Comments on: BuzzShed Rides The Fail Train

By: web hosting

web hosting — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:33:16 +0000

Going toward alternatives to mass media promotion looks little risky to me, alternatively interactive media has lot of scope to capture specific market.

By: sid

sid — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:03:46 +0000

I thought the post was funny at first…these guys clearly don’t know what they’re doing. But do you really have to be so cruel, Duncan? This is a real person who you are humiliating in front of the entire world.

By: Zach Weisman

Zach Weisman — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:58:16 +0000

Silly Kiwis.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:50:38 +0000

Is/was their content unattractive to advertisers?

By: Alex R.

Alex R. — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:08:03 +0000

Here’s some constructive feedback… instead of paying people to watch advertising that they either don’t want or couldn’t care about, why don’t you create advertising people actually WANT to watch? Isn’t this why viral videos work?!

By: jamboree

jamboree — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:47:31 +0000

I agree with frank and alex. NOT.

Sounds like the shills from the company is on the site.

By: Buzzwatch : News Roundup: Yes, Relevance Matters; Tupperware Parties for Cars

Buzzwatch : News Roundup: Yes, Relevance Matters; Tupperware Parties for Cars — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:30:17 +0000

[...] DOES PAYING PEOPLE TO WATCH ADS PAY OFF? New Zealand firm BuzzShed jumped into the online ad scene with their iteration of a perennial idea: pay people to watch ads. BuzzShed was offering 30 cents to members every time they watched a targeted online video ad. TechCrunch weighs in to say the effort doesn’t appear to be booming, since BuzzShed is cutting its rates to advertisers. [TechCrunch] [...]

By: frank

frank — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:56:11 +0000

I agree with Alex. This site is a great supporter of internet start-ups with a user base that can help provide leverage to many of the new ideas and technologies that it covers. I think this post is unneccessary and contradicts what techcrunch stands for. Whether the opinion of the Editor is valid or not. If you don’t like it, write about something else.

By: Shafqat

Shafqat — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:36:16 +0000

Duncan - I appreciated the nostalgia of the post. I remember 10 years ago when I was a broke college student - AllAdvantage was a godsend for all of us. We’d regularly get our $25-50 in the mail, for doing absolutely nothing. I’m all for bringing back that business model.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:18:34 +0000

I really thought the idea of TechCrunch was to cover and analyse startups offering constructive criticism.

Sure its an old model and a very unsuccessful one at that but I don’t read TechCrunch to flame companies and hopefuls.

One of your least enterprising posts.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:13:30 +0000

I don’t understand why you guys even report on things such as “yet another spin on the paid to {insert action here} ad model”. We all know it doesn’t work, we all know they are going to fail sooner or later; so why waste time with multiple posts on the subject?

At least report on things that actually have some potential, otherwise the only use of such articles are to act as a feel good factor for other startup owners who haven’t fallen into the trap of using a dud business model.

By: Boring Market

Boring Market — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:59:13 +0000

“Rides the Fail Train…”

There really is a million ways to say deadpool.

By: baah-baah-the-black-sheep

baah-baah-the-black-sheep — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:35:39 +0000

I wonder what super-smart local VC is behind them.