A new competitor for AdSense

April 27th, 2007 by alex

After Yahoo launched YPN which is still in beta and is not accepting international publishers Ask.com is preparing to launch their own contextual ad network.

InterActiveCorp the company who owns Ask.com, Match.com, Ticketmaster, and Evite claims that they reached 34 million unique users per month and their new ad network will be incorporated into its Ask Sponsored Listings (ASL) platform. The launch of Ask contextual ad network should be expected at the and of the May for mid-sized publishers and for smaller publishers is expected later this year according to Clickz News.

With all the AdSense banned accounts and with some new features Ask’s ad network could be a real competitor for Google’s AdSense. Some of the options that will be available with Ask will be ads transparency and an other strong one is that they plan to inform content partners of their revenue share up front, rather than leave them guessing about the fluctuations in eCPM like in AdSense or other networks.

The most strong point of AdSense it’s their high payouts which I guess Ask won’t be able to compare at, but this is only my opinion and we should wait for them to launch their new service and see the facts.

You can read the official IAC press realease here.

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11 Responses

  1. SigT Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 11:13 am

    Ask Sponsored Listings…

    El buscador de Ask (anteriormente Ask Jeeves), una posible alternativa a buscadores como Google, Yahoo! o Live (y el primer buscador de preguntas-respuestas de la WWW aunque actualmente uno de los más usados sea el Yahoo! Answers) anuncia su servicio …

  2. Joe Says:
    May 2nd, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    Thanks for that comment I removed the auto hits from exchange link :) I lost over 1K visits from it but hey i love my adsense :)

    Thanks

  3. alex Says:
    May 2nd, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    Removing your site from autohits doesn’t assure that you keep your adsense account, you should e-mail google and tell them that there was a mistake and will never happen again !

  4. Joe Says:
    May 2nd, 2007 at 1:01 pm

    Good thought :) I’ll do that :)

  5. Inspirational Quote Maniac Says:
    May 2nd, 2007 at 11:07 pm

    That’s good.

    The fiercer the competition, the better will it be for us publishers.

  6. Joe Says:
    May 3rd, 2007 at 6:14 am

    So is there a place to join to their ypn ?

  7. alex Says:
    May 3rd, 2007 at 7:51 am

    Yes you can apply for Yahoo Publisher Network only if you are from USA… (that is not my case) but I suggest you should try to increase your AdSense earnings and stick with AdSense

  8. Joe Says:
    May 3rd, 2007 at 7:56 am

    Hm ok ill try to find it if not, please could you provide me the url, yes i am from HAWAII :)

  9. alex Says:
    May 3rd, 2007 at 8:41 am

    Then you should try it http://publisher.yahoo.com/

  10. Vikram Says:
    May 4th, 2007 at 11:19 am

    This is really a Good news

  11. Ravi Says:
    May 29th, 2007 at 10:00 am

    Gr8 news

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