We are going to see a lot of signing up & deposits starting Friday when makeBTC will start being advertised here so it should at least be entertaining&fun to watch, I deposited 0.2 and cashed out 0.02 so far so I have a long way to go

Was he successful in winning the advert auction?
It is looking good, we will know for sure by Wednesday, you can follow the advert auction here :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=434288.msg4788025#msg4788025@beetje2007 I would never tell you to say nothing because it would scare new depositors off, you have every right to tell your problem; to be honest I don't want to advertise the website because I know people could end up loosing money without knowing what they were doing but I couldn't help myself&deposited twice, I would even deposit again if I was letting myself be more crazy
