It's been a few days since I created my
AdBrite
account. My intention was to target the "blog hosting" area as a
seller. Supposedly a great banner management tool, with high target
text or image ads that should pay better than Adsense. That's the
regular comercial blabla, now let's look what's behind this curtain:
- a minimalistic and non-intuitive interface: as a seller of ad space, reports are difficult to follow and run.
- lack of advertisers in niche and general segments; overall a disbalance between sellers and buyers in my area.
- too many adult ads, from unscrupulous webmasters that sell this crap for a few more pennies.
- lack of help&support FAQ.
I'm glad the AdBrite founder is all in all a rich guy: see
his blog, I mean hey he had that famous F...edCompany.com! The website is otherwise great, with an intuitive state-of-the-art
sellers directory
(he runs there a virtual categorization based on sellers properties
which is a hot trend in web development today). There's definitelly a
lot of potential here, even if Google's
Adsense, Yahoo's
Overture and Espotting&FindWhat's
Miva competition is sneaking around. But if things continue the way they did, I don't see for me any bright future with AdBrite.
