Pixel advertising

Some time ago, in 2005, guy named Alex Tew started a revolutionary way of internet advertising. He did not know then what impact his decicion will have on online advertising strategies. After couple of months he managed to sell 1,000,000 pixels for $1 each he offered for sell on his milliondollarhomepage.com Soon after many others followed this new trend and thats how it all started.

What changed sisnce the beginnig of pixel mania? The way people look at marketing? The money they are willing to pay to promote their company?
The sudden rush around pixel business made an impact on the market. Never before so many people had the opportunity to start their own web business. It is cool way of spending free time and simple and cheep way for advertisers to promote their site. Cheep is the keyword. The cost of 1 advertising space on random pixel advertising website is around $2-4 compared with hundred of dollars spend on classical media advertisements is very cheep.
Currently there are literally thousands of pixel based websited but just part of it is high quality, generating high traffic websites. But it isn't anything bad. It doesn't mean that pixel advertising is dead. Just think about it. How many websites offer banner advertising? Millions? And banners continue to be used by hundred of thousands of big and small companies as a part of their internet marketing strategies.
I think that the pixel market will continue to grow and will stay on the internet market for many years.