Actually,
In the last 3 weeks alone we have just finished translating around 20 paysites into a variety of the Asian languages including Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and Sri-Lankan with more work being done as i type.
The sponsors are realizing to grow their profits they do indeed need to be looking out of the USA for money and, with the rapidly expanding European / Asia Pacific markets this makes good business sense.
I think a LOT of the sponsors will start to take heed of this impending global boom as their sites become more and more saturated tot he English speaking surfer.
Again, on the same subject, Geo-Targeting is a huge buzz word of late and, again this is something that as a company GA Media is actively participating in, in fact, we will shortly have a new site online which will enable not only webmasters but sponsors to be be more 'specific' on who see's their advertising materials.
Take our foreign markting site
http://www.europeanwebmasters.com the site has been online little over 18 months now and, its only really in the last 6 that the traffic has started to grow more and more due tot he fact that a lot of what where once conceived as third-world countrys are becoming more and more adult orientated in fact a lot of sponsors,
http://www.4bigcash.com ,
http://www.xxxmoney.com , to name a couple are based OUTSIDE of the US.
The one main problem that will however be encountered is billing, many people still look towards dialers as a revenue stream for 'foreign' surfers and, quite frankly, that is such a waste of a surfer, people in Europe DO hold credit cards afterall, you dont htink they head into their local store every week and pay with a dilaer do you?
Regards,
Lee
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