You guys remember Image Space Media right?……..Nah? Don’t worry about it, neither does 90% of the rest of the web. I wrote about these guys over 2 years ago when they were originally called PicAdMedia. I basically addressed the low payouts, the possible potential of the service and a couple useful features.

I’ve long since dropped the service because it simply wasn’t profitable and it was on one of my most popular websites iHipHopMusic.com, which at the time was clocking 2 million page views monthly.

Today Vibrant Media, another company which I worked with announced that they acquired the service. I’m not sure why they would do that, maybe Image Space Media has improved drastically since I used them but as far as I know – GumGum owns the In-Image Advertising space.

Below is apart of the press release.

We are pleased to announce today our acquisition by Vibrant Media, the global leader in premium contextual advertising. This acquisition combines our image technology with Vibrant’s unmatched scale, robust contextual platform, award-winning sales force and publisher service team.

Vibrant currently works with more than 6,500 publishers and the top 100 brands, including Samsung, Chrysler, and AXE. With this acquisition, we can deliver new and expanded revenue opportunities for you, and offer your site visitors an enhanced experience that is relevant to the content they are viewing. In addition to Vibrant Image, Vibrant has a suite of products that help publishers add incremental revenue: Vibrant In-Text, Vibrant Video, Vibrant Bar, and Vibrant Display.

All things considered it could be a smart move, since it’s puts them in direct competition with GumGum in the In-Image Advertising space. When it comes to In-text Advertising they’re already playing second fiddle to InfoLinks, who’s long since blown pass them – at least according to my earnings comparison.

Read the full press release at Vibrant Media.

It’s funny because last year I was ready to quit on in-text-advertising as reliable income source, after my year long experience with Kontera which sucked. Well It’s safe to say I made the right decision sticking with it for a while because it has paid off.

My earnings for the month was almost $6500 plus InfoLinks gave me a $200 reward for being the website of the month (HipHopMusicDotCom.com). Check out the screenshot below.

Oh yeah I just received a check from Vibrant Media, it was $107….SMH!

Sign up and start making some money with InfoLinks.com

A year ago I touched on In-Text Ads and how much a particular company (Kontera) sucked, In the post I mentioned InfoLinks and Vibrant Media and that I was going to try those two companies out before I quit on In-Text Ads all together. Since Kontera was so Horrible there is no way that InfoLinks or Vibrant Media could be any worst. I also spoke on how strict Vibrant Media was and how I kept getting turned down when I applied, they always gave some vague reason like type of content, traffic etc.

Eventually I said forget it and went with Info Links, I signed up to them last year and we all know how last year was as far as income is concerned but even in the peak of the recession InfoLinks still paid far better than Kontera did a year before. Below is a week earnings for InfoLinks from May.

I remember a long time ago I couldn’t make that with Adsense, the screen shot above is from May and the earnings have gone up even more since then. During that month I was contacted by Vibrant Media, the same guys that turned me down 6 different times and said they would like to run there In-Text Ads on my sites. Nothing had changed about my site, the traffic was the same, it had the same professional design so I found it funny that they would all of a sudden want to work with my sites. I really wanted to tell them to eat shit but I couldn’t turn down the opportunity of making more money with them than with InfoLinks, so I decided to give them a weeks worth of my time which is more than enough time to make a decision. Below is a screen shot from that week.

As you can see from the screen shot above Vibrant Media earnings don’t come anywhere close to InfoLinks’. Just because they say their number one for In-Text Ads doesn’t mean it’s true. Their site and ads look very Vibrant but there is nothing Vibrant about their earnings. I haven’t logged back in since that week. I tried them both on multiple sites in different niches and the results were always the same. On the outside Vibrant Media seems to be the better company but once your logged in you’ll see who the real deal is. You can’t even change the color of the links for Vibrant Media without contacting support and asking them to do it.

Over all InfoLinks is a better company and they understand who their core publishers are, they provide plugins for WordPress, Blogger, Joomla and have many other resources for users to simply integrate InfoLinks into their sites.

That week when I removed InfoLinks they contacted me immediately and asked me what’s the deal, and I told them I was split testing between them and Vibrant Media for a week, they simply replied see you in a week, LoL.

That’s all there is to it InfoLinks pays better….

Chozen.