Great feeback. We have a few fonts to choose from, and I though that they were adequate for most people. The white background is a tough one. We are not serving text like Google, we are serving images. This makes it really hard to customize the colors and I agree that it makes it look bad on dark sites. That said, we allow you to manage 8 of 10 default ads, so you can use graphics or AdSense code that matches you site. Of course, if someone makes a buy with an ad that looks bad, we can't do anything about that...

Would it be enough to have an inverse layout using black or a dark background a white or light text? I have see the issue you talk about, but you are the first to actually say that it is a problem. I can't make guarantees without having lots of complaints like this, but I can always see about getting an alternate look or two created.

 

 

 

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a good idea would be to have transparent gif images, and the background colour customisable

but what you said would be good. Im just trying to find a service with good CPM and no pop-ups

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Transparency would work if we did not anit-alias the text in a bid to make it look better than pixelated text. Once we do this, any transparency would look bad as our letters would fade to white, and the transparent color would end up making the letters look really bad. I guess if we had a version with no anti-aliasing, then we could have a transparent background...

If there was a service that paid high CPMs with no pop-ups, we never would have created AdJungle! I've been through everything from FastClick to DoubleClick (with our EPage.com classifieds site) and have not had decent CPM rates since the late 90's.

FastClick is OK, and you can choose what you show (no pops is you don't want them), but I see about 50 cent CPM from their banners. The only way I could figure to get real CPM numbers would be to sell my own space myself and not depend on a third party to do it for me. The selling is still the hard part, but at least we have ways to get the ads inserted and in rotation now.

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