Friendster Ads for Php20

Posted Friday, January 6th, 2006 7:22 pm by Abe Olandres
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They call it the earth’s first pre-paid online advertising platform. You can now advertise at Friendster Philippines for as low as Php 20. The ads seems to be a one-liner text ad from the screenshots that I’ve seen. (FADs are shown on all pages of Friendster Classifieds which started with pusit.com, a Friendster Classifieds Filipino community.)

FADs is currently an invite-only service so one needs to get an invitation from one of their active advertisers. I’m a little curious on how this works so if any of you is an active subscriber, please throw me an invite so we can test this a little further. (You may want to share some feedback too.)

Payment for FADs can be sent thru Smart Money, Globe G-Cash and bank deposits to any Banco de Oro branch.

They have a blog here but it hasn’t been updated since 3 months ago. It’s also being plagued with lots of confused comments (I think this is a bug or something) and hundreds of spam trackbacks.

More on this if and when I get my invite. :D


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14 Responses to “Friendster Ads for Php20”


  1. » 5 Million Filipino Friendster users? @ Ambot ah! [ technology news and reviews ] » January 6th, 2006 20:02
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    [...] I was doing a quick post over at Pinoy.Tech.Blog about “Friendster Ads for Php20” when I stumble upon their stats that claim there are 5 Million Filipino Friendster users. [...]

  2. wrencelot » January 7th, 2006 00:29
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    on a relevant matter about friendster, if you click their Trust E logo where they claim that they dont send spams and sell email addresses, it’ll take you directly to the Trust E site saying that “www.friendster.com IS NOT A VALID TRUSTe MEMBER WEB SITE”, url here “https://www.truste.org/ivalidate.php?url=www.friendster.com”

  3. J. Angelo Racoma » January 7th, 2006 01:02
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    Many unscrupulous sites just slap on a TRUSTe image with a link to the TRUSTe site. Most people take this for granted and don’t bother to check the validity.

    BTW, as of this comment posting, there seems to be no TRUSTe logo/link at friendster.com. Looks like they took it out already. Did their certification expire or something? Maybe they’re not trustworthy after all (see my post on the MySpace business model).

  4. J. Angelo Racoma » January 7th, 2006 04:38
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    Oh, and don’t forget to check out the Atrocities of Friendster series. ;)

  5. wrencelot » January 7th, 2006 08:00
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    there is a link (on friendster), clikc on the “edit your profile link”, a little on the left, and there you are, the trust e logo..

    poor bastards, ddnt know what hit them..

  6. vemsan » January 8th, 2006 12:50
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    Search mo nalang sa friendster yung founder ng Pusit (Terence Pua) … =)

  7. pusit » February 5th, 2006 01:22
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    Fads screenshot

    Just to give the Pinoy community a sneak peek of the upcoming fads…here’s a screenshot:

    We have partnered with a bunch of payment providers including LoadCentral and GetLoaded.  We are looking to launch a public beta version this month.

  8. Beta Testing Frienster Ads » @ Ambot ah! [ technology news and reviews ] » June 13th, 2006 22:05
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    [...] Just got an email invitation from Friendster Ads (FADS) with a free credit of Php50 which is equivalent to 625 ad impressions. Though I don’t remember signing up for a beta tester, I do remember visiting the site before when I blogged about FADs at PTB last January. [...]

  9. Road Testing Friendster Ads -- Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines’ Premier Technology Blog » June 17th, 2006 04:57
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    [...] We were fortunate enough to be able to beta-test the new FAds program (Friendster Ads) andget some free credits to road test the system. Friendster Ads allow you to advertise your products and services to the entire Friendster population on a CPM pricing scheme. (We reported about it here last January.) [...]

  10. Friendster Ads Declassified -- Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines’ Premier Technology Blog » July 1st, 2006 01:33
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    [...] After we did a trial run on Friendster Ads (FAds), I thought it would be good to follow-up with some stats results on our ad-ventures. Remember that FAds’ model is CPM so you pay for the number of eyeballs or ad impresisons on their community site as opposed to CPC like AdSense or YPN. [...]

  11. Speculate » Friendster raises $10 million from VCs » August 22nd, 2006 02:17
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    [...] 3. Even if they can monetize the Asian eyeballs, will they survive ? “You can now advertise at Friendster Philippines for as low as Php 20″ – isnt that an indicative number? Hows it doing today? Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

  12. The Story of Friendster Philippines -- Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines’ Premier Technology Blog » November 17th, 2006 15:05
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    [...] Unfortunately, the number of local users – 5 million? – has not translated into financial success for them. One early move was to go mobile with a SMS version in partnership with local mobile operators and the Entertainment Gateway Group, a content provider In early 2005, Friendster made the deal with pusit.com to put up Friendster Classifieds based on the Pusit platform. They then announced an ad product, but didn’t have a test product for months. It didn’t perform very well and was apparently pulled out. [...]

  13. martins » September 5th, 2008 13:24
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  14. Crazyhorse » August 4th, 2009 23:23
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    You could send me further details about the ad posting?


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