Nuffnang is Now Here in Pinas!

If you look at my side bar, you may have noticed this nifty lit­tle logo that says: “This blog serves Nuff­nang ads.”

Well, the other day, I was pass­ing by EDSA on the way to work when the video board along the high­way showed a Nuff​nang​.Com​.Ph ad. It said BLOGGERS OF THE WORLD UNITE or some­thing like that, and I remem­ber tak­ing a men­tal note of the url, and going to the site when I arrived in the office.

Why did I sign up? It boils down to five things:

1) Nuff­nang just sounded cool. It didn’t mean any­thing to me, but I remem­bered it! What does nuff­nang mean any­way? Can any­body in the know please tell me?

2) It promised to be the first (South­East) Asian blog adver­tis­ing com­mu­nity. I think it is about time there is an offi­cial blog­ger com­mu­nity around these parts. It was launched in Feb­ru­ary 2007 by Tim­o­thy Tiah Ewe Tiam and Cheo Ming Shen. Before com­ing to the Philip­pines, it estab­lished itself in Malaysia and Sin­ga­pore. It is meant to be “an online plat­form that allows adver­tis­ers to serve graphic adver­tise­ments on thou­sands of blogs accord­ing to their tar­get audi­ence and bud­get.”

While that sounds like a pref­er­en­tial option for adver­tis­ers, it makes per­fect busi­ness sense since adver­tis­ing helps peo­ple earn money. Besides, if you’re not here for the adver­tis­ing, you can just decide not to put up the ads in your site. Besides…

3) It was sup­posed to have been estab­lished by blog­gers for blog­gers. The two guys–Tim­o­thy Tiah and Cheo Ming Shen—who started Nuff­nang are blog­gers them­selves. They have busi­ness Part­ners who are blog­gers, orga­nize blog­ger out­ings and blog related events, and net­work­ing ses­sions. I hope the Philip­pine team brings that bloggers-for-bloggers vibe with them as they go along.

4) It pays in Philip­pine Pesos. That means I get the money in my own cur­rency. That means I don’t get charged by the bank for the con­ver­sion and the bank trans­fer. That means I can get paid quick and easy.

5) Sign up was really easy. I just went to the web­site Nuff​nang​.Com​.Ph and looked for the Reg­is­ter Here but­ton. In 5 min­utes, I was reg­is­tered. In about 5 more min­utes, I had my account acti­va­tion form sent to my email.

So atten­tion all blog­gers, why don’t YOU sign up to Nuff​nang​.Com​.Ph?