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By: Create a Fully Customized Toolbar For Your Website | Computer Realm

Create a Fully Customized Toolbar For Your Website | Computer Realm — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:58:46 +0000

[...] the service alone, without the rewards program still helps get your name out there. Backed by almost $10 million dollars of funding with 38 million users (based on the Conduit website), I guess it’s worth a try. I’m [...]

By: Conduit Toolbars

Conduit Toolbars — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:08:09 +0000

The number of Conduit Toolbars has grown. There are now over 180,000+ custom toolbars made by members of the Conduit rewards program.

If you have a toolbar with the right features you can earn a substantial revenue through the program.

Over 38 million people have installed a custom Conduit toolbar. Conduit partners now include popular: Major League Baseball, ASPCA, Fox News, Lufthansa, Greenpeace, Discovery Networks, American Idol, and many more.

By: Nir Levin

Nir Levin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:56:37 +0000

Two things regarding Conduit:
* Distribution – They claim to have over 150,000 publishers. However, based on my sources in Israel, a significant amount of their daily install volume (50%+) comes from a single distribution network called Key2Peer.

Monetization – Conduit has a deal with Google to drive search box traffic to a search result page. The user experience of that page is terrible and deceiving. Seven sponsored results are displayed at the top and for most internet users above the fold line! How did Google approve this poor user experience?!

Incredimail showed us earlier this week the dangers in relaying on a single partner to monetize or distribute. I hope for Conduit they will find a way to diversify their traffic and $$$ sources.

By: private companies can do what they want

private companies can do what they want — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:03:51 +0000

8m down the fucking drain

By: Hai Habot

Hai Habot — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:54:55 +0000

Thanks for the write up, Mark.
The right number of toolbar installations is actually more than 30M (and not 12M as mentioned above).

Conduit offers much more than just a customizable browser toolbar. We offer our publishers a powerful tool to syndicate their content, and a direct, real-time connection to their subscribers.

It’s free, it’s on-demand and it works – that’s why Benchmark decided to invest in Conduit, that’s why more than 140,000 publishers are promoting their Conduit powered toolbar, and that’s why at least one Conduit powered toolbar is downloaded at any given second.

Best,

Hai Habot
Marketing Manager, Conduit.

By: MYBLOG by Ouriel

MYBLOG by Ouriel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:47:05 +0000

Congrats to Conduit…

Israeli Conduit just raised a series B with Benchmark reports TechCrunch. They have impressive metrics (with 12million installs) although i would be curious to know how many of them are active. I am definitely not a target user since…

By: DavidEzra

DavidEzra — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:40:54 +0000

If you would like a “Portable Toolbar” in which you can take all of your favorite websites with you on any browser, on any computer, anywhere in the world at any time … you might want to check out Mobile O/X – http://MobileOX.com

You basically type in your very own “Personalized Domain” – something like “David.LovesBaseball.com or Jill.WritesPoetry.com” – and up pops your “Portable Toolbar / Page.”

By: Wastewater

Wastewater — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:14:54 +0000

most non tech users already have 2-3 toolbars in their browsers, and dont know how to remove them and dont know what are they for. Insalling yahoo messenger brings yahoo toolbar, samefor ICQ, and other. Google toolbar comes even in Java Virtual Machine update.
Whats the point of creating another toolbar mess? people dont use them, they accidentally click trying to find out what it is for.

By: Faramarz

Faramarz — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:21:12 +0000

It looks like an easy haven for spammers.

By: Everett

Everett — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:06:44 +0000

Who is the leader in downloaded toolbars?