This evening Mark Pincus, the CEO of Zynga, announced on his blog that Zynga would begin phasing back in offers after temporarily shutting them down due to the whole “ScamVille” controversy. The primary source of controversy was IQ Quiz advertisements which we’ve covered extensively on AllFacebook over the past year. While sources vary on how large of a revenue stream offers were, sources stated that accounted for upwards of 33 percent of Zynga’s revenue.
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What’s the secret monetization strategy that all the large web startups? That’s the question I was looking to answer when I first started writing about the Facebook platform when it opened up over two years ago and after listening to one web luminary after the other I realized there really is no secret sauce to making money on the social web: you’re either selling ads or selling a product. Why was it that all the executives were speaking as though there was a secret monetization strategy that was just around the corner?

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