MillionDollarHomePage

The General

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

You should have heard about the MillionDollarHomePage most likely already as it is the 3rd fastest growing site on Alexa's index.

This is not a technology story, but about viral marketing and the Internet. And this is a topic I find very interesting. Alex Tew, a 21 year old student from the UK launched a page called MillionDollarHomePage.com (site). He is selling 10x10 pixel block banners for $100. He has 1,000,000 pixels available. If he sells all his pixel inventory, he has made a cool Million Dollar. Now you might think, that never works. He already sold 180,500 pixels ($180,500). On September 22nd when BBC News reported about the million dollar homepage, he was at $74,000. His sales more than doubled in less than 6 days.

review here:
http://www.i4u.com/article4285.html

Ajnag

Oh Man, that turning in to a montage of the nets worse ad's and sites, Imagine all the spam in the world placed on one page, Yuck.

Still tho, Congrats to the guy who thought of it, he came up with a quite a gimmik and is now reaping the rewards. It's the customers who buy that spamtastic **** who are the Idiots tbh.

Gordon

Yup, I wish I had the idea and the techie knowledge to pull it off before he did, fair play to the guy he deserves it.

alleepally

Yeah, been checking it out over the last while and it's doing brilliant. Great idea for making a few bob, but a pretty crappy way for anyone to advertise their business.

Gordon

Great for link exchange surely?

Rabies

Saw it on theregister.co.uk a couple of weeks ago. Great idea to make a few pound. Fair play to the guy.

Dave!

Wow, that is a brilliant and simple idea... fair play to him.

Rhyme

Close your eyes and click...

DS

This just makes me so mad with envy.

BrokenArrows

Man thats just brilliant.

One page requires virtually no work at all. Man if i could just go back in time.

AARRRGH

It depresses me that suck a mongotastic idea can make someone wealthy!

You gotta love gimmicks...

mad m

Very clever indeed!

Rb

Saw this recently enough, there's also
www.millioneurohomepage.com
www.millionpennyhomepage.com and
www.millionyenhomepage.com
Which aren't doing as well.

Fair play to whoever created the original though.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Wow, lucky bastard.

BigCon

From the millioneuro homepage:

Note: Revenues from The Million Euro Homepage may be used for non-educational purposes.

The General

Ajnag wrote:

Oh Man, that turning in to a montage of the nets worse ad's and sites, Imagine all the spam in the world placed on one page, Yuck.

Still tho, Congrats to the guy who thought of it, he came up with a quite a gimmik and is now reaping the rewards. It's the customers who buy that spamtastic **** who are the Idiots tbh.

you are a muppet, the customers are getting a lot of traffic from that site, so it was well worth the money for them. This site was on Sky news and BBC last week

Dempsey

I saw a link for 20c pixels, "Make your ads 5x bigger or cheaper". Where is my gun.

General, do ya like the crazy frog song?

JackKelly

such a smart idea. Fair play to the guy.