Traffic Dude to Manage Ad Sales for Fleshbot

PUEBLO, Colo. — Gawker Media has tapped Traffic Dude to manage its advertising sales for Fleshbot, it adult news blog.

Fleshbot, which debuted in November 2003 and ranks in the lofty Alexa global top 3,000 club, averages about 400,000 visits a day with page views almost doubling that.

Traffic Dude is set to sell and manage graphical and related forms of consumer-targeted advertising on Fleshbot, which is billed as “where sex, porn and the web collide.”

“Fleshbot is on the bleeding edge of Web 2.0,” Traffic Dude’s Scott Rabinowitz told XBIZ. “We are intending to find untapped opportunities beyond conventional Internet advertising. Fleshbot is a long-term web property that can only grow. It has the capacity to roll out new formats.”

Five-year-old Traffic Dude specializes in selling targeted online adult ad placement across a wide array of sites, search portals and other traffic networks. Its portfolio of work includes campaigns for Sex.com, Porn.com, SexFiles.com, Naughty.com, PornoTube.com, ANYwebcam.com, AdultSpace.com and TLAVideo.com, among others.

Fleshbot is owned by entrepreneur Nick Denton, who owns 14 blog sites, including Gizmodo, Gawker, Wonkette, Lifehacker, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Defamer, Jezebel, Idolator, Consumerist, ValleyWag, Deadspin and Gridskipper.

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