Adcopy.com turned captcha into ads for $.10 a pop...

[ly2 from WF]

AdCopy

in action: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/savetsl/captcha

Apparently this shit pays $.10 per captcha completed. Unfortunately I don't have any sites that use captcha otherwise I'd be all over this. New company but they have an office in NYC and there are people answering phones, seem like a legit company.

This is one of those head smacking moments when you ask how you didn't come up with that idea yourself.

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[mGrunin]

Now that's a unique idea. If they push it well, they won't have any problems banking on it.

 

[turbolapp]

Wow. They gonna get loved tenderly.

 

[BeerNuts]

I wonder how they are combating automated captcha bots. Decaptcha 0.02 cents a captcha, adcopy 0.10 per...

 

[conv3rsion]

damn, thats a great idea.

 

[flipper]

Seth Godin thought of something similar to this 3 years ago:

Seth's Blog: Commercializing Captcha

 

[transistor]

awesome

 

[Jizzlobber]

Filesharing sites gonna be working late...

 

[evelynds]

I wonder how they are combating automated captcha bots. Decaptcha 0.02 cents a captcha, adcopy 0.10 per...

Captcha arbitrage here we go.

 

[dsiomtw]

How can they pay 0.10 per captcha? No company is going to pay more than 10 cents just for someone typing their name or slogan into a captcha box.

 

[satanus]

I wonder how they are combating automated captcha bots. Decaptcha 0.02 cents a captcha, adcopy 0.10 per...

As long as you can get the captcha as image and send it to decaptcher it could work.

The whole system seems good idea...but not sure if there's any real value for advertisers who pay for that.

 

[Insomniac]

How can they pay 0.10 per captcha? No company is going to pay more than 10 cents just for someone typing their name or slogan into a captcha box.

As long as the traffic is appropriate that would be HUGE for brand advertising. This about it, Coke pays shitloads just to get you to see their logo three times a day on tv, but if they could get you to literally type COKE it's got the same if not more power.

 

[volknet]

Looking for a date? Just enter this to make sure you're a human and then we'll take you to your FREE dating site. Lol $

BTW, I saw this idea on Stevepoland.com almost a year ago - this is the first company to actually do it well.

 

[Insomniac]

I'm seeing $0.04 right now. I'll update when I have a better idea of how much tension it's creating in the path.

 

[ly2 from WF]

I'm seeing $0.04 right now. I'll update when I have a better idea of how much tension it's creating in the path.

What does the admin area look like? Screen shot FTW.

 

[rogerrabbit]

in b4 google buys it

 

[negro2k]

i heard of people doing this for their own personal use on their high traffic wallpaper download websites many many years ago.

 

[dsiomtw]

I still don't see this working out. How many brand advertisers are going to pay over 10 cents every time someone types in their name or slogan? I can't see it being worth that much to a meaningful number of companies.

 

[Insomniac]

The admin area is so-so, nothing fancy, also no sign of how you get paid (as-in no address entered for sending the check), so I don't what's up with that.

On a good note, I'm running organic traffic to it right now, so there is no geo targeting or age/gender targeting, and I'm seeing $0.114 per solve right now. The failure rate is pretty high at the moment, so I might have to experiment a little with the form. I'm pretty sure the users are seeing what is called the aesthetic version and getting confused. I've moved it to a further point in the reg path though, so that might help. In the first test it affected conversion by 0.41% on organic.

Though I'm unsure, I doubt they are paying for international traffic, but since this is purely brand advertising I could be selective about what age group I throw at it.

 

[Insomniac]

Oh, I forgot to mention, their CSS is broken in IE, but we did some workarounds to fix it.