Comments on: Contenture Launches. Micropayment-Based Freemium Models For All. (If People Use It.)

By: Sämre konvertering än aftonbladet — jardenberg unedited

Sämre konvertering än aftonbladet — jardenberg unedited — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:31:23 +0000

[...] som har skrivit om Contenture är tex Jensplan,Techcrunch, TipJoy (ett annorlunda alternativ), Q&A från Useful Tools, Supermumin, [...]

By: Contenture - Making Money From Free Content « - UsefulTools.com

Contenture - Making Money From Free Content « - UsefulTools.com — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:36:33 +0000

[...] as TechCrunch noted, there may some initial hurdles in terms of getting people and site owners on [...]

By: datadirt.net

datadirt.net — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:47:33 +0000

Contenture – Support the sites you love…

Contenture reverses the classical online advertising model by offering users ad-free sites and enabling webmaster to build Freemium content business models. Very interesting launch – I just registered.
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By: Kailash Badu

Kailash Badu — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:12:44 +0000

There are users who are so grateful to certain sites they use that they really want to help those sites out by paying small amounts everytime they visit it. But there is no easy way to do so. The user can’t take the pain of contacting the owner of each site and paypaling the small amount every time they visit his/her website. Now such users can sign up at contenture and request their fav to register as well (if it already isn’t). In return, the owner might choose to offer premium content for paying users. contenture, again, makes it very easy to do so.

By: New Media Hub | Blog Archive | Around the web 5-27

New Media Hub | Blog Archive | Around the web 5-27 — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:49:01 +0000

[...] Contenture Launches. Micropayment-Based Freemium Models For All. (If People Use It.) [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:33:46 +0000

Right, and how much time does that take you to integrate into your web site? The point of Contenture is how easy it is to put on your site. It takes about 1 minute to register an account and your site, and maybe 1-2 minutes more to put the code on your site. That’s 3 minutes of work. Could you really implement an entire pay-for-content system on your web site by yourself in 3 minutes? No. And that’s the point.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:18:09 +0000

This is covered in detail in our help section.

By: Decyfer

Decyfer — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:54:02 +0000

“But Contenture has made it very simple for a site to install and use their service — it’s just a small snippet of JavaScript that can turn on or off features based on if a user visiting the site has a Contenture account.”

Easy to sign up, but how secure is it? Considering JS is all client-side, would it be difficult to simply modify your page to display it anyway?

By: AndreaF

AndreaF — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:28:14 +0000

Doesn’t make sense for me. Why would I want to share revenues with other websites? If some of my content is good enough to charge for it, I just charge for it.

By: Duane Charles

Duane Charles — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:29:35 +0000

It is a start. What’s the use of creating all these free site with no ROI on the horizon. Hosting, bandwidth, design, programming and time invested. Its not cheap. I like to see how all this works out. Intrigued…

By: lemon obrien

lemon obrien — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:26:10 +0000

but what if no one cares about freemium? whatever

umakeitcool allows you to have a website for free, put up stuff for free, and sell stuff for free. and it’s micropayment, meaning, things can be as cheap as say $0.56.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:03:33 +0000

That’s just for affiliate commissions, which we pay out of our own pocket. It doesn’t affect how much a site earns directly from a particular user.

By: Contenture Launches Micropayment system, immediately flops « Attentionization

Wed, 27 May 2009 01:50:26 +0000

[...] | Reply Tags: Buzzmachine (2), micropayments, subscriptions As noted in TechCrunch today, Contenture has launched a site that will hopelessly attempt to charge people for things that they se…. I wish them luck, but the small blogs they will get to join aren’t enough to create a [...]

By: Jehosephat

Jehosephat — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:42:07 +0000

Sean, can you explain this “double” commissions deal? I already signed up today (and not through TechCrunch) and since revenues are shared between sites, this sounds like to offer “special” signups more, you have set up a system where you can offer others less. Am I reading this wrong?

By: Holden Page

Holden Page — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:03:27 +0000

no you don’t pay for content, per say (though you could with contenture) Instead you pay for the right to have the site be free of ads.

By: Holden Page

Holden Page — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:01:21 +0000

Techgeist.net is going to go ad-free then implement a bunch of other contenture only features.

We are really excited about it

By: Pierre Fontenelle

Pierre Fontenelle — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:59:40 +0000

Do I have to be approved before I can put Contenture on my web site?
Nope! Unlike ad networks, there is no approval process. All you do is register your site and put the code on it and you’re done. However, we do reserve the right to disable any account if we feel it’s not appropriate for the service.

Sounds like an after the fact approval process to me.

By: Amit Kumar

Tue, 26 May 2009 23:50:31 +0000

Oh, so does it mean that I will need to pay for RSS content now?

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:49:56 +0000

No, you don’t have to pay. The Freemium model is about giving everyone a lot of stuff for free, but giving a bit extra to paying users. That’s what Contenture does for a site owner, it gives them an easy way to make their site Freemium. It does not restrict you from accessing the site altogether.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:31:42 +0000

I’m thinking of just making my sites ad-free for users at first. Then I’ll look into adding Contenture only features.

By: LithiumMind

LithiumMind — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:28:00 +0000

Hmmm.. for some reason I do not see the benefit of this. I have to pay money to visit sites? What kind of websites will I be surfing?

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:20:52 +0000

Thanks for the write up guys

This time you nailed what the service is really about. Much appreciated!

By: Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:19:59 +0000

Sure, but that happens whenever you take something and place it behind a pay wall. You could also take your next round of features for your product, and make them open for Contenture users only. Contenture is really a dead simple freemium system, for anyone.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:19:32 +0000

It is a micropayment when it’s divided up amongst hundreds of sites. The point of Contenture is that it’s fully automated. You don’t have to get hassled to authorize a 5 cent txn every time you want to view content. You pay a small monthly fee and we distribute the money automatically to all of the sites you visit.

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:17:21 +0000

As a user, I say forget it.
$6/month is not a micro-payment.
3 mils is a micro-payment.
When someone creates a system that allows me to pay for content using mils, then I will sign up.