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"EXTRA EXTRA GAMEADAY FOR MAY (adsales)"

COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT: THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.
A big thank you to all that have made suggestions. A winner will be announced shortly. Watch this space...

This time we are after suggestions of who might want to advertise with us.

As I write there is an E-bay banner showing on screen. E-bay pay us to advertise those banners.

In total we display 2.7 million banner impressions per month. We would like to sell 40 to 50% of these to other companies who might like to advertise on our site. This would still give us 1.35 million banners to sell our own product range.

If you are the first to make a suggestion, and we subsequently sell advertising to that company within the next three months, then you will win an Extra Gameaday prize.

Companies that we already sell to don't count (don't ask, i can't give you a list).

Banners are sold for about £5 per thousand. If you want to actually sell some for us (to somebody you know) then let webmaster know. The commission is 10% (less tax if you are not self-employed). I'm not suggesting that you start cold-calling around the internet!

To recap - you need to suggest the name of a Company who might want to buy advertising on our site. The best way to identify potential candidates is to see adverts on other sites that you think would work well on this site.

So, for example, you might go to Totalgames.net and see an Intel Pentium 4 banner. You need to give us:
The name of the company (e.g. Intel)
Where you saw their advert (e.g. Totalgames.net)
What they were advertising (e.g. Pentium 4)

DON'T show names of our direct competitors.
DON'T suggest other similar retailers (such as HMV)
DON'T include "internal banners" i.e those advertising a product for sale on the same site as the banner. (e.g. we advertise lots of the products we sell in banners - these are internal banners).

Happy hunting!!!!

See you at the end of May

(both April Extra Filmaday and Extra Gameaday will be decided on Tuesday May 1st. Extra Gameaday for promotional ideas is still being sifted by Mark and that will take a while)

er-no wrote:

> The name of the company (e.g. QXL)
> Where you saw their advert (e.g. another.com inbox)
> What they were advertising (e.g. QXL auctions)

It looks like we may have our first winner here. Not quite confirmed yet. Actually this was the very first reply on this competition.

Remember - there are unlimited Gameaday prizes on this one. If you are the first to make the suggestion then you will win if we manage to sell ad banners to that company. Think UK though.

I saw this ad in the Games Master mag issue #107 and this is what it said:

FutureAuctions
Your personal marketplace

BUY the stuff you love!
SELL the stuff you hate!-Computers, music, sports, toys and games.

www.FutureAuctions.co.uk

The name of the company : British Gas
Where you saw their advert : BT Internet
What they were advertising : Themselves

The name of the company : Brittanic Money
Where you saw their advert : BT Internet
What they were advertising : Morgages

The name of the company : Screen Trade
Where you saw their advert : BT Internet
What they were advertising : Motor/Travel Insurance

The name of the company : Excite.co.uk
Where you saw their advert : BT Internet
What they were advertising : Themselves

The name of the company : Yell.com
Where you saw their advert : BT Internet
What they were advertising : Themselves

The name of the company : oneswoop.com
Where you saw their advert : BT Internet
What they were advertising : Themselves

The name of the company : ThinkNatural.com
Where you saw their advert : BT Internet
What they were advertising : Themselves

The name of the company : JobMagic.net
Where you saw their advert : BT Internet
What they were advertising : Themselves

The name of the company : asiafreenet.com
Where you saw their advert : BT Internet
What they were advertising : Themselves

The name of the company : rex.co.uk
Where you saw their advert : BT Internet
What they were advertising : Themselves

Heres a few more MSN banner Ads...

The name of the company : MBNA
Where you saw their advert : MSN
What they were advertising : Platinum Credit Card

The name of the company : Lloyds TSB
Where you saw their advert : MSN
What they were advertising : Themselves

The name of the company : Flutter.com
Where you saw their advert : MSN
What they were advertising : Champions League Compo

The name of the company : Royal Bank of Scotland
Where you saw their advert : MSN
What they were advertising : RBOS Credit Cards

The name of the company : Sexy Lingerie
Where you saw their advert : MSN
What they were advertising : Themselves (honestly)

The name of the company : iVillage
Where you saw their advert : MSN
What they were advertising : Food Recipes

The name of the company : LEGO
Where you saw their advert : MSN
What they were advertising : Lego.com shop

Cheers Edgy...

Oops... sorry Tony... :)

I only managed to grab 3 hours sleep Firday night-Saturday... so pretty much ALL my posts from yesterday should probably be ignored! :)

Banners are worth about £5 per thousand impressions.

That's £5000 for 1 million page impressions.

Banners are worth £5000?!

The name of the company : BT
Where you saw their advert : Sky TV
What they were advertising : S Club 7 Compo

The name of the company : QXL
Where you saw their advert : Sky TV
What they were advertising : Cheap Holidays

The name of the company : BT
Where you saw their advert : Sky TV
What they were advertising : S Club 7 Compo

PS - that's why I have deleted part of Armatage Shanks messages.

Sorreee!

Please try to stick to the guidelines.

Good ideas, but we would never allow a competitor like Beeb.com (using TV licence money to muscle in) to advertise on our site.

Nor do we want the advertisers from our competitors sites listed.