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Just tried submitting a few more ads in various niches to facebook again tonight, I try and avoid it if I can but thought I would give it one last, last, last last go seeing as I keep hearing about how much money others are making out of it. I’ve tried in the past and [...]

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Following on the heels (coat-tails?) of facebook and myspace, google has launched its own self-serve adsense type ad platform on its struggling-to-pay-the-hosting video website, youtube, today by the looks of it. Basic banners etc don’t seem to be on offer, presumably as you can already place them on youtube via adwords.Then again, aren’t sponsored video’s [...]

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I posted last week shortly after I started to run ads on the new MySpace self-serve ad platform, and after a busy seven days thought I should find the time to write a quick progress update, and also include a few useful hints based on my experiences and the comments I’ve seen.
Now I am not [...]

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Well kind of…have just noticed today that facebook seems to have put links below each ad on site pages to allow users to ‘vote’ on relevancy, decency and all manner of other toss.
Of course voting is a two way street, so there is also a button to report/snitch on ads you don’t like or don’t [...]

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I finally sat down tonight and made an ad on facebook - I’d been meaning to for ages and today managed to think of a couple of things that should convert ok. After making my ad (a pretty simple process) and setting up budgets etc., I submitted it and went off to do something else. [...]

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