Kik display name advertising?

How do paid shoutouts and advertisements work?

I have about 1k accounts on Kik that are often searched for due to the names being desirable. Whenever I login to any account I see PMs from 20-100+ people.

I'm considering selling the display name space and possibly the profile picture as a place to advertise whatever. Maybe shoutouts or something, Idk. [font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]I can change all then names very quickly and automatically so putting up the actual advertisement isn't difficult. [/font]

How much does this kind of service usually go for? 
One thing about this is it's very difficult to measure the reach. Not everyone that searches the account and sees the name will PM. There is no way to figure out exactly how many times the accounts are searched on Kik. 
Another problem is that I don't want to give out my list of names. It'll be obvious which I have when the names are advertising but a potential buyer of this service would need to trust that I actually have 1k accounts. 

How much does this complicate things? What should I know if and before I sell advertising space in Kik display names and possibly profile pictures? Would there be any interest in this?

Never even heard of kik advertising, not much man as most of us already have OG kiks.

Rare said:

Never even heard of kik advertising, not much man as most of us already have OG kiks.

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I was thinking people might be interested in advertising their IG or something. I know you can buy shoutouts for your SM so I was wondering if this could be another way people would be interested in doing that.

I don't think anyone has done this before because of the time required to manually change all the names/pictures AND most people don't have many accounts that are frequently searched and PM'd.

If you have a one word kik that is at least semi commonly used it will get a lot of messages.

Rare said:

If you have a one word kik that is at least semi commonly used it will get a lot of messages.

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I have over 1k very short names. They definitely get tons of action. 

How do paid shoutouts/advertisements usually work? By the hour? By the day? Week? What are the usual, expected, and fair rates for varying levels of reach on varying SMs?

PrintLn said:

I have over 1k very short names. They definitely get tons of action. 

How do paid shoutouts/advertisements usually work? By the hour? By the day? Week? What are the usual, expected, and fair rates for varying levels of reach on varying SMs?

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On instagram it goes by the hours but since you're not getting as many interactions probably by the day/week.

Rare said:

On instagram it goes by the hours but since you're not getting as many interactions probably by the day/week.

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I don't know, that's the problem. It's hard to measure reach.

What would be the prices of IG advertising/shoutouts etc? What about other SMs?

PrintLn said:

I don't know, that's the problem. It's hard to measure reach.

What would be the prices of IG advertising/shoutouts etc? What about other SMs?

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I cannot give you an estimate due to how much different Instagram and other SM's are from kik from an advertising aspect.

Rare said:

I cannot give you an estimate due to how much different Instagram and other SM's are from kik from an advertising aspect.

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I meant IG etc exclusively, disregarding Kik completely.

Who would want to promote their IG to a bunch of horny Arabs on kik?

Wizard said:

Who would want to promote their IG to a bunch of horny Arabs on kik?

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Maybe someone whose IG targets horny Arabs?

This service would probably fail.
But goodluck dude.
It seems to complicated.

Space Time said:

This service would probably fail.
But goodluck dude.
It seems to complicated.

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I'm not offering it as a service, only getting opinions, ideas, and information regarding this type of thing.

What is complicated about it? A potential buyer and I would discuss a price and what they want to advertise (this would be done anyway in any other form of advertising), then I change the names/pictures and leave it there for at least the agreed upon time. (Realistically it would be there longer because I'd be too lazy or forget to change it back) So I'm not sure what you mean, please let me know! Thanks.