R.K. Milholland has just signed up for Project Wonderful, and there's a banner spot at the top of Something Positive.
Minimum bid is five bucks per day, and adverts are approved by hand. Randy's letting the ad box run until the 15th on a trial basis.
This is pretty big. Here's hoping it pulls more advertisers into the system.

Project Wonderful now supports text ads!

From the Welcome page:

"Text ads are now available on our network, and we're doing them a little bit differently: with tons of sizes, options, and the ability to fit into our existing ad boxes (as well as display to readers who don't have JavaScript enabled, an industry first), these text ads are more powerful and more impactful than those that you'll find elsewhere. Give them a try! You can create text ads as you would any other ad by clicking here.

"As a publisher, you can set the colours that text ads display with, as well as deciding whether or not to allow them on your ad boxes. Simply go to My Ad Boxes -> Edit Ad Box and explore the new options there!

"In other news, our logo is now more excellent."

Looks like the text ads are going through a testing period right now - line breaks don't seem to work, nor does highlighting or changing text size, and button text ads are as useful as a chocolate teapot. I'm using FireFox 2.0.0.6 on Windows - can anyone else successfully make a decent-looking text ad?

**EDIT - the text links are now working properly! Woohoo!

Josh Fruhlinger submitted this news via the "Contribute" link - thanks, Josh!

Hello there Project Wonderful Talk! My name's Josh Fruhlinger and I run the Comics Curmudgeon Website (you actually bought some "Hosting for a Quid" ads on my site a while back)... I also am a tech editor/journalist type and I recently interviewed Ryan North for one of the sites I work for on the subject of Project Wonderful. We talk about the genesis and future of the site, as well as a little bit about how he runs it. The link is here:

http://www.itworld.com/voices/voicesryan.html

On that page, you can get to both a transcript of the interview and an audio file of the interview. Please let me know if you have any further questions!

Josh
jpw@jfruh.com

At the start of this month, I passed the five hundred dollar mark for money spent on advertising via Project Wonderful. At this benchmark, here are my experiences from an advertiser's point of view.

In what could prove to be the biggest change in Project Wonderful's history, the "Campaign" system is now live.
The new Campaign system allows you to place large amounts of bids in one set, by specifying parameters in the publisher search menu. You search for publishers as normal, and then click the "Create a new campaign" button and you're taken to the new campaign creation screen, which bids automatically on any ads that meet your search criteria.
For the last couple of weeks, I and a few others have been beta-testing the campaign system, which is why you might have noticed strange-looking bids for Project Wonderful Talk on your ad boxes. My experience of using the campaign system has been top-notch - the overall cost per click for Project Wonderful Talk has been less than one cent.
In other news, there have also been some updates for publishers - you can now set a minimum bid on your ad boxes, and if bids drop below that amount, replace the ad box with a link to another page.
I don't know about you, but I for one will be watching Project Wonderful very closely for the next few days.