Image Space Media
I tried it.
Image Space Media is the advertising network that uses javascript to overlay ads onto images.
It seems like a really good idea and I could see it being more effective once the network is larger and has a broader range of advertisers but the ads were absolutely not relevant to the images that my pages were displaying and although other ads on the same pages were getting a bit of love from site visitors– not a single click on the ISM overlays.
No clicks no love.
For what it’s worth there are some promising features. For instance the ability to make the ads as unobtrusive as possible and to turn the ads off and on image by image or en masse.
Unfortunately the javascript couldn’t tell the difference between my existing advertisers images in the column and images within the post, which meant manually turning off the ads every single time I had advertiser turn over. Not a huge deal but it was irritating.
I don’t think I would recommend it as yet, but I’m not going to delete my account (although I have removed the javascript from my templates) and I may try again in the future.