was first introduced by MDHP some 3 years ago and people actually hought this concept was overused – Well its seems pixel advertising is back
Thanks for the comment, Rachel. I personally think that this is a good concept, and investing on it seems ideal.
However, its audience is not THAT large, so it doesn’t really promise a good profit (or traffic) yet. But seeing that many bloggers are already talking about it, there’s a big chance that this will become “in” in the future. Let’s just see…
Wow.. thats a fantastic concept, one of my blogger friends recommended it to me a couple of days ago but I didn’t take it seriously. Hope its not late. Thanks for the review mate
You’re welcome, Rohan, and thanks for dropping by!
It’s never too late, especially now that BLOGERTIZE is just starting. Hope all goes well for you and your blog! See ya around, mate.
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Hey.. Interesting, who is the owner of the site??
Hi, Matt. Thanks for dropping by.
Sorry, but I don’t know who the site owner is. I’ll make further reads and inform you as soon as I can.
Hi Francis, nice write-up. I’ve also invested in Blogertize, but only $15 so far. The CEO and founder of Blogertize is Mr. Dushyant Bhatia. I was lucky enough to land an interview with him if you are interested. He’s apparently now making millions. He provided some very interesting answers during the interview, particularly in the profit sharing question.
http://www.eazycheezy.net/2009/01/10-questions-with-mr-dushyant-bhatia.html
Hi, Brian. Thanks for sharing your article, it’s quite a read.
It’s quite a surprise to know that Mr Bhatia is already making millions on Blogertize, seeing that it isn’t quite well-formed yet. But, as they say, don’t judge the book by its cover. That’s a really big privilege being able to interview him, congrats!
Thanks for dropping by!
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This is an old review – Can we have an updated review of Blogertizeworld Blog advertising network I too was planning to invest in it