Comments on: Is AdBrite About to Lose One Third of Its Ads?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:20:05 +0000

I’ve been using these with great success, it’ll be interesting to see what happens next! It’s such a huge part of the business.

By: j

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:15:11 +0000

I wonder if adbrite will be on f*ckedcompany since Kaplan started both of them…how ironic.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:42:00 +0000

Im suprised adengage was not mentioned as they clearly have the best thing going around. You can use your own images for your ads and seemlesly integrate them in. Although the images rarely match the ads at all one thing i hope they fix sometime. Just the ctr made it easy to switch from all the rest.

Ive personally tested them all adengage,etology,blacklabel,avnads,exoclick,adultadworld,adtoll and various others.

The biggest issue with adbrite i experinced was what seemed like a long period the ads served so bloody slow seemed like a year. Unless you framed them in a seperate page you site would hang. Many in the webmaster community experinced that. So the customer base was and is already shopping around imho.

mike

By: shy guy

shy guy — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:07:06 +0000

Oh.. it is not good..
Why porn???

By: babecast

babecast — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:38:42 +0000

Adultfriendfinder always seemed to be a better player.

By: Doug Mehus

Doug Mehus — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:03:46 +0000

I think we need a Fake Barry Diller or, better yet, to bring the “Fake ” fad to its saturation point, go for even greater obscurity. How about Fake Safra Catz (Oracle Co-President & CFO), Fake Yusuf Mehdi (head of the MSN/Windows Live product group, or at least he used to be), Fake Jeff Weiner (Yahoo! exec), Fake Evan Williams (Twitter founder and Blogger co-founder), or even Fake Duncan Riley (TechCrunch writer).

Of course, I’m only kidding. Fake Steve Ballmer is moderately funny sometimes, most of the time he’s annoying and just a troll. We don’t need more “Fake” phenomena.

Cheers,
Doug

By: Another Anti Fake Steve

Another Anti Fake Steve — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:14:07 +0000

Fake Steve Jobs called and he wants his originality back.

By: Googles

Googles — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:27:01 +0000

I only use Google ads for my website. Google only acquire startups who uses google ads.

Microsoft ads no…
Yahoo ads no…
Ask ads… Maybe yes…
Amazon ads… No..

Yandex HELL YEAH….

By: Ad-a-rama

Ad-a-rama — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:14:23 +0000

AdEngage is another ad network that is a peer of AdBrite and Etology. They have excellent customer service. They are based in Los Angeles and therefore not as well known in the investment community.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:39:53 +0000

Oh and one more thing - its not like the big players do not support porn ads - they do, they just keep it very hush hush and do not allow their ads to go on the content side (well in Google’s case this is true). For instance go search “porn” in google.

What do you know! Adult ads along the side.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:36:06 +0000

AdBrite lost the rights to the name avnads.com which was never theirs to begin with. Nothing else has really changed. Sure etology is taking advantages of the situation to try and lure customers, but on the backend nothing is different other than the name.

By: Nina Hartley

Nina Hartley — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:08:00 +0000

AdBrite NEVER really worked for any campaigns I have tried. Poor execution. Poor service.

By: hi-tech-ti

hi-tech-ti — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:00:31 +0000

We tried abrite on an entertainment site, but all it bloody shows is “your ad here”, or ” satellite tv on your pc”.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:47:17 +0000

Porn…meh..whatever. Couldn’t care less.

The sad thing is that AdBrite has so much potential in the mainstream market, and is in a market with so few good options. Their fatal error (and the same one that kills so many others) is that they have no standards. No one needs crap ads on their site…but since Adbrite accepts anyone and has such a lousy monetization model, they have nothing to offer…even in a market struggling for other decent monetization models that can be run alongside AdSense.

But…if you’re not willing to kiss garbage goodbye, you’ll end up sleeping with it.

By: stone

stone — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:52:24 +0000

Sorry - AdBrite tried to *sell* their company before they raised their round…

By: stone

stone — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:26:54 +0000

Folks,

AdBrite tried (hard) to see their company before they raised this round. Everyone in the valley knows they went through a failed or busted sale process. Why? Really simple. Too much adult revenue and not enough solid revenue from mainstream customers. Facts are facts.

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By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:09:02 +0000

@2 Don, I don’t know which Steve Balmer is more annoying, the real one or the fake one.

Jon

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:57:28 +0000

That would be fantastic to see them lose market share in porn. Why? Well shit, maybe they could focus on enhancing adbrite and making it a legitimate contender to Google adsense. As it stands, if you want to make money online by serving up ads.. Google is in my experience, the only quality provider. They have great ads and ‘fair’ pay compared to the competition. They need someone to put the squeeze on them and it seems Ad Brite is in a position to do so, but my guess is they’re so fat on porn ads that they have given regular ads the blind eye.

By: UberInvestor.com

UberInvestor.com — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:31:50 +0000

Porn ads are a big business. This market is heavily underserved since Google doesn’t participate in it. I don’t think that adBrite will lose 1/3 of their business. Infact, competition will increase awareness bout their products and services. Also, lets keep in mind just like Web 2.0, there is a bubble of Ad Platforms as well. Everyone wants to run an Ad Platform (similar to what happened for the Affiliate Platfoms). But the current players are likely to get bigger and most of the small ones will simply go away. End of they as a publisher of several websites or one large website all I care about is monetizing and not going through the trouble of switching platforms. I would rather go with a big guy who I know will exist few years from now.

By: AW

AW — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:17:39 +0000

Hm, hm.

I was just about to start advising a client on potential advertising revenue platforms, and now this happens…

I guess we’ll wait it out and since what happens.

By: StartupEarth

StartupEarth — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:56:16 +0000

I just signed up with etology (thanks for the tip) - trouble is, they suffer from the same problem as adbright, which is before you start getting ads in, you have to put up this godawful temporary banner that looks pretty f**** ugly.

I put up the etogoly banner and lo, a hideous bright green thing appears that just had to go.

I know the folk over at etology probably read this blog, so here’s my idea… if you want to retain publishers, why not allow them to choose a temporary banner that actually suits the site?

Until then, I’ve gone back to the very pretty, but useless CPA ads from TradeDoubler.

By: Anti-Fake Steve Ballmer

Anti-Fake Steve Ballmer — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:19:35 +0000

Fake Steve Ballmer is more annoying than another Apple update

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:18:00 +0000

I must say I am surprised. What other major ad providers have these departments?

By: avalanche

avalanche — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:09:51 +0000

I understand mainstream’s desire to stay out of adult entertainment, but for someone like Stone to state that Adult sites are “shit” or that a business model including adult is not a “compelling business model that *real* comapies demand” is absolutely ignorant. A desire to stay out of adult is fine, but adult business models are no different than any others, the only variation is the question of its product. Remember the old rule of supply and demand?