Every breath you take: Police coming back for tour

Just in case you missed the massive publicity onslaught recently, the band "The Police" is making a comeback. Frankly, I'm really not all that big of a fan since most of what they did was before or shortly after I was born. Before my time as it were.

They released a new CD on the 5th of June 2007 and it's got a pretty cool looking "vintage" The Police poster packaged with it. From what it looks like, it's a compilation of their greatest hits. Which makes me wonder. Did they really need to go back on tour for it? I suppose that it makes some sense as they do have some rather rabid fans in some parts of the world. Gives those fans a pretty good reason to get out to a concert and enjoy themselves.

The Police certainly do have some good music. Like I said, a little before my time, but still good none the less.

Here's the new commercial for the CD and tour that they are running on the TV in the UK.

Not bad. Makes a guy want to rush down to the nearest CD store and buy a copy. Of course, that would be if I had a local CD store. Around here, it's Amazon or bust.

Of course, the funny bit is that the record company or PR company or whomever is running this publicity blitz for The Police has fully embraced the blogosphere. Otherwise, I wouldn't be getting paid to write this article and post that commercial. The funny thing is, even though they seem to be up with the times, they sure don't seem willing to share and share alike. Where's the free tracks for download? Where's the free CD for download. They could do twice as many concerts to make up for the lost sales and still come out ahead.

Enough of that rambling though. Go out and check out The Police CD and maybe catch a concert or two. It very well may be the last opportunity you get to seem them live. Of course, they could end up like the Rolling Stones and tour for another 20 or so years.


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PayPerPost gets Funding

The PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates, Sponsored
Blogging Marketplace Secures $7 Million Series B

Draper Fisher Jurvetson leads round and joins Board of Directors

ORLANDO, FL – (June 12, 2007) – PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company's Series A and one of the world’s leading high-technology venture capital firms. The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry’s leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include existing investors Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost’s Board of Directors.

“PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader,” said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. “Although we’ve only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost’s model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before.”

Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost’s innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system.

“PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future,” noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture’s sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost’s business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena.”

To mark the $7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company’s service offering at http://www.payperpost.com. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace.

Wow. $7 Million. That's a ton of money. What would you do if you were PPP right now? Well, for starters, you'd spread a little of the money around to the PPP users right? Well, PPP is. This is one of the opps that they are doing. There will be a few that are a little bit more than this one paid, all the way up to $700. If that's not an incentive to join up and start using PPP, I don't know what is. I really don't.

I think that the extra funding finally gives PPP a little bit of credibility that they didn't have before. It really is a kind of neat way for bloggers to make a little money on the side. Unless you've got a high PR blog with lots of traffic, you aren't going to make a career out of it, but you might end up alright with a little extra. And it's also a great way to reach out to the community at large by becoming an advertiser to advertise on blogs.

So, if I were PPP, I'd spread the money around a little like they have. I'd also start hiring some full time staff to help out with the approvals and denials and such. I'd also buy myself some better servers since their servers are slow, slow, slow. If you use PPP, you will have noticed that already, but if you don't, beware. They are slow. Not tear your hair out slow. But slow enough. Next, I'd do a little mainstream advertising on places like technorati. There is enough buzz going around, but a little extra couldn't hurt. Especially a little positive buzz. Maybe some Mike Arrington sucks type of blog posts... mayb not, but it would be fun.

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