NEED MORE ADS

Hi Jonathan,

Maybe this will help.

We have an ad sales and support team that is selling and creating ads on a daily basis. We also have thousands of new signups for MeFiles every week. Also, as an example, keep in mind that a local advertiser in Atlanta, GA might not choose to create a national ad campaign and so only people within certain zip codes in the Atlanta area will receive those ads. So YouData currently has pockets where there is an abundance of ads and pockets where locales don't factor into the equation much -- those people get the national-only campaigns. And even then, only if they match the advertisers' desired demographics.

Also, don't think of YouData.com as your destination to go click to see ads. We are not a survey site and we are not a paid-to-click site as have come before us. Our goals are far greater than that. We want our players to be everywhere so that in your normal day of browsing the net, the opportunity might present itself for you to see ads at the time of your choosing and make a little cash. For instance, we (along with hundreds of thousands of others) visit http://www.kirtsy.com on a regular basis and the advertising experience there fits nicely. We sometimes see that we have ads to consume and other times, not. It fits our web browsing habits -- we don't login to YouData directly very often to consume ads. There is nothing wrong with that of course, but it's not the end-game for us.

Regardless, since we are a startup company we are spending our resources as wisely as we can to achieve our goals while attempting to keep everyone (MeFiles, advertisers, web site owners) happy!

Thank you very much for being a YouData participant. We think it's going to be huge! :)

James

(Posting this here too since multiple threads existed)

Hello everyone,

We do have ads flowing through the system. Not everyone matches the ads at all times. For instance, unless you live in a particular set of zip codes in Texas, you will not receive an ad from a regional sandwich shop. Unless you are a mother of boy in a particular area, you might not receive an ad currently running. This is how advertisers gain value from YouData -- their ability to target very explicit demographics/geographies from the MeFile population. Consider the size of our user-base. If a company wanted to target all females in the United States that could cost them tens of thousands of dollars for an ad campaign that will last a few hours. Instead, they use the system to target VERY specific subsets of the female population. It is a much more effective spend than than spending thousands of dollars on banner ads that reach males and females with no potential connection to their product whatsoever.

Here is a testimonial from a recent advertiser who ran a very small campaign with us.

http://paperlocket.typepad.com/studio...

She spent a small amount of money to generate the exact traffic of the profiled consumer that she wanted. It's very effective.

Of course we'd love for everyone to have a significant number of advertisements every day and depending on where you live and what your MeFile indicates, you might. We are working to sale ads all over the US.

All that said, we seem to have picked up a number of users from various survey sites and work-at-home sites. So I would like to mention that we are not a paid-survey site. Nor are we a work-at-home site. We are an advertising network. We do not encourage our users to repetitively visit youdata.com in the hopes of receiving an ad offer. Instead, we would encourage you to visit sites that have the youdata adget in place (like http://www.kirtsy.com or http://www.thebloggess.com) and throughout the course of your normal day's web browsing you will be presented with paid banner advertisements from time-to-time. This is in contrast to every banner ad network out there where you make $0 for your attention. Our model allows the site owner to make money, you to make money, and the advertiser to reach a very targeted group. There simply aren't enough targeted advertisements for you that will sustain repeated visits on a daily basis (maybe one day there will be). We so strongly believe this that we are considering removing the standalone ad player and the adgets page from yoduata.com proper and replacing it with a roll of sites that contain the adget. This will help enforce the message that we are an ad network and not a survey/work site.

I hope that makes sense.

We don't mind people discussing sites like clixsense or cashle but we will not allow you to post personal referral links to those sites.