MSN adCenter (PPC) beta invites?

[roadies]

I'm looking for MSNs holy grail. Anybody have any idea how to get invited into their adCenter beta program? I have several clients that want in and fast (they're sick of adwords).

[roadies]

I'll answer my own question. I just watched the Steve Ballmer video of when he announced adCenter.

He states they are currently testing in France and Singapore only.

Too bad, I was hoping for a beta here in the states.

[jlerner]

That is too bad... it's time to give google adsense some competition. Perhaps yahoo will be next to market.

[Shoemoney]

whats the eta to launch of either?

[AfterHim.com]

I don't think there has been word on it yet shoemoney...hopefully sooner rather than later...my average cpc is down from about $.80 to $.21

Brandon

[nevetS]

The MSN PPC network requires a minimum annual spend of $75K. Only big fish in that pond - unless someone like positiontech gets into the game and manages the small fish through their account.

They use overture feeds to populate terms where MSN PPC doesn't fill the gaps. I've seen a few MSN ads here in the states. Not sure what the deal is with a beta program, but you can see when you search on MSN that a few of the ad-links will be through overture, and a few will redirect through an MSN site.

[aspcoder]

If you select limited countries in overture, yet MSN will display ads in other countries. So i think they should start their own PPC very quickly.