Last week we launched the inaugural “Money Bomb” at Blabbermouth.net. (If you missed my post about it click here.)

Earlier today, Money Bomb Week 2 was launched with slight modifications to the business model. Out of 16 total campaign buys last week alone, all clients (except for one) chose the most costly Indie campaign available, that being the “double-banner” which was one 728×90 Leaderboard spot carved to accomodate two Indie ads (see demo). It turns out that our Indie banners featuring three & four ads per banner were moot from the getgo. I can only assume that most clients thought it would be wiser to pay the extra cost for the top campaign as well as the added square pixel coverage per banner.

This week, due to shrinking supply in topline inventory at Blabbermouth.net we have added a 160×600 Skyscraper version of our Indie banners (see demo). It offers the same raw exposure in terms of impressions as the 728×90 Leaderboard spot but is priced at two-thirds of the cost. It will be interesting to see by our booking deadline on April 9th if there is enough interest in the Skyscraper to keep it going.

All up the Money Bomb has been a tremendous success in its first week. Granted it’s only week 2 so we’ll need to wait a couple more weeks to determine sales trends and viability.

The important part though is that we’ve sold 20 new campaigns at this point. All are new clients to Fixion Media, which gives us more ammo to perhaps ban all remnant ad networks from working with us. Such firms have failed time and again to monetize display ads and furthermore provide quality, relevant ads.

Long live the vertical.

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…but the fact that we signed to Adtech earned us a name-drop in ClickZ.

Despite being forever legitimized in ClickZ we’ll be sure to keep disturbing the peace in the underground music scene. No one ever sees the underdog coming.

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The design cycles are growing closer together. It’s clearly (and nearly) time to launch the new site.

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I took the first day of 2008 to personally re-launch Fixion Media. (www.fixionmedia.com)

Imagine if you could re-launch your company or personal brand in an instant? I must admit, this isn’t the first time I adapt the future of my company to the increasingly globalized and technolocally-centric world. Second admission: it gets more enjoyable every time I do it. This is what life is about. If you can apply your learnings to actual life every couple of years, the world is bound to look peachy and progressive.

To a prosperous 2008. Happy new year!

(Stay tuned for excellent coverage on this blog and podcast in 2008 about marketing, advertising, business, politics, and more. My plate is full. Dine on it at your leisure.)

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While it took a while to reach this decision for reasons that I can’t yet divulge, I’m please to finally announce that Fixion Media has entered into a service agreement with Adtech. Specifically, we will be using the Helios IQ advertising platform to manage our network. While we are currently testing the platform, a full rollout is expected by or before January 1st, 2008.

Tis a perfect way to start a new year and I’m confident that our publishers and clients will appreciate the upgrade in our technology. Gone are the days of open source servers and self-monitoring. Adtech will manage the technical aspect so that we can focus on our core competencies as a network.

Last year Fixion Media served more than 300 million ad impressions. Next year we’re shooting for a billion.

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