Self serve vs managed campaign. What is used most by super affiliates? (9)
Self serve vs managed campaign. What is used most by super affiliates?
Just out of curiosity.
1. Is more possible to make $xxxx to $xx.xxx day with self serve or managed?
2. The quality of traffic has differences between a respected self serve network vs managed?
3. Is wise to transfer a full optimised profiting campaign to managed, so you can focus on creating other profitable campaigns?
Thank you for the answers 
Also, what are the most powerful traffic sources in the world besides known traffic sources like facebook, google etc?
A little bump
No one will have as much incentive as yourself to optimise your own campaigns.
Thank you Cmdeal
So is most effective (in terms of money) to handle a campaign by yourself with va-s or in house than transferring it to managed?
Generally managed is seen as a disadvantage, not an advantage.
Some good traffic sources only offer managed campaigns, and in that case the quality of the traffic is worth the hassle of managed accounts. But it's rarely an advantage vs self-managed.
Another thing to be aware of is that some 'managed' sources may in fact simply access a lot of inventory from self-serve and moderate barrier-to-entry sources, and may not actually have their own network.
To be honest, why not just used both? The point is to grab money from as many places as possible if you have something that works. And giving up on any one source is just leaving money on the table. I agree with caurmen and cmdeal that managed can be quite a pain in a butt.
I see self serve as the best place to test angles and lps and stuff. Managed to me is more for scaling as you give up loads of control but in some instances, can mean more traffic which leads to more profit. Don't see managed as a way you can leave to people to handle your stuff while you focus elsewhere because from my experience, managed takes more work as you can't just click a button and blacklist a placement. You got to give the instruction for the placement to be blacklisted.
I don't think that's a factor that makes a sense.
What should be important when picking a source is volume by geo , CPMs , traffic quality, what % is brokered and what % direct pubs, how strict they are etc etc.
Many times unmanaged traffic sources are like that because they still working on developing their self-serve interface.
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