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I'm Gerald Yuvallos – this is my wife, Janice.
Together, we run iStorya.net,
the biggest online community in the southern Philippines.
Gerald and I run the site full time,
along with an editor in chief and a group of volunteer moderators.
We started back in 2002,
to offer a place for our friends to share their ideas on certain issues.
Today, iStorya is a thriving community with lots of discussion forums.
It serves as a virtual home away from home
for Filipinos all over the world.
We get 700,000 unique visitors every month.
We signed up for AdSense as a way to cover our site's costs
but we soon discovered that AdSense
was more than just a revenue stream.
It provided ads that complemented with our site's contents and users' interests.
AdSense allows us to do this like upgrade servers and software,
which makes the user experience even better.
This helps us grow and build a bigger and better community.
We also started using Google DoubleClick for Publishers,
which helps us manage the ads that we sell directly and our AdSense ads
by segmenting global traffic.
AdSense has enabled us to stay online
and keep making a difference for members of our community.
Our slogan is "More than just talk"
and it's 100 percent true.