I want to take a moment today to address some advertising changes that happened on my site as of this past month, which you may have noticed. I signed an exclusive content creator contract with Glam Media as part of their Foodie and Bliss sub brands, to provide innovative and quality advertising services to my readers that will not only complement my content but in turn this will also provide some small financial benefits to me.  This will hopefully allow me to continue growing Tasty Yummies by providing quality content to you my readers. In entering into this agreement I am still able to work with select networks as well as directly with sponsors on advertising campaigns, sponsorships, features, giveaways, etc.

Glam has allowed me to get pretty specific with what I will allow for ads, so although it could potentially mean more money, I have personally opted out of any campaigns that I feel do not compliment the vision of Tasty Yummies. For example, I opted out of any campaigns promoting processed foods, fast food, meat, soda, etc. That being said it will likely take some time to get it to exactly where I want it. You will see in addition to banner ads in the right side bar, occasionally there are some campaigns that will actually take over the top half of my site with a full banner across the top and a custom background. It shouldn’t appear at all times and if you were to refresh it would likely be gone. This in particular is definitely something I am getting used to, but for now I am trying it out. Additionally, the ads towards the bottom of the page on the right hand side are brought in via Google Adsense, which sadly doesn’t allow me to get quite as specific when opting in and out, so I try to keep a careful eye on those.

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