I ran an ad campaign over night with adbrite. I had about 200 clicks to my landing page and only 5 click through's. This is a very simple landing page that normally has a 75%+ click through ratio. This is some really poor traffic, bots would even click through more than this. I guess I should have listened to the people here!
After trying some other programs such as AnEngage, I really have seen how poor the traffic quality is coming from AdBrite. Poor traffic, really bad customer service, and slow load times on my websites made me go out, try a few different programs, and find one that works tons better!
If you directly advertise on each site then some sites does give you good traffic to alright traffic. You have to work with each individual site though to find which ones are good and which ones are useless. I found that more were useless than good, but if you don't try then you will never find the good ones. I normally use Alexa to help me with finding some of the good ones and also the ones that are likely to get quite a few clicks for a reasonal price and has been on these networks for a while. I also look at the site that the ads will be on so that I can see where and how they have been placed on the site.
adbrite has been going downhill steadly for the past 8 months or so. i'm starting to give up on direct ads. i don't know if it is because the publishers don't give a crap or it is because adbrite is buggy. i can wait a week or 2 before an ad is reviewed. right now i have 2 ads that been sitting there waiting to be reviewed for the past 8 days.
Alot of publisher have free game sites and stuff and they can't make much money from Adsense so they join Adbrite. Some of the traffic is fine, but then some of the sites go a bit beyond and put well to many ads on each page. That drops the CTR for the advertiser dramatically.
well it's not 100% adbrites fault it's publisher abuse. I have seen a few large and a few small sites that modify adbrite and adengage's code to wrap around a image if the image is clicked they get a click.
I love adbrite. The key is having an active forum with plenty of pageviews. I make MUCH more with CPM through adbrite than I ever did with adsense.
i advertise on adbrite often. key is to find the sites that work for you. they have a good tool which will give you an idea of how a site in your industry would do. just my experience...
Adbrite should do something about that and keep the quality of their network. I began an Adbrite campaign and it took several days for review, finally a few clicks but nothing substantial yet.