So yesterday I was looking for additional ways to monetize my blog, as adsense on it’s own is not safe or stable. While going through some sites, I came across Adpinion. The site design was nice, neat and clean so I decided to have a look. What I found was AMAZING and is now on my blog 
I stumbled accross a digg like publisher company. You tell them if you like adverts, so they show more like that, and if you don’t press thumbs down and they will show you less adverts like that! Great isn’t it? While the company is in Beta they will pay you 100%, so they take no cut what so ever.
As you can see, the ads have a little bar along the side with their little menu. The menu has three main items. Thumbs up, thumbs down and their logo. The above is a live example of their ads, so you can hover over the icons and see for your self. There is also a 468×60 at the bottom of this page. The ads are in fact bigger than traditional ads, by roughly 15pixels.
All the ads are delivered in a Pay Per Click style, and are 100% images (from what I have found out so far) which as we all known have a better CTR rate compared to text ads. However, the only downside is that these ads are not contextual, but they are made more relevant by your own users individually rather than grouping your audience as a whole. So 2 users may be interested in your topic overall, but one may be interested in the iPod and one interested in the Zune. So it’s pointless showing them both the Zune or the iPod. So they can choose the ads by using the rating system which will make it more relevant over time!
Another great thing about Adpinion is that the earnings figure is real time! All my clicks so far have been double figure and can easily compete with AdSense without a doubt. You can see my dashboard to the left of this. I don’t know how they feel about sharing stats, so I’ve blurred them all out just to be safe. The dashboard is designed nicely, and every thing is easily readable with graphs etc. The tags are at the bottom of the page, and graphs are used through out the reports which is nice. The graphs are hourly, which can help you identify which hours are the best for earnings, impressions etc. There is also a pie chart of the votes. So far, my blog has 100% “I like it” votes, which is nice to know.
The site also has a “feedback” button which I find useful. If you have any ideas or have found bugs you can quickly let them know. If you put your email address in the box, they’ll let you know what they’ve done with your feedback too.
