Entrecard Ad Network now online – beta testers are buying ads

Congratulations to the whole Entre Card Team.Wishing best of luck & hope all goes as planned. This will definitely help every member of this lovely community.

Glad you could make it!

So, we get nothing for these paid ads? This is dumb. I used to buy 20,000 EC a month to advertise my blog. I thought that in that I was doing my part in “supporting Entrecard and the only true virtual economy in the blogosphere”. Now I have to allow people to adverise on my blog for FREE? S**ew that.

Hey, since yesterday I have a problem in my blog. Instead of showing the ad I approved (today’s “Juggling Teens”) my EC widget shows this link: http://www.coloraddiction.com wich a didn’t authorize.
Also yesterday while I was dropping my cards, I saw this widget everywhere.
In my case, if I refresh the page, my real ad shows back, but I think this is not good.
Can anybody give me a hand?
Where else can I publish this?
Thanks a lot.
DP

I have a feeling that ragingrev crosses predicting RiP fiasco for this ad experiment.

Just a thought.

I’ll repost that on the forum, sorry this is not the appropriate place.

I’m not understanding how this is working. I’ve had 4 ads pop up under “paid ads” and now zero ads through EC’s normal channel. I’ve approved 2 of the 4 paid ads and they just disappear, where do they go and how do I know when they’re going to run? 1 ad I rejected and it disappeared as well. At this point, I’m not sure what’s going on.

Congrats to Entrecard for what is looking like a pretty smooth roll-out of this new campaign. I am pleasantly surprised by the amount of early advertisers it appears that have jumped on-board given the amount I have approved just for my site in the last two days.

Best of luck to us all in the Entrecard community as this puppy gets into full swing!

there are so many issues in a forum too,and just like Shinade, I’m also clueless about buying ads because i don’t know if I have control on where or what blog will my widget will going to show up.

confused..I have 12 paid ads and no regular ads! What’s in it for me to accept or reject the ones that have nothing to do withme?! I don’t see where we can read anything to tell us about this either. ugh!

It took me some time to figure it out how new paid ads system works and it’s not surprise why there is so much confusion among users.

There are good things and there are not so good things. First it’s good that Entrecard will make some money. It is good for community development, end users, etc.

Bad thing about this change is conserning ads bought with credits not cash. Before this change if you paid one day ad on some blog for, let’s say 128 credits, your ad displays for 24 hours and all impressions are all yours. This is not the case any more. Now, you have to wait for paid ads before your ad goes live.

If blog author have approved many paid ads, your ad will be displayed only certain % of those 24 hours, which is bad. Logic says (but economy laws too) that credits value should drop dramatically and why this isn’t the case? You tell me.

I would like to answer to this problem, if it’s possible,
Thanks

I hate to be the monetary skunk of the group, but when will be able to exchange credits for cash!?!!

I’m interested on the payout. lol.

Hey everyone, I understand you have a lot of questions, I have a summary FAQ available in the forum at this URL:

http://forums.entrecard.com/showthread.php?t=11875

It contains answers to almost all the questions people have been asking here, and I’ll try and update with additional answers as we go. I know it would work well as a blog post as well but having the information in one single place makes it easier to keep up to date, once we’ve covered most of the questions I’ll post a copy to the blog.

What conversion rate for cashing out EC’s and who determines the relative currency conversion?

I got 30 paid ads…I reject those who doesn’t have EC badge. I’m confuse..what will I get from these paid ads?

More powers by the way.

Funny: your ad appears much less on other people’s blog but ads have gotten much more expensive. I can afford one ad on 90% of my favorites with 300 credits!!!!!
I will let the paid ads I accepted run but I won’t accept any new one until this is fixed. It should go both ways.

You have to be kidding me! I have seen 3 different PAID ads on my blog today and I haven’t approved a single one of them. I’m getting really angry and frustrated. The poor person who actually spent their credits to advertise on my blog hasn’t gotten their ad shown at all! Not only that – I haven’t gotten a click through credit in a week! It shows people are clicking, but I’m not being credited. I’m just about over it at this point!

I adjusted my “settings” yesterday to accept paid ads pertaining to my category and today, I log in and have 30 paid ads waiting for approval, some in my category but most are not even close. One was an ad that I’d rejected 2 days ago.
As for as ads paid with EC credits, the same ad has now been in place for 48 hours, with the exception of when a paid ad is in its place. It is all very confusing and even more so since the stats aren’t even accurate.
The stats should have been fixed before launching the paid ads, how can we tell if anyone, paid or EC paid, are getting their money’s worth.
When applying for a paid ad, can the advertiser even see how many ads are all ready in the que? This is nuts! If I approved everything, which I won’t, it could be a month and a half before some of them run.
Please, please, fix the stats.

This is bull crap. You should have taken the time to FULLY explain to us all what’s going on before implementing this. I now have 30 paid ads to approve/reject & have no clue what’s going on.

This is a fantastic idea, I’m about to head on over and sign up! Would love some feedback on CTR ratios and so forth..

I just took a screenshot of the ad that just appeared on my blog and it is absolutely disgusting! The blog is “delicious and edible blog” with half naked girls!!!! I never approved this ad. I want it and all of the other paid ads off my blog….NOW! How can I cancel something that I didn’t even approve. I can’t get to my dashboard to even see how this got there.

I’m not close to being a prude, but this is not what my blog is about and you are going to ruin it by putting ads up that are not appropriate for my audience!!!! I am a fan of EC, but this really pisses me off.

Does publisher receive “something different” from accept the paid ads than the ordinary ads?
I wish publisher will get some bux from it or sell EC credit with unlimitedly like a few month ago.

Before I approve the paid ads it started to run on my EC Widget. Personally I don’t like the system of paid ads. The name is just confusing. All most every EC people are adding it with an intention that they will get payment for the ads which they are approving. And you (EC) don’t pay anything for the EC people. Actually the people who write a blog have more expense than a well established website like EC. All of them are writing BLOG for get a bit of money from that. So humbly request you (EC) to make a good plan for Advertising. All we know what is the strength and weakness of EC.

If any of the readers think M’ correct write here!!!

STOP THE INSANITY!
Please pretend like we are all really stupid about entrecard and give us a CONCISE step by step on how this whole ad thing works. Don’t use abbreviations. What the heck is CPM??? I am loaded with paid ads. Do I run them? Reject them? And hey, ads run whether we accept or reject anyway so what does it matter??? Some of the paid ads are really distasteful! I want my loyal droppers who pay with credits to be able to run their ads! Do we get ANY compensation for running these ads? Do I need to become a paying advertiser to even be seen now? Fine you need to make money I understand that..but you sure do seem to be saying screw the rest of us who made this site what it was. Oh and another thing…. It’s tough to even log in now.
I am seriously thinking of just dropping out of the whole stressful entrecard mess. I mean what is the point now? I keep hoping you will come to your senses though.
This wasn’t very well thought out..was it?
What about the simple compromise of having a double widget..one for drops and one for paid?

Attention Entrecard Users: I do not know how I feel about the new paid ad system. I have like 30 ads in que for paid advertisers. What I do not understand is why we are not receiving any credits to allow paid advertisers space on the widget. It seems like it is a very good business plan for entrecard but not so ideal for members. I most certainly am not going to spend my time dropping on blogs and selecting ones to advertise on if I am only getting a small percentage of ad space on the widget. I refreshed my blog page four times before seeing the ad that was supposed to be on my widget replace the paid ads running. I only joined entrecard to find new interesting blogs that I like and to hopefully have my blog be of interest to others as well. I have never made a dime from my blog and was simply wanting to find followers/interested readers. I feel like I am simply allowing advertisers on my site free of charge, plain and simple. If I am not getting credits for the paid advertisers, then how is it benefiting me at all?

I hate how the paid ads are clogging my dashboard! And we don’t get anything from it? That’s crap! You are obviously manning the boat with the sole purpose of drowning us all! I am not too sure if I can stay any longer if this continues….

unknowingly I have approved all the paid adds comes to my entre card dash board.

Just posted an update on the blog about our revenue share with publishers

Hi, I have signed up for the ads, how can I launch my campaign?

Interesting…I’ll cancel them!!!