Comments on: High Payouts From Microsoft PubCenter May Be Too Good To Be True

By: The RightMedia Problem, The Microsoft Lesson, And Why OpenX Will Win | Shahar Solomianik

Mon, 25 May 2009 07:20:57 +0000

[...] Whether or not someone at Microsoft have read Galai’s post, it seems that they had followed his advice. They realized the only way to win market share over Google is by attracting Google’s publishers – not advertisers. So the rumor about an high-paying AdSense alternative spread and many publishers were eager to join once the private beta tag is off. Few weeks later though, when Microsoft opened up pubCenter for the public, payout has dramatically sunk. [...]

By: b

Sun, 03 May 2009 11:22:32 +0000

I tested my own ads on my website and was able checking very well what I got: not even 20% of what I paid… smart priced? don’t think so…

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Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:56:19 +0000

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By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:18:22 +0000

If you are running a very large website then $0.25-0.50 isnt too bad at all. It depends upon your traffic and what geographic locations they wanted to run.

By: pc repair

pc repair — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:10:09 +0000

Sounds like a bunch of absence propaganda to me.
It makes ZERO sense why microsoft would dish out big payouts during the beta then cut things completely off the day it launches to the public.

By: Imran Hussain

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:58:57 +0000

I’ve had a good return from pubCenter so far.
I would advice sane minded people to avoid such negative posts as pubCenter is still in beta.
All Google fanboys can go suck something

By: Chitika Sucks

Chitika Sucks — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:56:32 +0000

ROFL Chitika is the worst overhyped ad network ever! Your ads suck! I wouldn’t want such ugly ads my blog again.

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wisdom teeth removal — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:53:03 +0000

I still may take a look at PubCenter to see how it pans out.

By: brad

brad — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:03:21 +0000

I got into the beta with one of my sites but then they denied the exact same site after i submitted my ads for approval. After looking through their policies again I still can’t figure out what i am violating. Figures.

By: Kaushik

Kaushik — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:52:49 +0000

Why don’t Microsoft and yahoo open up to internation publishers? It’s crazy. I may live in India but a huge chunk of my visitors are from the US. I thought it’s the visitors location that mattered and not where the publisher live. Hell, I can live wherever I want to. This is both irritating and stupid.

By: sfltv.com

sfltv.com — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:54:48 +0000

still planning to give pubcenter a spin

competition is nice to have especially with the way Google has grown and 2nd and 3rd tier competition that fails pretty miserably

By: ajay

ajay — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:54:42 +0000

pubcenter is only for us publisher ?
when it will be open for all means across the globe ?

By: nick

nick — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:46:38 +0000

Is this a Google Fan Forum? I mean i find it interesting how the commenters hate so much on Microsoft just for the heck of it… geezus… it’s sad to see this..

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By: QuickPWN

QuickPWN — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:45:19 +0000

I’m trying to apply to pubCenter for my site but they don’t want to approve it for some reason. My site meets their requirements and nothing violates their policies. I tried contacting them through e-mail but got no response. I recently contacted a pubCenter employee on Twitter and he will look into it. While Adsense is good it’s better to try other alternatives as well.

By: Christopher Ross

Christopher Ross — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:39:35 +0000

I’m all for giving MS a second (third or fourth) chance but when it comes to online initiatives, their track record is horrible which is one of the main reasons that I hope they don’t take over Yahoo.

By: EH

EH — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:25:06 +0000

maybe it was just a market research campaign to test viability.

By: EH

EH — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:23:51 +0000

“Those clowns at Microsoft did it again. What a bunch of clowns.”

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:10:38 +0000

Wow, to make adsense payments look good it must be pretty dire.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:04:38 +0000

We serve about 125,000 ad views daily and average an $11 CPM with Adsense. We were thinking of testing Pubcenter and we probably still will but this sounds like a joke if they actually are cutting their revshare so substantially.. If they have lower bids and CPMs, they need to offer a crazy high revshare if they ever expect to take market share from Adsense.

By: Speed

Speed — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:46:43 +0000

Leena Rao: Did you ask Microsoft for a comment? Did you talk to any advertisers (AdSense or PubCenter) to see what they were paying?

By: Isaac

Isaac — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:24:36 +0000

I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that M$ has adjusted the rev share.

It is completely possible that Microsoft had lots of high paying advertisers in beta when the number of publishers was low and was not able to scale up to meet the supply of ads being called during the public launch.

It is highly likely that they were just not ready for prime time…

By: Isaac

Isaac — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:21:46 +0000

Is it a foregone conclusion that Google only shares a small amount with publishers? What is a small amount to you?

“So even though Google only shares a small amount with publishers, they can outpay competitors like Yahoo and Microsoft. ”

Really it would be great if you could report facts and let the readers decide…vs, what you are doing here…

By: Vik Chhabra

Vik Chhabra — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:13:54 +0000

What a joke…

I work for Chitika and I’m thoroughly convinced that we are the #2 player behind AdSense.

We have over 43,000 publishers that use our ads in addition to AdSense. We are the outlet for Yahoo’s Sonsored Search ads…not YPN.

Microsoft will get their act together, but it’s not going to happen overnight.

If you make money w/ AdSense…hit me up.

vik@chitika.com