Does anyone know?
Last I’d heard (on slashdot, way back) was that their “burn rate” was horrible. They were forced to dump the paycheck model and go to “Chances of winning prizes”. Whereupon people starting uninstalling that bar with due speed.
I believe they closed, but I’m not sure.
I highly recommend Google, through which I found this in about 5 seconds:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.mediapost.com/full_letter.cfm%3FmessageID%3D426+alladvantage&hl=en
Sorry, I thought the URL would work. It was an article dated 2-2-01:
Sorry to end the week on a depressing note, but yet another
company - AllAdvantage - has given up on trying to succeed by paying people to look at banner ads as they browse the Web.
A message on the company website states, "We are sad to
report that the major changes in the marketplace that
occurred during the last year now require that we close the
AllAdvantage Viewbar [a window that displayed banner ads
while users surfed] and our pay-to-surf, sweepstakes and
other incentive programs.
“Since our founding in 1999, the advertising and capital
markets have changed so fundamentally that it is now
impossible to continue our infomediary incentive programs and benefits, including the Viewbar software.”