Crenk » ads

Facebook and Twitter to Fight SPAM… again

Dean Sherwin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:51:56 +0000

SPAM is one of my pet hates. In fact I think that everyone reading this hates those annoying e-mails, comments left on our pages, tweets and clearly misleading advertisements that promise you a months salary in a few hours. I really, really hate SPAM. It’s useless and in this day and age it achieves nothing with its instantly recognisable language format, strange links and oh yeah, the promise of a few million bucks for transferring money.

Twitter and Facebook hate SPAM too. At the same time, both of them published posts to their blog that clearly announce plans to go on the offensive against spammers on their networks.

Twitter is due to start crating tweets and organising the trending topics section. This could mean one of two things:

Either they’ll simply remove an entire trending topic if it becomes too spammed.
Or they’ll painstakingly monitor tweets in trending topics with the first filter being a computer and the last a human.

They told us that the changes may not be apparent immediately – but I can assure you, it’s happening as you read this post.

Meanwhile, Facebook are targeting SPAM and scam ads on their network. This is a really big problem for two reasons. Firstly it lets users make their own ads and publish them – with so many it’s hard to catch all the scams. And secondly, they’ve gotten into bed with some shady advertising networks recently and are having a spot of bother breaking the relationships. Although they have assured us they’re in the process of ending two of them.

Let’s all pray for a SPAM free Internet in the mean time.

Advertising on Crenk Has Never Been So Cheap!

Steven Finch — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:49:39 +0000

Here at Crenk we have recently partnered with Adphilia as our new advertising platform. All fixed price advertising will now go through the Adphilia platform as you can already see in our sidebar.

Current Opportunities:

300 x 100 ad = $100.00 per month – Purchase Here.

We will be offering a monthly round up article in which will include details about all our sponsors and what they offer.

Over the next few months we really hope to bring in more cheap fixed sponsorship opportunities on Crenk, with the aim of really helping startups grab cheap exposure that can really help drive returns.

I also wasnt too sure whether to offer 300×100 ads or 125×125. What do most readers and advertisers prefer?

New York Times Report That Online Advertising Brings in Nearly a Quarter Of Their Revenues

Steven Finch — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:37:47 +0000

Over at Techcrunch they reported yesterday that the New York Times are now receiving nearly a quarter of their total revenues from online advertising.

The New York Times announced third quarter earnings this morning. Total revenues were down 17 percent to $571 million. Of that advertising revenues decreased 27 percent to $291 million, and the online advertising portion was down 8.2 percent to $68 million.

Last quarter, advertising revenues declined an even steeper 32 percent, and online advertising was down 15.5 percent. So maybe this is the first step on its way back to positive territory. Here are the year-over-year declines in online advertising revenues for each of the past four quarters.

Annual Decline In Internet Advertising Revenues

4Q08: -3.5%
1Q09: -6.1%
2Q09: -15.5%
3Q09: -8.2%

Another interesting data point is that because its print advertising revenues are shrinking at a faster rate than its Internet advertising revenues, the Internet portion is actually a bigger percentage (23.5%) of the New York Times’ total advertising revenues than it was year ago (when it was 18.6%).

I have been a firm believer that print business will slowly leave only the major players in each market and all the smaller business will have to move online or close. However, with these latest figures I now think even the major players could be in big trouble!

How To Remove Advertising from Gmail

Steven Finch — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:16:59 +0000

For a long time now Gmail (like nearly every other Google product) has had Google Adsense ads in the sidebar. Have you ever wanted to get rid of these ads from your Gmail? Well now you can by simply adding in two fail-proof sentences into the signature of your emails.

All you need to add is:

I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath.

Then your Gmail should look like this:

First TV Advertisement for Bing.com from Microsoft

Steven Finch — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:59:55 +0000

Bing the new search engine from Microsoft launched on the 1st of June and since then they have been getting a lot of hype and even people moving over to use their service. I personally cant see the difference between Bing and Live.com in terms of results, if anyone can let me know how they are different that would be great.

Anyways, Microsoft has just launched the first advertisement for their new search engine Bing and here it is!

AIM Ad Hack 5.57: Removing Ads from AIM 6.8 and Above

Steven Finch — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:36:36 +0000

AOL’s AIM service has long been one of the most popular instant messenger clients on the Internet. AIM is pretty much the perfect instant messenger client but as most web based products they don’t support themselves by charging for premium accounts, instead they advertising on the site that subsidises the service. Introducing AIM Ad Hack 5.57 in which lets you block or remove advertisements from AOL Instant Messenger 6.8 and above.

Aim Ad Hack 5.57 is small utility which removes almost all types of ads from AIM.

Features of AIM Ad Hack 5.57 Beta

- Removes advertisements from buddy list

- Blocks Viewpoint Media Player Install

- Blocks AOL Toolbar Install, AOL Loader Install, AOL Media Playback Install

- Blocks – Blocks Quality Feedback Agent Install

- Blocks – Blocks homepage change

- Removes AOL On Desktop (AOL Installer)

- Removes Triton’s crash reporting tool, System Information Utility, System Information Utility, Plaxo, Wild Tanget

- Removes WeatherBug, MySearch toolbar, AIM Toolbar, AIM Logger

- Adds support for Windows 2003 & Vista

- Optionally disable HostManager from starting up with windows

- Optionally install AIM Gadgets plugin

- Optionally install Location Plugin Beta

- Optionally install Facebook Plugin

- Optionally install AIM while running AIM Ad Hack

Download AIM Ad Hack 5.57 Beta here and Remove Advertisements from AOL Instant Messenger.

Trafficspaces: Self-service Ad Management Platform

Guest — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:26:44 +0000

“Oil is to the global economy what advertising is to the web ecosystem. Cut it off and the whole thing shuts down”

That quote came from a renowned scholar at my former university in England.

My name is Niyi and I’m the Founder of Trafficspaces (I’ll get to what Trafficspaces does in a second).

Focus on that quote. It is quite seems particularly poignant in the current economic environment. It seems like no matter what we do, our dependence on oil just seems unassailable, even to our own detriment. It seems to me like we have a love-hate relationship with the “black gold”. Without it, we can’t seem to power anything. In fact, without it, we’ll all probably lose our jobs!

Advertising is pretty similar. Many people dislike ads on websites (especially the annoying banner ads) but unfortunately, the truth is that without ads, most websites, blogs, will go out of business and mass-appeal tools like the Google search engine, Gmail, Facebook, and possibly even Twitter will be unsustainable. I shudder at every “Catch the Monkey” ad like everyone else so I’ve been particularly intrigued to discover if there is a middle ground somewhere – something that gives publishers more control over what appears on their site and doesn’t leave them short-changed by some dodgy, fly-by-night ad network.

My team and I have just created a new ad management platform called Trafficspaces. We’ve solved three common problems:

1. Losing potential advertisers

“If you build it, they’ll come”. So true, but if they come and they are ready to pay, and you are not ready, they’ll leave (and may not come back). Way too many potential advertisers are lost because publishers expect them to fill a form in order to advertise. Where is the automation?

Imagine if you had to call an airline over the phone in order to book a flight, and there was no Expedia, Orbitz, Ebookers etc. It will be a pain and the airlines will make less money.

The solution – provide your own self-service system to process payments, and help them get started at their convenience. Facebook and Myspace have spent millions doing exactly this. Most publishers can’t afford to do and that’s were Trafficspaces steps in. You can get your own white-labelled self-service ad platform from $4.99 a month.

2. Earning way below potential

I once spoke to a very large newspaper firm who relied mostly on Google for ads on their website. They received a $5,000 check every month from Google and they weren’t impressed. It turns out that their site generates about 10 million impressions per month and understandably they felt short-changed. “I wonder how much Google got paid by the advertiser” ranted their Online Editor.

Recently, Michael Arrington of Techcrunch mused about dumping his long term partner Federated Media because his advertisers (who had to go to Federated Media’s site to place ads with Techcrunch) were spending a disproportionate proportion of their budget with other sites on FM’s network. Basically, if Techcrunch had its own self-service system, they’ll keep more of the advertiser’s budget.

The point there is that publishers need more control. The traffic that cannot be filled by your direct sales, or through your self-service system can be sent to Google or any other ad network. This is particularly important for those who get a lot of site-targeted ads. That is the best way to maximize your revenue.

3. Managing ad operations easily

This part is actually quite important because a lot of publishers I know don’t want to get bogged down with the intricacies of monitoring ad campaigns, optimizing the ads, and preparing reports. They don’t want the complexity that comes with OpenX. They just want to approve the ads with one-click and forget about it. “Keep it Short and Simple” as a close friend said to me. If you are one of those publishers, then Trafficspaces is for you.

Conclusion

Our goal was to give publishers more control. More control over what appears on their sites, and more control of their revenue. But most importantly, it had to be done through a system that was easy to use. The response so far has been great.

If you want to try Trafficspaces out, visit www.trafficspaces.com

Adap.tv: Online Video Ad Management Platform

Steven Finch — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:07:15 +0000

Are you looking for new ways to make money from your online videos, then maybe Adap.tv might be the way forward. Adap.tv empowers online publishers to efficiently monetize and grow their online video business. The Adap.tv OneSource video ad management platform provides a simple, transparent way to manage and serve ads from multiple sources, in many formats, to capture the full revenue potential of online video content. Fine-grained control and detailed reporting help publishers maximize their online video performance. All through a single, highly efficient platform.

Adap.tv works with a lot of advertising option including post roll, pre roll, overlay banners, expanding overlay and post roll banners. Although all of this technology isn’t really new for monetizing videos, Adap.tv seems to have some good options that could potentially really help in your quest for a quality video advertising solution.

SaySoMobile: Make Money Receiving Text Ads On Your Mobile Phone

Steven Finch — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:43:01 +0000

Are you sick and tired of receiving crappy spam messages in your inbox every single day? Well why only receive spam in your inbox when now you can also receive it on your mobile phone! This all comes from a new startup called SaySoMobile.

SaySoMobile is a new startup in which users can sign up and receive advertisements straight onto their mobile phone and in return the user makes a little money. Its that simple!

The idea is simple. Advertisers want access to people which gets their message across as much as possible for as little as possible. This new startup allows advertisers to target certain people in certain countries with advertisements direct onto their mobile phones via messages. Advertisers know that with this method the high majority of ads will be opened before they can be deleted, thus having a higher possibility of providing them a return on their investment.

Im very interested to hear from people using this service to make a little extra money, mainly to see if the money they are making is worth the intrusiveness of the advertisements.

Tatango: Free Ad-supported Group SMS Service

Steven Finch — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:11:32 +0000

Tatango is a new ad-supported group SMS service which has been making huge steps forward since gaining funding and a new design six months or so ago.

Sign up, invite some friends (they have to opt-in, else this thing would be a spam machine), and you (or anybody you dub as a group admin) are able to SMS the entire group at once, either from the browser or right off your mobile handset.

The basic service is free, supported by 30 character advertisements strapped to the bottom of each message. Ad-free messaging is available along with a few other pay-per-option premium features but, at just under $35 bucks a month.

Low CPM Rates Coincides With Use of Right Media Yield Manager Platform

Steven Finch — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:33:51 +0000

Over the last few months we have been doing a lot of work with advertising networks. I have noticed that with most CPM networks currently in the marketplace they provide quite low rates, apart from a few. With regards to these low rate networks I have noticed a key characteristic that most use Yield Manager from Right Media. Is this just a coincidence or does Right Media only provide their platform to remnant and low paying CPM ad networks?

UK AdSmart Ad Network Goes Bust

Steven Finch — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:47:35 +0000

UK based advertising network AdSmart, which also had its presence in India through its Delhi-based venture AdRevenue, has gone bust.

A source at AdRevenue informs Crenk that the closure of AdSmart won’t affect the business of AdRevenue, but the company will now operate under a new name, E-Spot Media Pvt Ltd.

There are obviously several sites that will now be out of pocket from this closure, such as Games2win who has already published an article about their loss.

If you have more information on the closure or have been using Adsmart please drop us a comment.

MyBuxNetworks: Is This The Worst Ad Network You Have Ever Seen?

Steven Finch — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:46:26 +0000

I received a very interesting email this morning from a new advertising network called MyBuxNetworks.com. They are offering a CPM and a CPC solution with also a referral option. The network seemed interesting in the email, however it was a totally different story when I took a look at their website.

The site itself looks terrible and so amateuristic. However, that was the worst thing I saw on the site. Check out the video I have attached below, which is from a “member”. Would you go on this guys word?

Disclosure: Im CEO of Adphilia which is a site representation company.

Adphilia Launches New Site and is Seeing Growth Against the Trends

Steven Finch — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:04:25 +0000

Some of you may already know that I’m CEO at Insomnia which ownes a Site Representation firm called Adphilia. I wanted to announce on Crenk that we have been making some key changes to Adphilia over the last few months that has produced some amazing results.

Adphilia is not like your normal advertising network, we dont just aim to fill as many impressions as possible with our advertisers, we aim to find the types of advertising that best fits your site and then find solutions to fill these advertising slots. Currently, we work mainly with CPM campaigns, but we also have various CPC, CPA and sponsorship opportunities, which mix to make the optimum solution for each publisher. We believe that no two publishers are the same and everyone has different goals and option with regards to their advertising solutions.

Adphilia has just launched a new website, which is a very simple corporate site that explains in better depth what we do and how we do it. At Adphilia we have recently partnered with Zedo as our ad serving solution and this has allowed us to take our firm to the next level.

In terms of stats Adphilia had an amazing December, reaching over 100 million ad impressions. Currently, our predictions for January end to be over 140 million ad impressions sold. Adphilia is currently seeing a huge growth in impressions every month, which most networks are also seeing, but the difference is that with Adphilia we have seen an increase in our eCPM rates for our publishers and this is going completely against market trends.

Adphilia is always looking for more advertisers who would be interested in advertising on our great publisher sites, and additionally publishers are always welcome to join our network if their brands meet our standards. Im intending to update everyone about Adphilia via Crenk in the future, so stay tuned for more info.

Technorati Media Isnt Moving In The Right Direction

Steven Finch — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:57:35 +0000

I have been receiving a lot of emails lately from webmasters using Technorati Media as their ad network. Techn0rati is a blog search engine which launched an ad network back in June last year. At the time it was very big news, because Technorati was losing its way a little bit and also traffic at the same time. Thus, they launched Technorati Media which would open up a new revenues stream. At the same time Technorati purchased AdEngage which would be the backbone of the Technorati Media platform. AdEngage is a basic self service advertising platform which deals in CPC display advertising.

Anyways, Technorati Media launched their ad network with a lot of media attention and were offering some amazing CPM rates, in which was going to entice a huge amount of small and medium blogs. However, now since the economy is in a bit of a decline ad revenues have dropped but this is nowhere near the amount Technorati Media’s CPM rates have dropped.

I’m not too sure what Technorati Media is trying to achieve because using the current model they have for advertising, I’m sure they will be in a huge amount of trouble come the end of 2009. The economic crisis is not going to be fixed over night and it will take a couple of years to sort itself out, so Technorati please think of another advertising solution. CPC campaigns are great for advertisers because they get an instant return on investment for their money, but CPM is great for publishers because they can see a return on their investment. Technorati Media is struggling even to sell CPC campaigns even with some great sites on board, so this spells big trouble!

Disclosure: Im CEO of Adphilia which is a site representation company.

Google Ads Appear on Isohunt and TorrentFreak Gets Details a little Wrong

Steven Finch — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:39:22 +0000

Today it was repoted by Torrentfreak that according to a report in the Norwegian press today, some companies have reacted uncomfortably to the news that their Google Adwords text ads have been appearing on IsoHunt, the world’s third largest BitTorrent site.

Google has a policy of not displaying ads on sites that are involved in or linked to copyright infringement, with many torrent sites previously excluded from the scheme. Of course, some still carry Google ads, purely because Google is unaware of the nature of those sites, but with IsoHunt the situation is different. On IsoHunt the Google ads aren’t directly served by Google, but by Ask.com, a Google AdWords ‘reseller’.

Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, works with several other BitTorrent sites. Only on IsoHunt have they displayed search based ads that came from Google AdWords campaigns. They have been doing so for several months, perhaps years, but up until now nobody complained, or knew.

In a statement, Jan-Henrik Ohme, head of digital marketing at Sony BMG said “We have stopped the section of the campaign that goes to the third party until Google cleans up the issues. We have contacted Google, and they took immediate action.”

For its part, Google Norway has apologized for the situation, and said that the advertisers should not be held responsible for the placement of the ads, since due to the 3rd party involvement, they had no way of knowing where they would appear. The campaigns are not limited to Norway though, and Ask.com certainly has something to explain to Google.

This situation was bound to happen but some of the companies dont really understand why it happened. Ask.com was only allowed to have their ads on Isohunt because the deal they started with Google was done after the Isohunt deal. Thus, Google allowed all historical deals to continue as normal. Therefore, it is impossible to now have Google ads on new bittorrent related sites.

Additionally, the ads are not done through Ask.com, they are from Ask.co.uk. This is because Ask.com sell their own adwords type program still and Ask.co.uk controls the Google Adwords reseller program.

Only $10 To Now Advertise On The Crenk Sidebar

Steven Finch — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:26:18 +0000

Some of you have already noticed that we have added a new advertising option into the sidebar. The services is provided by BuySellAds, and we are currently offering this direct advertising options (300 x 100px) for only $10 per month. There are currently 6 places on offer so be fast. We are hoping that this ad slot will allow startups get some extra promotion for a very cheap price. The stats for the site havent been updated yet, but as a startup you can expect a minimum of 40k ad impressions per month for only $10, bargain!

YouTube Ads CPC Ad Platform for Sponsored Videos

Steven Finch — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:07:51 +0000

No more just Google Adwords CPC ads on YouTube cause they have just added a sponsored videos section. Anyone can now start and run a campaign for their videos directly on YouTube and they all based on CPC.

Concerned about costs? Don’t worry – Sponsored Videos puts you in complete control of your spending. There’s no minimum spending requirement–the amount you pay for Sponsored Videos is up to you. You can, for instance, set a daily budget of five dollars and a maximum cost of ten cents for each click on your ad.

Currently they only support users in the USA, but im sure that they will be expanding this very soon to other countries.

NewsGator Launches AdBurner. Ad Optimisation Tool for Premium Publishers

Steven Finch — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:18:16 +0000

NewsGator has announced today that they have launched a new product called AdBurner. AdBurner is a program that provides a turnkey advertising based solution for premium publishers, which helps them to optimise ad revenues around key web 2.0 technologies with no incremental effort.

AdBurner is aimed at optimizing the CPM for, and process of, inserting and managing advertising into NewsGator’s publisher products suite, including services as diverse as widgets, related content, and iPhone applications. The initiative is built around best of breed advertising partners Technorati, Admeld, Gigya, Medialets, and Tremor Media.

This is a very interesting moving from NewsGator and Im very keen to test the product for them. Currently, the new product doesnt seem available via their website, so would be great to hear from the NewsGator team.

Tech Year In Review. The Crenk Roundup for 2008 and Whats To Come in 2009

Steven Finch — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:51:21 +0000

2008 has been a very interesting yer here at Crenk. Crenk was launched mainly as a hobby for me to review new startups. Since that time we have had several writers head over to Crenk and help us out with content, including Ades, Kenneth, Mike, Luis, and our newest writer Matt.

In 2008 we have written over 760 posts on various topics. Crenk has also been recognised by some of the biggest names in technology including Guy Kawasaki (who put us towards the top of alltop), Thomas Marban (placing Crenk on Popurls). Additionally, we have our articles syndicated by Reuters, Google News, Livestrong and Computer Shopper.

In terms of subscribers we have had a huge increase throughout the year, mainly because of our partnership with Blogrovr which now means we have over 20,ooo subscribers to Crenk.

In terms of advertisers who have pretty much kept this site in business we would like to thank Adphilia for their hard work in bring in at least some income for the site, as well as TribalFusion.

What can you expect from Crenk for 2009? Crenk in 2009 will be bringing you a lot more startups that are making splashes all around the web, as well as that we hope to offer startups so free advertising on the site. Crenk will also be featuring a lot more top tools posts that help our readers find startups in the same niche. Apart from that you will be able to find more helpful tips and analysis as well as more articles, more freebies and more cool stuff in general.

Thanks for reading Crenk in 2008 and stay tuned cause we will be bringing you even more in 2009.

Peer39: The Semantic Advertising Solution

Steven Finch — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:47:36 +0000

Peer39 is a natural language processing and machine learning, Peer39’s patented algorithms understand page meaning and sentiment, and deliver the most relevant and effective brand safe display and text advertising. Headquartered in New York City, Peer39 maintains a research and development center in Israel.

Teaming with the founders of the market-leading contextual and behavioral targeting technologies, Peer39 aims to create the next generation online advertising and content monetization platform. The company was founded in early 2006 by engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs from leading internet companies and academic research centers. The company has raised $12 million in two rounds of financing led by top-tier investors including Canaan Partners and JPMorgan, Dawntreader Ventures, and leading industry insiders.

When looking at the progress of Peer39 it seems to be very mixed. According to Compete they have a growing website with a huge amount of traffic, but according to Alexa it is the complete opposite. Peer39 sounds like a very interesting concept and I’m looking forward to actually testing them out and letting everyone know my results.

ZunaVision : Stanfords New In-Movie Placement Software

Steven Finch — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:17:48 +0000

Over at Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed an amazing piece of software that im sure Google will purchase very soon. The software makes it easy to place and manipulate an image into a piece of video. Thus, could allow advertising to be simply placed in any video.

It works for videos as well – you can play a video on a wall inside your video. The technology can cheaply do some of the tricks normally performed by expensive commercial editing systems.

More information at ZunaVision but first watch the demo video:

This software would be perfect for video makers who place their videos onto Youtube, because they will be able to sell advertising very simply within the videos. This would also mean that they could place their videos and promote on Bittorrent related sites, cause the content owner is drawing an income. Just a thought!

We7 Launches Out of Beta with a Bang and a lot of New Features

Steven Finch — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:17:27 +0000

After spending months in public beta and lots of changes to the ad supports music service, We7 is about to launch out of beta with a bang.

We7 have launched with a “Big Listen” campaign. This new service has some great new features including Free on-demand, unlimited access to full tracks and albums, “Search, Click & Play”, A ‘Celestial Jukebox’ with several million track, ‘Play Anywhere’ – a link and play system for blogs and websites, Users can create playlists, share with friends and buy mp3’s, Payments to rights owners and artists.

The first thing you will notice with the new site is that they have a completely new design. Other new additions include a Magazine, Blog and a much improved list of advertisers. Im sure we will be hearing a lot more from We7 in 2009!

Adify: The White Label Advertising Network Provider That Will Make You More Money Than Most Ad Networks

Steven Finch — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:15:50 +0000

Adify is growing into one of the largest advertising technology provides on the web. Adify was recently purchased by Cox enterprises for $300 million back in April. Adify provides a unique white-label advertising network solutions.

Currently Adify has some of the worlds largest media conglomerates using their platform to serve advertising, Forbes, The Guardian, Reuters and more. They have over 20 vertical networks that are using their service.

What does this all mean for the average web publisher? Well web publishers are able to opt in to use the Adify platform, then they can apply to join their vertical networks to sell the advertising. Thus, a publisher could have Forbes, Reuters, Break and IDG, all selling advertising for your site at the same time. Therefore, this normally provides a great eCPM for the publisher and gets them a lot more money than they would get elsewhere.

If you are a web publisher looking for a great advertising solution, make sure you head over and check out Adify, because in times of the US Dollar being quite poor, they will be sure to make you more money than most advertising networks.

Technorati Launch Technorati Media. The Blog Advertising Network

Steven Finch — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:17:16 +0000

Technorati, one of the worlds largest blog search engines has spent a long time trying to find a new model for their company and today I think they have launched a great offering. Introducing Technorati Media. Technorati Media is the new blog advertising network for anyone and everyone. The advertising network will not open fully for another couple months, but you can apply now and hopefully get in early.

Technorati has been testing their ad network for a while already and seem to have found some good results. The ads will be sold by CPM method, in which allow a little more security for publishers within the network. Im always interested when new blog networks enter the market and I cant wait to see what results come from this new network. Here at Crenk we have already signed up to this service, so cant wait to report to everyone our findings.