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Apakah Friendster memperoleh keuntungan dari pasar ponsel Filipina?

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Om memperhatikan bahwa Friendster baru-baru ini mulai mendapatkan momentum. Saya memeriksa statistik AdBrite milik Friendster, yang menunjukkan rata-rata 11 juta halaman dilihat per hari dari 510.000 pengunjung unik, dengan sebagian besar lalu lintas masih berasal dari AS, diikuti oleh Filipina dan Malaysia. Ia berpendapat bahwa pertumbuhan/popularitas ini belum dapat dimonetisasi dan bertanya "Apa jadinya jika Friendster bekerja sama dengan perusahaan seluler lokal di Filipina dan meluncurkan MVNO milik Friendster?"

Operator Jaringan Virtual Seluler (MVNO) adalah operator seluler yang tidak memiliki spektrum sendiri dan biasanya tidak memiliki infrastruktur jaringan sendiri. Sebagai gantinya, MVNO memiliki pengaturan bisnis dengan operator seluler tradisional untuk membeli menit penggunaan (MOU) guna dijual kepada pelanggan mereka sendiri.

Sepanjang yang saya ingat, ada Friendster Mobile yang telah tersedia sekitar satu tahun lalu melalui Globe Telecoms dan Smart Communications. Pengguna dikenakan biaya Rp 2,00 hingga Rp 5,00 per pesan (~$USD0,04 - $0,10). Pembagian pendapatan antara operator seluler dan Friendster masih berada di kisaran 60% dan 40%, masing-masing.

Tapi apakah ini berfungsi (baca: menghasilkan uang)? Saya tidak berpikir demikian. Bahkan dengan tarif tersebut, menggunakan Friendster Mobile cukup mahal dibandingkan sekadar pergi ke warnet dan menghabiskan Rp25,00 per jam untuk berselancar. Selain itu, saya kira pengguna Friendster ini lebih memilih menggunakan kredit pulsa mereka untuk langsung mengirim pesan teks kepada teman-teman Friendster mereka.

Sementara itu, Friendster Classifieds masih mencari model bisnis yang baik.
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Miguel · 20 years ago

This is also a test if web-based services can push mobile content. Historically, mobile content has been marketed through broadcast (“spam”). That has had a crackdown lately and I hear it hurt the revenues of the leading mobile content providers.

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Lex Bush · 20 years ago

Philippines is the number 1 text country in the world, they love texting, for sure any media can benefit from it too.

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Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 20 years ago

I think that’s Friendster Mobs with a business model akin to Chikka for the web.

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luis · 20 years ago

Friendster Mobile is really just an ancillary service and is never going to be a major revenue stream for Friendster (or the host cellco). The only thing that ever really works for sites like Friendster is advertising, and when they hit the big time 2 years ago, they should’ve immediately put all their energies into building their own ad system to augment (or possibly replace) the Adsense and Adbrite stuff. The great thing about social-networks is that you immediately have tons of information on what your users are interested in, and can therefore connect on a much deeper level than any third-party contextual advertising could ever do. (Contextual ads can only see a specific page, whereas you — and i mean Friendster here — could see the totality of a user’s activity throughout the site and serve ads accordingly.)

Pusit.com is in the process of building an ad platform like this right now, but i don’t think it’s something that will be rolled out internationally. the obstacle to selling online advertising in the philippines is that conversion-rates are severely limited by the fact that we rarely make purchases online, so marketers are hard-pressed to use the system for anything other than page impressions.

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Miguel · 20 years ago

I don’t think the local cellcos are set up to host MVNO’s. The only thing close I can think of is the ABS-CBN “Kapamilya” SIM from Globe.

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