I haven’t blogged about my Free iTunes Downloads blog for a long time, and you might think it’s dead or forgotten, but it’s not – it’s chugging along generating steady AdSense revenue. It hasn’t been on my radar much because there hasn’t been anything new or special about it. It’s like a sporadic job that I’ve been working at for almost 5 years now!

I did get a ping recently about it, from a marketing firm who was looking for the iTunes demographic. They were offering a $10 iTunes GC for me to give away. At first, I ignored their request because I wasn’t getting anything out of it – not that I want or need additional monetary compensation from the site. But it seemed like a rip-off to me since they would be leveraging my blog’s reputation to get free marketing for only $10.

In the end, I changed my mind and decided to hold the contest. Lucky for me, they weren’t too demanding and I was able to operate the contest on my terms; with the goal of growing the number of Twitter followers. I still don’t think it’s worthwhile to run a contest like this because I don’t value the reward (more Twitter followers, Facebook fans, etc) as much as the promotional opportunity I’m giving out. Hopefully there is something that changes my mind.