Hey i just stumbled accross a marketing site called Vibrant Media and they offer this contextual advertising program for publishers called IntelliTXT so i figure if anyone has experince with this program. Here is a link with more info about intelliTXT http://www.vibrantmedia.com/whatisIntelliTXT.asp So please let me know cos this program looks good to me and what do you rate the program. Thanks
From personal experience browsing the internet, I can tell you i never click on intellitxt ads, and find them to be very misleading and, frankly annoying.
I was recently turned down by these guys because my sites didn't get enough traffic. I am currently making $200/day from AdSense... but I am not big enough for VibrantMedia? An alternative to VibrantMedia is Clicksor.
got approved on intelliTXT but never use it. Maybe I was afraid it will turn to waste like I was in clicksor
In the in-text (in-content) advertising space there are really only two players right now: Vibrant Media's Intellitxt and Kontera Techologies' AdLinks. TribalFusion has a product in the works called ContextClick, but I don't believe that it's available for the general public right now. The sentiment when in-text advertising hit the market was that it wouldn't be accepted, but today, it's become a huge incremental revenue piece to publishers such as CMP Media, Hi5 Networks, Associated Content, Howard Forums and many other major publishers across the Internet. In fact, to give you an idea who is backing it's play... Sequoia Capital (the venture capital company behind Google, Yahoo!, PayPal, Oracle, Cisco, among many others) has recently funded Kontera Technologies. The best suggestion is to signup for various programs and test them out either side by side if you have a lot of traffic, or month-to-month. That way you can determine what works best for your particular site. Having personal relationships with many large publishers, I know that Kontera's AdLinks have out-performed Google's AdSense for some, and others not... It really depends on the type of traffic you receive and the type of content within your site. It's all a guessing game until you actually start experimenting! And at the same time, know that it's not a matter of having one or the other; since in-text advertising doesn't compete with your existing display units, you can still run your affiliate ads, CPM display ads, and CPC ad units alongside. You can think of it as incremental income to your existing effective page CPM. If you are interested in in-text/in-content advertising (kontera.com/webdemo), please feel free to PM me... I can give you some pointers about what works and what doesn't. Also, if you'd like to see what Kontera can do for you and your website, I'd be happy to discuss that, as well. Best of luck, Howard Hsu.
I have a friend who uses both IntelliTXT and Adsense. He makes more with IntelliTXT because he gets more clicks from it, although Adsense pays more per click. Webmasters always find IntelliTXT annoying, but there's no doubt that it works much better with Joe Blow than Adsense because it's embedded directly into the content. How else do you explain the almost 5-to-1 CTR for the two programs on the same site?