AdBrite’s InVideo Advertising

Posted By: Bob Buskirk on February 20th, 2007
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The other day I logged into AdBrite to take a look at my earnings. I rarely even go in there and look because I really do not use AdBrite that much. While looking at my earnings I saw a new thing for videos. Wondering what it was all about I took a look. I discovered AdBrite is offering a very nice video advertising solution. Unlike ValueClick’s video advertising solution AdBrite uses their own web player, much like YouTube.

AdBrite has a video that tells you all about this new service and the video itself shows how the ads are displayed in your video. Upon watching the video I was very surprised at how unobtrusive the ads really were. The video player is a lot like YouTube’s. The cool thing about it is just like YouTube you are given a code to embed the video onto not just your website, any website. So say you have a very popular video and a lot of people post it on their blog, with YouTube you basically get nothing for it, but with AdBrite’s player you get paid even if the video is not being played from your page! Here is an example video that I used for the SilverStone LC14MC HTPC Case review on ThinkComputers.

This all sounds great, but there are some downfalls. The biggest is that you have to host to video file. If your videos are very popular then this could rack up a large bandwidth bill and using a lot of bandwidth will also slow down your site. Second the file can’t just be any movie file it has to be .FLV. This can be a pain for some who are just used to uploading their video straight to YouTube.

As far as how much you get paid I am really not sure. I set this up yesterday and when I go into my AdBrite earnings under the videos it says so data is available so I am not sure if I am even making any money! I will keep you updated over the next few weeks to see how things go. If you want to signup for AdBrite do it via my referall link HERE!

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2 Responses to “AdBrite’s InVideo Advertising”

Ashwin said on February 21st, 2007 at 1:11 pm

Hmmm that looks interesting. Can you choose the advert it displays?

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Bob Buskirk Reply:
February 21st, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Right now it is displaying the default ad for the Technology / Computer category. To them this is a “network” ad. If an advertiser wants to advertise in your ads you have to approve them. So unless someone wants to advertise in your videos you are stuck with the defaut ad, but that ad does make you money.

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