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Posted May 16, 2006
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FeedBurner ads on web sites

Sorry for the deluge of FeedBurner-themed posts (what can I say? I work a lot), but this is cool.

Last night we launched a significant extension to our advertising platform that allows us to serve ads on web sites. The first-ever FeedBurner ad on a web site is currently being served at Burning Questions.

Apart from the obvious financial benefits to publishers, advertisers and us (more inventory, more ads, more money) this is cool for a couple of reasons:

  1. Ads are inserted in same space as FeedFlare, so the tens of thousands of publishers already using FeedFlare can run our ads on their site with a single checkbox (more on that soon).

  2. We’re feed-centric, so we can use that metadata to inform ad insertion. (Dick mentions some of the advantages in his post.)

  3. The 300 x 250 Medium Rectangle is significantly cooler than the 468 x 60 banner :-)

That is all. I promise the next post will not be about FeedBurner.