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Originally Posted by will76
I believe they only pay .40 on us traffic then it drops off to next to nothing for canada and europe and they pay nothing at all for all the other countries. so I would bet that 90%+ of the computers with their crap on it are in the US. I wonder what percentage of the US population is online, that has to make a pretty big dent into our traffic.
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Zango isn't too forward about where those surfers are from. While the paid joins are best from places like the US, obivously sending a huge number of people from a country that can't read the english instructions might get you many installs (but have little real value except in upping your apparent popup rates).
I would bet based on the numbers they are talking about that well more than 20% of the US popular has or had zango / 180 / seekmo on their computer.
Interestingly, this sort of shows a probably decline for Zango over the long run. They can only chrun so much before they are going to run out of new cusotmers to infect (sorry, umm, "get to happily agree to install the helpful and useful Zango product").
Also have to consider that the coming of Vista will almost certainly put at least a short term damper on things as people dump their existing systems and re-install cleanly with all the crap gone, or just buy a new computer and scrap the old one.
I think that Zango may have already peaked out and be falling down the other side to the hole that swallowed Gator:
http://www.claria.com/gainexit/
http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...403_201560.htm