Comments on: Widgetizing The Web: Widgetbox Hits 500 Million Impressions A Month

By: Johnny Lawrence

Johnny Lawrence — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:31:29 +0000

People are in love with their “impressions” and “reach”.. even when they consume huge amounts of $$ to stay in business and generate *NO* revenue.,

By: Johnny Lawrence

Johnny Lawrence — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:30:07 +0000

Same as any widget company that claims huge #’s of uniques.. when in reality, it is just something loading on the corner of a page, that nobody notices or uses.

All marketing.. sad really

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Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:35:28 +0000

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By: Jake Schmeerhorn

Jake Schmeerhorn — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:56:56 +0000

“While Widgetbox is seeing success as a startup…”

Can we please start defining “success” as “earning revenue at a rate and sustainability that will result in profitability at some point”.

The definition of success used in the article, which seems to be “their widgets get lots of impressions” is, while not quite meaningless, pretty close. Are either the publishers or audience for those widget impressions every going to be willing to pay for them? If so, how much? How much revenue would these impressions then translate to?

I would have thought that one lesson learned from during the past year is that startups, with very few exceptions (Twitter) cannot continue to point to metrics such as “reach”, “impressions”, “views”, “users”, etc as being proof of their revenue model. Yes, indeed, all you widget makers out there, it is time to “show us the money”.

By: Steven Marlin

Steven Marlin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:22:29 +0000

How about some quantities on these numbers??? 75 what? 9 what?

By: Tom Jones

Tom Jones — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:45:31 +0000

That’s a lot of widgets!

By: led panel

led panel — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:34:53 +0000

wow ..

By: Widgetbox Breaks 100m Monthly Uniques, Introduces Facebook Connect // RyanSpoon.com

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:33:46 +0000

[...] Widgetbox reached a significant milestone in its three-year history: 100,000,000 monthly uniques (covered by TechCrunch here). Measured by Quantcast, our widgets are now seen by 100.5m unique users each month and served [...]

By: Balfor

Balfor — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:48:44 +0000

I like LabPixies’ FloodIt mobile widget and I’m addicted I’m afraid to their sedoko web gadget!
The design is really flawless and we play it accross our office daily.

Here’s the link – http://www.labp..._page.php?id=53

By: Thom Kennon

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:49:34 +0000

Hmmm… interesting choice for a little featurette of a platform that, along with the other competitor shouted out (when you look at the leader board in the piece) are both clearly way back in the pack.

Anybody else detect a faint whiff of ‘paid placement’ to this dedicated choice of editorial inches?… just asking.

We certainly need to continue to believe there remains a nice big fat bright line at TC between the ad and content side of your business.

By: LC

LC — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:38:00 +0000

Leena your link to quancast is wrong. Hope it’s not the password

By: David

David — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:08:15 +0000

Are you profitable?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:06:55 +0000

The table is obviously in K already you moron. Go back to your VBScript.

By: Ravikant

Ravikant — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:13:53 +0000

Very impressive numbers and a cool service. Widgets are a great way of sharing rich interactive data on blogs and social networks. Now a days any blog I visit I some kind of widget. Produle is one more company that makes shareable widgets.

By: doug wolfgram

doug wolfgram — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:45:35 +0000

Oh, I get it. Roman numerals. 500M now means 500,000. Last time I checked we called that 500K in techy-land.

By: james

james — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:16:02 +0000

In the case of Mochi Media, it’s 100%!

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By: Ryan Spoon

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:03:31 +0000

Thanks Tom!

By: Jughead

Jughead — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:45:21 +0000

Widgets man, whod’a thunk?

By: Tom McGovern

Tom McGovern — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:40:23 +0000

Sound like Widgetbox is growing fast – 60MM users in April to 100MM for month to date June. Congrats Widgetbox!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:14:17 +0000

the #s don’t mean shit, how many people actually use it, instead of ignoring it as an annoying useless “feature”.

its like the techcrunch crunchboard widgit, sure it might have millions of impressions, but the actual # of people actually “using” it is probably a few hundred people

By: Ryan Spoon

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:08:51 +0000

500 million impressions and 100 million uniques as tracked by Quantcast (our internal monthly widget numbers are ~700m impressions).

We actually broke the 100 million mark today!

By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:04:32 +0000

“Widgetbox, a widget creation and distribution platform, is reporting 500 impressions worldwide in the past month, according to Quantcast.”

- 500…?