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Yahoo recently notified Yahoo Publisher partners (third party sites that display Yahoo cost per click ads) that they should expect to see new “pricing adjustments” which will be based on the quality of traffic coming from their sites.

TechCrunch reports that Yahoo (and its competitors) regularly make adjustments to CPC payments doled out to publishers based on the perceived “quality of traffic.” Supposedly these payments are credited to advertisers, but there is really no way to know. And the changes Yahoo has implemented appear to make more dramatic adjustments to outbound payments.

However, an even deeper problem, according to many publishers is the “black box” way of doing business that Yahoo (and other online ad networks) adhere to. It is an unfortunate situation which makes it difficult, if not impossible, for publishers to improve the type of traffic sent to the networks and to adjust content and products in order to help advertisers.

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PubMatic Announces A-List Lineup for Ad Revenue 2009, The Premium Publisher Conference on October 8th in New York City

Second Annual Ad Revenue Conference to Improve Ad Monetization Strategies for Premium Online Publishers and Media Companies

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OpenX the large neutral online ad server for website publishers, recently announced OpenX Market, an independent marketplace which allows publishers the ability to directly connect with advertisers in order to sell their ad inventory. Similarly, the service also helps advertisers (either directly or through ad agencies) access targeted ad inventory.

Publishers using the system can define minimum prices for their ad impressions and the OpenX Market then runs a real-time auction among advertisers for each impression. If the winning bid from the auction is higher than the publisher-set minimum price, the higher paying ad is served and the publisher makes more money. If the winning bid is less, the publisher’s original ad runs.

Advertisers have access to OpenX’s large pool of over 150,000 publisher websites and OpenX publishers as well as non-OpenX publishers are invited to participate in the market. Advertisers can also set targeting parameters on ad space, including user frequency, contextual categories, and technical/browser settings. Also, version 2.8 of the OpenX Ad Server directly integrates with OpenX Market letting publishers running the ad server easily participate in the Market via a plugin.

Check out addition information on OpenX at TechCrunch.

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Back when the Internet was young there were all sorts of schemes to monetize content and sell digital goods. One of the most talked about was the concept of micro-payments, where users would be charged incrementally based on how much content they consumed.

The idea never really caught on. And ever since, micro-payments have remained on the back burner for a host of reasons, including lame technology, lack of interest from big media and the difficulty convincing consumers to pay for info in a “nickel and dime” fashion.

But content has a long history of being paid for by end-users (magazines, books, etc.). And in today’s challenging ad environment, coupled with the realization that almost all media is (or will soon be) digital and interactive, publishers are again looking at micro-payments as a way to shore up diminishing bottom lines.

SILICON ALLEY INSIDER had an interesting piece yesterday on a number of media veterans who’ve come around to the conclusion that some type micro-payment solution has to be included in the mix—as well as a number of other observers who think it will never happen.

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AdBrite now offering several methods within a single ad network to target ads across websites using Open Targeting Exchange (OTX).