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?

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.