Oh, those things. They're bloody awful! I believe they are operated by a company called Tribal Fusion. Very irritating.
hahahha, u funny pete. any ways, yes, people make money from it. I think it is a CPM ads where you got paid by per millions impression
Those ads are so annoying, you have to surf with the volume turned down incase you accidentally mouse over them. They must pay great though because a lot of big sites use them.
Big sites can afford to use them. Little fish, like me, wouldn't want to alienate our visitors by inflicting these horrible little noisy smileys on them!
They install there toolbar on the client. As a webmaster I don't want my visitors to go to there sites and install spywae. Just avoid them
SmileyCentral is one of the main advertisers here and offer pays with networks around $2+ per download! There are plenty of people earning from smileys thousands of dollars on a monthly basis...