Topic: Something better than Operation Fabulous? - page 6. (Read 10265 times)

I no longer push ads to Operation Fabulous. I spent too many hours of my time dealing with each individual website. Why can't I just make a universal bid!

One area where Operation Fabulous has room for improvement is in the process a new publisher goes through.

Right now the process requires the publisher to get approval by adding the OF adbox (script) to the site where the ads will be published and to wait for OF staff to review it and mark the site as active.  Then once that happens there are no paying ads being published until an advertiser bids a sufficient amount to get ads shown.

Until that happen the "inventory" is wasted.  By the time that paid ads might start showing, the publisher might already have moved on to some other online advertising platform.

This is particularly a problem where the publisher is selective and chooses the "explicit approval" option in which only ads that get the publisher's approval are allowed to be shown.  In review of the advertisers many are for sites that would be considered spammy, scammy or just not a good fit for the publisher's visitors.  So the publisher generally should choose this explicit inclusion mode.  But even then spending a few minutes looking at the list of ads from advertisers to include, the publisher sees these:
 
  BiddingPond (has been "coming soon" for months)
  Cash Cow Casino (closed, was a scam anyway apparently)
  FXNet - Bitcoin Ponzi (really, it was a ponzi site -- taken down after MyBitcoin)
  BitLotto - Win Big With 1 BTC  (has been 0.25 BTC since August)
  Ubitex  (long gone)
  BitMunchies (closed)
  SquareWear (for the most part closed)
  MetaCo.in (closed)
  TradeHill (closed)
  BTCOnTilt (closed)
 and on and on.

So one improvement would be do so housecleaning and weed out the inactive advertisers.

The next might be to make it so that publisher can choose from the list of active advertisers in advance rather than not starting that process until after having already begin publishing the Operation Fabulous adbox.

oh I know about that, I thought you were saying this new service called "OF" was better than operation fabulous..this is embarrassing

http://www.operationfabulous.com/

I need some advertisers for my site.. what's "OF" what's the url

I'm not getting paid anymore because I sold the website almost 5 months ago and I'm still trying to find time to finish the replacement for it. (maybe if I didn't spend so much time goofing around at bitcointalk.org...)

OF pays me all the time. I'm one of OF's biggest publishers.

I got paid several times from OF.

I added my site to the OF list of affiliates but none were every approved and I've never heard anything from them (Google AdSense were interested tho?).  While "Anonymous Ads" doesn't pay very well at least it pays.

More popular? I don't think so. Especially when people with 40k impressions seem to earn something like 0.07 BTC...
AA and OF are not the same thing.
And yes, I also think that OF should get a lot more attention.
To OF owner: Are you willing to sell it?

i think http://anonymousads.com/ is more popular

if you have used anonymousads.com please write them a review http://www.thebitcoinreview.com/site.php?site_id=834

I couldn't agree more I was looking at it yesterday it has such potential.

I think OF is awesome, but it's such a DRAG how few people use it. It's also a bummer that the owner of OF doesn't keep making improvements. There are so many awesome things that could be done to improve it.

I'm shocked that there isn't a ton of competitors out there chomping at the bits. The ad industry is a big moneymaker. Is there anything out there that competes with OF, and I don't mean pyramid schemes?