Monetize Your Blog With Image Ads
There’s a new monetization service from AdBrite which is quite promising. It’s called BritePic and offers to overlay assorted controls on top of your images, as well as unobtrusive advertisements. Their list of features is long, but rather unimpressive:
# Email this image
# Link to this image
# Embed this image (you still get the ad revenue, even if your pic is embedded elsewhere)
# Zoom in and out (see demo)
# Captions that slide out when you hover over the pic
# Ads from AdBrite
# Link the image to another URL
# Subscribe to RSS
What really shines is the user interface for their BritePic enhancements. It’s a sheer, transparent overlay that reacts to mouse events and hides when not active. For example, it adds a header which you can mouseover to show the advertisement:
There’s also a menu added to the bottom to produce a list of features:
I’m definitely going to start running the ads on this blog, just because I like how easy they are to use, and how little they get in the way of the user experience. I coded up a quick Wordpress plugin to replace all image tags with appropriate adbrite tags, and it works fine for me so far: adbrite-images.rar. You need to replace the Adbrite ID with your own, and then activate and you’re good to go.
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on April 13th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
How well is the Adbrite advertising working for you?
on April 14th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Where is the plugin? can you email it to me?
on April 14th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
You can download it by following the link in the post.