Anyone else having delivery problems on Nativeads.com? (11)
THat's a pretty high CTR on nativeads.com
Haven't really cracked the right combination on that site
Your bid seems ok and daily budget is big
Not sure whats wrong with the ads, how many widgets have you blacklisted?
I have similar experiences. I filled up 3k on balance, launched campaign. For one week I got only 100 clicks with price 0.9-1.2$/click.
After analyzing the traffic, I saw that all the clicks came from contentad where I bought that same traffic and costs 0.1$/click and big volumes.
Same here...
They mostly access inventory of other platforms such as Revcontent & Outbrain but I believe they have their own inventory too.
I've always wanted to like these guys, they have a decent blog and shared some great insights on a YouTube interview with John Crestani along with some added functionality in their platform.
BUT
I have had the same issues, proven campaigns not getting any traction. I'm spending high xxxx per day across all native networks and about x here!
A number of my support emails ignored and the one rare occasion I got a reply it was short and curt.
Smillar, my suggestion would be to go to RevContent direct.
I have good feedback from my support manager in nativeads.com
Yeah I was thinking their bids are quite high, and I get same inventory of ads from content & rev
So I'm giving them 1 last test campaign before I withdraw funds
It seems like they are throttling your campaigns. What is the balance of your account? Most of the times if you have small balance in your account they will throttle your traffic .
Have you checked out this video from John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufmEJdVTYhw, he does a interview with NativeAds CEO and he gives some good insigt on how to bid via their network, how to setup campaigns, how to restart a new campaign if a campaign lost traction. Worth to watch.
PS: I dont know how viable the information is as I dont buy traffic from them. Good luck.
Have you tried relaunching the creatives in a new campaign, but same settings? (something Jon suggested in that webinar).
Also, does anyone here have a rep at Nativeads?
I have 2 campaigns that I want to scale with them, can't seem to get 1 person to respond to my email for long enough to get anything done. From reading the comments here, it doesnt even seem worth the effort.
I believe some of their third-parties have changed policies on what they accept.
Hey all here's a follow up to my original post:
I wasn't hearing back from my rep due to that Friday being a holiday. My rep there is very friendly and responsive, PM me if you want his skype/ email.
My takeaways from a $3k spend with nativeads.com:
These guys want to help. If you mean business and have a budget to use, they will do whatever they can to help you. What we did was copy my campaign 5 times and my rep then started pushing the different copies to different types of widgets. One was really low quality ($0.15 cpc) and one was really high quality (yahoo) and all matters of in between.
When I was bidding $0.75 across the board I was getting really good traction and was able to spend my daily budgets. I quickly noticed that an overly high % of clicks were bot clicks. Not only bot clicks, but KNOWN bot clicks because 49% of my traffic was getting auto cloaked by my cloaking software (Traffic armor). Traffic armor rep says typical bleed rate is 10%, 49% (without turning more than minimum filters on) means BOTS.
Not wanting to pay $0.75 cpc for friggin bots I lowered it to 0.50 and now I can't get traction anymore.
With this in mind I think my experiment with nativeads.com is over. Its a great platform and my rep was putting in WORK for me but I was just getting too many damn bots and not enough conversions. Skin is a brutal vertical though, I think I will be back with some upcoming in-house primo white hat VSL offers.
@adivity- yes that was an intitial problem with traction that I had, nativeads.com has lax requirements for ad imaging/ headlines, but the networks they source from are more strict. For example, yahoo requires headlines of 50 char or less while nativeads.com only requires 60.
If you go into nativeads.com, spend some time with a rep and ask about specific placements because this will affect what you can put in your ads. They will suggest a RON and to let their software optimize it for you, but if you are cloaking you can't really do that.
TL;DR: Nativeads.com for premium white hat campaigns only
Thanks for the insight and sharing your experience. It can be very trickle traffic at the lower cpc's in my experience as well.
They tell you to start with really high cpc's to get the placements and have the algorithm's do their thing before lowering the cpc back down.
Like any other ad platform there might be a learning/experience curve and it might be a mistake to treat it like it's Revcontent.
Hight optimizing budget + compliant advertorial + straight sale offer + great copy/ads
Could be for you if above is your thing.
And they have 2nd tier traffic as well I think for more aggressive mgid,mylikes traffic.
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