Adbrite Closing Down - End of an Era

by Musa_Aykac

Posted: 11 years ago 41 replies

Sad to see one of the bigger advertising networks crumble

Dear adBrite Publisher,

Over the last few weeks, adBrite and its management have been evaluating the go-forward plan for the business. Given market conditions and certain financial liabilities, in working with our lenders, we have decided to cease operations on Feb 1, 2013.

This is a difficult decision for all of us at adBrite. However, after much deliberation this seems to be the best course of action despite the impact it will have on all the employees, clients and partners who helped build this business. There will be a team in place as needed to assist with winding down.
Thank you for being part of the adBrite community.

The adBrite Team

#adbrite #closing #end #era

Cyberstorm 11 years ago

I was considering testing Adbrite traffic for a handful of CPA offers just last week. Boy am I glad I didn't pull the trigger there!!

This is a shock though! I used to be an Adbrite publisher way back in 2007. Their payouts were always efficient and I never had any issues with - well - except for the low CPC.
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PerformanceMan 11 years ago

A lot of people have code to remove now!
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zpoll92 11 years ago

Yeah, its quite unexpected. However if you are using them, start to remove their codes and change to another ad network.
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johnben1444 11 years ago

RIP Adbrite.

Perhaps as they diminish the few surviving ones might be able to pull more clients together and perform better.
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MikeFriedman 11 years ago

Sounds like they were borrowing to stay afloat and finally lenders said no more.
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Free Classified 11 years ago

Any good alternative to Adbrite and google?
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yukon Banned 11 years ago

Lol, where's all the guys suggesting Adbrite as an Adsense alternative?
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- paulgl 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  Lol, where's all the guys suggesting Adbrite as an Adsense alternative?
  
  Or the "adbrite is so unfair! They just closed my business down...."
  
  However, to call it the end of an era would be quite a stretch.
  
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  yukon Banned 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by paulgl
  
  Or the "adbrite is so unfair! They just closed my business down...."
  
  However, to call it the end of an era would be quite a stretch.
  
  Paul
  
  Have a look at the Adbrite sites footer links, the Press page hasn't been updated since Nov. 2011, probably a tip off where the business was headed.
  
  Check this page out: adBrite - Advertise on Adsense Alternatives
  
  I noticed when searching G that a few blogs mention Adbrite has been looking for a buyer, apparently that didn't work out.
  
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brettb 11 years ago

Wow, that's shame, I used to get a bit of money from my InfoBarrels.

There are plenty of alternatives out there though, if you have good traffic then you'll have eager advertisers. I've had a record month since ditching AdSense on most of my sites.
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jaisonjohn 11 years ago

Adbrite was a definite alternate for guys who lost Adsense and sad that its closing
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Qadabra 11 years ago

We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw the news this morning!
We can imagine this will definitely create a wave in the industry and are already seeing publishers who are quickly looking for alternatives. Which platforms are you guys considering?
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allonline 11 years ago

Got this email this morning, they owe me $800 as well. Nothing on the website about it closing or what happens to the money owed. I was using them as first advertiser, with Lijit as the alternative code and Adsense as the Lijit alternative code to mop up any international traffic on my most trafficked site. Got banned by Google on it recently as i accidentally updated the code on one section with videos to include Adsense and a bad video from Youtube got auto-included on a page and they picked up on it and banned the site. No good arguing youtube shouldn't have stuck it there for the tag that was fetched (Nazi video on a board game video tag) they dont care.

Made $300 to $400 a on there as well with the site, had Adbrite as first Ads as it paid more slightly than Google (low value ads). Now stuck with just Lijit until i find something else.
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whland

11 years ago

I heard about this on webhostingtalk.com I have an account with them but never made anything. I was unaware of the closure as I had used an email that I hardly use to sign up with them. I checked it just a bit ago and I got the same email.

For alternatives you might try adclickmedia.

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11 years ago

Originally Posted by whland

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Lovelogic

11 years ago

Tried Clicksor once unlikely to ever again.
An alternative is Responsive Ads and has some interesting features.

PS: Anybody know if Adbrite's sleazy sister Black Label Ads is going down as well?

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andra33 11 years ago

Are they going to pay any pending earnings that publishers may have? They haven't said anything about that.
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Qadabra

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Lovelogic

Tried Clicksor once unlikely to ever again.
An alternative is Responsive Ads and has some interesting features.

PS: Anybody know if Adbrite's sleazy sister Black Label Ads is going down as well?

I assume they're shutting down as well.

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n3o 11 years ago

are they going to settle the pending amount with the publisher and advertiser ?
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- yukon Banned 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by n3o
  
  are they going to settle the pending amount with the publisher and advertiser ?
  
  Their website doesn't even exist. Looks like they skipped town.
  
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multimastery 11 years ago

Well they sure need to post an official message on their website that's for sure.
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lior199 11 years ago

We dont lose anything,when i used them i didnt earn much money to compare adsense.
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MoneyClick 11 years ago

RIP Adbrite, hello Ayha I guess
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36burrows 11 years ago

Their ads were terrible anyway, I'm not really surprised.
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MoneyClick 11 years ago

I've had experience with both AdClickMedia and Clicksor, to be honest Ayha and Adbrite seemed to be the only decent ones out there, unless you wanna go down the Google route.

Dave
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Josh MacDonald 11 years ago

Adbrite was great for sites of mine that didn't fall under Adsense TOS. How unfortunate!
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Isaiah Coe 11 years ago

Wow, adbrite was my adsnese alternate. But I wasn't making much.

Hey they ow me like 4 buck! (lol)
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asiriusthoth 11 years ago

I remember putting them on my Pink Floyd fanclub site many years back. The results were much less than Adsense, but did deliver on payments.
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kentooz 11 years ago

I have account in adbrite and blacklabelads. Yes i see in my account. Maybe someday adbrite open with new format. Now #1 alternative adsense is media.net from yahoo and bing.
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Obs3rver 11 years ago

On the advertiser side,there was a lot of bad traffic to sift through....
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georgescifo 11 years ago

I also tried Adbrite few years back, but didn't find it useful when compared with other ad services such as Google Adsense.
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- kcube 11 years ago
  
  I didn't get any mail. I have 80$ to get. will they pay?? how to get it?
  
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jpboxersox 11 years ago

AdBrite made me pennies and Adsense makes me x,xxx. Another alternative that I had somewhat success but not as good as Adsense is Casale Media.
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Loopydupe 11 years ago

I am surprised that adbrite is going down, but i am sure that the owner of adbrite is Rich LOL.
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JoshuaReen 11 years ago

this is a sad news for those why were using as adsense alternative. but now its gone. I think, no one can stay alive in the presence of adsense. adsense is the giant.
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tansks

11 years ago

Why not they just sell off their business instead of shutting down?

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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by tansks

Why not they just sell off their business instead of shutting down?

Looks like they tried to sell the business, nobody wanted it (lol).

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On January 28, 2013, AdBrite sent an email to all of its publishers and advertisers stating that it would cease operations as of February 1, 2013 after a deal to sell the company fell through.

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TheAdsenseGuy 11 years ago

Adbright was a garbage network. It paid like $.02 per click. LOL That is not an alternative to adsense. Glad it's gone.
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mrizos 11 years ago

This is one of those good ends of an era...
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BAC 11 years ago

adbrite fails in tracking invalid clicks.....so closed.
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