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Nuffnang

finder — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:41:06 +0000

Nuffnang is an online blog advertising community, with over 118,817 bloggers spanning Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Australia. It served 5 billion impressions in the year 2009.

Nuffnang is credited with creating blogging communities in the countries it operates in. It also hosts free movie screenings and events for bloggers and clients.

In conjunction with Nuffnang’s 2nd anniversary, Nuffnang hosted the region’s first blog awards in Singapore. Over 400 bloggers from Asia Pacific attended the NAPBAs.

As of 2010, Nuffnang has a total of 40 Nuffies (Nuffnang staff) worldwide. Currently, its Facebook fanpage has over 10,000 fans.

On September 2009, Nuffnang Malaysia launched Project Alpha, Malaysia first online TV Show about bloggers.

Other Information

Industry : Internet, Advertising, Blogging
Founders :
- Timothy Tiah
- Cheo Ming Shen
Headquarters : Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Philippines, Melbourne, Penang
Area served : Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Australia
Key people :
- Timothy Tiah
- Cheo Ming Shen

Chitika

finder — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:49:17 +0000

Chitika, Inc. (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) is a search-targeted advertising network. The company serves over 2 billion ads per month across more than 34,000 websites. The company was co-founded in 2003 by Chief Executive Officer Venkat Kolluri and Chief Technology Officer Alden DoRosario, both former Terra Lycos data mining engineers. The name Chitika means “in a snap” in the South Indian language of Telugu.

Chitika offers search-targeted advertising solutions. The ad units can be used on websites alongside with Google AdSense or as an AdSense alternative.

Other Information

Type : Private
Industry : Internet advertising
Founded : Shrewsbury, Massachusetts (May, 2003)
Headquarters : Westborough, Massachusetts, USA
Key people :
- Venkat Kolluri, Co-Founder, CEO
- Alden DoRosario, Co-Founder, CTO
Products : Chitika Premium

Clicksor

finder — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:41:46 +0000

Clicksor.com Inc. is an online contextual advertising network based in Richmond Hill, Ontario. The network is launched by its sister company Yesup Ecommerce Solutions Inc., which was founded in 1999^.

Microsoft adCenter

finder — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:34:33 +0000

Microsoft adCenter (formerly MSN adCenter), is the division of the Microsoft Network (MSN) responsible for MSN’s advertising services. Microsoft adCenter provides pay per click advertisements.

Yahoo! Publisher Network

finder — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:18:51 +0000

The Yahoo! Publisher Network (abbreviated YPN) is a beta advertising network launched on August 2, 2005 by Yahoo!. As the service is currently in Beta, it is currently only accepting US-Based publishers. YPN provides cost per click contextual advertising as well as various tools and services to assist publishers in building and improving their websites.In May 2006, YPN caused some controversy by shutting down accounts used for MySpace layout sites. The reason given was the quality of traffic was very poor.

Also in May 2006, the Yahoo! Publisher Network’s blog posted an updated version of their requirements from publishers. YPN have now explicitly stated visitors must recognize advertisements as advertisements, and images/media may not be placed to induce accidental clicks.

Other Information

Type : Public (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Industry : Internet advertising
Founded : Santa Clara, California, (March 1, 1995)
Headquarters : 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, California, USA

AdWords

finder — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:15:52 +0000

AdWords is Google’s flagship advertising product and main source of revenue. Google’s total advertising revenues were USD$21 billion in 2008. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads. The AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution. Google’s text advertisements are short, consisting of one title line and two content text lines. Image ads can be one of several different Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standard sizes.

Sales and Support for Google’s AdWords division is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the company’s third-largest US facility behind its Mountain View, California, headquarters and New York City office. Engineering for AdWords is based in Mountain View, California.

adsense

finder — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:09:41 +0000

AdSense is an ad serving application run by Google Inc. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and video advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis. Google beta tested a cost-per-action service, but discontinued it in October 2008 in favor of a DoubleClick offering (also owned by Google).

Other Information

Developer: Google Inc.
Operating system : Cross-platform (web-based application)
Type : Online advertising

Bidvertiser

finder — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:45:45 +0000

AdBrite

finder — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:38:02 +0000

AdBrite, Inc. is an online advertising network based in San Francisco, California. It was founded by Philip J. Kaplan and Gidon Wise.

AdBrite serves ads on 112,009 sites, according to their published stats, and is the 10th largest ad network on the Internet, according to Media Metrix. Attributor survey ranked AdBrite as the 6th largest ad server in 2008 with a 2% share of the market.

AdBrite was originally founded as Marketbanker.com in 2002, and relaunched as AdBrite in 2004. AdBrite is backed by Sequoia Capital., Mitsui and DAG Ventures.

On February 12, 2008 the company launched Spottt.com, a link exchange that enables sites to promote each other for free