Where would you advertise?

[AkiranBlade]

www.gamespy.com / www.fileplanet.com
www.gamespot.com

[Ice Pirate]

Maybe www.boomtown.net

[Haxtor moogle]

Have a bunch of mini cd's made for cheep with the installer program on them and hand them out at:

1.baseball games, football, cricket etc.. call it a Entropia day at the ball park.

2.better yet pass them out to bars and pubs as coasters

3.movie theaters hand them out with pop corn

4.bundle them with news papers.

5.get CNN or some big news organization to show up at MA and get some interviews

6. Night clubs, put the cds in peoples coat pokets at the claim counter.

7. thumb drives are getting very cheep these days. the other day i was given a 125 mb one advertizeing a college for free, the ad was impinted into the drive so you cant delete it but the rest of the drive is available for use.

Online Advertizeing is a dieing concept, didnt work well in the 90's and in the 06 most are ignored and just seen as anoying to many.

((personaly i hate online banner adds they take away from my bandwidth and time))

[nickythenose]

how about using http://www.clixgalore.com/


It is a pay by results affiliate program, so that you can set up your own affiliate program and choose what to pay the affiliates. With a sufficiently grabbing text pitch for entropia, you could probably get the best possible exposure, and based only on results. this could be per click or a percentage of the deposits.

It works beacuse you dont spend a fortune up front and only pay based on results, using the entrepreneurail skills of webmasters worldwide.

[Sharyn]

Definately www.gamespot.com


And if MindArk wants to advertise for the Romanian public specificly (though I doubt it due to the measures taken in the recent past ) here's the site to put banners on: www.computergames.ro

[helena]

for france :
www.jeuxvideo.com, one of the most popular video game website

[Jake Rogue]

I seriously suggest that MindArk take a look at:

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Originally Posted by Haxtor moogle

Online Advertizeing is a dieing concept.

This is probably the most ridiculous comment I've read all week.

I suggest that you read the following article from the BBC News website dated October 2006:

Google sees profits almost double: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6067084.stm

Originally Posted by BBC News

With advertising sales soaring, Google's revenues rose 70% from a year ago to $2.7bn.

Online Advertising has also meant that at the age of 25 I was able to become financially independent and resign from my graduate career, leaving plenty of time to log into Entropia whenever I like.

[jdegre]

www.slashdot.com

Probably one of the widest geek-style audience in the net.

They are currently advertising there <alternative-mmorpg-not-deleted-because-I-never-actually-typed-it> and these guys know what they're doing, their banners are quite impressive, IMO.

Cheers,
/jdegre.

[Ime]

I suggest adds on :

- video games websites. But i think this sorts of sites are browsed by teens mostly. So they barely aren't able to deposit.

- Stocks websites (like www.boursorama.com or www.boursier.com in France. Sorry i know only them for France, maybe someone can help for other countries). These sites are browsed by investors, should be good for EU economy

- Gambling websites (poker, etc).

- Maybe some XXX websites lol

Regards,
Ime.

[Joker]

Well www.myspace.com.... has about 55,000,000 users... and i actually saw a WoW advertizment up there....

but to get your ad there might take some big bucks... but if it was flashy u could definatly have some influence on 55million possible users...


actually last time i checked it was 55mil... now in my network of people is
"Your Network:
124,947,269"


so i guess u could get PE out to 125,000,000 people

but again you will be shelling out some serious doe... but its worth a shot if other gaming companies do it... PE should and it would help gain awareness like non other... a free video game you can make money in... the demographic alone (college kids) would all try it...