Adsense vs do it yourself

I am thinking of removing adsense from my site and because my site is comprised of articles, I was thinking that each article could have a sponsor that pays a monthly or yearly fee. Instead of adsense, there would be a box at the top with the link and a description and would not look out of place. What do you think of this idea? Will it work? Thanks.

 

Well it depends
It could be hard to sell/manage that many link sales

 

I have become sick of adsense and have since removed half of there ads from my main site, www.e30owners.com/forums/ gonna sell private ads instead as my monthly page impressions have finally gone over the 100,000 mark...

 

Finding sponsors is really hard unless you have an authority site.