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They didn’t last too long, did they. The interesting thing with Pikum is that, for what was essentially a betting picks competition site, it was hardly user friendly.
Also, I joined their in-house affiliate program and was intending to promote them on Premiership Today.co.uk – we have a lot of football traffic and they looked like they had good tools that would make them easy to promote.
However, no one ever got back to me with how to add their content and picks to the website – the signup process for the affiliate program seemed to require me to have an account with the main site as well. All in all, an utter shambles.
And, considering that OLBG and a bunch of other betting sites have better – and FREE – betting picks competitions, it’s no wonder this failed.
Sounds like some operational issues, then. That’s strange. Given how much investment money was behind this, you’d think it would have been a top-notch site.
Yeah, I would have thought so too. But once I signed up with the affiliate program, I got an email saying an affiliate manager would be in touch with instructions on how to add their content to PremiershipToday.
Logging into the affiliate section, there was no way to do that. So I waited and…nothing.
The thing is…nearly £4m in VC money doesn’t stop the fact that there’s bunches of better and FREE betting picks competition sites.
Interesting comments. I know some of the people that worked there and they certainly worked themselves to the bone trying to keep the company going. Its a huge pity because as of March they are all unemployed and with the state of the economy the prospects aren’t looking good.
Wow 4 million! Yes its sad that this has failed but astonishing that so much money was invested in it. Its so easy to spend money marketing isnt it.
That zero-return investment with Google AdWords is pretty amazing. I’m curious now, did any of you guys have a good experience with Pikum? Why do you think people rejected it?
I never saw or heard of Pikum. Which is a bit surprising when I heard the best part of 4 million was spent marketing it. But ive seen some sites based on the mate v mate betting idea and for me the concept doesnt work.
Sure its fun having a little bet with your mates when you are watching a sporting event together but for me the fun part is watching your mates face when they know they are beaten, and even more so when they hand over the cash to you! You then get the chance to rub their noses in it, whilst you drink the pint you have bought them with the winnings.
Just taking money off good friends isnt much fun in my opinion.
So to try and replicate that online when you cant actually see your mates, its harder to get any banter going, its more about the money and you dont get the chance to buy them a pint afterwards, doesnt work for me.
Most my mates dont understand betting and gambling as well as me and whilst Im sure I would win some money from them it wouldnt be a lot of fun and could well ruin friendships rather than strengthen them.
I first heard of Pikum when they were scheduled to appear at the EiG launch pad panel with me and a couple of other guys. Checked out their then-beta site which said something to the equivalent of (no kidding here):”you bet using pikies (you can’t bet for real money online dummy!).” It was the paranthesised appositive (if that’s the right grammar) that got me… can’t bet for real money online? Are you feckin kidding? Geez, what planet are these guys from… OBVIOUSLY not part of OUR industry.
So of course they went nowhere.
BUT I also think there’sa deeper psychological “truth about gamblers” here that I’ll be exploring on my blog (fukluk.com) in greater depth once I sober up…. the basic thought is UNLIKE the poker itch which can be largely satiated by playing for free (or in freerolls) by many many many people (hence something like 90% of people playing onlne poker right NOW are playing free, not for cash–PLEASE correct me if this stat is wrong/changed since my playeronly/cake/paradise days), and maybe CASINO play, certainly “fantasy” sports betting does nothing to scratch a sports betting itch. Nothing on the line, nothing at sake, no point.
You HAVE to bet real value for a sports betting buzz. Pikum didn’t have that.
Alex
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I think Pikum run too fast.
We are in web2.5 and Pikum is working on web3.0
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