There's a joke in here about adbrite ending up on fuckedcompany.com
what is pud up to these days?
He posts on here: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud
AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
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Re: AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
#42After 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?
I'm in the same boat (AdSense ban and all). I would be interested to hear if anyone has experience with some alternatives.
I haven't been banned, but AdSense is incompatible with my preferred mobile framework (jQuery Mobile) without some ugly (and possibly TOS-violating) hacks. Other mobile frameworks are in the same boat.
I'd also be interested in alternatives (ideally, Google would fix the AdSense code so it works, but people have been asking for that for a while).
Re: AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
#43This thread suggests that it's probably fun to say: good riddance to the fuckers! (And you might say "good riddance, you fucker" if you were on FuckedCompany...)
I've met pud and talked with him in an entrepreneurial setup, and I was truly impressed by his early-stage insight. Seriously, he's smart and savvy, so there, but for the grace of God, go I, etc. Rather than piling-on in a FuckedCompany-like sense, I think it's more interesting to think about the trajectory of a company founded by a bright and very in-tune entrepreneur.
Looking for lessons:
* What do you think went wrong?
* What are artifacts of the failure you can enumerate?
* What would you have done differently?
* How did their competitors excel?Re: AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
#44After 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?
I'm in the same boat (AdSense ban and all). I would be interested to hear if anyone has experience with some alternatives.
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Re: AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
#45After 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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Re: AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
#46With 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…
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Re: AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
#47With 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…
Where are you buying through now? My contact information is in my profile. Reach out if you'd like to discuss other options.
Re: AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
#48After 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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Re: AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
#49After 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?
I can help you with alternatives. My contact info is in my profile. Give me and e-mail and we can chat.
Re: AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
#50After 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?
I'm in the same boat (AdSense ban and all). I would be interested to hear if anyone has experience with some alternatives.
I can help you with alternatives. My contact info is in my profile. Give me and e-mail and we can chat.