Hup gets TechCrunched

Posted By Hup | November 20, 2008

Last Friday I decided to send over an email to TechCrunch regarding some problems that I was having with MySpace’s new self-serve ad platform that’s cleverly called ‘MyAds’. After trying to get some of my ads for HubPages approved and after half of them were quickly rejected due to them classifying us as a direct competitor, I decided to pretty much give up on it. But, I didn’t just stop there, I also decided to write up my issues and see if TechCrunch thought that it was worth posting up on their uber-blog, which is the top-ranked tech news blog in the world. Basically, it’s the New York Times of the tech world.

After I sent the email over I was surprised to get a quick reply back from Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch(and one of the 2008 Time 100), saying that he was taking a look at it. Well, no more than an hour or so later he had practically posted the entire email that I sent him and titled the post HubPages Blocked From MySpace MyAds As Too Competitive. Needless to say I was super-excited as I was getting messages from all over the place from friends who had already seen the post and from my team at HubPages, who thought that it was pretty damn amazing that we got a shout-out on TechCrunch.

Even though it was incredible to get a write-up on TechCrunch, the really cool stuff came as a result of the literally hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people who read it. I will get into more details later, but this last week after being featured on this one, powerful blog has really shown me once again the power of the web(not to mention the power and reach of TechCrunch itself). I need to crash out for the night, but I promise to give you all an update on all of the amazing things that I’ve been doing over this past week. Sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite.

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    1. JDevL on November 20th, 2008 10:48 am

      This is why we love the interwebs. That’s really awesome that Arrington decided to do that write-up. I’d be interested to see what HubPages traffic has looked like since.

    2. Hup on November 20th, 2008 4:21 pm

      Well, considering that we already do about 25 million pageviews a month, it probably didn’t even make a dent. It’s more the fact that we were given a mention and that we’re probably a little more recognized now thanks to the post than the actual traffic boost that we might have received.

      However, like I said, it has also caused a string of amazing events since it was posted - including a trip down to LA to meet with the president of Fox Interactive Media and MySpace….and this is just the beginning.

      Stay tuned.

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