I’m always keen to look for advertising alternatives, particularly as the US dollar is so weak and the Thai baht is so strong at the moment. I’m a blogger living in Asia, and having everything monetized in US currency actually harms my earning potential.

I was surprised and pleased to come across a blog post over at www.mybloggo.org, a blog like mine, but in Malaysia instead of Thailand. The author there uses a company called Advertlets to display ads on his page. The ads themselves look a bit ugly, but when the blogger posted his earning my eyes lit up… and then dimmed down again. After a month he had earned RM272.38, which is about 2,700 baht, or $80. Advertlets is a Malaysian service, but it looks like anyone can join. I assume all checks are mailed out in Malaysian Ringit, but it didn’t say on the website.

So he earned $80 in his first month, but most of that was from a paid review. The paid review was the first review offered by Advertlets, and was only open to bloggers in Malaysia. The second paid review available is only open to bloggers in Singapore. Neither of those helps me.

As for the ads themselves, they have a variety of sidebar ads, banners and squared banners. If you scroll down to the bottom of this page you’ll see one of their square banners. It’s only displayed one ad since I put it there (some seafood restaurant). In a month, apart from his paid review, Mybloggo earned about $7 from his ads. That’s not especially promising.

At the moment Advertlets works on a cost per thousand impressions rating. The thing is, they don’t tell you how much that is. They are a new company and promise to add new features and more ways to earn soon. If you’re a blogger in Singapore then sign up now because you could earn some serious coin for the review (up to S$128). Otherwise I’m not sure if Advertlets is worth having. It is an Asian alternative to Adsense, but they need to give bloggers a better impression of what they’ll earn.

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