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A third-party network that sites like these could easily integrate into would mean more money for the sites, more relevant ads for the end users and an alternative to Facebook Ads

I couldn't agree more. Trafficspaces already provides it. See screenshots - http://www.trafficspaces.com/tour/

You can integrate demographic info from your database to show targeted ads just like in Facebook Ads.

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Any plans to offer a service to let people buy ads across sites that run your product ?

(or alternatively an index listing your users so people can go to them directly to buy ads)

I'm doing a targeted demographic buys at the moment and I'm struggling to find places to advertise. Facebook is giving me solid results (good CTR, cheap CPC) but not getting enough volume so I'm looking for other sources. MySpace's demographic targeting is awful, PlentyOfFish has very low CTR, poor targeting and the interface is buggy.

We get a lot of enquiries about that so yes, it's definitely going to be available shortly.

We'll probably start off with an index because that's easier to do considering that each social network/dating site/news portal integrates their database in different ways.

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