Etology Ceases Operations
 

This explains why David Orr was NOT responding to my emails or ICQs :mad:

http://www.etology.com/

Etology, Inc. Ceases Operations
28 September 2011

It is with great regret that Etology announces its intentions to cease operations effective immediately. During the last several months, a combination of market conditions and the need for additional investment to maintain the same high quality of service and technology demanded by the company, its customers, and its investors mean that the business is not economically sustainable. This was an extremely difficult decision to make, especially given the wonderful team of people working for Etology who will be impacted by this action.

For further details, please contact:

Etology, Inc.
P.O. Box 4058
Foster City, CA 94404
[email protected]

guessing no one going to be getting paid :(

damn, very sad news :( always loved that group and they had such a great platform/service. i remember when they were rollin deep

Damn. I don't understand how a business model like theirs can go under at the size they are/were.

Weren't they one of the premier networks/click-brokers at one time? They were all over the tubes, MGPs etc. Unless they were hit with a ton of fraud, or had big fancy offices and over-paid employees...

Wow thanks for pointing this out!

this does not surprise me at all. anyone else that has a significant ad budget to spend each month will know what i mean.

Wow, what a shock.











Not.

it's the popular thing to do.

bank a ton of cash, then run off with the money.

then we all complain about it and not do anything about it.

anyone want to start a combination of etology and epassporte?

we can call it...E-FuckThemAllintheAssBecauseTheyWontDoShitButComplai nAnyway.com

ps - hey mark, let's chat over email. i may want GTS to take over a few ad spots for me.

This must be why David Orr hasn't been spamming the fuck out of me lately. :1orglaugh

I guess thats why Mark Braatz hasnt returned my phone call.

I think JuicyAds has the same service but slightly better...

A few weeks ago I visited a video store in downtown Montreal that had a pretty wide selection including stuff I couldn't find anywhere else, and saw that they were liquidating their stock and closing their doors.

Out of all the customers in the store, one guy stood out from the rest. He was just standing there watching people running around looking for deals. I noticed his name tag and assumed he was an employee, and asked if he knew any reasons why they were going out of business.

He turned out to be the owner or the video store. He talked about how much life he put into his business and how he just couldn't complete anymore thanks to downloads and piracy, and how he was also losing his house since he borrowed against it to keep his business alive, and almost missed the birth of his baby because of the late nights he had to put in. The poor fucking guy began to tear up right in front of me, crushed that he was losing his business and letting his staff go.

Maybe you should think twice about making comments like that. Just because you think some people close up shop and run off with the cash doesn't mean its true. Comments like yours dismiss a lot of people and the serious amount of hard work that businesses. Who are you to do that?

Sounds great my man, would love to help you out. We are just beta testing our new geo targeted cpm solution on our own internal sites. Next week we will be rolling them out to all our publishers so we will be able to make you alot more money.

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Can you contact me tomorrow? I'm interested.

Mark, you seem to miss the mark (no pun intended) pretty often and are quick to defend people that you have 10 minute conversations with.

In this case, the comments that you are replying to are being made about internet companies that either had a lot of affiliates or did business with several other companies that they owe money to. It is very common when these internet companies close up that they screw a lot of people and most of them will purposely miss those last couple payments so they can keep a big chunk of cash before they close the doors.

Now what in the world does that have to do with a guy who owned a brick and mortar video store? your last paragraph you trying to scold the person who made the comments when his comments have nothing to do with the person you are referencing. What is wrong with you?

Crazy Shock?
 

Wow, this is a big shock, we were on the verge of providing them more ad space. Looks like there will be more publishers in need of our services.

Best of luck to David and the rest of the Team.

lets see if we get our remaining balance of +3K back

this will be now interesting to see what will they do with people cash

no kidding-

Can someone pop in and confirm the balances will be paid off?

Thanks for the HEADS UP Etology -sarcasm-
http://i.imgur.com/Re0WZ.gif

Awesome now they can stop fucking spamming me all the time

People have to make money these days. 90% of the traffic out there isn't productive enough to even break even on. If companies have to make money, there is no way to sustain the traffic prices that were edged up by companies like AFF.

Actually David Orr was quite active recently, so i did not realize they were going to close. Hope you guys won't suffer from that :mad:

Idem

If Any of the Etology staff want to relocate to Quebec i have many job opening for you guys :)


I Can also buy back many of the left over spot.

Please Hit us up and let close the deals while its hot.

Wow, wouldn't have expected them to abruptly close up shop. If anyone needs a new home for their ad spots or ads, lets talk! :pimp

amen to that, i'm stoked they went under. i think it's great to see a company with business practices, such as their own, fail. they will not be missed.

i see whafft you did there

i will miss their emails.

i must say they always had shitty customer service and never paid attention the littler guys which are now the big guys of today

and the big guys they paid attention to in the past well look at their fuckin stock

they only existed because AFF was spending a shit ton through them which allowed their incompetence to go unnoticed. When AFF stopped spending, the gravy train was starting to slow down.

I made a killing with Etology back in 08.............

i remember those times when you had to fight to get a piece of that traffic and it was gold. this is so sad

Good fuckign riddance.

David Orr was quite an idiot too.

they should have put marc womack in charge. wold have saved the company.

Bingo. :2 cents:

I heard something about this many months ago but wasn't sure if it was true or not.

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I'm also happy that we are working on our new PREMIUM campaign service, to earn Publishers more while keeping Advertiser ROI's in the green. Looking forward to it muchly ;)

So thats why my spam rate went down 17%....i see

It sucks to hear about good people finding themselves without work from one day to the next. If anyone from Etology is looking for work (programmers, sales reps, etc) - please contact me. We are always expanding and looking for good people to join our team.

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Contact us today and start getting traffic from the worlds biggest and best tube sites.

David Orr and the eTology folks are good people. I'm very sad to hear they closed shop as BLA and eTology go way back. :(

As others have stated in this thread I understand that some publishers may have found themselves caught in the vacuum after hearing this news. For those of you looking for a new home we'd definitely like the opportunity to discuss bringing you on board with Black Label Ads. Please hit me up and we can go over your specific needs and touch on some of our core products, namely:

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Thanks,
-Chi.

god damn, all the other companies jumping in here spamming their shit made me laugh.
no mercy!

ANYBODY HEARD BACK FROM ETOLOGY ?

Opportunity knocking :thumbsup

No! no one from etology ever returned any of my messages.

Anyone got their funds back ?

they owe me 3k and i dont mind spending twice as much suing them.

I didn't get money owed to me, not much but still.

Also, their site is back up. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

This should get interesting.

:2 cents:

spoke to the CEO and its look good.

stay tune

Etology had absolutely no problem working with copyright thieves. So I won't weep for them at all. Serves them right. Karma is a bitch, and she's back in heat.

How the hell does a traffic company go under in 2011? Obviously not in the business of actually building a legit traffic system.

I've had good luck with JuicyAds.