Chitika eMiniMalls for Bloggers
Chitika eMiniMalls "bring product promotion to life on the web. Provide your users with relevant content and comparative shopping information without ever leaving your site".
The Chitika eMiniMall is a contextual advertisement that brings in product reviews, pictures and pricing through a web-widget that is best described as a combination of Amazon’s Affiliate Program (product pictures, pricing and reviews) and Google AdSense (PPC, contextual advertising).
The company works through a network of 12,000+ online publishers (mostly blogs, I would imagine). You are able to sign up for an account through the website, although it appears that the company is dissuading new bloggers from signing up until you reach a threshold of 10,000 visitors/month.
The ads themselves are contextually-generated. This means that the ads will appear and show products that are the same (or similar) to the product being reviewed or the topic of your blog post.
I think that this advertising model will work best on a blog that leans heavily toward product reviews, and as such will be focusing implementation on my DV Gadgets and Online Video Sharing blogs. I’ll keep you regularly updated on progress and performance of Chitika. That is, of course, if my account is approved over the next two to three days.
