# NetAid branded a "flop"

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/12/02/netaid-branded-quotflopquot/
- Published: 1999-12-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

NetAid, the ambitious online fundraising and campaigning initiative, was branded
a “flop” in today’s The Times. Media correspondent Paul McCann writes that “the 
series of rock concerts broadcast on the Internet last month, attracted only £625,000
in online donations.”
Only the London concert made a profit: the other two lost 
money. “A spokesman said that NetAid raised $12 million (£7.5 million) in total 
to alleviate world poverty after donations of $10 million and $1 million from two
sponsors.”

Read Paul McCann’s [Sponsors bail out NetAid rock flop](http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/99/12/02/timnwsnws01009.html?999),
and read UK Fundraising’s [coverage](https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/05/06/netaid-to-take-place-in-october/)
of NetAid since its announcement in April 1999.

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