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New Self Serve Ad Network | Adserve.com (22)

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Hey,

Stumbled apon a new self serve ad network today:
http://www.adserve.com/

I haven't used them yet, but there ads display on the right side of Fileserve.com and any partner sites of Fileserve (i think the majority of your impressions will come from Fileserve.com)

ex:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/RDYW6k...V.XviD-LOL.avi

For those of you who don't know Fileserve has a mass amount of pirated content hosted on it, so your looking at a predominately younger male demographic who's 60%+ searching for pirated content.

The network JUST came out maybe a week or so ago i think, and it's mostly internal advertising so far for browser games, and mobile offers.

Could definitely turn out to be interesting traffic source

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Thanks a lot for sharing J

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Thanks for this

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Np, it looks really cool and follows the fb theme. I havn't search the min CPCs/CPMs yet, so if anyone does please share

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Thanks for sharing.

I checked it out and found the following:

1. Minimum initial deposit $200.00 (-$6.00 PayPal Fee) = $194.00 for ad spend. They also accept wires, but it'll take several days for your funding to register.
2. Only CPM bidding available at the moment. Suggested bids without adding additional targeting (e.g. paid user VS not, size of file downloaded, language, operating system etc.) was about $1.50+. If you add the other items I just mentioned, it's an additional charge per CPM.
3. Your destination URL is displayed and it's going to display whatever the initial destination URL is, not the actual landing page URL. So if you're using a tracking platform (which we all should be) it will display the URL of your tracking domain and not the offers landing page. e.g. put mytracking.com which redirects to offer.com. The display URL will display mytracking.com instead of offer.com.

I'll post more info. if I dig into it any deeper.

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Ok cool, the suggested bid is prob hugely inflated. Any idea if its based on the normal CTR algorithm (higher = cheaper bids)?

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Hugely inflated indeed.

Bidding is like PoF in that you pay what you bid.

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Yep, i see now. I'm running a campaign now. Doesn't show you clicks either :/

I'll post results in 2 days. So if your hesitant in dropping $200 on the initial spend, wait for me to finish the test and i'll let you guys know what i tihnk.

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Yup, no clicks. Not even CTR!

Looking forward to your results.

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It's going decent so far, but the no CTR is mind boggling. I don't know what ads are performing and which ads aren't. Split testing is almost useless. I've managed to get CPMs from the suggested $1.51 to $0.50 with $40 spending so far.

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Are you using any tracking? e.g. Prosper, CPVLab, etc.? or are you just running directly through the affiliate network and tracking Sub IDs?

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Interesting, they seem to allow animated gifs as well :-) Just found this one served on their platform.

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LOL that gif rocks!

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Yes, they sure do allow animated GIFs!

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Where are you guys seeing these ads? And it seems like the suggested CPM bid is around $1.00 - 1.80? Pretty insane if you ask me.

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@ppvnewbie
WOW didn't know that! This could get interesting. Definitely testing GIFs for the 2nd test

@icecreamlover
you can start bidding at about half the suggested bids and get it down with ease to 5x lower than suggested bids.
read this: http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread.php?271-My-Whole-Campaign-Test-1-on-Adserve.com-(Dating-Ads)&goto=newpost

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LOL, that gif

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Some more I just found:



Even this seems to be allowed

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So basically everything is allowed which facebook would normally disapprove

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Stack, thanks for the update on the CPC prices but where I go to see some spy ads? Basically can you give me some examples on what sites host these ads?

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there is a link in stack's first post ;-)

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@icreamlover

http://www.fileserve.com/file/RDYW6k...V.XviD-LOL.avi

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