Pixel Advertising News

There’s a new phenomenon on the Internet – one that you may not have heard of before. It’s called pixel advertising.

Pixel advertising is just what it sounds like. You purchase pixels, instead of text or banner links on a website. For most pixel sites, you are free to choose from 100 pixels all the way to a million.

The pixel sites work like this. The site has 10 pixel by 10 pixel squares across the page. These squares make up a nice little grid. Each square, then, is for sale. You can combine these squares to make a bigger impression.

To purchase a square, you’ll need to know the size you want to purchase, and you should have a graphic pre-made for your selection. If you want a default square, you’d make a 10 pixel by 10 pixel graphic. Granted, not much is going to fit into that little square, but if you get prime placement, you may be able to get away with it.

The amount of pixel advertising websites is also becoming more widespread, which is driving down prices. While the very first sites were charging a dollar a pixel, it is not unusual to see pricing as low as ten cents a pixel (or ten dollars per square) now.

These sites also do some good for their advertisers. If they are popular enough, the links provided will drive more traffic to their websites. If they are paying a fairly low price for their box, they are probably getting a good amount of traffic. This traffic, hopefully, leads to higher revenue for the advertisers.

While pixel advertising is definitely not here to stay, we should all enjoy the ride. These sites make it easy and affordable for advertisers to get one-way backlinks that they need, and they drive more traffic to their site for a minimal cost.

What is a pixel? Well, first, a pixel is short for pixel element. It is a single point in a graphic image. Pictures are displayed on graphics monitors by dividing the display screen into thousands (or even millions) of pixels that are arranged in columns and rows. Being they are so close together, the pixels appear to be connected.

Now, the number of bits used to represent every pixel will determine how many colours or shades of grey can be seen or displayed. On a colour monitor, a pixel is actually made up of three little dots-one red, one blue, and one green. The three dots should all converge at the same point, but monitors are not perfect and some will have a convergence error that will make pixels look fuzzy.

Of course, a display system of good quality depends a lot on its resolution or how many pixels it can display and at the same time, how many bits will be used to represent each of those pixels. These displays can range from 300,000 pixels to 480,000 pixels. It is possible to find systems that can display more than 16 million different colours!

So, the concept is really very simple. The main pixel ad page will consist of a 1000×1000 pixel grid or one million pixels. You are able to buy one or more of 10×10 pixels blocks, and then create a tiny image, which will be displayed on one or more of these blocks. You will also choose a URL you want them to link to.

Pixel blocks are used to advertise websites, affiliate programs, blogs, friends, or anything you want on an ad by pixel site.

These pixel sites are fun, too. Since these ads by pixel sites are so cool, people will stay on them for hours on end checking them out and thereby creating a vast amount of traffic for the advertiser!

So, where does it go from here? Actually, there are thousands of possibilities out there that could capture the attention of both the media and the public. And as always, there will be something or someone to kick things off and start the rest of the world thinking differently. If you haven’t already, perhaps you should check out Tiredmouse pixel advertising. You might be glad you did!