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Update update!
Monday, July 23, 2007
SOMEBODY has cam napped my exilim, therefore the lack of updates.

Hehe, instead of being apologetic for the lack of updates as I should be, I've decided to blame somebody else today.


Anyway, its been a couple of busy weeks. The fruits of the Nuffnang SG Teams' labours are going to be sown in the month of August.


I am pleased to announe that we have secured 3 significant deals in the month of august. Look out for these ads on hundreds of Nuffnang blogs.


Add that to our first Nuffnang event in Singapore, an exclusive screening of Rush Hour 3, and boy do we have our hands full!


Its all good though! I'm loving it sooo much. Really living the dream.


In case you all din't know, we were also featured on the Sunday Times (July 22nd, 2007) in the "Click" section, page 38. 3/4s of a page! Yay!


Here is the extract from the Straits Times Online (http://www.straitstimes.com/Click/Story/STIStory_141456.html- subscription needed)

Buck$ for Blog$

Thanks to Singapore firm Nuffnang, bloggers can turn their popularity into ad dollars
By Jamie Ee Wen Wei
ST PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: WANG HUI FEN & TAY CHERN HUI

"BLOGS were once the domain of daily musings, inconsequential chatter and random rantings.
But now, a local company wants to change that by bringing in advertising money for local bloggers.

Founded by Singaporean Cheo Ming Shen and his Malaysian counterpart, Timothy Tiah, Nuffnang provides an online platform to match bloggers with advertisers.

All bloggers need to do is to join its blog advertising community and fill up an online form, which provides details of their blogs and readerships that are used to match them with advertisers.
Launched in Malaysia in February, the blog advertising community - the first of its kind in Asia - was an instant hit, attracting 300 bloggers in just three days.

'We were only expecting 300 blogs in three months,' said Mr Cheo, 24, a graduate of the London School of Economics.

Two months later, the company started its Singapore community, and 1,800 bloggers have already joined.

Despite competition from similar online ad services such as Google AdSense, local bloggers are attracted to Nuffnang because it focuses on promoting local products and businesses, which means bloggers have a greater chance of clinching ads on their web space.
'There is no point showing somebody in Singapore an ad from the US, right? So if you sign up with Google Adsense, the ads appearing will be public service announcements, which pay zero dollars,' said local blogger Cowboy Caleb, who earned $200 in two weeks from Nike Singapore ads on his blog.

Depending on the number of unique visitors to their blogs, bloggers can earn from $2 to as much as $2,000 a week for ads placed on their blogs.

Big-time bloggers such as Wendy Cheng, also known as Xiaxue, can easily earn about $1,000 a week, said Mr Cheo.

But personal blogs with a smaller readership are benefiting from this service too.
Final-year psychology student Estee Teo, who keeps a personal blog that has up to 150 hits a day, said she earned about $7 a week from ads for Hitchoo.com, a dating website. The money, though meagre, stokes the ego.

'It feels good that someone actually wants to put their ad on my blog,' said Ms Teo.
For advertisers, the playing field seems huge.

A study by media agency Universal McCann said that Singapore's community of bloggers and blog-readers has increased dramatically in the last six months. About 75 per cent of Singapore's netizens - about 2.5 million people - have read at least one blog in the past six months. By March, 36 per cent of them had blogs of their own.

So far, at least five companies, including Nike Singapore and Hitchoo.com, have run ads on blogs under Nuffnang.

But local advertisers remain conservative. According to a report by Nielsen Media Research, Singapore's online advertising expenditure accounted for only 2 per cent of the market's total advertising spending in March this year. The total advertising expenditure was almost $2 billion last year.

Still, Mr Cheo is confident that blog advertising will pick up among advertisers.
'They have waited a long time for this, and they are very happy to explore this new medium,' he said.

And there is always the dream of becoming the next big thing on the Internet.
'Who doesn't want to be the next Google?' Mr Cheo said."


It's wierd to be quoted in the newspapers.


Perhaps in the future when i blog, I will blog in third person. Mr Cheo said ....

Anyway will update with photos when I get my camera back from a certain egotistical cam napper.

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Wadeper!
Thursday, July 19, 2007
I lurpe how the thais talk, and this ad is fantastic.

Everytime I see it, I think of Lau Neo, going whatever!!! whatever!!! Classic lah.


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Nuffnang singapore welcomes Hui Wen to the team!
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
The entire nuffnang team, which now numbers 10, would like to welcome our newest addition to the family.

Hui Wen has joined Nuffnang as a marketing intern for a week, and she has hit the ground running.

I'm sure a number of you have recieved her email replies. Besides that, she will also be involved in pitching to potential advertisers, and spearheading the organisation of Nuffnang Singapore's first event!
Look out for details, its going to be insanely good!

This is she!

And her blog entry about her experience of working with Nuffnang Singapore so far.

We are still hiring! So do drop us an email at admin AT nuffnang.com if you are interested!

Kindly attach your CV. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

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