Want some extra pocket money? How about $5,000? Not bad, I think! Now you can easily earn $5,000 just by creating a short video. How? Infolinks, the in-text advertising company, is holding a Video contest with a $5,000 grand prize. All you need to do is create a short video expressing your crazy, creative and funny ideas for making money online. Moreover, besides the grand prize, there are two other cash prizes. So, chances are more!

So, this opportunity is really great. Put your ideas into a short video and you could take away $5000. Want a sample video? Take a look at the official video. It is funny, but to win the contest you need to be more creative.

Video Requirements

1. Create a movie clip (live or animation) up to 2 minutes in length, showing your creative and  funny ways of making money online.
2. Finish the movie with the attached slide: “Infolinks Challenge – Final Slide”.
3. Upload your video to YouTube at www.youtube.com.
4. To join, send an email to blog@infolinks.com during the Contest Period. Don’t forget to include your complete name, address (including zip code), telephone number, primary e-mail address and the URL of your video application posted at www.youtube.com.

Judging Criteria

All video applications will be judged based on:

1. Creativity
2. Originality
3. Entertainment Value
4. Performance Level
5. Humor

Prizes

There are total three prizes:

1. Grand prize: $5,000
2. First prize: $1,000
3. Second prize: $500

The Infolinks Video Contest starts on June 22, 2009 and ends on July 31, 2009. So, you have nearly one month in your hands. Start brainstorming today and come up with a unique idea. During the contest period selected videos will be posted on the Infolinks blog for all to view. So, stay tuned to their blog and all the best!

More Info: Infolinks.com

Earlier this week, Google announced the beta program of AdSense for Mobile Applications, which will allow mobile application developers to earn money from their application. It means, the next target of Google AdSense is the mobile applications market, which is growing day by day. So, mobile app developers get ready to earn some more money!

After a successful trial with a small group of partners, Google is now opening up the AdSense for Mobile Applications service to all developers of Android and iPhone applications. The timing is right! Smart phone users now spend more time on small mobile apps to do various tasks. Google AdSense for Mobile Applications will allow app developers to earn revenue by displaying text and image ads in their Android and iPhone applications. All they need to do is sign up for the beta program and implement AdSense directly in their applications.

Susan Wojcicki, Google Vice President of Product Management, wrote in a blog post:

“We’re excited to open up this beta to more developers, and look forward to offering new features for our mobile advertisers and publishers in upcoming releases.”

The implementation is easy and ads will be displayed automatically. As a mobile application developer, you can determine the appearance and positioning of ads in your app, and even you can filter out ads you don’t want to appear. The ads can be targeted by keyword, demographics, and location. For more information and to sign up for the beta program, visit http://www.google.com/ads/mobileapps/

Looking for some cool news ways to make money online? Let me tell you about an unique opportunity that will enable you to earn money from the documents you upload to the web. Called as DocCash, this program will pay you for uploading documents to Docstoc, an online document sharing service. Well, DocCash is not gonna pay you simply for uploading a document. Rather it will pay you 50% of the Google AdSense revenue generated by all your documents.

So, to get started, all you need is a Google AdSense account and a DocStoc account. If you already have a Google AdSense account, just give them your basic account information. And if you don’t have an AdSense account, sign up for one. It is free and will take 2-3 days for approval. DocStoc accepts any documents in Word, Excel or PDF format. But you may not upload copyrighted content for which you do not own the rights or have permission from the owner to share.

As your income depends on the ad revenue generated by your documents, the simplest way to make more money through DocCash is to upload as much documents as possible and share theme via other sites. Upload popular, interesting and useful documents and then add good titles, tags and descriptions to them. This will help you in bringing more visitors to your documents.

You can track your pageviews and income right from your Google AdSense control panel. Note that DocCash split the revenue 50/50 on all of the advertisements that show up on single document pages. For better tracking, set up a channel for DocStoc inside your Google AdSense control panel. Payments will be made by Google as per your AdSense account preferences. Watch the following video to learn how you can make money online by uploading documents to the web.

More information about DocCash: http://www.docstoc.com/doccash/

Looking for a new URL shortener that converts your long and ugly URLs into decent looking URLs? What about adf.ly? Adf.ly is a new URL shortening service that not only reduces the length of your URLs but also gives you an opportunity to earn money from those shortened links that you share online! Interesting, isn’t it?

Adf.ly service is very easy to use. In order to shorten your URL you don’t have to register for an account. Just enter the URL hit the ‘Shrink!’ button. You will get something like this: http://adf.ly/B9. But if you want to make money online by monetizing your shortened URLs, you need to open an account. Don’t worry it is free!

How adf.ly will help you in monetization of your short URLs? Like other URL shortening services, it generates short URLs which users can post anywhere on the web. But the catch is whenever someone clicks on a adf.ly link an ad will be shown before the actual link loads. A portion of the money earned from those advertisements will be shared with the publishers.

According to their website, link publishers can expect to earn anywhere between $0.50 to $5.00 per 1000 visitors. So, your earning will depend on how many people click on your links. They also have a referral program which will pay you a portion of your referral’s earnings for life! You can withdraw your earnings anytime via PayPal when you have earned $25 or more.

Adf.ly is currently accepting advertisers for as little as $0.001 per unique and targeted visitor. If you want to advertise your websites or landing pages, this is a good opportunity. Because your actual website or landing page will be shown to the visitor before the actual link appears. They claim to deliver targeted visitors via keywords and country. As an advertiser, you can start with a minimum deposit of $20.00.

So, what you think about this new service? Do you think that it is a cool way to make money online? Or you will simply avoid it because of the full page advertisement that appears before the actual link. Visit adf.ly to know more and feel free to share your own view.

Many people find it very difficult to find a good online casino, even though they are eligible and willing to play. Recently one of my friends told me that a Trusted online casino is not so hard to find if you know the right connections! Yes, he is a player and he told me about a site that contains valuable information about online casinos. (Note: the subject of this post may not be comfortable for all. So, I advise you to escape it if you feel uncomfortable.)

No, I am not interested to play. But I wanted to know more about the game and the business. So, I checked the site - www.fivestargamble.com, an online guide for those who wants to play in the best online casinos. Their site contains information about different casinos and they lists top online casinos based on a number of factors. There are also casino reviews, casino software reviews and other information related to the industry.

First timers can read their Trusted online casino reviews and learn more about different casinos. Their top 30 Casinos section is the special section that contains information about best of the best online casinos. Those casinos are reviewed and ranked based on a number of factors such as casino software, bonuses, credit card and banking options, 24×7 support etc.

For players from the US, they have a special section where one can find information about casinos accepting US players. After the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act, 2006, many companies stopped accepting US players. So, now there are only a few casinos that are suitable for US players. One can learn more about those casinos on that special section.

The online casinos featured on Five Star Gamble accepts a number of banking options such as Neteller, PrePaidATM, Credit Cards, etc. And the good thing is that many of them accepts credit cards including American Express credit cards. In fact there is a special section for online casinos accepting AMEX credit cards.

Five Star Gamble is online since 2003. With it’s valuable resources on online gambling industry, it is now one of the best online casino guides. In order to find a Trusted online casino interested players must give them a visit.

I always say that affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online. If you are an affiliate marketer and want to make some real money then you must try Motive Interactive, one of the most popular performance-based advertising network. For more information you can refer my earlier post on Motive Interactive.

The Motive Network is perfect for those who wants to deal with the best offers with best payouts in the industry. As a publisher or affiliate you will get tools and resources to promote pre-screened, reliable and top performing offers. They have highly advanced tracking and reporting system which will enable you to easily track and manage all your campaigns.

As a publisher of Motive Network you will get access to a wide range of exclusive offers. Let’s take a look at some of their most recent offers:

Victoria Secret Gift Card
PAYOUT $ 1.50

Pays on email submit. Price changes and pausing can take effect within 24 hours due to quality and may occur often. Pays on unique US email addresses per domain within the last 30 days.
FreeCollegeScholarships.net
PAYOUT $ 4.50

Easy sign-up allows users to enter into a scholarship sweepstakes. First page submit. No incentivization. For search, school names are restricted. Trademarked name or school name can not be used to link out to Free College Scholarships. No trademark, college, brand names etc.
Acai Edge
PAYOUT $ 30.00

New Acai Campaign with very high conversion rates. Pays on a credit card submit. No Incentivization.
Model Casting Call
PAYOUT $ 7.50

EliteMate.com is now casting models, actors and actresses for our upcoming media campaigns world wide. Offer EliteMate.com as a totally free fully privileged member, fill out a profile and submit 3 pictures and video of yourself to qualify for the casting call. Conversion takes on uses signing up for new membership free trial. Pixel fires on the first page on valid non duplicate full name, email, post and phone. No incentivization.
Kazulah
PAYOUT $ 2.40

Kazulah is a free download of an exciting horoscope, Tarot card, Love & Relationship, Numerology, Chinese Astrology and Careers & Money guide. Check out the magic fate ball and free gift for signing up. Publisher is paid on valid new free download. No incentivization.
Sell To Us -  One page submit
PAYOUT $ 6.75

Trying to sell your house? We buy Houses!! Pays on a first page submit. No Incentivized traffic.
ID Watchdog
PAYOUT $ 32.00

ID watchdog does so much more then just protect your identity by encompassing ID verification, baseline report, monthly monitoring, ID SnapShot is a comprehensive report that includes police records, driving records, medical history, loan information, and more. Then we can look for “fingerprints,” or data generated by an impostor. Lastly Id rehab, we’ll file necessary paperwork, and follow up to see that your good name is restored.
Publisher is paid on new order with a valid credit card.

So, those were some of the new offers on Motive Network. Join Motive Interactive today and check all of their available offers. There are so many of them that you will easily find some offers that suits both your niche and your requirements. Rest assured that you will get highest payouts in the industry for those offers.

Bigger is not always better! When it comes to performance of different online ad dimensions, 300 x 250 medium rectangles provide better exposure than bigger ad units such as 728 x 90 leaderboard and 160 x 600 skyscraper ads, because users spend more time viewing medium rectangle ads, findings of a Lotame study suggests. What does it mean to you? Let’s discuss some related points here.

Lotame is a platform for brands that enables targeted advertising to customizable audiences through social data. Based on 148.3 million ads served in 2009, Lotame conducted a study to measure if there are any differences in the average time spent on each of the IAB standard ad sizes. It found that internet users spent an average of 13 seconds viewing each 300 x 250 medium rectangle, 5.4 seconds viewing each 728 x 90 leaderboard, and 1.9 seconds viewing each 160 x 600 skyscraper ad.

Adsense Medium Rectangle

It means internet users tends to ignore the ads that looks bigger? I think yes. Notice the difference between 13 seconds and 1.9 seconds. In my view, this is a big difference and it may have great impact on the success of an ad campaign. Well, the Lotame study didn’t looked at click-through rates and there is no way to tell how time spent on viewing ads is related with click-through rates.

What we can learn from this? From the point of view of an advertiser, more time spent on viewing an ad means more exposure and increases chances of a successful advertising campaign. Yes, there are many things such as geo-targeting, that you may need to consider while posting an ad. But can you expect better conversion from ads that not even make an impression at all? Think about it. Size does really matters in online advertising.

From publisher’s point of view, I always believe that medium rectangles offers better click-through rates and thus may help in increasing ad revenue. Now the Lotame study shows that users too love those ads. At least they look at them! Does it mean that you will get more clicks? Well, there is no evidence that more time spent on viewing an ad means more clicks. Still, you can expect some when compared to ads that users hardly look at! What you say?

But, the advertising rates depends on your website, ad position, content and other factors. So, your ad revenue will also depend on those factors. Then, how to maximize your income from ads delivered by ad networks such as Google AdSense? No matter what kind or what size of ad you use on your website, better placement of ads is most important for maximizing your ad revenue. Try to experiment with different ad sizes on different positions on your website. Monitor their performance and choose the one which performs best on your site.