Sweepstakes 101 - Part 2 - Affiliate Networks & Advertisers (15)
Sweepstakes 101 - Part 2 - Affiliate Networks & Advertisers
Affiliate Networks & Advertisers
Because sweeps is such a big vertical, pretty much all networks nowadays have sweeps offers. However, there are networks and advertisers that have their main (or even sole) focus in this vertical.
Below are a list of such affiliate networks and advertisers, listed in alphabetical order but with interviewees listed at the top.
Clicking on a link will take you to the signup page. When signing up (or during a chat/interview) with a network, it may help to let them know you're an STM member where possible, and even mention that you've read "the sweepstakes guide by vortex".
That way networks will know you're not a total noob, which may improve your chances of getting accepted. 
(Disclaimer: STM does not endorse the use of any affiliate networks or advertisers. Please sign up at your own discretion.)
Big Bang Ads
Contact: Vincent Jouvin, Senior Business Developer
Skype: vincent.jouvin
Email: vincent.jouvin@egentic.com
Fluent
Contact: Daniel Agurto, Manager of Network Development
Skype: dannyagurto
FRST Media
Contact: Arthur Kruijssen, Head of Monetization
Email: sales@frstmedia.com
Gotzha
Contact: Stijn Jalvingh, Publisher Manager
Email: mailto:stijn@gotzha.com
Mappstreet
Contact: Shay Fodor, Senior Account Manager
Skype: shay.fodor
Email: shay@mappstreet.com
Maverick Media
Contact: Asta Smagurauskaite, Publisher Account Manager
Skype: live:asta_374
Email: performance@maverickmedia.eu (general network email)
Sinum Vendo
Bobby Verlaat, Skype: bobby.verlaat1, Email: bobby@sinumvendo.com
Mathijs Kortland, Skype: Mathijs.pocket, Email: mathijs@sinumvendo.com
VIP Response
Contact: Gijs Liekens, Head of Network
Skype: gijs.vipresponse
Email: gijs@vipresponse.nl
Wewe Media
Contact: Ivy Villezas, Senior Affiliate Manager
Skype: ci.villezas
Email: ivy@wewemedia.com
Telegram: (+63) 9171321470
Other Networks/Advertisers with Major/Sole Focus on Sweepstakes Offers:
Ad-Center
AdCombo (Sign up as "Publisher")
AdMobo
Advidi
Clickdealer
iMailo
LetsCPA
MyLead
Qubiq
Response Concepts (Leadxchange)
Traffic Panda
YepAds
Networks That Have Sweeps Smartlinks:
If you'd be interested in testing smartlinks for sweeps offers, here are some networks that have them:
Clickdealer
Crakrevenue
Mappstreet
Monetizer.com (Register as "Publisher")
YTZ (Click on "Sign Up")
Advice on Offers & Geos
So what types of sweeps offers are the hottest right now?
Below I'll post the answers I got from the experts I interviewed. But before I do, I'd like to bring your attention to this reminder:
The kinds of offers that convert the best - when it comes to prizes and conversion flows (e.g. SOI iphone offers) - will be different depending on:
-The particular TRAFFIC SOURCE/TYPE
-The particular GEO
-The specific LANDER ANGLE used
-The particular OFFER FUNNEL
(And then there are factors that are changing all the time, such as: Regulations in different geos that govern advertising or how sweepstakes can be run; competition levels on traffic sources and in different geos; popular trends with regards to products/services that are being used as sweeps prizes; etc.)
So, when you're reading the below quotes from experts, keep in mind that:
When an expert tells us that a type of offer is doing well, it may be for specific traffic types only, and/or for specific geos only, and/for for a specific lander angle only...etc.
What this means is that when a network tells you that a new offer for a gift card of a famous cosmetics brand is converting like a beast, and you're only running pop or push traffic, you'd need to find another offer to run - because niche products like cosmetics are typically better for traffic like FB or Google, which allow you to target niche (by interest, age and gender, keywords, etc.).
Pop/push traffic is broad traffic that is more-suited for offers that have broad appeal, e.g. iphones and Samsung phones.
Another, related point that needs to be made, is that each affiliate I've interviewed, focuses on specific traffic types. So when they tell us for example that CC submits converts great for Geo X, that may only be true for the type of traffic they're running, and not necessarily on other traffic types.
Lastly, I'd like to warn that: Trends are always changing, so if you're reading this guide several months after September 2019, the info below may already be outdated. Your AMs will keep you up-to-date on what's working right now.
Finally, I present to you all the wisdom I received from interviewees on what types of offers are doing the best right now.
Vincent Jouvin @ Big Bang Ads:
Daniel Agurto @ Fluent:
Ivy Villezas @ Wewe Media:
Just recently, I see SEA (South-East Asia) doing very very well, especially in SG MY TW KR. Surprisingly, SG and MY have always been at the top. It helps to know that Huawei P30 is still popular among Malaysians and Singaporeans (despite the Google ban) so I was able to convince affiliates to try these offers, and our volume picked up quickly and dominated the region fast and hard. Plus, there isn't much competition, and traffic is way cheaper, so I wasn't really surprised to see a quick boost in revenues from these countries.
Another key to running CC subs successfully is to be able to find opportunities and being open to entering new markets and dominating these markets before anyone else, so I highly suggest to try out Asia and the Middle East.
When it comes to products, flagship smartphones still remain on top - namely iPhone X, Samsung S10. Some advertisers are coming up with offers for vouchers, gift cards, Spotify or video streaming in geos like Belgium. Results vary but these offers are worth a shot.
I work with the bigger affiliates to come up with exclusive offer pages, which can really boost CR to give them that edge against the competition. For each affiliate, I would identify advertisers that match the affiliate's style of promotion. For example match an affiliate that likes to use aggressive angles with advertisers that have lots of MIDs and therefore can allow aggressive promotion, or match an affiliate that can do volume with advertisers with huge caps and more geos/new markets.
In some cases, offers from different affiliate networks, even if they're from the same advertiser, will perform differently for some reason. There's no loyalty - whichever network's offer performs the best wins. So always split-test offers!
Tim Konijn aka @stickupkid:
(Note: Tim runs sweeps offers mainly on FB.)
Nordics: CC Submit
Europe: Pin Submit
CC submits are quite volatile, and countries are being shut down easily and quickly - since credit cards are involved so abuse/fraud can have serious repercussions. Smaller geos are prone to getting over-regulated quickly.
Mitesh Muley aka @miteshmuley:
Andrew Payne aka @Mr Payne:
(Note: Andrew runs sweeps mainly on Push + Pop.)
BigBangAds > good SOIs for international
AdCenter / Sweep-O-Matic > for CC submit sweeps (when the offers are available); they also have good VOD offers
SOIs are doing strong as usual, both in the US and in Europe - countries like Germany are very hot. SOI is easier to see results for low-budget beginner affiliates.
I personally have never made a DOI work at a big level (I don't know why - may be lack of trying).
I find that most often the offers that work better, for me at least, have been branded offers that a large majority of consumers use.
So for example iPhone vs. Walmart: I find they both can work, but Walmart tends to outperform because many consumers go to Walmart very often so it's a more actionable offer angle.
For conversion flow, the survey style is still the best in most cases. I rarely have gotten a sweeps offer to work without a survey type of flow.
I also run CC submit sweeps - they can do very well when you are running the right geos, at the right time and with the right offers.
1. Ask them to confirm what traffic types the top 1 or 2 affiliates are using. If the affiliate manager knows what type of traffic it is, great - sometimes they don't.
2. If it is related to the type of traffic you want to run, ask them what their CR is so you have an idea of what type of performance you need to achieve.
3. So when you go out and run your initial tests, if you know these big affiliates are getting 3% CR and your tests are showing 0.20% CR, then something is majorly wrong somewhere. Either you are on the wrong ad network, or have the wrong lander/optimization flow, or these affiliates have found the best placements to run this offer and that gives them a high CR.
This will give you some benchmark to understand what you need to achieve to make it work.
Taiwo Balogun aka @cashmoneyaffiliate:
(Note: Taiwo runs sweeps mainly on Push, FB, and Google Display.)
If you're with a good network, you can ask them to request for a custom offer from the advertiser for you - the possibilities are endless.
Gijs Liekens @ VIP Response:
Mobile content offers are pretty dead at the moment.
Credit card submits have been doing INSANE for a long period already!
Emil Alexandru @blackemil:
Best advertisers: It really depends of the GEO. For USA I would say FRST Media, for Europe I work a lot with Response Concepts (now Leadxchange).
Mathijs Kortland & Bobby Verlaat @ Sinum Vendo:
1. AU – Sweeps + VOD – Phones + Branded like Woolworth.
2. IT – Sweeps + VOD – iPhone XS mainly.
3. BE – Sweeps – iPhone XS and Samsung s10.
4. FR – Sweeps – ALL Phone types.
5. ES – VOD on sweeps kind of angle – Netflix / Streaming.
Arthur Kruijssen @ FRST Media:
(Mainly talking about SOI here, we don't have any CC trials ourselves.)
Liad Frydman @ Creative Clicks:
FR, IT - CC Submits
UK, DE - SOI
I would recommend:
Supermarket/Amazon vouchers
Iphone/Samsung
Erik Gyepes @erikgyepes:
SOI offers convert at much higher CR (though the payouts are lower) and you can optimize your campaigns much faster.
When it comes to prizes: Generally phones work well globally, but for example DE seems to work better with vouchers rather than phones.
As for geos, Europe seems to have been going strong for a while, but also keep an eye on new emerging markets as they can often bring low hanging fruit, i.e. easy profits.
Also note that day to day performances between countries can vary a lot, and are dependent on many factors, so it's better to run multiple geos so at the end you can balance things out, or just focus on the more profitable geos at the current period.
Neill Burton @ Zeropark:
US, SA, AE, KW, QA, BR, PK, NL, BH
Asta Smagurauskaite @ Maverick Media:
The most successful geo for the in-house sweeps is Saudi Arabia – both in terms of quantity and the ease to convert. Its CR of 2.43% on Samsung S10 offer is quite impressive given that it takes the user through a couple of windows before he gets to fill in the credit card details. Moreover, it is doing better compared to the average performance in other geos.
Our second-best performing geo is a group of Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, such as Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Puerto Rico. Out of which Chile with 0.33% CR is performing the best. As you may have guessed, they are grouped together because it's possible to use the same landing page for all of them.
LATAM offers were in the lead for the first six months this year, so they have proven to perform well long-term. On the other hand, having an office full of Spanish speakers, we may be a bit biased when it comes to access of LATAM traffic.
Media buyers are usually interested in rare geos, as there is less competition to buy such impressions. This is how our top chart ended up with geos such as Kazakhstan, Lithuania and Hungary. Yet, we have even lesser known geos such as PW, AQ, SM, NU, TO.
When it comes to traffic sources, emailers are doing most volume in LATAM and SA, media buyers in rare geos such as LT and HU, and affiliate companies in tier1 geos, such as UK, US or FR.
Besides the in-house sweeps we offer other types of campaigns and verticals as a private network. Additional campaigns can perform as well or sometimes even better than our in-house campaigns. Such examples would be MovieVod for US CA SG AU NZ, that has 2.53% CR in US; or Streaming Direct Form, with 1.44% CR in FR.
Shay Fodor @ Mappstreet:
Best countries on our network for sweeps:
> Email submit: US, ES, NL, FR, IT, AT, AU, UK
> Mobile content: DE, GR, CZ, SK, SL
> Credit card: FR, US, UK, IT
Top Offers Lists
While I was interviewing the various networks and advertisers, I thought it'd be nice to get their top offers lists as well. Those should give you a general idea on what types of offers are doing the best recently, in terms of prizes, conversion flows, and geos.
Last Updated: Aug-Sep 2019. Please ask respective networks/advertisers for the most-recent top offers lists and advice.
Big Bang Ads: Top Converting Offers - 24Jul2019
Fluent: Top Offers - 2August2019 (These are US Offers)
Mappstreet: Screenshot of Best-Converting-Offers Section of Affiliate Dashboard - Taken 4Sept2019 (Affiliates can see these in real-time when they log into their affiliate dashboard.)
Maverick Media: Top 10 In-House CC Sub Sweeps Offers - Summer 2019
Sinum Vendo: Best Sweeps Offers 3-Sept-2019
Wewe Media: CC Submits - Top Offers Aug2019 | SOI - Top Offers Aug2019
Ivy @ Wewe Media: We have a HUGE budget this month for CC submit offers mainly for our biggest geos in Asia - SG MY HK TW JP SA UAE and European countries- UK AU PT PL FR DE IT BE CH ES NZ Nordics and US. Vouchers/giftcards are also starting to pick up this week. Cap won't last very long so get in touch today to secure some.
VIP Response: Top CC Subs Aug2019
Gotzha: Top Sweeps Offers - 5Aug-2019
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The next part will be out real soon! In the meantime, feel free to sign up with some of the affiliate networks and advertisers listed above, and apply for some of their best offers.
Amy
Links to Entire Guide:
Intro+Index | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8
Nicely done Amy!
If anyone complains about the lack of sweeps offers after this post, they deserve to get banned
Can't wait for the rest of this series!
I love Amy. Signing up to more networks now!
We got plenty of exclusive cc subs/sweeps/vod at revimedia 
Skype: live:7188fa554e0b2e09
Originally Posted by revimediapo
Amy
Super great content you've gathered here Vortex - so much for anyone to take initiative on, truly its all you need.
1. AU – Sweeps + VOD – Phones + Branded like Woolworth.
2. IT – Sweeps + VOD – iPhone XS mainly.
3. BE – Sweeps – iPhone XS and Samsung s10.
4. FR – Sweeps – ALL Phone types.
5. ES – VOD on sweeps kind of angle – Netflix / Streaming.
Exactly maynzie! But yeah, who knows when it stops
- for now: make the most out of it I would say!
Bobby
What's VOD?
Originally Posted by micoangelo
....Sent from my iPhone using STM Forums mobile app
Huge apologies @vortex but what does MID mean as in "For example match an affiliate that likes to use aggressive angles with advertisers that have lots of MIDs and therefore can allow aggressive promotion" I've looked at Charles Ngo CPA terms and Googled but can't find it. Thank you
Originally Posted by harvcam
To add to what stickup mentioned, advertisers with bigger amount of MIDs can manage the risks better. For the sake of easy understanding, look at the MID like an account number... once the account reaches certain number of complaints from the customers, it get's shut down by the bank. Advertisers who have many MIDs can distribute transactions across all of them, so it takes a longer time for them to get an "account" shut down and in case they lose some, they can quickly start using another one. While an advertiser with just one MID cannot afford losing it.
@stickupkid @matuloo thank you both so much. Understood.
This is one killer thread man how did I miss this
Awesome thread, I will follow you
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