AdBrite

AdBrite gives you a variety of ways in which you can earn money at your website. On top of convertional graphic banners or Flash animations + text-based ads, they have Interstitial Ads and Inline Ads. If you enable the interstitial ad, a webpage at your website can all of a sudden switch to a sponsored webpage. (See the sceenshot below to the left.) If you enable inline ads, as many as 8 words will be double-underlined on each webpage. And if you place a cursor over one of them, small window pops up with a commercial ad.

Although they aren't around over weekends, AdBrite's support team is committed to helping their clients promptly. In order to request assistance, you will just need to fill out a contact form. And they will get back to you within 24 hours or by the end of the next business day.

AdBrite could be your great ad partner. But they have several serious problems. Take a look at the second screenshot at the bottom, for example. Words that are doubled-underlined are "video," "august," "available," "effects," "order," "click," "link" and "entering." The most disturbing feature of their inline ads is that they will change cases. And who wants to have additional information on "effects' and "entering"? Unfortunately, AdBrite won't let you use your own customized list of words where inline ads will kick in.

The worst part of AdBrite is its relationship with illegitimate groups like DriveCleaner.com and PCTURBOPRO. If you have interstitial ads or even banners enabled, your browser can be taken over by DriveCleaner's pop window and webpage. If you remove AdBrite's ad codes, those pop windows still spring up, replacing existing banners with theirs. That's quite disturbing, don't you think? We certainly have no idea whether AdBrite is willingly associated with DriveCleaner or actually a victim of server infiltration. But that shouldn't really matter to you if your visitors stop coming to your website because of DriveCleaner's or PCTURBOPRO's pop windows. And you can be even labeled as an accomplice, and visitors may never come back.

Furthermore, they have a browser compatibility problem. Suppose that you have a code from AdBrite, Ad Network A and Ad Network B. Let's also suppose that you use Ad Network A as AdBrite's backup and Ad Network B as Ad Network A's backup. When you install AdBrite's ad code and there is no advertiser around, AdBrite's system is such that Ad Network A's ads may be skipped and Ad Network B's ads may be displayed, depending on the web browser you use. We tested 5 web browsers for Mac and found that Firefox and OmniPage have trouble in this regard. The video below documents this issue. Since there is no advertiser, ads from Canep Media are supposed to show up. But they are skipped, depending on the browser, and Amazon ads are displayed, instead.