WidgetBucks announces Yieldsense

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	January 23rd 2008

Wow!
Based upon recent successes (1 billion ads served in 83 days= $1 mil at 1/2 penny per ad) Widgetbucks has formed what they call the “WidgetBucks Customer Council”.

This group is used as a way interpret customer response to new ideas.

One of the new ideas they are working on is called YieldSense.

YieldSense is a contextual PPC widget designed to deliver the highest yield ads based upon previous performance.

The experts say it more eloquently:

One example of new features and technology being tested by the WBCC is YieldSense(TM), a contextual, pay-per-click (PPC) ad widget that displays the highest yielding product categories and ad creative based on a revenue score that is automatically generated from past performance. We anticipate YieldSense (and specific details about it) to be more widely available in February.

What does this mean?
Does this mean that a WidgetBucks widget placed on your blog will deliver the most relevant ad to the individual viewing your page? Or does it mean that the ad served is the most popular among other like minded surfers?

I also think that they are trying to serve up the most profitable ad (profitable for the publisher) and I see this as maybe not sitting well with advertisers. It would be the same as Google Adsense telling everyone what the most expensive keywords (Adwords) are and then delivering them to everyones blog or website.
This would result in higher advertising prices and a drop in publisher payouts. A win win for WidgetBucks…until advertisers pull out.

Interesting!

Read more at WidgetBucks blog:
WidgetBucks Creates Customer Council

Mashable’s take on this:
http://mashable.com/2008/01/16/widgetbucks-yieldsense/

1 Comment »

1. My Experience with WIDGETBUCKS
   I WILL TRY TO POST THIS ON THEIR BLOG- I AM SURE THEY WILL NEVER APPROVE AND POST IT.
   ADS SUCKS but Widget bucks Not —— This is there slogan…….. But to the contrary, Not only there ads but THEY SUCK……………
   Now my experience…..
   1. I joined there publisher network in the beginning of Dec 2007. During the month of Dec 2007, I managed to get 1 referral and earned around $200 by running their ads on my websites.
   2. As they say……that actual bucks (AFTER CHECK FOR CLICK FRAUD ETC) will be posted under MY BUCKS within first 10 day of next month (e.g. FINAL Dec earnings will be posted by 10th of Jan) they posted my earnings as $200.00 + earning from referral (They didn’t deduct a cent from the listed earning i had in MY WIDGET page of the statistics)
   3. I earned around $ 150 + earning from referral during the month of Jan 2008.
   4. On Jan 30th I received a message from WIDGETBUCKS TEAM stating that I should respond to the message in 48 hours else- My account will be suspended.
   REASON GIVEN - MY WEBSITES CONTAIN AN ADULT CONTENT.
   Please feel free to checkout my sites and see for yourself if there is any ADULT CONTENT. My Websites where widget bucks code is placed: -
   LenovoRu
   WebHv
   DebugRu
   HowItWorkz
   5. I responded to there message via email as well as there support site http://support.mpire.com stating that this is untrue and they should recheck the website and there records.
   6. Now I got a response back stating MY WEBSITES ARE NON-ENGLISH websites and they mistakenly said it contains an ADULT CONTENT.
   Again I replied telling them all my websites are in English, they are free to checkout by themselves if they are NON-ENGLISH or ENGLISH
   7. I responded to the message stating my websites are in ENGLISH and I SIGNED up as publisher only in DEC 2007, IF MY websites are NON-ENGLISH I would have not been approved as a PUBLISHER as per WIDGETBUCKS site requirement.
   8. Got reply this time - that MY account has been suspended because of CLICK FRAUD (see this is 3rd statement for one issue).
   This time the Widget bucks team member re-activated my account and I was back up on Feb 4, 2008.
   9. I read on there blog that all of the publisher are paid for the month of Dec 2007 by Feb 5th 2008, whereas I was not paid.
   10. I opened a ticket regarding the payment for the month of Dec 2007, and guess what…………
   11. The response I got — “Your account was suspended again for click-fraud. We aim to build a healthy network and seek publishers who generate natural traffic and clicks.”
   AND HE SUSPENDED MY ACCOUNT AGAIN.

   POINT TO NOTE HERE IS - ONE OF THEIR TEAM MEMBER HAD ACTIVATED MY ACCOUNT 2 DAYS AGO BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY WERE AT FAULT. NOW WHEN I ASKED FOR PAYMENT THEY DEACTIVATED MY ACCOUNT AGAIN.
   12. WHEN I responded back ….I get this message —
   ”This suspension was for the previous clicks, December - January. You are welcome to apply again for the program but this account will remain suspended.”
   Point to note here is - As I mention above they NOTICE the CLICK FRAUD when I ASKED for the PAYMENT and not the TIME when they POSTED MY ACTUAL EARNINGS.
   My Dear PUBLISHERS please let me know what does this entire STORY MEANS to YOU.
   I am posting this on all the blogs so that my publisher friends gets a heads up that what all WIDGET BUCKS CAN do with anyone. THEY CAN SUSPEND YOUR ACCOUNT EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE NO REASON AND EAT YOUR ENTIRE EARNINGS.
   At the END I would just wish you all LUCK and Widget bucks also ALL THE BEST as they enjoy my EARNINGS.
   Thanks for your patience to read this on blog.
   -Publisher-

   Comment by Publisher — 02-7-08 @ 3:34 pm

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