# SocialVibe gives you adverts to raise funds for charity

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/10/14/socialvibe-gives-you-adverts-raise-funds-charity/
- Published: 2008-10-14T09:10:58+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

SocialVibe is a new social networking site that helps raise funds for charity by
encouraging its users to display and view commercial adverts on their pages. In 
addition, users are encouraged to display widgets featuring these adverts on their
pages on Facebook and MySpace, as well as their other online presences such as their
blogs or websites.

In other words, users bring these adverts to their friends and contacts in return
for generating income for their favourite charity. The site involves a good deal
of competition in which users try to raise more money than each other.

SocialVibe says it “facilitates interaction between people, the brands they love
and the causes they care about”.

## Advertisement

This model of viewing adverts in return for cash or donations to charity isn’t new.
It’s been used before in the form of users viewing banner ads on pages or embedded
into their browser.

SocialVibe’s at least takes this further by building a community around the notion.

But, as Josh Catone points out on [Social Networking Profiles as Billboards with SocialVibe](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_networking_profiles_as_billboards.php)
at ReadWriteWeb, both Facebook and MySpare prohibit this kind of advertising in 
their terms and conditions.

Nevertheless, since its public launch in February 2008 and July, [SocialVibe says that it raised $100,000](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/socialvibe_raises_100000_for_charity.php).

You can get a sense of SocialVibe from this promo video:

www.socialvibe.com

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