# Student makes £43,000 online by selling space on his web page

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/09/22/student-makes-43000-online-selling-space-his-web-page/
- Published: 2005-09-22T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**A college student from Wiltshire has generated £43,000 for himself simply by creating
a web page and selling space on it to advertisers. While his site won’t fulfil its
optimistic title of The Million Dollar Homepage, he has demonstrated that creativity
and chutzpah can still generate funds online. Now, why didn’t a charity try this
out first?**

Alex Tew, 21, of Cricklade, Wiltshire, set up the [Million Dollar Homepage](http://milliondollarhomepage.com/)
to help fund his study at Nottingham University, starting next month. He divided
his page into a grid of 10,000 boxes, each 100 pixels (10 by 10) in size. Companies
and individuals can buy advertising space in blocks of 10 with a minimum purchase
of $100.

## Million Dollar Homepage

As well as the rapid accumulation of money, the website has secured considerable
publicity from BBC News, Channel 4, The Guardian, and tech news site The Register.

## Advertisement

Tew has even added the first of a number of case studies showing that some of his
advertisers are very happy indeed with the results of their adverts.

According to search metrics site Alexa, Milliondollarhomepage.com ranks third in
its list of the top 10 ‘movers and shakers’, or websites that have moved up in the
traffic rankings, as measured by the change in the number of users visiting the 
site.

If an entrepreneurial individual can make this amount of money for himself so quickly
and for so little expenditure, what might a charity have achieved with the same 
idea?

 * **[Million dollar homepage creator applies the idea to fundraising](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/01/13/milliondollarhomepage-creator-applies-idea-fundraising/)(
   13 January 2012)**
 * **[Ethical advertising pixel ads site aims to raise £1 million for charity](https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/02/13/ethical-advertising-pixel-ads-site-aims-1-million-charity/)(
   13 February 2007)**
 * **[Tate’s Buy a Brushstroke pixel ads campaign raises £550,000](https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/03/01/tate039s-buy-brushstroke-pixel-ads-campaign-raises-550000/)(
   1 March 2007)**

 

## Comments

### By: admin

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/09/22/student-makes-43000-online-selling-space-his-web-page/#comment-2800
- Published: 2008-03-20T11:54:01+00:00

Still they keep coming. Three years on from Alex Tew’s site comes:

[http://www.millionpound-ad.co.uk](http://www.millionpound-ad.co.uk)

which lets people and businesses advertise their products or services through a 
£100 pound square of 100 pixels on the main page with a link to their own website.

It has been set up by computing teacher Kirstin Bailey of Macclesfield initially
to raise funds for The John Taylor
 Foundation, which she set up to help young athletes
and also raise awareness of cardiomyopathy. But advertisers can select any charity
to benefit from their payment.

### By: HowardLake

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/09/22/student-makes-43000-online-selling-space-his-web-page/#comment-4014
- Published: 2021-10-01T07:13:39+01:00

An updated approach to the Million Dollar Homepage with NFTs:

[https://www.newsbtc.com/news/million-dollar-homepage-reborn-ethereum-smart-contract-dapp/](https://www.newsbtc.com/news/million-dollar-homepage-reborn-ethereum-smart-contract-dapp/)