The Dog is Unresponsive…Is Spottt Gone?

We’ve written about the issues at advertising exchange Entrecard several times over the past year. Now it appears that another advertising exchange is also suffering some issues. Spottt launched at the Techcrunch40 conference back in 2007.  We reviewed Spottt on their public launch and noted that they have a cute doggg as their mascot. The Spottt service is a Web 2.0 version of the LinkExchange concept from the mid-90s.

We’ve been unable to access the service for more than 24 hours and from some conversations this morning, it appears that the service has been down for a longer period of time. It seems that even more than a year ago many Spottt publishers were wondering if anyone was still using the service.

Most of the ads we saw running in the Spottt network looked pretty amateur and would probably never run on larger blogs. The interesting thing about the Spottt code is that if you have Javascript, it degrades nicely and nothing is displayed. If you aren’t running Javascript, you always see the same Spottt house ad but clicking takes you to a blank page.

Let’s hope that the doggie is just taking an extended rest.