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How can I find a brokered traffic source (9)

06-02-2014 07:35 PM #1 dwel999 (Member)
How can I find a brokered traffic source

Is there a way to trace brokered traffic to the source such as adcash, popads, and dntx brokers? Guessing like everything else there is no easy way to look it up. Time and experience?

If so does anyone know where adcash, popads, and dntx broker from?

06-02-2014 09:09 PM #2 vp5005 (Member)

You can do it using Chrome Extention called Redirect Path. That will tell you the source of the offer and all the redirect within that path. Here is a link to it:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...kkebmdll?hl=en

Then you can cross reference the originating tracking link by using Affpaying or similar, where they note the tracking link used by the various CPA networks.

Best of luck.

06-02-2014 09:32 PM #3 angry old lady (Member)

yep. liveHTTPheaders is another good extension

06-03-2014 04:59 AM #4 zeno (Administrator)

Tracing http headers is one of the simplest things one can do with virtually all browsers...

E.g. Firefox just hit ctrl+shift+k and go to the console. Chrome hit F12 > network.

06-03-2014 12:31 PM #5 dwel999 (Member)

Thanks guys, I know how to trace packets. I will setup publisher accounts so I have something to sniff, maybe I'll find a clue that way.

06-03-2014 01:01 PM #6 zeno (Administrator)

I'm a bit confused - are you just trying to assess adverts seen in the wild to see what network they are being run through? To look at affiliate URLs and determine what networks they are being run on?

Packet sniffing is not really useful here - at least by formal definition. Generally you just need to look at HTTP headers or referrers if the traffic is hitting your server.

06-03-2014 01:50 PM #7 dwel999 (Member)

I read in an old post adcash brokers/resells traffic. Assuming popads, dntx, others do as well, I was trying to see if they all broker from certain source(s). I shouldn't have used the word trace.

06-10-2014 08:24 AM #8 TONICcom (Member)

Hey dwel999,

(full disclosure this is a DNTX.com employee account)

at the moment most networks are connected to each other for their specific traffic sources. Zeropark and DNTX are connected and we exchange traffic as needed and for the highest bidder.

But every network has its own specific traffic sources which makes them unique. And not all of these networks syndicate 100%.

For instance at DNTX we have Parkingcrew as one of our biggest traffic providers, but parkingcrew belongs to the same company as DNTX so this is a very direct connection and not pure syndication and we only buy 0click traffic from domains we don't blend in other traffic types.

Hope this helps.

06-11-2014 06:32 PM #9 Smaxor (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by dntxcom View Post
Hey dwel999,

(full disclosure this is a DNTX.com employee account)

at the moment most networks are connected to each other for their specific traffic sources. Zeropark and DNTX are connected and we exchange traffic as needed and for the highest bidder.

But every network has its own specific traffic sources which makes them unique. And not all of these networks syndicate 100%.

For instance at DNTX we have Parkingcrew as one of our biggest traffic providers, but parkingcrew belongs to the same company as DNTX so this is a very direct connection and not pure syndication and we only buy 0click traffic from domains we don't blend in other traffic types.

Hope this helps.
This is why when you engage a new traffic network it's always best practice to ask how much Direct publisher traffic they have. Not being brokered, through a traditional exchange or RTB.

Direct publisher traffic is the focus. The rest of traffic gets filled with crap.

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