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Web 2.0 In Depth Ajit Jaokar's Mobile Web 2.0 Blog: The Widget Widget Web
How can advertisers, marketers, and brands use Widgets?
By: Ajit Jaokar
Oct. 25, 2006 12:45 PM
As you would know from my previous posts, I am a fan of Widgets and I believe in the potential of Widgets (both web and mobile) to transform the web experience as we know it. When I spoke at AJAXWorld , Adam Sah of Google gave a fascinating presentation about Widgets (which Google calls gadgets). In that presentation (or I think in the Q&A afterwards), someone asked about the commercial/marketing potential of widgets.
Since that time, I have been out to find any instances where widgets were actually being used for advertising/marketing One such example is the freewebs community (by co incidence - Zeki Mokhtarzada, Freewebs Co-Founder and CTO was also a speaker at AJAXWorld but I missed his talk because I was jet-lagged :( - but I first heard about freewebs at AJAXWorld) With 11 million web sites and an Alexa rating of 345, freewebs is one of the top 150 trafficked site in the world according to comscore. But my interest lies in: How can advertisers/marketers/brands on a community use widgets for marketing? Freewebs tried this out with Sony to promote the film Zathura Consider the options for an advertiser like Sony for a film like Zathura. The traditional option is ‘banner ads’ for a site like free webs. But can more be done by Widgets? Lets face it, no one like banner ads(my ad blocker kills them all!) But widgets enabled Sony to provide an application (which is essentially a game, content etc etc) related to the movie and more importantly allow users to interact with it. For the 11 million web site owners of freewebs, the widget was "digital candy" – something to embed within their web site. Indeed 11,000 web sites took this up within six weeks (note: unlike banner ads, widgets are not intrusive; the website creator has to "choose" the widget in his site.) The widgets had been viewed 600,000 times and crucially, there are still over 15,000 widgets embedded on the site and still delivering content long AFTER the original movie has gone! This is powerful stuff! Thanks to Zeki Mokhtarzada, and Shervin Pishevar for their help with this blog If you have any other instances of widgets being used for marketing, I am happy to include them!
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