There is no such thing as "free lunch"! The following banner exchange networks offer 1 for 1 exchange ratio, i.e.
for every ad you display they would display yours - as fair as it could possibly get.
But there is a cost involved in hosting a banner network and 1:1 does imply that this cost cannot be recuperated by showing "paid for" banners,
so the concept is questionable at least. Could it be that those networks are phony?
Turned out that for the most part they are either phony or dead, with some exceptions that does activate the account:
- The Banner Co-op - would in fact show 2 banners in one. I've shown 60 of their ads and they owe me
15 exposures.
- DoYooNo.com which is french and although would approve the banners, would as well arbitrarily
reset the counter, thus serving a lot less then 1 for 1 and mostly showing it on their own website. Still, they allow multiple ads in most formats and
1883 ads earned me 1 click thru. However, sometime in July, 2004 they started serving pop-ups, thus I removed them from rotation.
- www.zencudobusiness.co.uk. So far is the best network of them all.
The rest are plain phony.
- masterbanners.com is a funny one! They offer "free credits" for signing in,
i.e. showing your banner 5000 times just for joining. How could they possibly do that when for every banner shown on somebody web site they have to show
the banner from that web site?
Any how, turned out I am their 25th member and after 2 months of having their banner on this page it got displayed 962 times making the total
5962 exposures they owe me. Out of which they only managed to disply my ad 774 times still owing me 5188 exposures.
Also they claim 4 clicks on 774 ads they've shown which I suspect to be phony for if true it would make very good click-thru ration 0.52%.
At the end they did turned to be phony! Starting July 2004 they don't show stats anymore when you log in. Also the link to join is broken.
- www.bannerrage.com - Show handfull of their own ads. Never activated and then removed my account.
- www.leftnuttechnologies.com - Also showed handfull of their own ads before shutting down.
