Million Dollar Homepage- sheer ingenuity
I have been following the progress of The Million Dollar Homepage since it first went live and there is no question it is the most ingenious use of the Internet I have seen thus far. TMDH is the brainchild of 21 year old Alex Tew of Wiltshire, England who needed to make some cash before heading of the the University of England at the end of September. After kicking several money-making ideas around he came up with the concept of selling ads, one pixel at a time. The TMDH homepage is a large grid with each square representing one pixel which Alex sells for $1 each. Each square consists of 100 pixels and the minimum number you can purchase is $100 worth. The square is filled in with the graphic of the buyer’s choice that contains a link to wherever the buyer wants to point visitors. This idea has spread like wildfire and in only a few weeks Alex has sold 74,000 pixels! He has published case histories from websites that claim a 1000% increase in site traffic by placing just one pixel on the site. Kudos to Alex for a brilliantly simple way to make the Web work for him.
Haha, brilliant, I love it.
Another student from France is hopping to get the same success with MegaPixelPage.com.
Here’s one that is similar but it gives back to the advertisers, or at least to the lucky ones. .25 cents a pixel. It’s the first one with a PRIZE???
http://250000.org
Wow what a fab scam. Lets start the billiondollarScam.com and send all the money to the poor african children. http://www.meomo.com Rocks
More and more…
http://www.milliondollarwebpage.com
http://www.milloinpennyhomepage.com
http://www.milloineurohomepage.com
…too tired to list some others. Anyone have any input on others?
A Pop Art inspired million dollar soup can:
http://www.milliondollarmosaic.com
You buy a piece of the mosaic and your logo becomes part of a larger picture taken from the Pop Art era, with a view to exhibiting on a large scale in a gallery. Advertisers links on the site are permanent.
This one is listed by category, so you can actually find adverts you want – maybe advertisers will like this idea more? http://www.choicedirectory.co.uk
Another one
http://www.pixelget.com
Our advertisers are seeing a drastic increase in thier sales. Just ask the Cotton Monster. You’ll find the ad on http://millionquarterwebpage.com and feel free to look at our stats with Alexa. We are averaging 400-500 unique visitors an HOUR!
Hey guys…
how about a Million Dollar Blogs page?
what do u think?
i’ve got a few ideas and the launch will be soon!!!
Cheers!
Let’s not forget:
http://www.OneBuckPixels.com
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The Auction Homepage reports that bidding has started at eBay for prime traffic banner ad spots!
Buy pixels from Paypal or 2Checkout for guaranteed traffic.
1 Week free trial for posting your pixels until 13 Oct. 2005
http://www.theauctionhomepage.com
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have a look at what these guys are doing…
http://www.milliondollarhero.com
Have a look at this:
http://www.pixel-platz.de
Buy a block on http://www.milliondollaradverts.com and help support a charity at the same time
Not just a million dollar homepage, but a BETTER MILLION DOLLAR HOMEPAGE!
http://www.bettermilliondollarhomepage.com
have you seen the japanese version?
http://www.ichiokunoyume.com
You can buy blocks from the site and add your own banners/ads which contain link to your own page.
There is one million blocks and one hundred million pixels in site and you can decide which place you purchase.
http://www.milliondollaroreuropage.com
Neue Seiten, aber noch leer:
http://www.millionpixelsite.com
http://www.millionpixelseite.de
http://www.millionpixelsite.de
Forget all the hype around pixels! It’s all about time! Purchase small blocks of time and have your ad displayed at the same time, every day, for seven consecutive days! You don’t have to worry about your tiny $100 ad never getting seen in a see of other tiny ads! Web site owners can also compete for text link positions via monetary donations.
http://www.timethis.com
Free pixels here:
http://www.zerodollarhomepage.com
Check out http://www.PixelAds4All.com – they offer a FREE 100 by 100 pixel “tool tip image” with the purchase of your ad, which acts like a billboard for your site! They are also currently offering their pixels for 50% off, or $50 USD for a 100 pixel block.
Here’s another million dollar home page copy-cat site (or should I say copy-*cow* site), http://www.milliondollarcowpage.com.
I saw this web phenomenom and thought it was definitely something special. But why do people click on the links – all they get is re-directed to another page (which maybe they’re not interested in)?
On The Million Dollar Cow page every time you click on one of the pixel links you get a cow. Each link hides a different cow and some facts about its life. You can collect cows, swap cows, even make them fight in top-trump style battles. My personal favourite is Jessica, but choose your own…
I only started the site a couple of days ago, so I’m looking to drum up some interest. Take a look at http://www.milliondollarcowpage.com
i found this site,
http://www.the100millionyenhomepage.com
Janpan market and US market, you can buy pixels there, real pixels, as seen on T.V.
they also put charity site for free (thats nice)
I too have set up my own pixel site to hopefully pay off my student loan.
http://www.anothermillionpixels.com
So what are you waiting for? Do not delay, buy your pixels today!
Nice. I’ve also set up one at http://www.milliondollarhomepage.net
Right now, we’re trying to get traffic and will work on more sales later, but Alex is a genius. The real question, though, is will this be a new marketing tactic that will last, or is it just a fad? Time will tell, I guess.
Here is a great site! The http://www.milliondollarpixellottery.com
where you buy a block for $150 (i.e.$50 more than Alex T’s but it give you the chance to win $1.000.000 with your PayPal Transaction Receipt Number! Great Idea…I think! For $50 you have a 1 to 100.000 chance or more..depending how may you buy to win the Million…a much better chance than any other lottery i have come across!
Another version, this time in french : Bloc de pub (http://www.blocdepub.com), and selling each bloc of 10×10 pixels only 10 euros instead of 100$ … starts to be really interesting now !
Hi,
Last week we sent a mail to ask you to change pixels. As a result of changing pixels we moved 300.000 places above in Alexa´s ranking (www.alexa.com).
If you didn´t answer last week, you still can change pixels with me. You find my mailaddress at http://www.win100dollar.com. Most people who changed pixels with me went up also.
If you answered last week, thank you. I hope you´re satisfied with your link.
Philip
hey all
was just wondering how you guys are building the sites? do u use php or are you manually adding these images??
If you want to sell pixels on yor websites, you can downlaod Pixel Ads Builder desktop application. This tool will help you managing your pixel ads (pixel billboards). Easy to use and implement to you web sites.
See: http://www.habjansoftware.com/pixeladsbuilder.aspx
TimeThis.com has made some changes. Now, advertisers can choose the time and day and have their ads displayed at the same time/day for a full year!
http://www.timethis.com
The website of Canadian Million Charity Pixels, pixel ads to support your chosen charity by selling 1 million pixels of internet ad space for $1 each.
http://www.canadianmillioncharitypixels.com/
Check Out http://www.likefive.com for Free Text Link Advertising onto 20 x 20 Circles Tell A Friend
Here’s another one. 958.com. 958,000 pixels instead of the usual million.
Well, I am adding my hat to the “copy cat” ring, but at least my version is a bit innovative. I’m combining pixel advertising with regular ads on a network of sites I host. This gives an instant advertising base to the site rather than having to wait for the word of mouth buzz to spread. Here’s what my site is all about:
University Student Says, “Make Me Mortgage Free”
It’s a crazy idea that might just work: a 22-year-old University student from Canada is trying to pay off the mortgage on his home a square inch at a time. Take a look for yourself: http://www.MakeMeMortgageFree.com/
I’d love to hear what you guys think!
Thanks,
Kent
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http://www.makememortgagefree.com
Clones everywhere!
A new innovative one is even using Google Maps: http://MapShares.com
I think this is was of the funniest copy-cow million dollar home pages (geddit!) I’ve taken the pixel advertising idea and stirred in a whole lot of cows. (http://www.milliondollarcowpage.com).
Basically, it’s a million dollar home page with cows. Everytime you click on one of the links, you get a cow. You can print off cows, collect cows, share cows and even make your cows do battle (in old fashion, top-trump style).
I’m trying to create a bit of interest, so if you’d like to take a look its, http://www.milliondollarcowpage.com
Ok folks, I think it is safe to say that there are more copycat sites at this point than their are pixels on the Million Dollar Homepage! That being said, when looking at some of them I happened upon the Pixel Challenge site which is attempting to sell 1,000,000 pixels in only 30 days! Amazing if they can do it. Check it out at http://www.thepixelchallenge.com. To boot, they are giving money to charity!
Your right there are way too many copy cat sites, the only way one could work now is if there is a really could angle.
I am releasing my site http://www.thegaymilliondollarhomepage.com which is an attempt to bring together the gay and lesbian communities which is the most hard hit sector of HIV and AIDS. Whats more is that 50c of every dollar i make is going straight to AIDS research at UCSF. I am 18 years old and with the money which doesnt go on to AIDS chairy and dosnt go on the cost to keep the web-site going i hope will fund me to go to college.
Please support me and the eradication of the AIDS epidemic.
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My hat goes off to Alex Tew, he certainly found a unique idea to sell ad space. I actually took his idea one step further… selling ad space by the BYTE! There are so many “pixel pushers” out there now that I needed to put a spin on the pixel advertising concept. Check out http://www.buckabyte.com
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Pixel Pages……fad or trend? Wish I was smart enough to know.
However, I do think that I have found a company that will make, and could
possibly make you a LOT of money…at least in the near term.
Check out the Alexa ratings. They are off the chart for a
nascent company.
Would I suggest that you put a lot of cash in here? NO, NO
Put in a little…absolutely.
http://www.pixmeup.com/moadams
More spin offs, looks like the six million dollar page is starting to take effect:
http://thesixmilliondollarpage.com/
http://www.billionairebillboard.com
I don’t get it though, seems like there will be a million of these unfinished…
Copying any of these sites or the original idea is futile. It’s aready been done and repeated several times.
Doing something original is the only way to attract attention. I’ve done something that’s never been done in the world before, which is integrate this form of advertising into content and interactivity and it works.
http://www.pixelword.com
What happens when you merge the milliondollarhomepage idea with sex (or is it art)? You get http://www.isellbody.com/
I believe that Alex’s site still generates some indirect value for advertisers at least by improving their visibility in search engines. It has a PageRank of 7 and many still continue to add links to it (by the way, this article has just added one link). So, getting the link from website with such a high PageRank for as low as 1$ it is clearly a reasonable investment. Good luck to all the copycats
http://www.milliondollarhosting.net
Ingenuity it is a bit too much. I suppose that he created this design incidentally.
For me, the best concept in advertising is http://www.milliondollaregg.com.ar
Here’s another Million Dollar Homepage…
Chicken Out!
http://www.rombanners.com
Free pixel advertising in a crossword puzzle layout at http://www.sywords.com
UPDATE: The Million Dollar Mosaic web site mentioned in the comments earlier is no longer in existence.