Feedster Ad Network?

Om Malik, Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at 9:49 AM PT Comments (3)

Since early this morning I have been watching Sun’s Network Computing Ads show up in most of my Feedster-powered feeds. They are tastefully unobtrusive, and effective. And Sun is a big advertiser. Them paying attention to RSS, and blogs - not bad!!! I saw them nearly a dozen times, and eventually clicked on one. Not bad conversion rate either. Still, wondering if FeedSter is going to become an RSS Ad Network ala Adsense for RSS before either Yahoo or Google get there. They have partnered with Adbrite, and they might be thinking about podcast ads as well!

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May 1st, 2005
11:23 PM PT

The Syndication Mess

In general, I try to keep expletives out of my posts, but this one will be an exception. Tempers have run high. You’ve been warned. Recent news about Google’s new test feature to place ads in RSS feeds have caused…

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April 26th, 2005
9:53 AM PT
Tony Gentile said:

Hey Om… I think this is already understood to be true:

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April 26th, 2005
1:07 PM PT
Mike Rowehl said:

Understood by me! :-)

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