Sponsored FREE Shows
2:02PM on January 29, 2008

Who can be sponsored?

The requirement right now is that anyone with a live house and offering 2 group shows per week is eligible. Meaning you MUST be a producer. When you go to your control panel (or space page) you will see a new link to set up sponsorships. This takes you to a page that will first give you an overview. Basically, by agreeing and setting up your sponsorship section, you will earn 40% of whatever sponsors Rude can find for your house and shows. We are having to put a lot of extra work into looking and advertising for sponsors so that is why this is 40% rather than the usual 50%. However, if you bring on board your own sponsors you will earn the extra 10%.

So upon setting up your sponsor section and submitting it to Rude, it is then waiting in line to be turned to “active.” We will only activate an account if we think we already have a suitable sponsor or that we can find you one within a reasonable amount of time. Once your account is active, what happens is that a COPY of your live house and your 2 group shows are put up and viewable in the new “Sponsored” areas of the live page. It is very important that Rude does this, since then Rude will be starting to collect data and statistics on your account. This is then what is used to hopefully convince a sponsor they should back you and your content. Rude ESTIMATES that sponsorships will range from between $300-$1500 per month per sponsor, you can have up to a max of 10 sponsors (obviously this takes time to build up). The amount Rude is able to secure for you with sponsorships will purely depend on how successful your house and live shows are, as well as your space page.

Now in that transition period, where we are trying to build up your stats to make you more attractive to an advertiser, users can still enter your house and group shows the regular way buy purchasing tickets, however, they can also enter free via the sponsor areas. They will not be able to chat, but they can view the live streams. They will still need to purchase access if they want to chat. Remember this transition period is very important (kind of the chicken and egg thing), Rude needs stats to show the value to advertisers, and Rude need advertisers to show value to you. Stick with it and Rude WILL find you a sponsor or hopefully several.

Ok, so once Rude find you a sponsor, what happens next?

Well the sponsor packages are based on a rotation of your live house and 2 group shows per week. So in other words, you will never need to do any extra work in your live house, but for every sponsor Rude lands for you, you will need to do 2 group shows. So Five sponsors would mean 10 hours of live group shows per week, and you would be of course earning very good money for this. You do not have to accept multiple sponsors. If you only want one or two that is fine, just let us know.

So now you accept that sponsor, what next?

The sponsor gets to brand and skin the sponsor pages with his own design and links. Remember this is basically an advertiser that has decided you are the person that would be good to represent his company, so any help you can give to get people clicking on his ads will of course help you. It is highly possible that if a sponsor is happy they will purchase another rotation from you or someone else.

Rude has currently have around 10 companies waiting for this to roll out and are very interested. Should this go anywhere near our estimations, we believe this could work out extremely well for everyone involved. However, bear in mind this is a totally new and revolutionary form of advertising, innovating in every way. So with that comes the risk of people not understand or wanting to try out new unchartered territory. I believe the odds are on our side though that this will in fact take off in a big way. If it does, you will be happy seeing more revenue and more viewers and more exposure to all other areas, the members will be happy since sponsors are now covering the costs (perhaps this means a big jump in tips), the advertisers will be happy as they are seeing a value for money advertising campaign, and lastly we will be happy because of ALL of the above!

As you will see there is an option in the sponsor set up to allow extra payment and make the chat free to viewers also. Rude believes the chance for your house and group shows to really take off with multiple sponsors means that this option should be set allow this. Rude will not know for sure until we get into this deeper, but we assume those allowing free sponsored chat will get many more viewers than those that do not. This is totally your choice though, we understand that free chat means a lot of people in the chat and the possibility of things getting hectic. We do have an idea for this though (more later). So anyway, your choice on the chat, but keep in mind free chat, means many more viewers and this in turn means many more hits to your content and hence higher numbers that advertisers will see as more value with the end result being higher sponsorship amounts and more companies wanting to sponsor you.

Last point here is product placement, there is an option to accept this. This will mean you are allowing product placement on your content, this could be in the form of lube, sex toys, clothing, electronics really limitless to the stuff you could be sent to use in your shows. Your choice to accept this or not.
Now, the reason I have gone into so much depth here on a board post about this is because, Rude does not want anyone to create a sponsor account unless they are serious and fully intend to follow through. It takes a lot of work on Rude’s end to find companies, convince them to try it out and then after all this, you decide you changed your mind. It is a big waste of time for us and we really only want to get the serious people signing up for this. This also goes for anyone that does sign up, it is SOOO important that you follow through with the sponsorship requirements. We simply cannot have no shows to cam shows, or unreliable people. This would make a sponsor leave and NEVER want to try again, meaning it costs other producers because a happy sponsor will want to take on multiple rotations and other producers to sponsor.

This was a huge project to get built into the existing system Rude already has. We still have many other things to add in to make it bigger, better and easier for all involved, but this at least gets it rolling. Rude will be working directly with producers that land sponsors and walking them through everything, so don’t worry too much if some of this is not 100% clear about how to deliver the purchased sponsorships, Rude will work with you one on one at that time for each producer.

Again if you are a business and you want to sponsor a producer please let me know. There is over 2.5 million members on Rude and that is 2.5 million potential customers. There is an option for product placement and you will be able to customize!! This will make you money and get hits on your website. Rude is 500 on the Alexa and gets around 4000-6000 people that sign up every day. It is a fast growing company and now is the time to get involved!! Contact me here on Rude if you are interested in sponsoring someone.