Although not pretty substantial, Adgitize had brought in some decent traffic for one of my blogs, namely, ARC's Earn Online before and at the same time, earning some small amount of money daily just by having impressions on the Adgitize's advertisement banners which featured other bloggers' blogs. It has been a good idea with the mission of bringing "world class advertising on a blogger's budget". I have received my final payment and also the first payment from Adgitize.
It is somewhat sad to see this site goes as I get paid for traffic coming into my blog without doing much. But since it is the owner's will, I respect that. Internet advertising network business has been getting very challenging and competitive with many people jumping in for a piece of the action. This is notwithstanding the overall dominance of Google Adsense as the preferred advertiser and coupled with the rising competition by Facebook has changed the Network Marketing landscape radically.
This post is to assure you that Adgitize still pays despite closing down. I really respect the integrity of this site, it live up its promise and never has never intention to breach any agreement set out from the start.
Below is the Closing Down Message by Ken Brown, the founder of Adgitize.com.
Posted by Ken Brown on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 5:53 AM
I
regret to inform you that we are closing Adgitize. We have enjoyed
working with all of you over the last 3 years and we hope that you have
enjoyed our services. Adgitize tried to fill a niche market but the
costs to run the business were more than the revenues generated. Here is
what to expect over the next 30 days.
Beginning on December 27th,
2011, you will not be able to open any new accounts. We will shut down
the ability to create or renew any ads. On January 1st, 2012, we will
officially stop showing ads and all member publishers will NOT receive
revenue for any Adgitize Ads shown. If you had an ad running with us we
will refund a prorated portion of your ad price.
Prorated portion
of ad price means if you have an ad running and it expires on January
15th, 2012 then we will send you a PayPal payment of 15/31st of the
purchase price. If the purchase price was $14 then you will receive
$6.77 USD from Adgitize. We expect to make all payments to refund
advertisers fees by January 4th, 2012. If you want payment by check then
you will have to wait until after the 12th of January before we send
those payments out.
We will send PayPal ad refunds to the PayPal
address you have on file with us. To verify that your PayPal email
address is valid check the Profile section of Adgitize.
Payouts
for publishers and affiliates for the month of December will run on the
normal schedule and should be complete by January 10th, 2012, except for
those requesting checks which won't be processed until January 12th,
2012. There is a processing fee of $5.00 per check if your preferred
payment method is by check. All publishers with monies owed them who
have given us a valid payment method will be paid from $0.01 USD and up.
If you have chosen the credit service within Adgitize, we will payout those earnings to your PayPal address on file with us.
We
expect all services and websites to be taken out of service by January
31st, 2012. If you have not given us a proper payment method to send
your earnings by that date then there will be no way to make payment to
you and you will forfeit those earnings.
To communicate with us
over the next 31 days feel free to use the contact us link, the forum or
the blog comment section. We will be monitoring each of those
communication methods until the web site is shut down.
What you
should do. Make sure you have given us a valid PayPal address or street
address to send your money to. Remove all Adgitize Ad Groups from your
blogs. (You will stop receiving points and revenues from them after
December 31, 2011).
I am sorry this is the decision we had to make and wish you the best in blogging for the new year and beyond.
