Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Exeedos, movement of Jah people

Has the great corporate exodus out of Second Life begun?

DeliFaks reports that between May and June, the population of active avatars declined 2.5%, and the volume of U.S. money exchanged within the world fell from a high of $7.3 million in March to $6.8 million in June. It also seems that there are only about 40,000 people roaming around in there at any one time.

Techcrunch's Duncan Riley has done some basic commercial arithmetic: The visitor rate to corporate-constructed locations in SL (0.8-2%) might represent an improvement on the standard online advertisement rate of 0.5-1%, but the CPM varies from around $21 to $180 which makes SL marketing a comparatively risky strategy.

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