Microsoft Adsense Competitor – Beta
The long awaited move. Microsoft has introduced a self serve publisher advertiser product to take Adsense head on and in the process, crush Yahoo’s Publisher Network.
Microsoft’s self-serve advertising offering for publishers is still under development and is currently in a private pilot phase, being tested by select publishers who met the participation requirements. The private pilot phase began earlier this year. A private, phased approach allows us to learn more about customer interest in content advertising and provide guidance as to how we can improve the product and deliver the right features required to meet publisher and advertiser needs. It’s our intention to continue to expand our high quality network and relevant audience gradually and intelligently over time for our advertisers. We will evaluate customer interest and product performance as we move through the private pilot, but we have no specific launch plans to announce at this time.
We encourage publishers who are interested in joining the pilot to fill out an interest form here: http://advertising.microsoft.com/publisher
Unfortunately, they only take in US publishers. They seem to provide 10 – 15 times the payout that Adsense does.
