• August 2, 2000

Freeinternet.com has introduced Merchantadz, an online ad-buying program, designed to offer small business owners a one-stop, low-cost method of creating and purchasing online advertising. It's also intended to appeal to Internet business partners who want to host Merchantadz as a value-added, self-supporting service offering to their users.

Through Merchantadz, small business owners can create and purchase advertising online that they can use immediately to reach their primary market by zip code, state and demographic criteria. The process is completed entirely online through a template and credit card purchase.

Advertisers can supply their own artwork for banners or create a banner online for as little as $60. Ads are displayed through freeinternet.com's iSee banner, which is always running whenever a freei user is on the Internet. Freei has over 2.2 million registered users.