First off, what is Adbrite? Adbrite is an online marketplace where advertisers can create ads and publishers can publish those ads on their websites. A publisher who uses Adbrite can sell ads on their website and receive bids from advertisers. These ads can then be approved by the publisher. The reason Adbrite is a more effective advertising solution than Adwords is because publishers have more control over what ads they want to show on their websites. Publishers can review the ads which are submitted on their websites and they can also set the prices. In fact, they can even utilize Adsense with Adbrite if they so choose to. Adbrite also offers many formats. You can advertise cost per click offerings rather than just cost per sale ones. This give you a wider range of ads to use. Publishers can even choose a full page ad if they so choose to so that they can maximize their income. Earnings from Adbrite are not bad too. In fact, they are comparable to Adsense earnings and often even better. If you’re promoting a gambling, poker or adult site, Adbrite is really your only option since Adsense does not allow promotion of such sites. The only downside of Adbrite is that it might be a little more difficult to use than Adsense, but the payoff might be worth it in the long run. Adbrite is quite a large company and most people in the pay per click industry would have heard of them. So you are dealing with a credible company that pays on time.
Do you work for Adbrite? I used both, but I prefer Adsense and only use Adbrite when I'm forced to e.g. for gambling sites etc. as you point out. But otherwise I find Adsense to outperform.
AdBrite is a fantastic programme but I wouldn't go as far as saying that earnings are comparable to AdSense. On all the sites that I had AdBrite on, it's CTR and CPC was considerably less than AdSense's. I still stand by my thought that AdBrite is a waste of ad inventory if your site receives less than 1000 uniques a day.
adbrite never worked for me! i did not managed to earn anything from them. adbrite may work if the site has some really good traffic, else it won't work!
For some of my sites I am using Adsense, for some Adbrite. Adsense have for sure higher CPC, but I really like Adbrite, because I can choose what ads to display, many statistics and low minimal payout.
AdBrite may later become a very good publisher network, but for now i am using Widgetbucks, AdSense, Bidvertiser. Maybe i need someone to really lure me to embracing AdBrite...
During April, I applied Adsense for 2 times but both failed. Google gave me reason on “too many links†on the first time. and “too many dead links†on second time. But Adbrite gave me the account even not checking the contents of my site.
They do not have good inventory plus, payouts are pity, 1/10 of adsense or maybe less. Its not worth its time, you have to install different code for each website.
lots of options.. widgetbuks, adsense... adbrite, bitvertiser. but i think.. adsense is the best.. widgetbuks promises to b better .. but hav to wait till my first paychek to make sure they r serious..
Adbrite is AWESOME for certain niches. I have one site that makes $1-5 a day on adsense but wouldn't do but a penny or two a day on adbite. On the flipside, I have had days on adbrite of $63+ on one site, but it wouldn't perform well on adsense. It really depends on your niche.
The thing i like about adbrite is there inline ads... Does any other program pay for inline ads? Thats the only reason i use them!
AdBrite isn't really competing with adsense. AdBrite is more site-targeting ad network, so if your site is interesting for an advertiser, then you can make good money. The network cpm and cpc are very low because they have many bad sites in their network.
AdBrite seems to have a very lax approval and monitoring system for the type of sites they allow their ads. Risky from an advertisers point of view. I've seen very reputable websites have their ads showing up on spam and scam sites due to AdBrite distribution. Even when notified, it took them 3 months to remove a known phishing site from their system. Google took action in a similar situation within hours.