Bidvertiser RSS Advertising – update

Earlier this month I published an article on Bidvertiser when they went live with their public beta that allowed you to monetize your RSS feed.

There were a lot of complaints from people who tried Bidvertiser’s RSS advertising as basically you couldn’t convert all your Feedburner subscribers over, and you essentially had to publish a new feed. In concept it sounds easy, “hey everyone we moved our feed to here – new url – so please change your rss reader to reflect this”, but trying to get people to change because you want to show them more advertising…hrmm, doesn’t seem cool to me.

Anyway, unlike most companies, Bidvertiser actually listened to the feedback from their affiliates and has made some changes to their RSS Advertising product. I received the following in my inbox just now;

Following the successful launch of BidVertiser Ads for Feeds, we have now added 3 unique solutions that allow you to keep your current feed address (including FeedBurner!) when running BidVertiser ads for Feeds:

1. WordPress Plugin to allow you to seamlessly embed the BidVertiser Ads in your feeds.

2. Solution for FeedBurner that allows you to embed the BidVertiser Ads in your current FeedBurner address (and keep your Subscribers Count!).

3. Solution for Blogger that allows you to embed the BidVertiser Ads in the footer of each of your post feeds.

All of those great features are now available for you in your publisher control panel under the Get Feed Widget button (after registering a feed).

More info can also be found at http://blog.bidvertiser.com

Talk about a big change of direction. I’ll report back on thee setup and ‘worth-while-ness’ of this after I get it all setup and have had some time to play with the code and what not.

Cheers, Matt