A quick congratulations to WidgetBucks ad network for announcing their VC funding today.
I’m looking forward to seeing how the injection of funds helps this already promising ad network to grow in what they offer publishers.
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20 Responses to “WidgetBucks Secures $10M Funding to Expand Ad Network” - Add Yours
Noobpreneur
June 12th, 2008 2:57 pm
Darren,
Fresh fund will develop this ad network to be better… IMO, WidgetBucks is not there yet – Hopefully with the new $10 mil. will better its already promising service.
Cheers!
James
June 12th, 2008 2:57 pm
I no longer use widgetbucks, i left it few months ago since my blog is outside US. They said they will include more ways to monetize international traffic. So let’s see..
Amit Bhawani
June 12th, 2008 4:08 pm
First they offer high CPC than adsense & adbrite – http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/widgetbucks-beats-adsense-and-adbrite/ then the revenue increases further more to 28cents/click on an average http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/widget-bucks-stats-28-centsclick-minimum/ and at the end of the moment just before payment time they dont allow NON-US publishers – http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/non-us-publishers-not-to-be-paid-widgetbucks/ wow thats nice and a very honour to all the publishers who helped them in getting those millions of impressions. Thousands of publishers replaced their other ad networks with widgetbucks in a hope to make better revenue but finally were lead to nothing.
In short WidgetBucks sucks because of some wrong policies and announcement of the same at the wrong time. May be they are happy with the number of new signups you are referring to them, which makes them increase their network but they cannot ever reach the other top ppc ad network.
Shaun Carter
June 12th, 2008 4:38 pm
That’s some great news for WidgetBucks. I never had any luck with their ad network and made nothing despite testing among several different types of sites.
They have a good service and a unique take on banner advertising, but it just didn’t work out for me.
Amit Bhawani
June 12th, 2008 4:48 pm
@ James : Widget Bucks now offers CPM Pay for International traffic, though its worse than other CPM networks and the main problem with WidgetBucks is the ad impressions tracking since they track very less clicks and ultimately the advertiser is happy and publisher is sad.
Doudy
June 12th, 2008 5:11 pm
Congratulations on the Book, I am sure its great like your Blog. Keep up the good work.
jhay
June 12th, 2008 6:08 pm
I hope this will help those outside the US to monetize their traffic, WidgetBucks really is promising, but being limited to the US is just uncool.
Make Money Talks
June 12th, 2008 9:17 pm
All congratz goes to Wigetbucks ;)
Muscle Post
June 12th, 2008 10:01 pm
This is really exciting! I haven’t started using widgetbucks on my blog yet but I’m definitely going to look into it now. Thanks Darren.
Joe
June 12th, 2008 10:50 pm
I didn’t like the way the widgetbucks ads looked, so I stopped using them. This might be a reason to start looking back into them again.
broalex
June 13th, 2008 12:39 am
They might be a nice advertising system. And of what I`ve heard till now , they pay publishers pretty well , but I don`t really enjoy the look of their ads , they aren`t very relevant on my niche either. I thing Adsense performs better than any other contextual advertising , for bloggers and other publishers. To be honest small blogs can earn better from selling private ads , than looking at half a buck a day.
Michael
June 13th, 2008 1:22 am
If this makes WidgetBucks a better ad network I might actually start using it again.
arshad
June 13th, 2008 1:47 am
this is good news for me ! its been 4 months since i placed the ads in my blog and yet i havent reached 25$ [ excluding the bonus 25 ].hope it improves .
Bryn
June 13th, 2008 1:58 am
That seems like a LOT of money for an ad network, I think I’m going to check out what they offer because that’s pretty awesome. The problem I think is initially seeing/hearing their name sounds like it’s some stupid bucks/click program which are springing up everywhere but you never know until you check it out I guess, just my first perception.
David Cheong
June 13th, 2008 2:37 am
Improvement will be always happy to hear about and publisher/advertiser will hope for all the best for both side.
Hope it will bring more earning too.
Bibokz
June 13th, 2008 1:23 pm
Good news, they need to do something better than Yahoo and Adsense search campaign.
Winning Startups
June 14th, 2008 12:03 am
I haven’t tried WidgetBucks but will give it a shot. I think its interesting you are no longer using google adsense on this blog. Just got my account activated for shopzilla, am also trying that for a while to see if it works a bit.
A Suresh Kumar
June 14th, 2008 2:28 am
This is really excellent. i haven’t used WidgetBucks in my blog. i will try out
Tinh
June 16th, 2008 2:15 pm
I hate WidgetBucks as they cut nearly 20 publishers as downlines that I have referred to them when I changed my email. I had a new email and changed my current email, they cut all earnings so far and nearly 20 referrals on my account. Anyone had the same problem? Thanks
Windows Vista Help
June 17th, 2008 7:30 am
This is really excellent.but CPM for widgetbucks is less compared to adsense
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