I remember during my high school days (10 years ago), I was so engrossed in playing & making games, to the point that it took up most of my school holidays. Here are some of them:
Beat’em-up 2 player game I coded in Flash using Actionscript 2.0, right before my high school graduation. Play the full game here
Do you play for a church band? If yes, you may have experienced the hassle of gathering song chords before a band practice. Yes there many are worship song chords available on the internet. However some of the chords don’t sound right compared to the actual song. Also gathering them from various sources may need some effort.
Last 2012, Closely Coded undertook that problem. We built a simple worship song chords website for an Indonesian Catholic community in Singapore. The chords website can be easily managed through a CMS (content management system).
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As a follow-up of the previous Promoting YouTube Video With Google AdWords post, I would like to share with you the result from our Google AdWords experiment. For a week (19 December – 26 December 2014), we were advertising our Christmas music video using YouTube ads / Google AdWords for video. Here are the results:
| Total money spent: | SGD 40 |
| Total impressions served: | 8,382 |
| Total views gained: | 1,897 |
| View rate (View per impression ratio): | 22.63% |
| Average CPV: | SGD 0.02 |
| Total clicks: | 111 |
| Video played to 25%: | 15% of total views (285) |
| Video played to 50%: | 11% of total views (209) |
| Video played to 75%: | 9% of total views (171) |
| Video played to 100%: | 6% of total views (114) |
Last Christmas I have been privileged to assist the production of Christmas music video, together with a bunch of talented people. As the festive season was only a week away, we wanted to reach more people with our YouTube video. Along with continuous promotion on social media, we also tried out Google AdWords for Video with the hope of gaining online exposure on a short budget (SGD 40).
