Agloco Releases Viewbar
I apologize for missing the May 1st Update, but I was prepping for Cinco De Mayo and it totally slipped my mind. Here’s my update so far and it looks like it’s chugging along quite nicely:
Apparently, John Chow has become pretty fed up with how slow the roll out of the Viewbar, so he wrote this note to the head of Agloco:
Hey Brain,
You posted in a comment that the Viewbar would be ready later this week. It is now the end of the week and there’s no Viewbar.
I would imagine your advertisers must be getting pretty upset with you. I deal with advertisers all the time and I know when I tell them their ads will start on this date and run till that date, they expect that. If I miss the start date, they start demanding discounts, or worst, pull their ads.
The 17 ad networks you’re dealing with can’t be very happy either. I’m sure more than a few were expecting a huge increase in sellable ad inventory and told many of their clients about the new marketplace. They may have even lined up a bunch of sales. Now they look like fools. Whatever inventory their clients ordered would surely be gone in the next few days.
I find it amazing that a company who’s sole source of income is advertising would think about getting their ad server to work with the viewbar last. Shouldn’t that have been the first thing you did?
Now you have pissed off members and you’re going to have pissed off advertisers. I wrote an email to AK asking for conference call. I got no reply. That seems to be the communication mode lately.
I think it’s time for a management change. If you guys can’t bring this to market, then get a team in there that can.
John Chow
http://www.JohnChow.com
Then John posts a article yesterday talking about his 15,000 strong network and surpise surpise – a youtube video showing the Agloco Viewbar Installed on his Dual Monitor Setup:
Kassper 3.11 pm on 15.05.2007 Permalink
It’s obvious that he has some influence on them, a little attack on the Agloco staff and he gets the viewbar the next day…
And the viewbar itself is far less than I expected, it only has google adds on it, I hope they will get some more advertisers on…
Matt Jones 3.28 pm on 15.05.2007 Permalink
Of course he has an influence over them, he generated a sizeable proportion of their community and is the thread keeping many AGLOCO members hopes up.
Impressive nework Gary! I have 78 in mine :p lets hope it pays off!
Wolf Stone 3.31 pm on 15.05.2007 Permalink
i’ve been waiting or this viewbar for more than 3 months now….maybe the release of the beta version signals that the rollout of the commercial viewbar isint too far away??
Gary Lee 3.35 pm on 15.05.2007 Permalink
I’m really glad John finally flexed some of his online muscle to get things going. At least it hasn’t cost me anything to build this network and it’s just building by itself now.
derrich 8.06 pm on 15.05.2007 Permalink
Now to see if any of us make money from this thing…
Nathan Drach 10.56 am on 16.05.2007 Permalink
wonder how this will run compared to other companies that have tried this ad model.
Daniel B. Honigman 1.36 pm on 16.05.2007 Permalink
Ha, I’m not expecting any money, really, from this thing. I think that if anyone really has hopes to make a ton of money from Agloco, they’re a bit delusional.
Tim Spangler doesn’t expect to, either, and he may be ahead of the rest of us.
msdanielle 10.03 pm on 16.05.2007 Permalink
but will it make much of a difference that he has it now? i mean, can he release it to his network, and if so, will it even work? hmmm… not sure how they’re gonna pull it off soon. he’s right about advertisers possibly pulling out
Steve S 7.25 pm on 20.05.2007 Permalink
Sometimes I really wonder whether the strong arm of John Chow knows no bounds. At least the ViewBar is up and running now.