No regret. I tried out AdBrite once and when I wanted to cash out the $130 I had earned back when I was a student, they told me they couldn't pay me out because they hadn't received the money yet, and that was that. Nothing I could do. This was 6 months after the pageviews in question ran, so it's not like they didn't have time.
AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
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#23Nice as it is to see the advertising industry in trouble, this will put even more control into the hands of google.
I'm not sure AdBrite having trouble means the advertising industry is in trouble. It could be poor management, poor sales staff, low quality traffic, the lack of a good mobile offering, bad tech or a lot of other things.
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#24With all due respect I'm not surprised. My media buying agency had tried buying traffic from them about a year ago and the quality of the traffic we got was shockingly bad. Support was not at all helpful. We were left thinking that they either had no measures to combat click fraud in place, or that they had no problem with selling that kind of traffic. Common problem unfortunately in the media buying business, but no…
I'm absolutely amazed that they have stayed in business this long. My media buying agency has also tested their network several times over the years. They have absolutely junk traffic, and I had come to the same conclusion that is has to be largely fraud clicks.
Re: AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
#25There's a joke in here about adbrite ending up on fuckedcompany.com
Good spot. For anybody who doesn't get it... http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/06/22/from-a-compan...
Re: AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
#26After being banned from Google Adsense (I still don't know the reason why) I have used Adbrite as an alternative. It's no surprise they are shutting down. The ads they deliver are borderline suspicious and they don't make publishers any money at all. I have earned $0.07 with Adbrite whereas I could have earned $60 in the same time frame with Google Adsense.
Does anyone know good alternatives?
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#27Best of luck to the adbrite team. Unfortunately, this happens. Also, if any adbrite developers are interested in coming to Minneapolis, we'll expedite interviews :-)
Contact info in my profile.
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#29So I'm assuming their adult ad company, Black Label Ads, is going to go under too?
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#30I tried AdBrite once, that was the only time I used them. The traffic they sent was junk and I am almost sure they had no click-fraud detection in place so most of the clicks were fraudulent. Good on them for staying in business this long though, surprised they lasted all this time.