Miva Launches Contextual Advertising Network, Talks Trash on Google

The latest to join the growing list of adsense alternatives is Miva. ConversionRater has a nice summary:

Their marketing angle seems to be that they provide more control than Adsense or YPN in whether a page uses their contextual engine or preset keywords the publisher uses. They also have some publisher-friendly statementes about not wanting to erode publisher brands, which is all well and good, but I don’t think it’s clear yet why they won’t be eroding brands. They state they won’t have strings attached such as the pay-per-call ads that can appear in Adsense.

The jabs at Adsense and YPN for eroding publisher brand is warranted, in my opinion, but what's the solution?

- Y! MyWeb

thats nice and all but will

thats nice and all but will they have enough advertisors.


Miva's a joke

The little crappy ecommerce company that sold for mice nuts and gave their name to a crappy little marketing company, I'm so excited about this announcement I'm constipated.


IncrediBILL right there.

IncrediBILL right there. These shysters burned up my account with their click fraud friendly schemes. Reputation went out the window a long time ago.