As even the non-football fans would know by now, the UEFA Champions league is coming to a close soon. Its been an exciting season, and for the first time in many years, we have an all English final in the UEFA Champions League. The final match will be held in Moscow with Manchester United vs Chelsea, and is definitely a must watch match, with very evenly matched odds – sure to be a tough fight! And very soon, football fever will escalate again, in just slightly over a month as the highly anticipated Euro 2008 Austria-Switzerland will begin!

For those of you who like to add more excitement to watching the game and take part in football betting, we’ve something interesting for you…our new client, Ascot Sports is a truly unique and dynamic sports and gaming bookmaker with strong underlying commitment to offer the best value and exciting betting opportunities. They offer competitive Asian Handicap live betting, on all major leagues, including the English Premier League, Spanish Primera Liga, German Bundesliga and the UEFA Cup. They offer a safe, legal & fun way for you to place your bets, whether you are from Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, UK, China, or virtually any country!

AscotSports would like to let you in on the action, and are offering a sponsored posting opportunity for Advertlets bloggers to help get the word out about their service. Read more below for details! Also of note: We are also running banner campaigns across the entire Malaysia, Singapore & China network for this, but it is opt in only, only bloggers that are keen on this genre of ads will be included. For those keen to opt in for gambling/betting/sportsbook based ads, please make sure to update your ad genre preferences in your Advertlets account. You’ll see it on the landing page of your account.

Sponsored Post Opportunity

1. This campaign is open to Malaysian, Singaporean & China Advertlets bloggers only with significant traffic from their respective regions. Please seek approval before posting by dropping an e-mail to posts@advertlets.com if your blog is suitable for this campaign. We are looking for sports, gaming and football themed blogs mostly, but blogs appealing to a large relevant audience can also be considered.

2. Posting Opportunity 1: The sponsored reviews are budgeted at RM 48 each for 20 Advertlets bloggers who have traffic that is >50 unique readers per day. The opportunity closes as soon as the 20 blogger quota as reached.

3. Posting Opportunity 2: The sponsored reviews are also budgeted at RM 88 each for 10 Advertlets bloggers who have traffic that is >1,000 unique readers per day. This opportunity closes as soon as the 10 blogger quota as reached.

4. The sponsored post offer is limited to 1 blog post per blogger.

5. This opportunity ends 31st May 2008. No submissions will be accepted after that date.

6. The blogger has to visit http://ascotsports.com and provide a review of Ascot Sports’ markets, deposit bonuses and other interesting selling features. Ideally, the blogger may even sign up to take advantage of the cash deposit promotion and make a bet with us.

7. The blogger’s review should be at least 150 words long (regardless of Post Opportunity 1 or 2)

8. The blogger must include at least 1 hyperlink to http://ascotsports.com and attach at least 2 screenshots from the Ascot Sports site.

9. Send the review to posts@advertlets.com for approval.

Not sure how to start? Here’s an idea of what you can try for (please don’t copy – this is just to give you an idea)

“With the English Premier League reaching an exciting climax and the Euro2008 football tournament commencing in June, I decided to join an online sports book. It’s much easier to bet online where you can type in you bets and view all the odds live rather than calling up some guy to get updated on prices.

I joined Ascot Sports after being recommended to them by a friend who places bets on their Asian Handicap markets. They are licensed in the Isle of Man in the UK and offer much better odds than some of the dodgier local bookmakers. You can bet on a variety of sports and there are many ways to deposit your money. It was so quick and easy to register and get my account funded. I just filled out a form online and transferred money from my bank account.

Ascot Sports actually deposited a £30/RM190/SGD90/RMB430 First Bet Bonus into my account for being a new customer. Woot! I placed it on Liverpool to win 3-0 tonight so if that comes in, the drinks will be on me. LOL!”

All you need is an internet connection in order to play online. My brother wanted to use my account to place a bet the other day because the cheapskate was low on credit on his phone. I got him to sign up to Ascot Sports via their affiliate program. Therefore by referring him to Ascot Sports I got paid a commission! Online betting is definitely the way to go these days and less risky than doing credit betting with underground bookies.”

Good luck!

1. The true measure of a blog advertising network lies not only in membership, but the level in which they can monetize their publisher’s inventory. As of such, we have taken the lead – Advertlets is now officially the first Asian-grown blog ad network to run regional ads. This is a big step for us, and a very significant service offering for our publishers and advertisers.

A regional ad campaign for recruitment portal Recruit.net, is now running in the following countries: Malaysia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Australia & New Zealand. This is the first of many more regional campaigns to come. The campaign is now running on all our blogs with traffic from those regions, with a daily priority for blogs that exclusively serve Advertlets ads. More on exclusivity later in this post.

Although our membership is currently open to Malaysia and Singapore bloggers, blog readers are international – and, we have a significant amount of visits from all around the region. Thanks to the diversity and strength of the Advertlets network, we can now not only sell targeted campaigns for Malaysia & Singapore, but also for the rest of our traffic. To give you an idea of how big the extended network of Advertlets is now – we reach a total of more than 150,000 unique users a day for Malaysia, 60,000 unique users a day for Singapore…and surprise, 35,000 unique users a day for China alone. Amazing, isn’t it?

2. And, exclusivity. We have been representing ad sales for a select number of blogs exclusively for a while now, including blogs which get more than 15,000 unique visitors a day to those that get slightly above 100. What these blogs have in common though, is that they have quality, compelling content, loyal visitors and great ad placements. The value that we can offer is better monetization of their ad inventory. Our salesmanship and confirmed media bookings have now ensured that we can offer consistent ads, higher CPM rates, and larger campaigns. We now have ads confirmed for the next 3 months in advance, and we would love for you to be part of an exclusive group that will allow you to have less clutter on your blog, and better earnings.

We are now happy to open up this program to more of our bloggers to enjoy a better blog advertising experience, and are happy to announce the Advertlets Titan program. Over the next few days, we will be revealing more about the program.

3. And of course, we have gotten good feedback on our limited beta test, and are happy to announce that Advertlets 2.0 will launch on the 9th of March 2008 (our first anniversary), together with some exciting new features, including referrals, social features and earning charts. Over the next few days, our lead programmer will be talking more about the new features as well as taking your feedback on design, improvements and functions.

Actually, one more.

4. Lastly, this one means the most to me in terms of significance. One of the greatest achievements and treasures that I have in the past few years is: having found two people that I can trust as friends, and work with as business partners. Most people will tell you that combination is practically impossible to find. As we all previously had our own ventures, I personally have mostly been responsible for the day-to-day management of Advertlets, with my partners offering support to a limited extent due to their schedules. However, given that the scale of our operations is growing, they will be coming in full time and play a more important role in Advertlets operations. More on them will be announced in their own official posts to this blog!

This is the start of many other successes to come, and we look forward to sharing more good news with you in the next few days! Thank you again, for making us what we are today. We will continue to kick ass and serve ads, and put the b.l.i.n.g in b.l.o.g.g.i.n.g!