Tag Cloud Forecast: Partly Greedy

Posted on January 11, 2006

1000Tags.com is new advertising gimmick based on the MillionDollarHomepage.com idea except it uses a tag cloud format instead of pixels. 1000tags.com is selling the tags in the cloud. Buyers can purchase a entire tag exclusively (most expensive option) or they can share the tag with others. Tech Crunch thinks the idea will generate cash for the 1000tags.com creators.

1000Tags is different enough from MillionDollarHomePage that I think it will have a lot of sucess, too. They call it "the first commercial tag cloud". And that's exactly what it it. You can purchase a tag, pay by the character and font size, and hope that a lot of traffic to your site is the result.
They are selling up to 1,000 tags. Tags can be exclusive (click the Star Wars tag), but cost significantly more, and they will only sell 50 of them. The remaining tags link to a results page with what appears to be an unlimited number of results

MDH is going to be difficult to duplicate -- they made $1 million and then even more by placing the remaining pixels on eBay. But 1000tags.com will see some ads too -- it will probably fill up with ad tags for cheap hotels, gambling and dating sites pretty quickly.