Microsoft Launching AdSense Competitor on Aug 27!

[vizilla]

You heard it here first! :rasta:

adCenter Blog: Announcing the U.S. release of Microsoft Content Ads Beta

This could be a GOLDMINE like YPN:

1) Crappy targeting. Mortgage ads on a MySpace = RAIN
2) High payouts to compete w/ the 800-lb gorilla Google

 

[DruSam]

I don't see anything that says they are opening up to publishers...

 

[SeoDave]

I got the email from them a couple days ago. I thought the same thing as you, vizilla. JACKPOT. Dru, if they don't have publishers how will the content ads be served up? I know they say it will be on MSN properties but they also say: "PREMIUM PARTNERS". I think the key is becoming one of those. ;-) I think they could eventually roll them out to normal publishers as well.

 

[Lee.]

I don't see anything that says they are opening up to publishers...

me neither...

 

[DruSam]

I got the email from them a couple days ago. I thought the same thing as you, vizilla. JACKPOT. Dru, if they don't have publishers how will the content ads be served up? It may be beta, and might be hard to get into, but I think they have to open it up to publishers.

oh no doubt they have publishers, what I meant to say was publishers who aren't getting 500,000 uniques per day, the small-timers.

 

[vizilla]

Oops...my bad...should have read the fine print. But this is definitely a step in the right direction...Microsoft would be very stupid not to release a competitor for one of Google's biggest product besides Search.

 

[Andrew]

what I think of this thread:

 

[productionhead]

This is for advertisers putting ads on other msn sites other than search but once their publisher program drops im gonna check out