pageoneresults
msg:3404557 | 8:30 pm on Jul 25, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| Digg is quite the market for MS to lasso considering the audience! |
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I thought Digg's audience was anti MS? Or most of them anyway. ;)
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ByronM
msg:3404578 | 8:55 pm on Jul 25, 2007 (gmt 0) |
yeah, thats why the digg article with the blog post has over 300+ comments thus far ;) Good for MS though.. great market/niche to corner!
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ByronM
msg:3405239 | 1:46 pm on Jul 26, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Full press release here: [microsoft.com...] Looks good! I'm excited to see the market heat up. It only helps us little guys when the big bullies are fighting amongst themselves ;)
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carguy84
msg:3405385 | 4:12 pm on Jul 26, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Too bad ads on digg will never work, given the audience.
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Bewenched
msg:3405586 | 8:04 pm on Jul 26, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I wonder if this will have any impact on msn spidering sites that have been tagged in digg?
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rehabguy
msg:3405761 | 12:06 am on Jul 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Overall, Digg's users seem to be a very aggressive, liberal group of kids. I can't spend much time there, especially if I read the comments. I'll be surprised if they will like Microsoft ads, considering Micro$oft is the "evil empire" (ie: they make a profit). I can't even find the story on Digg! It must have gotten buried by the users.
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grelmar
msg:3405829 | 1:14 am on Jul 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Heh, bet Microsoft backed a dumptruck full of cash up to Kevin Rose's house to get the deal. Good for Kevin, good for the content publisher's market in general - a bit of competition for Google is a good thing. Bad for Microsoft, though. The audience is all wrong - the kind of person who uses Digg is the kind of person who has AdBlock.
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callivert
msg:3406151 | 11:30 am on Jul 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| The audience is all wrong - the kind of person who uses Digg is the kind of person who has AdBlock. |
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There's a core user base with the traits associated with Digg: anti-microsoft, pro-linux, left-wing, environmentalist, gadget-obsessed, tech-literate, geeky, bitchy, nasty, etc.
But like any social organization, there's a much larger group of less committed users. Those people are more diverse, and more characteristic of general internet users.
Digg has been running adsense for a long while now. If the Digg crowd were all the hard core anti-capitalists that their stereotype suggests, the advertising wouldn't work (and Digg wouldn't turn a profit!)
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ByronM
msg:3406358 | 3:31 pm on Jul 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Funny.. i don't think of digg being anti-capitalist at all. Sure, some of the nerdy users will filter out ads but thats a minute/finite group of people that do that irregardless of it being MS or Google or anyone for that matter. More as a security/personal awareness issue than anti-ms. As for the user base, its anti everything. You have a mix from all groups. Reality has a liberal bias, so its hard for that to not shine through a community driven outlet ;) I think it will payoff well for microsoft. Adding billions of ad impressions a year, expanding into territory where the topics are more diverse than probably any other website out there. HUGE traffic for many verticals to push advertising/promotion through.
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RhinoFish
msg:3406602 | 7:15 pm on Jul 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| Digg has been running adsense for a long while now. If the Digg crowd were all the hard core anti-capitalists that their stereotype suggests, the advertising wouldn't work (and Digg wouldn't turn a profit!) |
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Makes me wonder if that was why they switched, wasn't working.
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ByronM
msg:3407215 | 4:44 pm on Jul 28, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I think they switched because MS made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
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etechsupport
msg:3407539 | 6:29 am on Jul 29, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Yeah, anyone can not refuse such good offer, I think Microsoft will use digg platform for their marketing purpose as well.
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