Comments on: Feedburner Ad Network – First Impression Review

By: HairySwede

HairySwede — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:48:24 +0000

Very… very late to this conversation. Not sure if I’ll get a response but… do you know if feedburner ad network is the same as the google adsense offered through feedburner? I am eligible for adsense through feedburner… but of course adsense is free to anyone so that’s not all that special. But I just wanted to find out if feedburner ad network is a different option that comes with an increase in subscribers and traffic.

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Framgångsrik reklam via RSS? — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:18:35 +0000

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By: Market Participant

Market Participant — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:42:28 +0000

One thing I’d like to see is that FAN would support payment by methods other than paypal. Paypal is a real nuisance, and no one likes having to pay the fee’s.

I hope they can switch out to doing direct deposit at some point.

By: Feedburner Ad Network - Three Months In

Feedburner Ad Network - Three Months In — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:42:08 +0000

[...] Feedburners ads are the ones you’ll see in my RSS feeds. My first impression review of FAN is still pretty accurate to how I’ve found the system. [...]

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By: chrish

chrish — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:08:20 +0000

About how many subscribers do you need to have to be considered for FAN? Hundreds? thousands? hundreds of thousands?

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 16 May 2006 07:40:13 +0000

not all of them Simon – I do try but some days it gets beyond me :-)

By: simon

simon — Tue, 16 May 2006 07:34:31 +0000

Wow, nice money for something you don’t have to look at anymore and doesn’t invade your website design.

And as usual you answer all your comments quit quick, tx.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 16 May 2006 07:19:18 +0000

It’s going well Simon. Not staggering numbers in terms of income but I think I’m up to $150 since I started just under a month ago (that’s for ProBlogger’s earnings). Not bad I guess :-)

By: simon

simon — Tue, 16 May 2006 07:00:15 +0000

Hello Darren,

Any updates on your FAN experience??

Kind regards,
Simon

By: David

David — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:08:02 +0000

I had been running Adsense for Feeds for several months, and just started using the Feedburner Ad Network at the beginning of this month (feel free to check out my feed to see the FAN ads in action). After a week, I dtched Adsens for Feeds altogether and moved all my RSS advertising to Feedburner. Without revealing specific numbers, I am doing much, much better with FAN over Adsense.

By: James

James — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:52:58 +0000

Hi Darren, when you say in the beginning of your post that you had limited success with AdSense in your feed, what do you mean exactly? How were you able to show AdSense ads previously in RSS feeds? If you could clarify a bit, thank you.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:35:46 +0000

Nice reply Rick – appreciate you taking the time out to answer those questions.

Vincent – yes that was another question I had. I’ve heard that ads that are posts in and of themselves do much better.

I’m not sure that I like them or would use them but they do perform from what people have told me.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:19:48 +0000

Sounds good, but I find it very strange that feedburner doesnt offer the standalone ads. Or am I missing something? Pheedo reported, and I can imagine, that standalone RSS ads are far more successful than inline ads.

By: Rick Klau

Rick Klau — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:13:27 +0000

Hey Darren -

I’m slipping, this is *hours* after your post. :) Apologies…

Re: ad numbers, we’re working very hard at bringing more advertisers to the table. We have a full-time sales force who’s out meeting with agencies and advertisers every week, and this coming Monday we’ll be launching a self-serve interface for advertisers who want to buy ads by channel in FAN.

We’re looking into configurable presentation on ad formats, I like your suggestion and we’ll keep you in the loop as we iterate there.

We update the ad dashboard each night, which means you’ll always be able to see stats (impressions, clicks, estimated revenue) up to midnight of the prior day.

Re: estimated payments and payment timeframes – you’re absolutely right that this is something publishers should pay attention to. Like any network, we’re estimating payments to account for lags in people paying their bills, etc. As we develop more history with known advertisers, our ability to close the gap in the payment window will increase – and while we’re being somewhat conservative with our estimated payment #s, our goal is to be as transparent as possible with our publishers regarding how much we’ll pay and when. (Self-serve ads – mentioned above – will also eliminate any payment gap, as the ads will be paid up front. So that’ll help too.)

On the support front, we’re rolling out a forum for FAN and a more detailed FAQ so that the website reflects the contents of the email you got (with some additional info) – as things go forward, any thoughts on what needs to be in there is absolutely welcome.

Finally, you asked about the provision in the TOS about the 45 day payment window for Ad Partners. In cases with third party ad networks that we may use from time to time, we will negotiate tighter payment windows with them which allow us to pay our publishers more quickly and reliably than we can with individual agencies. As for brokering deals for publishers directly (your comment towards the end), our intention right now is to sell by channel, not by individual feeds.

If you want to have an ‘advertise here’ link in your feed, here’s a link to the FeedFlare that you can use:

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/static/flareunits/adflare.xml

Thanks again for using FeedBurner and the thoughtful analysis, and please keep in touch!

–Rick

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By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:17:02 +0000

nice info Darren, I’ll definitely try to participate in this program

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:10:04 +0000

Hey Darren,

Welcome back…

Did Feedburner give any idea of a time-frame for the experiment? I have been using feedburner for over 6 months. I don’t have that many subscribers, but I would be very interested in using the service.

Joe

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:13:41 +0000

You just have to have a warm spot in your heart for spammers – first they try to fill our blogs with their stinking spammy detritus and then they have the incredible affrontery to tell you not to delete their posts!

Makes you wonder about their general level of intelligence – their IQ must be smaller than their hat size.

By: Stuart Robertson

Stuart Robertson — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:37:43 +0000

I’ve been very happy with Feedburner so far, and I’d be very interested in seeing how a CPM Ads for Feeds program shakes out. I guess it really depends on what the renumeration is like — but it’s certainly got my attention.

By: John

John — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:05:35 +0000

**STOP DELETING MY COMMENTS!**….

From Darren:

I have deleted the rest of your comment John – your comments are being deleted because they are spammy!

You are welcome to leave comments on my posts if they are relevant to the topic at hand.

This is a post about feedburner and it’s ad network. If you have something to write about it I’d welcome your comments. You’ve left comments on a number of my posts – none of your comments have related to the topics of those posts. All of your comments are virtually the same.

If you are promoting another product or site and have nothing of value to add to the topic then your comments will be deleted.

Comments like ‘great article – visit this site because it’ll make you money’ are not value adding comments.

If you leave comments on multiple posts that are ’spammy’ you do nothing other than waste your time, my time and bring down the reputation of the site you’re trying to promote (which I have contacted to complain to about your activities).

Bloggers have had long frustrating battles with comment spammers and have little patience for those who do it. You might genuinely not grasp the ettiquette of leaving comments on blogs and I’m willing to be patient and gracious to help you understand it – but it’s very difficult to do so when you don’t even leave a genuine email address.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me via my contact form – I’d be happy to talk to you further.

I’ve also outlined ProBlogger’s comment policy here.