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[AgnesIO]

This might be a crap ideam but I think it could work, so here it is!

Why not sell short (15s or so) adverts to people on Habbo where they can have their rooms advertised? I think this could be a good way to raise funds which could be used for prizes etc. You would charge people for a short slot where their advertisement would be played, x amount of times per day. A maximum amount of slots would be sold - to make sure you don't get too many ads being playing. You could sell the slots in weekly/monthly timiings.

Perhaps space could also be sold to room owners on Habbox.com maiin page? Banners could be sold in different areas of the website - nothing too big obviously, or they could become intrusive. I think this would be a good way to promote a community feel on Habbox, give room owners a chance to promote their rooms (fr a small fee obviously) and get Habbox a bit more furni to use in big competitions etc.

Thoughts?

[scott]

I think Habbox have done this before hmm. Oh no I remember it was a thing that they put Habbox in their room name and then it was advertised on a page on the Hx.com site.

I think your idea is quite a good idea but I think there must be a reason why it's not been done or they would have done it before But it certainly would be beneficial towards Habbox.

[AgnesIO]

I think Habbox have done this before hmm. Oh no I remember it was a thing that they put Habbox in their room name and then it was advertised on a page on the Hx.com site.

I think your idea is quite a good idea but I think there must be a reason why it's not been done or they would have done it before But it certainly would be beneficial towards Habbox.

We did have banners on Habbox for rooms where rooms sponsored us/we sponsored rooms. However the deal there was they put Habbox.com in the room description and they got a banner - which was an average idea, I think we should have demanded more in the deal - and we could have.

I think Casinos would have to be banned from having advertisements, due to the high risk of scamming - and the last thing we want is "newbs" accusing us of helping scammers.

[Inseriousity.]

I do believe the problem was that they'd remove the Habbox name from their advertisements so unless it was checked upon and enforced (and how exactly you'd force it is a tricky area, almost impossible), it's not really that effective.

Although ofc I do believe getting the Habbox name out there is important. In theory, this would be a good idea to benefit that but in practice, it doesn't really work that well.

[Hecktix]

Advertisement is something I'm willing to look into to make a bit of funds on Habbo. I'll have a chat with martin about it

[AgnesIO]

Advertisement is something I'm willing to look into to make a bit of funds on Habbo. I'll have a chat with martin about it

Awesome

I do believe the problem was that they'd remove the Habbox name from their advertisements so unless it was checked upon and enforced (and how exactly you'd force it is a tricky area, almost impossible), it's not really that effective.

Although ofc I do believe getting the Habbox name out there is important. In theory, this would be a good idea to benefit that but in practice, it doesn't really work that well.

But my idea doesn't effect getting the Habbox name out there, well in the longer term it could. All this involves is people paying to have small radio/banner advertisements on Habbox - which could help for competitions/events that therefore encourage people to join Hx

[nvrspk4]

It used to be done, especially with the rare values page where we had a rotating banner. We also had a 6-slot rotating banner above the forum that I personally switched in and out but that was purchased by larger organizations usually because it was a banner over the entire forum.

For the rooms and rare values, we did just ask for the advertising (I believe at one point there was a furniture charge, but I don't believe there was a cash charge.) As far as enforcement, we would list the room as [www.habbox.com] Jungle Trade and Casino and because of the search mechanism, the owners would have to keep [www.habbox.com] in the room name. For the owners with whom we had longer-standing or better relationships, we also included their Habbo names. But for people we didn't know / have many references for we omitted the room owner's name for a while.

[AgnesIO]

It used to be done, especially with the rare values page where we had a rotating banner. We also had a 6-slot rotating banner above the forum that I personally switched in and out but that was purchased by larger organizations usually because it was a banner over the entire forum.

For the rooms and rare values, we did just ask for the advertising (I believe at one point there was a furniture charge, but I don't believe there was a cash charge.) As far as enforcement, we would list the room as [www.habbox.com] Jungle Trade and Casino and because of the search mechanism, the owners would have to keep [www.habbox.com] in the room name. For the owners with whom we had longer-standing or better relationships, we also included their Habbo names. But for people we didn't know / have many references for we omitted the room owner's name for a while.

For this they would not need to put www.Habbox.com in their room names. This would purely be to raise funds for Habbox, by charging in furniture. I don't think ads on the forum would be a good move, as we need the other ads there to raise reay money for hosting costs etc.

[nvrspk4]

For this they would not need to put www.Habbox.com in their room names. This would purely be to raise funds for Habbox, by charging in furniture. I don't think ads on the forum would be a good move, as we need the other ads there to raise reay money for hosting costs etc.

Right I understand what this suggestion is, I was just giving background about earlier comments where people said that they think we did this in the past - it was slightly different.

Also, what else did you think we used the forum ad rotator for They had to pay a fixed amount per month for one of six slots on the banner rotator. We had google ads in the empty slots.

[AgnesIO]

Right I understand what this suggestion is, I was just giving background about earlier comments where people said that they think we did this in the past - it was slightly different.

Also, what else did you think we used the forum ad rotator for They had to pay a fixed amount per month for one of six slots on the banner rotator. We had google ads in the empty slots.

Sorry, I thought you were still replying to my post that you quoted. Misunderstood