Ask.com launches adsense competitor

[netpox]

Ask.com is going to launch a contextual advertising product just like Adsense. The company hopes to win over publishers by attacking one of AdSence’s biggest weaknesses - transparency. Ask’s contextual product will be available on May 21st for publishers to sign up.

I wonder what their payouts will be. I dont think it would be better then adsense...anyways here is the article: http://www.netpox.com/?p=70

I am going to sign up and see how it works.

[FanAddict]

Wow, I am honestly in shock! This is a long waited and NEEDED competitor.

Hopefully they have a better protection system set up for their publishers, I am definitely signing up!

Wow, Ask.com? Surprising! Sounds like YPN is getting screwed even more.

I am signing up and putting them up on some sites that I didn't want Adsense on (Proxies Anyone? )

[qwestcommunications]

If its true its great news for publshers. Hopefully they will do a lot better than YPN.

[techpr]

Looking forward to it, I have been waiting for YPN going out of beta for a looong time.

[alexdale]

hope it'll be open to international publishers.

[Arclight]

Great news - I've always liked Ask and it's good to see them pushing into this market. Yahoo seems unbelievably sluggish and annoying about getting YPN out of beta, like they are with everything else. Now...any guesses when we'll be hearing from MSN?

[funkymario]

Great news, google really need some serious competitors, when they begin to lose their publishers at least they will stop banning people for no reasons.

[Duality]

I've been waiting for this day to come!!

I've wanted transparency for a while now!

[FanAddict]

Can anyone find anything from Ask.Com Officially?

[guerilla]

I'm missing a source on the blog post? Are we getting excited prematurely?

EDIT: here is more info

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625672

The ads, which will be incorporated into its Ask Sponsored Listings (ASL) platform, will launch at the end of May on several IAC-owned properties, such as Match.com, Ticketmaster, Evite and Citysearch. Ads will also appear on a few trusted publisher sites, most likely starting with some of the 90 publishers that syndicate Ask.com search results and search ads.

Mid-sized publishers are able to sign up for the program now, and a self-service platform for smaller publishers is expected later this year.

"We're trying to solve the full equation for advertisers and publishers. Advertisers can expand their existing Ask Sponsored Listings campaigns with the same features, function, and control when they target the content network. For publishers, we've tried to differentiate it from what's out there. We've talked to lots of publishers, including some IAC brands, to get a sense of what they're looking for," said Paul Vallez, head of Ask.com's search marketing product division.

Ask.com is attempting to differentiate its offering by making it more transparent and user-friendly, Vallez said. For example, Ask.com will provide publishers with tools to tweak ads displayed on their sites to find a balance between ad relevance and page yield.

[FanAddict]

Yup I was thinking the same (after my excitement calmed down lol)

I dug up these 2:

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/070425-000108
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625672

[Adpubster]

Originally Posted by guerilla

I'm missing a source on the blog post? Are we getting excited prematurely?

EDIT: here is more info

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625672

I'd like to see some confirmation, especially when they can't even spell Adsense consistently! (AdSence)

We are editing at the same time! I was about to edit and post that URL as it wasn't in your original post but by the time I hit quote, you had changed it.

[w3bmaster]

Competitions is best for clients ....

[FanAddict]

Iv emailed Ask.com (don't know if/when I will hearing anything back)

But I basically asked them to confirm the posts being made on several blogs across the web (gave them a couple of links as well)

I will post back when I get their answer

[bochgoch]

Originally Posted by FanAddict

Iv emailed Ask.com (don't know if/when I will hearing anything back)

But I basically asked them to confirm the posts being made on several blogs across the web (gave them a couple of links as well)

I will post back when I get their answer

Thanks for that -- hope it is true and that they'll be open to international publishers ... waiting with baited breath

[netpox]

Yahoo cant compete with adsence so i dont know if Ask.com will.

[denverken]

Very excited about this, hoping to make more money off this one, and Ask has always just been a great resource site, BOOYAH Google, better step your game up...

[bacanze]

i was listening about it on webmaster radio, it sounds good and they should try and compete, good job Ask

[tlainevool]

Here is a press release: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st...4573336&EDATE=