Comments on: PayPerPost Acquires Zookoda

By: Credit Card Guru

Credit Card Guru — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:44:07 +0000

I have been using payperpost version 4. It is pretty cool with a lot of added web 2.0 features. The best thing is you can screen the blogs before advertising…Has anyone else been using version 4?

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[...] PayPerPost Acquires Zookoda Controversial startup PayPerPost will announce the acquisition of Zookoda, an Australian blog-to-email service, tomorrow. (tags: blog email zookoda payperpost) [...]

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Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:45:00 +0000

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By: Well That Settles That: Goodbye Zookoda : The Blog Columnist

Well That Settles That: Goodbye Zookoda : The Blog Columnist — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:22:41 +0000

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By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:06:19 +0000

Zookoda is off-line for more than 24 hours. Worth a little investigation.

I can’t tell you how pissed I am : that’s 2500 contacts probably gone for good. There has been no warning whatsoever.

Someone reported on the payperpost blog his website got screwed because of the missing js. Payperpost really isn’t trying to make friends.

By: Vince Kuraitis

Vince Kuraitis — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:45:48 +0000

I’m a real live user of Zookoda’s service for my blog. I have an email list of several thousand previous newsletter subscribers.

1) On “paper” Zookoda is great. What they offer for free is much better than Feedblitz tries to offer for $15 per month.

2) However, in real life, Zookoda is less than worthless. The email that my mailing list is receiving look nothing like the “preview” and “test” versions that Zookoda claims they will receive. Nobody from Zookoda tech support is home. At this rate I’m better off sending postcards to my email subscribers rather than sending them a totally illegible Zookoda broadcast email.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:35:17 +0000

Smart move on PPP’s part.

By: brettbum

brettbum — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:58:12 +0000

Ad click tracking in emails. Is that a Zookoda option?????

By: pannerbuck

pannerbuck — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:54:30 +0000

hey ted, are you making any money on this ppp?
how much are you making for techcrucnch?
i just signed up today, and not really sure how this all works.

By: alan jones

alan jones — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:41:41 +0000

yay, congrats zookoda, good exit. i hope PPP does the right thing by the zookoda platform because it works really well for me and i’d like it to stay that way.

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By: colbert

colbert — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:59:03 +0000

i just hope PPP had a good deal on this thing. We don’t want them to shut down early due to bad acquisitions.

By: dewknight

dewknight — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:00:31 +0000

Ted: So a commercial on TV is deceptive because it doesn’t say it’s an ad? Most of the time there is nothing between the commercials and the actual program that says which is the ad and which is the show. But that’s not deceptive?

By: ted

ted — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:12:05 +0000

Wow, how thick can PPP defeders be? If it doesn’t say it’s an ad, it’s deceptive. Plain and Simple. The disclosure policy is not the same thing as clearly identifying what is shill content and what isn’t.

Why is that so hard for you people to understand?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:06:13 +0000

I hope PPP assigns people to fix the bugs in Zookoda’s service, and give some technical support to users. Zookoda hasn’t answered any e-mail or support requests in months. The service basically works, but is chock full of weird bugs and behaviors.

PPP had a PayPal issue that I continually complained about, but that was never fixed, as far as I know, so my hopes are not high.

By: Anthony Feint

Anthony Feint — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:15:23 +0000

Hornswaggled, you don’t like PPP but you like ReviewMe? They are both doing essentially the same thing! Do think Techcrunch will write something negative about its sponsors in its “commercial break” posts. Of course they won’t

As I said before. Stop being a sheep. Start forming your own opinions and you may even find your blog improves as well.

By: Hornswaggled

Hornswaggled — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:37:42 +0000

Anthony your correct that PPP is all about advertising catering specifically to text links. There are a lot of blogs in the network that are complete crap and sole purpose is PPP revenue. It matters if its positive, negative or neutral because the blogger is writing about it. Typically the blogosphere was an honest place, now thats not the case and why so many are upset (Jealousy by A-List bloggers as some have mentioned is absurd). This blog marketing would of happened eventually anyways, like I said earlier PPP was not even the first to implement this, they just did it the best.

Reviewme has taken over for my choice for blog advertising, you know what your getting with that service. PPP still has its place but is more of a crap shoot. Maybe with this acquisition PPP can offer more services to the advertisers to keep guys like me coming back.

From an advertiser perspective there is still a need for improvement in this area by all, hopefully growth and acquisitions like this will foster this improvement.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:00:21 +0000

ted – we all know just how much intelligence it takes to call people names, too.

By: Anthony Feint

Anthony Feint — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:28:42 +0000

Obviously people dont get that PayPerPost is about ADVERTISING! It doesnt matter if its positive, negative or neutral. The fact is PPP is selling advertising on blogs and through disclosure everbody knows they are ads.

Its the same as if I were to pay $10,000 to be a sponsor of Techcrunch. I would get an ad on this site as well as being mentioned in the “commercial break” posts this blog does. There is NO difference.

Just because Arrington (sorry Arrogant) doesnt like PPP doesnt mean you all have to be sheep and do the same.

By: ted

ted — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:36:20 +0000

I think it’s clear based on the intelligence level of the PPP defenders what level their bloggers operate on.

What legit company would pay IDIOTS to write dumb and not insightful things about them?

By: Jay (living in First Life)

Jay (living in First Life) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:27:56 +0000

@ Josiah

1. 15 K uniques buddy? Let’s see a link. Most people vastly overestimate their own traffic. Most PPP bloggers have far lower traffic than you do.

2. I know most things are very low price amounts. I signed up for an account and tried the whole thing out. How else would I know about the promotional offers? You seem to have logic issues.

3. You are in the top 1% of earners. Most bloggers will get irritated that it pays them a measly $200 a year. That’s not even worth the time investment.

4. I’m going to trust a mom who makes her kids smash cameras to promote HP? Have you seen that video. It’s disgusting. Children being used as shills. That’s really trustworthy.

Grow a brain before you post on here.

By: GamesGadgets

GamesGadgets — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:26:38 +0000

good for Zookoda…

By: azrin

azrin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:12:51 +0000

Guys…enough of the mud slinging will ya!
PPP, yes, kinda bit of evil…but not as evil as me and my Tags which got me a top league ‘WORST BLOGGER OF ALL TIME’ (before Perez Hilton came by).

Basicly, PPP is just another business, like Commission Junction,TradeDoubler, Adbrite (and it’s annoying Inline Ads), Google….which rely on advertising revenue. They are merely an agency to promote the services of an advertiser or vendor, thru word of mouth, unlike the rest which are contextual and / or graphically.

Disclosure is just IMO, a piece of notice that we are ‘corrupted’,bloggers, webmasters etc, by advertising. Heck, I would say 98.4% of the WWW are somewhat sponsored. Do you really need us to be wearing T-Shirts “NASCAR Style , with badges saying …hey I took Viagra or….ENRON- We take your money and run’” (I’m just merely quoting from Robbin Williams MAN OF THE YEAR movie)

We all know everyone is sponsored somewhere. Just that we want to know who sponsored us is the bitter pill FTC etc are trying to get us to swallow. And for the past 14 years the WWW have survived,disclosure is just another name to get us to list our sponsors.

Don’t get me wrong. I have been earning great on PPP.Paid for my holidays and stuff like that. But not to rely totally on it as a source of income. I got a paid job too. And likewise, I slam advertisers if I find out that their product after doing a total full review is a piece of deception. Which is why alot of them loved me,for they loved gossips, meaning more traffic. Human nature is by way a funny creature, the more we say no, the more we do it, or wanna check out on it!

I wouldn’t be surprised if WAL-MART / ASDA or even TESCO will try to take over PPP instead as they have been buying almost everything.

My 2c, just don’t quote me!

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:03:33 +0000

The one thing about PayPerPost that rocks though is.. their documentary. Seriously, I can’t find any other videos about Web 2.0 that match the fun and production values of PPP’s RockStartup.com videos. Okay, they’re not the most informative in the world (unlike Scoble’s), but they’re mostly real fun to watch.

Of course, I imagine in a few months they’ll release an episode about the Zookoda deal, much as they did an episode about the Performancing fall-through..