Things are sure heating up. I like the amount of informations that you’ve pointed out. I’m sure your other posts are great as well. You didn’t leave your blog URL. Where’s your blog? If you don’t want to disclose it here, you can send the URL to me through my contact form. I’d really like to take a look at your other posts .

@Eric
LOL! Very very true. If it’s possible, I want to cash out whatever amount there is — RM5 also I want to take first However, companies set a minimum payout (eg. RM100) for a few reasons.

Firstly, they don’t need to write so many cheques every month. Imagine writing cheques that are RM15.05. “Waste” right? Secondly, they are just “crediting” the money (numbers) into their publisher’s account — no actual money transfered. That means, publishers are happy (seeing the number in the account), while they haven’t reduced a single cent from their own account.

I’ve been scrutinizing both sides, and it seems that the earnings are pretty much similiar. From what I’ve seen, Nuffnang does it through having more ads, and if I’m not mistaken Adverlets charges a premium for “local only” advertising. You can read in detail at a comment I left at Mossism:

http://www.mossism.net/wp/index.php/does-nuffnang-show-the-money/#comments

I think Advertlets might have had a point in making their initial limit of 100 visits (although they might have miffed some of the lower traffic bloggers by doing so). Maybe they are targeting the higher traffic bloggers initially for their first round/format? Found these deep within the FAQ section of their website:

“We have found through our calculations that CPM (cost per metric) advertising does not work well for low traffic blogs, and results in very small earnings, meaning it could take many months before you can actually cash out.”

“We are also launching new ad formats that will work well for low traffic bloggers.”

“We do not intend to be elitist, however, neither do we want to give low traffic bloggers unrealistic expectations of income.”

Was this disclaimer always there btw? Or was it added in recently?

I really wonder what Adverlets new ad formats are though, as its most likely a CPC (per click) thing for it to work without high traffic. Or maybe its further targeting options? Or will they copy Nuffnang’s “unique visitor” calculation method?

Well, one interesting thing to see is that competition is going to heat up further between the two over the next few weeks…now that they both have closer minimum requirements!

@Eric
I fully support their decision as well. In fact, in one of my reviews I asked them to reduce the minimum payout from RM200 to RM100. But they didn’t and gave the excuse reason that their publishers earn faster. But, I don’t see any of their publishers complaining. Maybe they just don’t care?

@mooiness
Yes, the consumers always win. But they should have done this at the beginning. Defeats their whole “ideology” of small-time bloggers like me are “worth-less” in blog advertising.

@aw
No — the STUPID chart is still there. They have updated it though. I have never liked the chart, nor the idea of “challenge the chart”. Their approach is to write whatever they “think” is correct, and ask people to challenge it. If the “challenger” brings up a point that proves the chart wrong, then only they change it.

They should in fact check the charts themselves to make sure it’s 100% accurate and factual before publishing it. The “false information” that was published has already “caused damage” to an extend, and they didn’t apologize or anything. I think that is “dirty tactics”. Shame on them.

@lilian
Wahhh…you are making me “jeles”. I guess I’ll need to work on my blog more. Hey, can keep some champagne for me? Or the bottle also good enough.