
After selling one of its best-known apps and making three staff redundant recently, Ryan Carson’s Bath-based web studio Carsonified is now flogging another service, Amigo, and has picked eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) as the sales channel. Amigo lets advertisers place ads in mailing-list newsletters, and lets publishers of those newsletters profit from the deal. But Carson says it’s “failed pretty badly”: “We were naive and we thought we could run it in our free time. You can build a web app in your free time, but you sure as hell can
Subscriber content
?
Subscriber content comes from Gigaom Research, bridging the gap between breaking news and long-tail research. Visit any of our reports to learn more and subscribe.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
["wijax_c221f77ecffb294abd4ca0e104731cab","wijax_bdc672aeeaa7946ee40196238ab6142f"]
{"source":"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/12\/18\/419-carsonified-selling-amigo-newseltter-ads-service-on-ebay\/wijax\/49e8740702c6da9341d50357217fb629","varname":"wijax_070b4429b096eb0f4386cadb549297cd","title_element":"header","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Cheader%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fheader%3E"}
{"source":"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/12\/18\/419-carsonified-selling-amigo-newseltter-ads-service-on-ebay\/wijax\/49e8740702c6da9341d50357217fb629","varname":"wijax_070b4429b096eb0f4386cadb549297cd","title_element":"header","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Cheader%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fheader%3E"}
Comments have been disabled for this post