Comments on: StumbleUpon & Paid Placements

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:35:50 +0000

Hey Loren,

As an old eTour employee, I felt obligated to post : )

You’re right though. The eTour advertising platform ran on, what we called, a CPV, or cost per view (typical CPV rate was .25 or so). And we’d randomly insert topically relevant ads in with the regular content rotation from time to time..

the old CEO of eTour is now running SearchIgnite.com, btw..

By: Chris Richmond

Chris Richmond — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:57:21 +0000

We advertised our site, http://www.pcnames.com, with stumbleupon and the results were incredible. It was able to bring us over 1,000 targeted unique visitors per day (only counting those who tried one of our tools).

By: Loren Baker, Editor

Loren Baker, Editor — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:12:23 +0000

Excellent follow-up Jeremy, thank you very much.

Anyone ever advertise with SU? How was your experience?

By: Jeremy Luebke

Jeremy Luebke — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:08:53 +0000

Per the SU website.

How do StumbleUpon members know that my site has been sponsored?
When a person stumbles upon your website, a green button will appear that says “sponsor” and it links to a description of sponsored stumbles located here.

And stumblers can turn the ads off if they become a sponser http://www.stumbleupon.com/sponsored_page.html