Where would you advertise?

[Marco|MindArk]

Hello!

MA is busy setting up a online banner campaign. Where do you think Entropia Universe should be seen, and why? The vibrant Entropia community usually have a lot more varied point of views than we at MA, so I thought it would be a good idea asking you guys and gals about it. =)

[sahel]

www.mmorpg.com is the first to pop up in my mind. Very known website about mmorpg's.

[Lighterthief]

its very cool of MA to ask us for feedback

well the obvious places are online gaming magazines, but i would also think MA would do pretty well targeting some of the gambling/poker sites. i know a lot of players who now play eu over thier old poker sessions

i guess you will want as good coverage as possible, so maybe some very well known sites that have a lot of hits, hmm the bbc site springs to mind, but i dont think they do any advertising, you know what i mean tho i hope

hmm i will have a better think after a couple more coffee's

[dr_udi]

http://www.fz.se/

for example

/Udi

[Sal]

Hmmm - Banner adds are hard sometimes as I personally have them blocked by admuncher as find it annoying when visiting a site to get bombarded with adverts. ( my personal opinion )

I better approach may be to contact London Underground and ask how much it is to place an advert on one of there carrages - 1000's of people would see that every day and having worked for an IT / Telecom company when we did this we had 20% more interest from the tube than we did the banner adverts.

Sites you may want to think of would be where your captive DEPOSITING audience is going to be ( filmw / leasure / holiday type sites ) - not one of these HAS BEEN sites ( ebay / pricerunner ) -

GOOGLE = NO NO NO you wont get your return on the clicks and ITS PAY PER CLICK AND THE ADDS SUCK .
.

Cant you stick an add through Reals' network and get entropia adverts up in need for speed or other games - That would be very classic ;P or on to other sites for gamers

Also why not look at Internet Service Providers and seeing if in there leasure sections if they can link through to EU - Just contact the webmasters and offer to do a custom page for them and they will normally link for FREE .

demon / bulldog / aol / pipex / orange / vodafone


Just my thoughts


DONT TELL THIS FORUM WHERE YOUR ADVERTISING AS THIS WILL KNOCK THE BUDJET BY 500,000 USERS VISITNG THE SITE ITS FOUND ON

[kygon]

free installation DVDs on various magazines, not just geeky pc mags but accross the board

a many hour download is something I'm SURE puts some ppl off trying things. I've not tried many MMORPGs since I cannot be arsed downloading a massive client to try it out

[yokto]

google ad, as it can appear everywhere on websites that gamers browse

[Lighterthief]

what about the massive ad system, that would enable you to advertise eu in other games, that could be very cool. as a existing customer of massive i would have thought you could negotiate a discount too

and sal has a great point about london underground, and any other commuter system, thats a very good way to get the name promoted and to get some brand awareness

heres a company that specialises in london underground advertising
http://www.viacom-outdoor.co.uk/ukMedia/underground/

[Mikass]

maybe try and get EU on Nvidia`s game section site as free download. Banners might also work on ATi and/or Nvidia website. Gamespy and Yahoo video games section are also popular I think.

[Bear]

For Germany, put an add on www.heise.de
It is a well known to all IT professionals and people intresseded in more than the next "uber computer toy". They have also an online magazine with topics of science, philosophy, political questions and "nerd-stuff" (Telepolis, it has won several prices for its quality).
People reading it are older than those reading stuff like "Games". PE had once an article along with other MMPOGs in the paper-magazin C´t (its from heise). Be aware, maybe they gonna try the game and write a second article