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I would like to get comments from the community about our startup - Trafficspaces.

http://www.trafficspaces.com

Trafficspaces is an ad management service that helps publishers create self-service user interfaces for their advertisers.

It is like having your very own Facebook Ads system customied/branded for your site.

We reckon it will be a smash hit with publishers because 1) it saves money for publishers and 2) it helps them reach more advertisers. This is particulary important in a recessionary economic environment.

We created Trafficspaces because we think a branded self service interface is infinitely better than the manual, time consuming email based ad processes that many publishers currently use.

Please take some time out to have a look at our site, and our demo and tell us what you think.

We appreciate your time.

Thanks in advance. Niyi

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siong1987
Is there any example that I can see the "self-service user interfaces"?

And, I don't think that your service is comparable to Facebook Ads System where you can target the demographic you want which your service doesn't not provide.

Anyway, I don't think you are going to read the feedbacks I leave since you just created a dummy account to promote your website.

DJN
Here is one - http://modeltxt.trafficspaces.com/advertise/

You can see some more examples at http://demo.trafficspaces.com/setup/ There is a preinstalled account there.

The Facebook Ads analogy was just to illustrate that publishers can create a branded self-service ad system just like Facebook does for its advertisers. We didn't mean it functions exactly like Facebook. :)

Anyway, thanks for the feedback siong1987. Much appreciated.

paraschopra
OpenX has a plugin that enables this
DJN
Paraschopra,

You are right. Our main competitors are OpenX and Google Ad Manager. However, there are some things our system does uniquely. For example, a) customising the system to match your site through a web interface. b) online payments and c) we do everything out of the box in a hosted environment

OpenX is still the big 800 pound gorilla in the room and we are the underdog but we reckon there are many weaknesses we can exploit to take them on.

Thanks for the feedback

il
Heh, that's funny, I had the idea for this exact same product about a year ago, and never got around to building it. Props to you for actually executing. Feature suggestion: I'm more of an advertiser than a publisher, but as an advertiser, I would love the ability to search all sites registered with Trafficspaces, and bulk place ads on them. Similar to the AdWords content network. To appeal to advertisers, highlight popular/niche sites using the system. In order for you to succeed, you need monetary incentive for publishers to sign up, that is Trafficspaces will bring more revenue on a CPM basis than say, AdWords. To do that, you need to engage adveritsers to actively use the system.
DJN
Il,

thanks for the kind words. We are a small team trying out best to create a great product. your comment is much appreciated.

Regarding the multiple site search feature, we are working on it. As you know, we'll need to scale the platform among publishers before it makes sense to release that feature to advertisers.

Its interesting that you had the same idea. We are actively looking for partners (active and advisory). If you are interested, send me your email at "niyi-at-trafficspaces-dot-com.

Cheers