Chitika eMiniMalls – Are They Effective?

I’ve been reading about Chitika’s eMiniMall ad serving service. It’s all the buzz on the blogs. More about them here, here and here.

I’ve decided to give them a go. You’ll notice one of their ads below. The really unique feature is the dynamic interaction. Run your cursor over the ad and you’ll see what I mean.

As is everyone else, I’ll report back to see how this has done, compared to my Adsense banners on the right. (They don’t seem to be too contextualized, for some reason, which irks me.)

Update: Well, I thought I was going to be posting my first Chitika ad box, but it won’t show up for some reason. Can anyone out there tell me what I’m doing wrong? Chitika doesn’t seem to have any help on the actual posting of the code.

Update #2: I’ve decided to bag Chitika. Too many problems with trying to post it using WordPress and when I did get it to work, via a plugin, I couldn’t customize the products it showed. Plus, I absolutely hate when an ad does that flash dance thing when a site is loading. It did it when I tried to load it. It’s bad enough when Adsense does it.