No longer will Johnchow.com sell for 200ec. Soon it will be demand based. Each advertiser will double the cost of an ad spot. After the initial craziness, ad prices should stabilize. To quote from Entrecard’s new pricing finally unveiled!
To calculate your price at any given moment, just start at 2 credits, and double it for everyone waiting for an ad on your site. For example, if you have 5 people approved and stacked in the “On your widget” column of the dashboard, and 5 people waiting for approval, you would calculate 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2, or 2 to the power of 10, which equals 1024 credits. And then in 24 hours, when an ad has completed running, their price would go down to 512. If no one bought an ad that day, tomorrow it would go down to 256. And then if someone bought an ad for 256, the price would go back up to 512.”
My impression is that this will greatly affect the market. No longer will you have to time your ads to get that one opening on JohnChow.com or problogger.net. A-list bloggers will get the ad cost they felt they deserved all along. Initially bargains will be found everywhere. Once people get excited about advertising, they will pump more credits into the economy, another step to improving the value of the Entrecredit.
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20 users commented in " Entrecard To Change Ad Pricing System In Next 24 Hours "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback **********This is great as far as I am concerned, the value of the ec has steadily dropped and dropped since I joined. I feel there needs to be a control of some
kind put in place.
This could be Very interesting for me. Although I seem to be stuck at number 4 in my category I consistently have More advertisers lined up. Will be watching to see it go live
I was wondering what Graham and Phirate had up their collective sleeve to increase the value of the credits before the market opens.
The new pricing system should make the Entrecard world very interesting.
Interesting…I’ve always hoped increased demand for advertising on your site would give more weight to your EC value-to-advertise than merely drops.
Wow, thanks for the heads-up. I’m sure the whole EC community will be abuzz over this within hours, but I saw it first here! Actually, I saw it in your feed on my start page.
Aha! No wonder I can’t even log in to my entrecard dashboard… thanks for the timely news
This will be interesting. I just logged into my dashboard and saw 4096 as my price. Given that I’d had glitches with EC over the last few days I was wondering if it was just another one.
I think i missed this news - but then I logged in and saw that the price of my ad had tripled over night. I was a bit shocked. I still bought some more ads this morning - but could barely find any for less than 32
I was way behind the eight ball on all this. I got home from work and logged in to entrecard - boy oh boy talk about the massive responses on this new change in the forums!
thanks Turnip. This price change will increase the value of deserving blogs. Will it also increase the value of bookmarking lists from entrecard?
My prediction is that the recent changes will make recipricating dropper lists useless. However, bookmark lists where you drop regardless of whether others drop become more valuable because you establish loyalty. Look for a post on that topic tomorrow.
interesting…..I will keep dropping on my regulars, and hope my regular advertisers keep coming back….
I have just joined the entrecard system and will be very interested to see how well it helps grow my site.
To be honest, I’m just totally confused on it.
Holy inflation Batman! I can’t imagine the chaos in the next few days!
The new pricing system is just terrible. -_-
Are you sure?
Absolutely. Looking at the quality of blogs on those lists I don’t see them sticking around very long. The moment Entrecard stops driving the easy traffic they will vanish, as some have already. Hey look! Some made for Adsense review splog is back to drop on me. Whoopee! Sorry, but I prefer people with real blogs to come by my site and chat, regardless of how small they may be or how casual their dropping habits are.
I think blogger circle is made and is regulated upon the mutual interest and support. This new system kills that spirit.
How can hobby bloggers survive and keep up the voice in this environment?
@Turnip:
You got that right.
There are a number of blogspot splogs with Full Screen “Skip this Ad” Ads, those are definitely not worth reciprocating.
On the other hand, real bloggers with real content are worth reciprocating, right?
Correct, my test for deletion is “has the person dropped once on my site once in the last 30 days” and “have they updated their content in the last 30 days”. Seems pretty straightforward there.
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