Monetize Lab

Review: Yuwie - Will you earn easy money?

March 12, 2008 – 11:28 pm

Yuwie is a social network which really isn’t that different from every other social network out there, except that it actually pays its members for networking. Every action a member takes, and the actions resulting there from are compensated. This means everything from updating your profile, posting a video, picture or a new blog post, and getting profile views earns members money. Yuwie decides on the 15th of every month how much it will dole out to its members. They advertise that they pay a average of $0.50 CPM on your profile but the true is that you only get 10% of that because the rest will go direct to your referral network. While users aren’t exactly hitting the mother-load, the very prospect of earning cash merely for networking has already attracted a fair number of users and they are really avid fore money there. It looks like that 95% of the members are just “networking” because they think Yuwie is a easy way to make money.

I’ve tested Yuwie during 3 months and I tried really hard, I spent hours and hours surfing the site on the first month, I got 545 people to add me as friend and here is my results:
Total earned: $2.27

I will repeat one more time so you can understand me clearly: I worked really hard adding friends, posting comments, blogging and using every single resource available on the website. The only thing I got was pocket change.

Ok, I could have been doing something wrong and I said to myself: someone must be making some good money out of it. Something got to justify all the buzz around Yuwie. So, I decided to go after a guy on Yuwie called Oldbuddy. He is the most successful Yuwie user with the biggest network on Yuwie (as you can see on the image bellow) and I could almost bet that this guy was making real money with all those referrals.

Now, I want you to guess. How much this guy is making??

Honestly, I already feel bad for him. All this work to get 30,161 referrals into the system and get paid $370.41 for 5 months of hard work?? Peanuts, peanuts, peanuts… Come on!! Can someone explain me why he keep doing the Yuwie thing??

If you think it can’t get worse you are totally wrong. The process of getting paid takes longer than you might expect. The money you earn is totaled monthly, but actually paid on Net 60 terms. This means they pay you for each month’s earnings about two months later. The reason, they explain, is that it takes about this long to get paid by their advertisers. Also, their mimimum payment amount is $25.00, for what you seen it may take quite a while for you to reach that minimum.

Why would you join?? If I were you I would stay with Facebook or MySpace