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It is a little amusing to see this. I recalled around the same time last year, Advertlets forgot to renew their domain, causing problems to many blogs. The end result: Some bloggers removed Advertlets from their blog in anger. Advertlets took precautions to prevent it from happening again this year by renewing their domain until 2010. Everything seems well with Adverlets until I noticed on Singapore Daily an article titled: Advertlets forgot that there is 30/12/08? |
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In fact, when I logged in to Adverlet’s on Jan 1, 2009, I had discovered that there were no records of my earnings – if any – for the day of Dec 30 and 31, 2008 along with Jan 1, 2009. That’s not mentioning I had problems logging in to Advertlets on Dec 31st, 2008. While there was no problems hitting the main page, the page with the details of your blog earnings just won’t load after entering the login and password. I had no idea how long that problem persisted, since I gave up and only tried to log in again the next day. Does Advertlets run on a special calendar that has only 362 days? Or was there some problems that prevent Advertlets from properly accounting for all the impressions and clicks on those few days. I do not recall receiving any email explaining this matter. Or is Advertlets hoping that no one notice so they can sweep it all under the carpet? It makes one wonder whether Advertlets as a business is running into difficulties. I have on several occasions heard from other bloggers that they did not receive payment even months after they cash out. In fact, if you read all the responses to this Plurk closely, some are even questioning whether Advertlets has been adjusting their hit counts. If it is not a sign of difficulties with the business itself, then perhaps it is a sign Advertlets has lost interest with bloggers, if not their presence, here in Singapore. That impression is of course further reinforced by the fact that most Advertlets’ blogger events are so far organised in Malaysia, while one of their competitors has even managed to organise a blood donation drive. It certainly makes one wonder whether Advertlets’ competitors have been so successful in edging out Advertlets’ in Singapore, that Advertlets no longer find it a worthwhile enterprise to maintain their presence and good relationship with bloggers in Singapore. |
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@Jess:
Thank you for responding to my comment. The previous payment has been received, not without some displeasure from the receiving end.
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Grevious: Hello. The problem you have described has affected a few bloggers, and we are taking steps to identify and remedy it. However, we will need more details on the following – it seems that your impressions on the 2nd are much lower than usual – was the code removed, or were there any web hosting issues on your part? There will be no logs for days when the ads do not load succesfully (or were not loaded), so appreciate if you can let us know on what happened on the 2nd. You can contact us at info@advertlets.com
Ad wise, I think you’ll definitely notice that we are serving ads for all, and recent campaigns include clients such as Dell, Lenovo, HBO Asia and more.
In terms of events however, over the past year we have sponsored the Ping.sg Blog Awards as well as the OMY.sg Blog Awards. We look forward to bringing more in future. As the year has just started, do give us some time to put something together for 2009 🙂
In terms of hit counts – please note that the impressions shown are paid impressions (ie ads shown), not the total number of impressions that your website generates. Your ad fill (total number of ads served on your blog) is determined by general ad performance as well as ads available per day. We apologize if there has been a misunderstanding on what the impressions denote.
As for the plurk post, that issue has been resolved.
chillycraps: Based on the last correspondence, payment has been sent. Please let us know if this was not received, or is this a subsequent cashout? Please let us know.
Please be aware that we do handle quite a bit of cashouts per month, and unfortunately, not all of them reach their intended destination.
With that in mind, we have set up a failsafe where we will do a direct transfer to your bank account should the cheque not reach succesfully. Please contact the support team if you wish to have this arrangement made. Thank you.
Regards,
Jess Ong
Advertlets Support
Seems like I’m the bad one to make my case public? Keke, anyway, already given on this company.
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I am kind enough not letting my problem with them into the public.
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They need hands in Singapore. One man operation doesn’t work anymore. Period.
They run on Zune?
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I hope they can resolve this late payment problem (apparently this is an universal problem with a lot of bloggers) because I have no other problems with them till date.
Being a business that caters to bloggers, bad feedback spreads faster than you can say ‘blog’.
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