Once again, Chitika managed to uphold their reputation for thinking outside-the-box by putting one of our Chitika-ites in an owl costume at SES NY 09. He was featured in video interviews filmed by me, @KarlaChitika during the conference (which will be featured on the blog very soon), as well as put a smile on everyone’s face who came to the Chitika booth.
SearchAppalooza Mania!
Tuesday afternoon many gathered in the Grand Ballroom for our much anticipated SearchAppalooza ‘Search Apps Contest’ where 5 finalists presented their apps to Jennifer Slegg (CEO Jensense.com), Larry Cornett (VP Search Yahoo!), Rob Griffin (SVP Search Marketing MediaContacts), and Don Dodge (Business Development Emerging Business Team Microsoft Corporation).
All of the apps were really great. If I were judging it would have been a very difficult decision, but the judges (who are clearly more thourough than I am) found some flaws and a winner was closen rather fast. The winner of the “Kick-ass Search App Contest” was:
The coolest thing about Tom’s app was how it created a way to take, otherwise unsearchable, video content and convert it into searchable text. This could ultimately make way for a whole new outlook and marketing perspective centered around search content in video. Amazing!
**The SearchAppalooza video will also be featured on the blog early next week- so be on the lookout for that, which features all the presentations from the app finalists.
Twitterers also had the chance to participate by Tweeting their favorite app finalist to be in the running for a Kindle2 sponsored by Chitika. That winner was:
And lastly, Chitika hosted their near-legendary, 3rd-Annual “Cookie Eating Contest” at the end of SearchAppalooza to win an HP 1000 Netbook. Eleven contestants gathered to eat as many Oreo (double-stuffed) cookies as they could in 2 minutes. There was a tie! 12 cookies ate by two people (who would of thought)- so they then challenged eachother to a Oreo face-off. In the end, 18 Oreos was consumed by our winner! You can watch it all go down in our video here:
Send us a note if you are coming–we are offering all Chitika friends 20% off SES full conf passes, and free exhibit passes.
What’s in store?
Our SES “SearchAppalooza” workshop will feature Chitika’s “Kick-Ass Search App” contest…“Think American Idol for developers, with Yahoo! and Microsoft as the judges.” Read more…
Stop-by our SES booth (#230) and meet “Hooty the Search Owl” –a 6′4″, fluffy owl who loves to play frisbee.
Can’t attend?
You can win cool stuff & watch SearchAppalooza from your couch.
SearchAppalooza Twitter Contest for an Amazon Kindle2!
To enter, click here to post a SearchAppalooza tweet.
After carefully reviewing all submissions (blog comments and email) we have chosen one grand prize winner to receive their choice of:
Google/T-Mobile G1 Android phone
Blackberry Storm
Apple iPhone 3G 8Gb
And 2 runners up to receive $200 each!
GRAND PRIZE WINNER: Donald Yeck of www.DoItYourself.com
The forums at DoItYourself.com are 100% text-based - no graphics at all! Since Chitika | Premium shows images next to the ads, it provides a nice visual “flare” for his site (and needless to say - the CTR on these ads is quite high!).
Here is what his users will see who come to his website from a search engine:
And here is what his page looks like when a user comes to his page NOT via search engine:
You can see from these shots that the Chitika | Premium units add a nice variety to his layout, which not only is pleasing to his users, but it also puts additional revenue in his pocket. ;)
Congratulations to the 3 winners and thank you to everyone who entered the contest! Subscribe to The Chitika Blog here so that you don’t miss out on your chance to enter & win our next contest.
IT’S ON! We have received over 300 submissions for our Adsense + Chitika Premium Contest. And no wonder, besides Chitika being a stellar addition to your Google Adsense revenue, we are giving away some pretty amazing prizes:
GRAND PRIZE - Winner will receive their choice of:
So hurry up! This contest ends Sunday night 12pm EST.
How do you enter? Show us your best integration of Google Adsense and Chitika Premium ads together on the same page by submitting your URL in the comments of this blog post, or by sending an email to “specialprojects [at] chitika [dot] com” with the subject “AdSense + Chitika contest”.
We’re giving away 1 of this year’s hottest phones, along with $400 cash in this Adsense+Chitika | Premium placement contest!
Since one of the best ways to earn the most revenue is by using AdSense and Chitika | Premium together on the same page, we thought we would hold a contest to see who has the best AdSense + Chitika | Premium setup.
What do you mean by AdSense + Chitika | Premium setup?
We mean anywhere on your site where you are running AdSense and Chitika | Premium on the same page. For example - look at this screenshot:
What are the Prizes? There are 3 prizes: GRAND PRIZE - Winner will receive their choice of:
Google/T-Mobile G1 Android phone
Blackberry Storm
Apple iPhone 3G 8Gb
RUNNERS UP - 2 runners up will receive $200 each
How do I enter?
You can submit your entries by posting a link to your site in the comments below, or send an email to “specialprojects [at] chitika [dot] com” with the subject “AdSense + Chitika contest”.
All entries must be received by 11:59 pm US EDT on Sunday, Dec. 21. We look forward to seeing what you all come up with!!!
If you don’t have Chitika | Premium code yet, you can grab it here. Also - if you are unfamiliar with Chitika | Premium, you can learn how it works here.
Spread the word about this contest and earn revenue!
You can link to this page with your Chitika referral ID and earn referral revenue from people who sign up. Just use the link below, and substitute “username” with your Chitika username: http://chitika.com/blog/2008/12/12/adsense-chitika-contest?refid=username
***UPDATE***: The contest is now closed. Winners announced December 22nd 08.
The Chitika Premium Interesting Placement Contest began Oct. 30th, and since then we have received over 100 contest entries from our users! We were so very impressed with many of the placements we saw that it made it very hard to choose only 3 winners - big thanks to everyone who participated.
First place: $100 Winner - Elran Oded, co-founder at Indyish.com
Elran did something really cool.. he placed the unit so that it’s actually integrated within his first paragraph text. Users who come directly to his website will see a normal paragraph of text but those coming from a search engine will see a large Premium ad unit with the text wrapping around to the side of the unit.
Here is what Indyish.com looks like without the Premium ad unit:
And here is what Indyish.com looks like with the winning Premium ad integration:
A BIG thanks again to all our users who sent in their Premium integrations!!
This was not Chitika’s first contest and this will definitely not be the last! We love attending/hosting events and we really love giving stuff away for free. Subscribe to the blog now to be sure you don’t miss out on our next contest giveaway.
I hope you got a chance to submit your website as an entry to our Premium Ad Placement Contest because the contest closed for submissions yesterday.
We wanted to see the different ways publishers chose to integrate their Chitika | Premium ad units to earn revenue on their site. We will be diving into all of the 100+contest entries we received (by email and blog comments) tonite and we will be announcing the winners tomorrow. First place winner will receive: $100 and and 2 runners-up will receive $50 each.
Keep the entries coming everyone - so far we have received over 70 entries by email and a handful on the blog! The contest is almost over! Submit your entry for the most interesting/cool/unique placements of Chitika | Premium ads by posting a link to your site in the comments section in this blog post here.
Have you taken the Chitika Premium Challenge? Nearly 1700 publishers have already taken advantage of this offer. If you missed out then don’t worry, you now have a second chance to get in on the action, AND if you’ve already taken the challenge, you have another month to earn up to $100.00 from Chitika!
Original deadline: Put the Premium ad code on your page by June 6th and we will match your earnings, up to $100.00, through June 30th.
NEW deadline: Put the Premium ad code on your page by June 30th and we will match your earnings up to $100.00 NOW THROUGH JULY 30th.
Challenge details:
Paste the Chitika|Premium ad code on your page directly above or below your article titles, (this is where Premium works best) and we will match you dollar-for-dollar (up to $100.00).
Did you add Chitika|Premium to your site after the original cutoff date (June 6th)? Don’t worry - you are automatically part of the extended program! We’ll match you up to $100 too.
To take advantage of this offer: Grab the Chitika | Premium Code from your code panel.
We’ll be the first to admit that we love sponsoring fun and cool contests. We’re excited to sponsor a new competition, our first of the year, from the iFroggy Network. Think of it as American Idol meets Survivor meets… something else. Contest: phpBBHacks.com phpBB 3 Hacks and Styles Idol.
The competition is a great opportunity for coders and creators to show off some talent and win some great prizes.
Chitika will award one of the following prizes (winners choice!) for the contests’ grand prize:
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