Adbrite: My Brief Experience

July 18, 2007 | Under Monentization | Leave a Comment 

A few weeks ago I was looking for new ways to monetize my site. I’d heard of Adbrite before, but I always thought they were a watered-down version of Google Adsense. In a way they are, at least in design. However, in function, they are not. The advertisers must approve the sites - and the publisher makes much less. I ran Adbrite on a few of my sites to see how it went - I even published the ads on this site.

Basically my results in the Adbrite control panel were that I had roughly 12,000 pageviews and made .09 cents. Quite honestly, that isn’t worth my time. I should have been making 10x - 100x that amount.

Anyway, this was just my experience. Perhaps I didn’t play with the settings enough or perhaps my niche(s) just aren’t good for Adbrite. One thing I do know, however, is that I likely won’t be trying them again anytime soon.