Sohaib Thiab – The Story of an Internet Entrepreneur

I came across this great video from Google Adwords that shows you 3 ways to effectively control your Adwords campaign costs, this is a very beneficial video for all affiliate marketers and online marketers in general.

The 1st 2 ways are quite simple and if you used your Adwords account for quite some time, you probably know about them already, the 3rd way mentions the importance of your ad’s and landing page quality score in the ranking of your ads, in case you didnt know this, the position of your ad is not only based on your bids, bidding the highest amount doesnt always mean you get the highest position, an ad with a better quality score can get a higher position than another lower quality score ad even if its bidding much more CPC.

You can find out more about the quality score formulas Google uses and other information in the Adwords quality score FAQ page.

Go3 Media and Wizards Productions has merged together to come up with multi-lingual games that can be easily and quickly accessible for anyone from any part of the world. This merger has concentrated mainly to the Middle East market to get benefit out of the online games available and to enjoy playing games in the Arabic language.

Amman, Jordan – 31/03/10: Wizards Productions , a 2-year old MMO Gaming Company targeting the Middle East markets,  is proud to announce a Merger with the Canadian Go3, a 3-year old MMO producing company targeting the North American and European markets.  With this merger, Wizards Productions will combine Go3’s sales, games, technology and employees.

With Go3’s vast combined experience in the Browser Based Gaming market, this relationship will allow Wizards Productions to more effectively service their existing players.  The synergy of companies will provide the online gaming community a strong, stable gaming experience that will build upon the reputation and offerings of both companies.

Wizards Productions is committed to making sure their player’s involvement in the entire game genres of MMORPG, MMORTS and MMOFPS delivers value today and into the future.  Wizards Productions provides social online games for the Middle East market, as well as licensing, localization and white-labeling solutions.  The company provides games and gaming solutions that go above and beyond simple gaming hosting services.  As the largest game producing company in the Middle East, with over 9 titles in the market, Wizards Productions has a track record of success and expertise in understanding the gaming environment to provide the right game and gaming options.  In addition to hosting, localizing and white-labeling games, Wizards Productions is one of the few companies in the Middle East region that actually produces Arabic games from scratch.

“This merger enables us to service our gamers more effectively as well as penetrate the American and European social gaming markets.” said Afif Toukan, Chief Executive Officer, Wizards Productions.  “Today’s agreement enables us to build upon the years of experience the two companies have with social games production and management to make sure our players continue to enjoy the game play as we expand our business.”  Sohaib Thiab, Principal founder of Go3 Media agrees, “The merger of our two companies will bring extensive value to our customers.  The depth and breath of our combined experience is second to none.”

About Wizards Productions

Wizards Productions was founded in 2008 to address the gap in the Arabic Focused Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) gaming and social gaming in the Middle East. Wizards product portfolio include 9 online games that have attracted more than 300,000 registered users with more than 1,000 new users per day generating more than 40 million page views per month.

About Go3 Media

Go3 Media was established in 2007 in Ottawa to provide online social games to the North American and European markets.  Go3 has a portfolio of successful English games such as the hit title Mafia corruption, as well as numerous applications on the iPhone and over the Facebook network.

You can get more information about the merger from: http://wizardsproductions.com/press.php

It seems that Yahoo! is continuing its trimming policy and closing more of its services, Yahoo! announced closing the Yahoo Publisher Network as of April 30.
Below is the email they sent out to their publishers:
Dear Publisher,
Yahoo! continuously evaluates and prioritizes our products and services, in alignment with business goals and our continued commitment to deliver the best consumer and advertiser experiences. After conducting an extensive review of the Yahoo! Publisher Network beta program, we have decided to close the program effective April 30, 2010. We expect to deliver final publisher payments for the month ending April 30, 2010 to publishers no later than May 31, 2010. All publishers eligible for 1099s for the 2010 tax year will have those mailed by January 31, 2011.
Because our content will no longer be delivered to your ad unit spaces after April 30, 2010, we recommend removing all YPN ad code from your pages by that date.
For the opportunity to continue earning revenue, we suggest using Chitika, a leading advertising network that syndicates Yahoo! Content Match and Sponsored Search ads. Chitika has set up a special process for YPNO beta publishers to participate in its platform. Click here for more information.
We thank you for your participation in the Yahoo! Publisher Network beta. If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please contact our Support Team at (866) 785-2636, Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PDT. Sincerely,

Your Partners at Yahoo!
This is not the 1st service that Yahoo! closes, one of the most recent services they closed was GeoCities, and their Briefcase Online Storage Service.
Yahoo! is recommending their exciting publishers to move to Chitika which has already setup a welcome page.
This is clearly big news! allot of YPN publishers will have to remove their ad code by no later than April 30 and they have to find another alternative, I remember when YPN 1st opened and the rush to getting accepted and making big bucks with them…
Another questions comes to my mind is Yahoo’s recent acquisition of Maktoob.com, will this policy of closing secondary or non-important services be implemented over there as well?