BrainPixels - Frequently Asked Questions

The easiest answer is that I was asked for that. BrainKing game site is in high demand from advertising partners but not everyone can afford to accept our main price list. And since at least 90% of regular BrainKing visitors come to BrainKing.info as well, I have decided to take advantage of high traffic of this site as well.
Another good reason is that I like to experiment with different technologies and explore any possible outcomes. A pixel advertising system is based on a very good idea and since its implementation did not require any expenses or investments, it cannot be unprofitable. In the worst possible scenario, it would make no income at all - but an income from selling pixels would be always a side effect, not the main purpose. Although I don't say that it would not be nice to get additional funds to finance new projects I want to start. :-)

Because I am the owner and creator of BrainKing game site and this product is a part of our advertising options portfolio. And I like the word brain. :-) Actually, I think it is not a bad idea to give it a name which can be used as a reference, if someone decides to write an article about us in the future. "BrainPixels" is easier to remember instead of "another pixel advertising product with a few original features".

First of all, I did some little research to check the current status of this issue and find out what a typical pixel advertising site is about. The result was not too optimistic - those sites simply copied the original Alex Tew's idea and the only attempts to make them a little different and attract advertisers were related to lower prices per pixel (some of them even offered pixels for free, but also put Google AdSense ads next to the advertising area, which was a direct contradiction to the pixel advertising purpose - why should people click on pixels when they were provoked to click Google ads instead?) or even bigger areas to fill (2 million pixels page, etc.). The general idea was still the same - to make a standalone site, created only for one purpose.
This is what I am trying to change. People must be already disgusted with dozens of plain pixel advertising sites which follow the same pattern over and over and add no real value to the customer. My goal is to brighten up this field of web marketing and show that it is possible to create an original and interesting product, if the most important subject to address is the customer, not the money.

Because no other system would give you more for your money. The main advantages of BrainPixels are:

• It is available to everyone - the prices start at 50 Euro for 2 years or 75 Euro for 5 years. It is only 2.08 Euro a month or 0.625 Euro a month. Let me use the "Brain King" image example from the main BrainPixels page: Given the image size of 80 x 30 pixels, it is equivalent to 8 x 3 = 24 cells. Considering the 5 years pricing plan, this advertisement costs only 15 Euro a month - that is a real bargain.
• You get not only the purchased amount of pixels to place your image to, but also a big 600 x 400 advertising space to fill with your presentation of any kind - HTML code, images, Flash banners, sign up forms, videos etc.
• Your advertisements will be displayed on more than 500 different pages and this number is growing every day. You pay just once, but get better and better exposure with no further effort.
• This is just an excerpt of the full feature list - please read all details here.

It is clear and understandable that everybody, who pays for 2 or 5 years of advertising, wants to be sure that his advertisement would be available during the whole subscribed period - in other words, that he would not spend the money for nothing. BrainPixels system can guarantee this fact in several ways:

• Unlike typical pixel advertising sites which come up out of nothing and, in many cases, do not provide any reliable information of the site background (ownership, contact information, etc.), BrainKing.info site is a direct sub-project of BrainKing game site, which was started in October 2002 and became a stable and mature web project with a good reputation. Furthermore, it offers a possibility of a lifetime membership, and more than 80 members actually paid for that - and when someone commits for a lifetime, BrainKing sites must be here and alive for a lifetime as well.
• Every advertiser who purchases any number of BrainPixels has a right to get a written and signed contract which exactly specifies what pixels he purchased and for what time period. It is a legal contract between the service provider (me, as a registered company with a valid VAT number) and the customer - never an anonymous agreement.

I live in Europe and my country is a part of the European Union - that is why. The advantage of making the prices in Euro is that I don't have to deal with continuous changes of USD/EUR exchange rate, so I can keep the pixel price constant. It saves a lot of time, which can be used to develop new and better features of BrainPixels.