My friend was gloating about being contacted by linkstar back in February, about the possibility of buying adverts on some of his sites. It's not unusual, he's always telling me about people buying ads on his sites. He runs like 40 of them so It's hardly surprising.
The really funny thing? I got approached by them just a couple of weeks later and they also bought advertising on the blog I keep for the place I work! However they didn't want to buy adverts on this blog, they said it doesn't get enough traffic. Fair enough I suppose, at least I can stick my tongue out at my friend and say they've also bought advertising from me 
Of course there are people who question how adverts affect your journalistic approach.. it doesn't! Come on people, even the BBC are showing adverts on their pages now and you ever tried watching TV? I'm sorry but anyone who says that my selling of adverts is a reflection of my professionalism is just living in a dream world. Checking google blog search for "linkstar uk", I can see they also bought adverts on a travel site. And guess what, Google... full of adverts! We're in an advertising world.
I was contacted by Linkstar earlier today. I do find it suspicious that an online advertising agency wants to put ads on my site, considering that my site is not a high page ranking one.
I did research on Linkstar and I don't know what to believe with all the good and bad reviews I've read. I do not know if I would even want to deal with Linkstar, considering that Linkstar hasn't been in business that long.
There are too many scams that are being pulled with text link advertising and Google is known to ax sites from their engine without warning or an explanation as to why.
I might have considered Linkstar had I found more positive reviews and experiences from others.