I use AVN ads / Adbrite on some of my sites, though I did have to turn off the network ads because they got so crappy. But I've been doing good business using them as an ad broker and selling real targeted ads on some of my niche blogs.
So tonight I notice that my "Your ad here" links are all busted. Instead of taking potential advertisers to a sale page for my ads, they are taking them to some sort of fucking generic sales leads generator inviting the potential advertiser to input contact information so a sales rep can be in touch shortly. WTF, that means I'm generating sales leads for AVN but AVN is no longer giving people a way to instantly buy ads on my site!
Worse yet, I can't even log into my account -- they want my email and say they will send "instructions on how to access my account."
They claim it's an upgrade to a version 2.0 of their ad platform, but there was no email announcement, and it feels like they've just been sold off. I want to pull all my links -- why should I give them free sales leads when they aren't offering to sell ads on my sites any more to potential advertisers who click the links? -- but the way their javascript works, that would screw the paid advertisers I've already got.
Anybody from AVN Ads care to comment? They've pulled down the phone numbers from the site so I can't call, and it's not business hours anyway.
At best this is a very badly handled transition!