Vibrant

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   pauldeedsposted 15 years ago

   We are currently running a test of Vibrant intext ads.  Vibrant works similarly to Kontera.  We will only be running the Vibrant ads in the HubPages share of impressions on hubs that have Kontera enabled (in place of Kontera).

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   relacheposted 15 years ago

   How long do you think you'll have the ads running before you have enough info to report back on the results?

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   shinujohn2008posted 15 years ago

   Intext ads are always hated by visitors.

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      cosetteposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      i have to agree. whenever i stumble upon articles on the web that have them, i stop reading because i feel it is just a 'land mine' of keywords, and i felt that way before HubPages. too distracting, which is why i don't use Kontera ads on my hubs.

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   Whitney05posted 15 years ago

   So are you getting rid of Kontera and using Vibrant instead?

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   sunforgedposted 15 years ago

   ^----That decision is probably based on test results
   
   
   http://www.vibrantmedia.com/  they look better than Kontera, strong advertiser base

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   Nelle Hoxieposted 15 years ago

   Does anybody here have any experience with them? From what I read it seems that you need really high volume to be successful.

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      Whitney05posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Same with Kontera. You don't really get good results unless you have high traffic volume. In most cases, they don't benefit you. That's probably going to be the same with all contextual ads.
      
      The only thing I'd like to see in a contextual ad is that they're relevant to the page. Kontera pulls a keyword say 'grass' in a hub about feeding tortoises, and puts an ad about dead grass or something random to the keyword.

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   sunforgedposted 15 years ago

   heres a small case study:
   
   http://www.chrisguthrie.net/konteras-co … -prevails/
   
   He says something I agree with "that he only displayed the ads to guests because he felt that intext is to obtrusive"
   
   i agree, I experimented w/ intext on my bigger sites and ending up feeling is was damaging to my return rate and made me lose credibility
   
   as a viewer, I hate those with a passion but never used adblock plus because Its my business to see ads, found this eventually that let me blacklist certain networks
   
   http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=564572

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   Nelle Hoxieposted 15 years ago

   I know that I hate these kinds of ads and usually won't stay on a site with them unless the content is spectacular and necessary.
   
   In all honesty it's not the kind of new monetization strategy I was hoping for. I've never had any luck with Kontera on any of my sites. Even high content - high traffic.

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