Archive for October, 2008

Google and GamersTube.com Make Up

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

A few days ago GamersTube.com announced that Google Adsense ads would no longer be shown on pages with ‘questionable’ content that Adsense had referred to as too ‘mature’ even though adsense ads appear on other - larger video sites with the same type of content.
Today Google Analytics sent an invitation for GamersTube.com to participate in […]

On the Gridiron Struggling Against Spam

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Just before kickoff of the NFL Pre-Season Dot Media Acquired ‘On the Gridiron’ (www.otgfootball.com) a web-based community that sprouted up last season and was fairly active.
We intended to improve on the old owners marketing and make use of the website to foster a dialog amongst football fans nationwide. Unfortunately the past 10 weeks have seen […]

Buy Digital Gets New Products

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

It’s been a few months since we added new products to BuyDigitalShop.com. We thought it was time to get more stuff added to the site in the way of graphics and useful tools.
We just added a handful of vector and texture files, a google sitemap generator and simple image upload script. We plan on launching […]

Google Adsense Responds

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Earlier I blogged about how I felt Google’s attack on content at GamersTube.com was hypocritical. Since that posting I’ve received many emails that suggested it was them attacking their competition, others telling me to ’stfu’ and let Google police their own advertising network. While I still find their actions hostile towards competition I do want […]

Standing the Internet On It’s Head

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Right now Dot Media founder Joe Youngblood along with an as-of-yet unnamed partner are designing and programming a website that quite possibly will change the future of the entire internet as you and I know it. The implications as massive. The site is set to debut in early 2009.
Trust me when I say this is […]

Google Adsense’s Hypocricy

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Today at 12:08 pm GamersTube.com received an email from Google Adsense claiming that content found in their ‘babes’ video area was in violation of the Google Adsense T.O.S. which states that “Sites displaying Google ads may not include… Pornography, adult, or mature content”.
While many may view this as a clear-cut case of wrong doing and […]

KollegeAds.com Launched

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

With the success of our classified ads websites like ClassifiedAdsFree.com and MMOMarket.net comes the next site in our popular line of free classified host, KollegeAds.com
KollegeAds (pronoucned college ads)  will focus on local university students posting free classifieds to one another. It is our hope that students find the website useful for selling books, trading notes, […]

ClassifiedAdsFree.com Grows Over 12,000%

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Founded in May 2008 ClassifiedAdsFree.com has grown over 12,000% in its first two quarters of existence. From the beginning of May to the end of September the site grew quickly from humble beginnings thanks to in-bound links from major freebie websites and directories.
The traffic data released today shows the strength of the online classified ads […]

Video Game Research Panel Launched

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

In the ever growing world of video games there has become a need for more market research related panels and databases. Instead of allowing the sometimes questionable ethics of large market research firms to permeate the market and abuse gamers personal data we have decided to launch a panel of Video Gamers that we will […]

3Q 2008 Revenue Report

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

A brief report on Dot Media revenue released today shows that revenue continues to go up. For the first three quarters of this year revenue was up 84.7% over the same time period in 2007 and up 190% over the same time frame in 2006. The revenue picture only includes proceeds from Google Adsense and […]