First off, I haven’t run Shopping Ads on any of my sites for awhile, due to all the problems they were having. But I thought I would look into them again since I was sitting right under the payout point the last time I looked, no need to have free money just sitting.
So I headed over to the site yesterday and noticed that their “Live Ad†wasn’t showing, but I thought well I will check it out anyway. So I signed in and took a look around grab some code and placed it on one of my sites, not by surprise my ad wasn’t displaying either, even gave it about 10 hours and still nothing.
I figured I would look to see what if they had posted any problems they were having, nothing. They had problems on May 3rd, who knows maybe it’s just a continuation of the last outage.
Well even though it’s not that much money, but it’s the principle. I know people are going to say, why are you even looking into to Shopping Ads again? Well like I said, it’s free money just sitting there.
Media Business is publishing a special report on the “10 Great Media Web Sitesâ€. The issue will be in the June 9th edition.
They are looking for nominations in the following categories, IT, trade (non-tech), business news, new launch, relaunch, b-to-b media pure play, subscription and portal, as well as the use of multimedia/video and Web2.0/community.
You can send your nominations as well a short explanation on what makes it a great site to ebooker [at] crain.com. (of course, replace the [at] with the @ sign)
The deadline for nominations is May 15th.
I have taken up the “1 for Charity Blogger Challenge” that was started by Chad over at CDF Networks. He has challenged bloggers out there to give up a spot for charity or use an empty space reserved for advertisers. Either way it’s a great thing.
The charity he has chosen to start with is the Lance Armstrong Foundation. I couldn’t think of a more deserving charity to donate to. I will also do them same.
Chad, Great job for starting this
There are going to be some new changes on all networks about affiliates promoting ringtones. Those networks that haven’t change the compliance guidelines yet, I am sure will be changing them shortly.
Copeac sent out an e-mail yesterday stated some of the new guidelines:
Effective Immediately all pages marketing ringtone offers must contain necessary compliance information. You must now display, price point, terms and conditions, and a disclaimer that the user must be over 18 or have the subscribers permission to participate. These changes are being done in an effort to show more consistency and provide more clarity to the consumers as they sign up for premium ringtone or text services. As responsible marketers it is all of our responsibility to ensure that the marketing messages are clear and consistent throughout.
In the e-mail they included the terms and conditions that must be placed on your site for each of the offers they currently have. At least everyone will be playing by the same rules and not sliding under the radar without the new terms.
Well if you were following me on Twitter on Friday you would have heard about my 3 year old daughter getting into my truck and putting the truck into gear and rolling down our driveway, across the street, and smashing into my neighbor’s house. Luckily she is alright and no one else got hurt.
If there is a positive in all this, the best place that she could have hit is where she did, right in-between their 2 garage doors. If she went through the one of the garage doors she could have damaged his truck and worse she could have been hurt. And the other garage door who knows where she would have ended up.
So here are some pictures of the aftermath:
