Amazon And Contextual Ads

The contextual advertising market is seeing some interesting developments lately! Amazon contacted some of its affiliates (like Chris Beasley at SitePoint) in order to take part in a beta testing campain of their new, adsense-like contextual ads program (showing third party sponsored links, not only their products).

Since Google is not allowing adsense publishers to take part in another similar program on the pages with AdSense ads, Amazon offers 100$ to their new affiliates.

After Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network and Microsoft’s AdCenter, web publishers are getting a fourth choice