Bepaid : The New Kid on the Block (bepaid.com)

Member Name: TimothyC

Product:	bepaid.com
Date:	06/07/00 (13 review reads)
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Advantages: Funky ads better than banners

Disadvantages: No garanteed income

This is the new kid on the block with a new ad scheme. The idea behind this is that you have to download an ad-viewer (nothing different there), but with this one they contact you when they have the ad for you to watch. The sign-up is reasonably simple and I got through straight away. The download is larger than average (1.4mb), but was simple to install. The first ad is very flash and professional and it beats banners any day. Once you have seen your first you just have to sit back and wait for your ads to come trickling in. If you are interested in joining contact me on my e-mail address timothy_cottrell@hotmail.com and you can become my first referral (please grovel, grovel, grovel)

Bepaid is the most interesting of the new pay-U-schemes and if it takes off I think it could be very successful. The advantage (no pun intended, honest) is that the ads can be targeted much like the paid-U-email schemes. This means that the amount of money that you earn may be less, but it will be a more sustainable way of paying you. I don't know if anyone has looked at PaysU financial accounts page, but they state that All Advantage and themselves are running at a serious loss. They quoted that for All Advantage to December 1999 they generated US$5 million and incurred members direct surfing costs of US$17 million. If this carries on hey will not be able to keep the payment rates they have for much longer otherwise they will go under.

So welcome to the future of paid ads.

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