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Ad Bard, The Advertising Network Serving FOSS Only Ads, is Shutting Down

Posted by kiterunner on · 4 comments
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Ad Bard was a breath of fresh air in the already crowded advertising networks arena lead by behemoths like Google Adsense. In 2009 when Ad Bard network first came into existence, FSF proudly proclaimed, "The Free Software Community now has an ethical alternative to ad networks that promote proprietary software." Ad Bard was a truly promising venture. But it's all going to end in another month or so. Ad Bard is finally shutting down.

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Comments (4)

tracyanne ·
Clearly they hid their light under a bushel.
jdixon ·
They advertised here on LXer for a while.
lcafiero ·
True, jdixon -- I remember seeing them, though I didn't know exactly how it worked. Maybe I should have clicked on it more than once.
Sander_Marechal ·
I had them on my own site as well. It worked pretty well. You'd have to show your site was substantially about FOSS. You'd get server small, inobtrusive ads for FOSS projects and products. Ads needed to be pre-approved by the site owners before they'd appear in the network. The same idea as "The Deck", but targeted at FOSS instead of webdesigners. A small, but highly targeted (thus high-margin) ad network. It was the only ad network whitelisted in my adblocker. Too bad they didn't make it.

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