MySpace Opens Door to Sierra Mist, Advertising Floodgates
Pepsi-Cola has recently joined a handful of advertisers looking to cash in on the runaway popularity of MySpace. According to MediaPost, the company’s Sierra Mist brand will be the exclusive sponsor of MySpace Comedy, a page of original content for the site’s users.
With this deal, only the second full sponsorship agreement they have made, MySpace looks to be finding innovative ways to generate profit from their hugely untapped network of users. Though it ranks right up with the major search engines in traffic, boasting 70 million registered members and counting, the site makes less than many of those with older, more traditional revenue models.
Sierra Mist follows just Aquafina in becoming an exclusive MySpace advertiser, but meanwhile a number of other major brands have used clever means to extol their wares on the site by their own accord. Hamburger-flipper Wendy’s has used a cute mascot and grassroots tactics to garner 100,000 hungry young users on its friends list. Walt Disney Pictures got a little more elaborate in promoting “The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” on MySpace, disseminating an early peek at the movie’s trailer and launching a whole contest through random picks from its friends list.
The move to accept more advertisers also suggests that MySpace is reacting to a year’s worth of terrible publicity in which the site was in numerous cases implicated with the behavior of online sexual predators. Creating more sponsored, edited pages—like MySpace Comedy—could promote a greater sense of safety and more positive activities for MySpace users.
Reader Comments.
No comments yet
Leave a Comment
Article Sponsor
More News
Spotlight
Take the Display Advertising Survey for the Chance to Win a Jawbone Jambox!ADOTAS – Industry discussions about cookies, privacy and the impact on display advertising have been frequent — and, in some [...] more...
Latest News
- It’s Not Digital – It’s Mobile May 17th 2013 ADOTAS — One of the biggest mistakes advertisers can [...] more »
- Video from the Westchester Digital Summit May 17th 2013 ADOTAS – The first-ever Westchester Digital Summit was held on May [...] more »
- Automating Core Processes Can Reduce ‘Little Big Problems’ That Ruin Customer Relationships May 17th 2013 ADOTAS — Strong marketing strategies attract attention and build the [...] more »
- Adotas Poll: Tremor Video IPO Would Be A Success May 17th 2013 ADOTAS – In this week’s poll, we asked our readers: [...] more »
- Today’s Burning Question: Impact of Google I/O Announcements? May 16th 2013 ADOTAS – We’ve asked our esteemed panel of industry thought [...] more »
- Unleash the Power of Mobile: 6 Steps to Lead Generation the ‘Iron Man’ Way May 16th 2013 ADOTAS – Tony Stark aka Iron Man is restless. The [...] more »
- Pandora is First Digital Publisher to Offer e-Business Advertising Integration into Media Buying Platforms May 16th 2013 OAKLAND, CALIF., May 15, 2013 (ADOTAS) — Pandora (NYSE: P), [...] more »
Features
- Video from the Westchester Digital Summit May 17th 2013
- Automating Core Processes Can Reduce ‘Little Big Problems’ That Ruin Customer Relationships May 17th 2013
- Unleash the Power of Mobile: 6 Steps to Lead Generation the ‘Iron Man’ Way May 16th 2013
- Who’s Sharing My Brand Images? Why Text-Based Social Media Monitoring Falls Short May 16th 2013
- Ads That Look at You: How Eye-Tracking Technologies Will Change the Advertising Game May 15th 2013
-
Loading ...
Reader Favorites
Classifieds
- Print and Web Manager
- SEO Marketing PPC Specialist
- Marketing Summer Internship at Clean-Tech Educatio
- Service Line Manager - Digital Media
- SEO / SEM Specialist
Recent Comments
- Backlinks uk: Within search engine optimisation (SEO), one way links reference hyper-links aiming to a distinct Website
- energy-physics: Media.net is a fantastic ad program. But now a days I cant customize their ads.
- Today’s Burning Question: Impact of Google I/O Announcements? – Adotas | Social Media Strategy Plan: [...] Permalink [...]
- Today’s Burning Question: Impact of Google I/O Announcements?: [...] “What will be the impact of the big announcements coming out of this week’s
