This week, we welcomed our 20,000th publisher to AdBrite. Our PR company sent out this press release, but just for fun I thought I’d write a little more on the subject.
Rewind to September, 2004, almost two years to the day. It was then that I first realized the impact AdBrite was starting to have.
At the time, AdBrite (then called MarketBanker) was a side project run by three of us out of my living room in NYC. The system was 100% self service. Aside the occasional billing issue (a.k.a. me calling an advertiser to say “where’s ma money!”), we rarely took our heads out of the code long enough to have any meaningful customer interaction. But still, we had about 900 publishers and things were moving fast.
Times have changed, and since then we’ve grown more than 20x, and now we love talking to you! In fact, over the past few weeks and months we’ve spent countless hours interviewing customers (and potential customers, and former customers, and non-customers) with the sole purpose of figuring out exactly what you want, and what you expect.
This experience, plus the experience of a few years, millions of ad dollars, and billions (trillions?) of pageviews, are driving AdBrite’s innovation. We’re working on a few new things that I think will shake things up around here (containing my excitement…can’t you tell?)
Stay tuned, thanks for using AdBrite, we hope you continue to do so, and… rock on!
