Comments on: Widgetbucks Pockets $10 Million in Series B Funding

By: WidgetBucks launches in the UK and Europe today

WidgetBucks launches in the UK and Europe today — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:50:46 +0000

[...] impressions and are nearing 1 billion monthly impressions. In June of this year, they announced a $10 million investment, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a premier venture [...]

By: abdul

abdul — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:34:42 +0000

Widget bucks offered high cpc than google adsense at starting..
Now (

By: WidgetBucks consigue 10 millones de dólares

WidgetBucks consigue 10 millones de dólares — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:53:06 +0000

[...] financiación palidece con las recibidas últimamente por compañías como RockYou. La compañía afirma haber alcanzado los 100 millones de visitantes únicos en mayo a través de su red de publicidad, pero los datos de comScore sólo le atribuyen 10 [...]

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:19:03 +0000

Mark
you were quoting them so the comment wasn’t directed at you.

By: jackmayhofferr

jackmayhofferr — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:23:49 +0000

If you sell electronics or tech products it may work for you

otherwise not a lot of there there

By: John

John — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:38:38 +0000

@Jayson – If investors based their funding on TechCrunch comment threads, I don’t think there would any funding in the tech industry.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:28:26 +0000

There is another of this type of Social App monetization product that just launched here in the DC area. ( http://eastcoas...se-social-apps/)

It is called SocialCash and seems very similar to this company. You should take a look at them to see what you think.

By: Jimmy Dell

Jimmy Dell — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:16:17 +0000

I’m totally confused between WidgetBucks and WidgetBox.

By: Jayson

Jayson — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:26:52 +0000

from the looks of this thread, it doesn’t seem like another $10 million was a wise decision. I hope it works out for WB though.

By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:20:20 +0000

@Duncan – I didn’t mean to suggest comScore generally ignores worldwide figures, they just didn’t account for them in this particular report.

By: cpm

cpm — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:22:54 +0000

Mike
How long have you worked at widgetbucks ?

By: Sunil

Sunil — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:55:13 +0000

Probably the worst ad network ever .. 8000 page views give you 5 cents – how bad can that get ?

By: WidgetBucks nets $10 million in series B | Widgets Lab

WidgetBucks nets $10 million in series B | Widgets Lab — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:24:00 +0000

[...] TechCrunch WidgetBucks blog Sphere: Related [...]

By: shokeya

shokeya — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:51:37 +0000

link on the logo doesn’t work!

By: Yakov

Yakov — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:29:06 +0000

Our semantic search widget network currently reaches several million monthly users and we display search-related ads that should be more relevant than those delivered by WB. I am wondering what kind of CTR (Click-Through–Rate) WB ads have.

By: Amit Bhawani

Amit Bhawani — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:16:41 +0000

First they offer high CPC than adsense & adbrite – http://www.amit...se-and-adbrite/ then the revenue increases further more to 28cents/click on an average http://www.amit...sclick-minimum/ and at the end of the moment just before payment time they dont allow NON-US publishers – http://www.amit...id-widgetbucks/ wow thats nice and a very honour to all the publishers who helped them in getting those millions of impressions. Thousands of publishers replaced their other ad networks with widgetbucks in a hope to make better revenue but finally were lead to nothing.
In short WidgetBucks sucks because of some wrong policies and announcement of the same at the wrong time.

By: Henry Work

Henry Work — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:01:02 +0000

Matt — thanks. Fixed.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:55:46 +0000

Mark, the crunchbase link on the logo doesn’t work!

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:40:38 +0000

I’d wish them well, but despite covering them previously apparently I wasn’t good enough to be part of their program.

I’d also note that while comScore isn’t brilliant outside of the United States, they actually do track numbers offshore. comScore does a reasonable job in parts of Asia and Europe. Saying comScore only tracks US numbers is factually incorrect.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:36:54 +0000

I have used this company since March of this year and have seen much better revenue from their ads over Google adwords. I track all my sites closely in Excel and have found some of my best results through Widget Bucks. It will be interesting to see if they can maintain their payouts as the widgets are placed on more and more websites.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:15:39 +0000

I tried using these guys and I got a massively underreported CTR.

I dugg around and I found that people had similar poor experiences:
http://www.goog...idgetbucks+scam

I’m not trying to put a hate on this company, I’m only bringing this up because I was surprised to see these guys getting Series B funding.

Note: Even Googling AdSense+Scam yields a massive number of results, the posts however seem to have less credence than the WB complaints.
http://www.goog...p;q=Adsese+scam