I’m trying to decide how to go about advertising within FiD’s RSS feed. My preference would be to use Google’s AdSense for Feeds (AFF), but unfortunately it’s in closed beta (although the signup page still exists — but trust me, you can’t get in). Using AFF is convenient because then all my advertising would be through the same agent.

The alternative is to go through Feedburner’s Advertising Network (FAN). Their service is actually a bit more neat in they kind of work like the middleman. If an advertiser wants to advertise on my feed, they send me an email asking whether I want to allow the campaign for the given price etc. It’s a lot more choice, but also more overhead.

So I can immediately go with FAN and start hopefully making money now, or I can keep waiting until AFF becomes public; or the hybrid approach where I use FAN until AFF is released and then switch. It just depends when I want to annoy my audience with advertising.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: advertising, fid, google, rss