P4P = Paid For Participation
Is a new breed of P4P social network on the horizon?
P4P seems to be the theme for the new social network called "Yuwie". With Facebook on the PR ropes, an opening has been created for a social network platform that cuts the user in on the financial action.
Users get paid for different types of visits to their profiles. If someone looks at your video, picture, or any of your "stuff" you build up visit points that eventually translates into dollars that you get paid. Advertising is of course the core of the financial model and your profile is sprinkled with ads.
There is also a pyramid scheme where the people that you "invite" to join become part of your "network" and you also get paid for clicks that happen for all the profiles that make up your referral network. There are up to 10 levels of referrals that can build up underneath you.
You get paid "per 1000 impressions", this chart of the pay-out potential was taken from the "help" once you log in.
Hey, if you are a "famous" blogger, personality, or celebrity, it looks like you could bring your cadre of "friends" over and get to the upper levels. For most people, making enough for a trip to Starbucks looks like a more reasonable goal.
Regardless of the actual reality of how much people will make, at least the "concept" is more inclusive of the user than the FB model. The FB model attempts to farm the herd of profiles. In return FB gives you "fun". It is true that FB is fun to use for the most part, but in today's competitive world, fun is probably not enough. Companies like Yuwie can capitalize on the FB-Beacon problems and offer an alternative that many users wishing to live the "internet dream" will probably think is appealing. I'm sure many will sign up (like me) as an experiment just to see what the potential could be.
It looks like there is only a total of 300,000 or so users, so in no way is this on the scale of FB or MySpace. It will be interesting to see how fast Yuwie grows and if other social nets eventually follow a similar "revenue share" model.
Here is the link to Yuwie. I am interested in knowing how quickly a popular internet personality could built up a network on Yuwie and actually make it to the higher end of the pay outs. That would be a great social experiment.
Main Yuwie home page:
http://www.yuwie.com
If Yuwie is successful, I wonder how long it will be before they are gobbled up.
The Yuwie model does place "value" on the reach of your network. In many ways this is similar to a concept I describe in another article on this blog called "How much is your Facebook profile worth?"
Is a new breed of P4P social network on the horizon?
P4P seems to be the theme for the new social network called "Yuwie". With Facebook on the PR ropes, an opening has been created for a social network platform that cuts the user in on the financial action.
Users get paid for different types of visits to their profiles. If someone looks at your video, picture, or any of your "stuff" you build up visit points that eventually translates into dollars that you get paid. Advertising is of course the core of the financial model and your profile is sprinkled with ads.
There is also a pyramid scheme where the people that you "invite" to join become part of your "network" and you also get paid for clicks that happen for all the profiles that make up your referral network. There are up to 10 levels of referrals that can build up underneath you.
You get paid "per 1000 impressions", this chart of the pay-out potential was taken from the "help" once you log in.
Hey, if you are a "famous" blogger, personality, or celebrity, it looks like you could bring your cadre of "friends" over and get to the upper levels. For most people, making enough for a trip to Starbucks looks like a more reasonable goal.
Regardless of the actual reality of how much people will make, at least the "concept" is more inclusive of the user than the FB model. The FB model attempts to farm the herd of profiles. In return FB gives you "fun". It is true that FB is fun to use for the most part, but in today's competitive world, fun is probably not enough. Companies like Yuwie can capitalize on the FB-Beacon problems and offer an alternative that many users wishing to live the "internet dream" will probably think is appealing. I'm sure many will sign up (like me) as an experiment just to see what the potential could be.
It looks like there is only a total of 300,000 or so users, so in no way is this on the scale of FB or MySpace. It will be interesting to see how fast Yuwie grows and if other social nets eventually follow a similar "revenue share" model.
Here is the link to Yuwie. I am interested in knowing how quickly a popular internet personality could built up a network on Yuwie and actually make it to the higher end of the pay outs. That would be a great social experiment.
Main Yuwie home page:
http://www.yuwie.com
If Yuwie is successful, I wonder how long it will be before they are gobbled up.
The Yuwie model does place "value" on the reach of your network. In many ways this is similar to a concept I describe in another article on this blog called "How much is your Facebook profile worth?"
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