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12-29-2011 04:49 PM #1 lots of ads (Member)
3 Easy Steps to “BANK” with Lots of Ads!

This tutorial is for Lots of Ads. Use coupon "STM11" to get 10% off your subscription for life!

UPDATE (03/11/2013): Lots of Ads now supports 42 COUNTRIES - United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, India, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Austria, Japan, Singapore, Russia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Greece, Hungary, Philippines, Korea, Israel, Romania, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, and South Africa!
Step 1) Get a Top Offers’ List

Email your account manager at any affiliate network and ask them for the top offers’ list arranged by revenue. Here’s what I got almost immediately:



Pick an offer that you know would get approved on social networks. Check the offer’s terms to make sure they’re okay with social traffic and make note of accepted countries. For this example, I’ll pick “SeniorPeopleMeet.com”.


Step 2) Enter Search Criteria

Select Demographic

The offer only takes traffic from United States and Canada. So I select either of these as the “country”. Since I want Lots of Ads to tell me what demographic works best, I’ll leave all the other targeting options empty.

Additional tips –

• For countries, Lots of Ads lets you select between: United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, Brazil, Australia and Argentina.
• You can also narrow down results by what gender, relationship status, age, or range of age is being targeted by ads.



Select “Ad Content”

In the Display URL field, enter any part of the offer’s domain (ie. “seniorpeoplemeet”). This will narrow results down to only ads that are advertising this URL.

Additional tips –

• For our example, we’re searching by a specific offer. However you could also search for ads in a particular vertical, or see all the ads in which a particular image is used.
• You can use words like “date” or “single” in the heading/body to see pretty much all the ads catering to the dating vertical. Or you could use words like “play” or “level” to see ads for gaming.
• To see all the ads that used a particular image, right click and copy the image’s URL. Then put it into the “IMG URL” field and search!



Enter “Viewed” Criteria

Since I’m curious about what performed best overall, I’m going to leave the options for first and last seen blank. I usually do this since maybe the only reason an ad stopped showing was because the advertiser’s account was disabled. Looking at overall performance is a better gauge. If you want to narrow it down to ads that were last seen, say a day or so ago – you can enter it here.

Additional tips –

• You can also exclude ads that were only viewed a few times (so likely didn’t perform) by entering a figure for the minimum number of times seen.
• Or, you could see ads for only offers that are stable by entering the minimum number of days the ad has been running.



Format Your Results!

I’m going to keep the “ad format” as summary so I can glance at all the ads quickly. Even with the summary format, I can roll over my mouse over any ad to see the targeting details. Since I’m only searching in the United States, I won’t need to translate ads. If you’re looking at foreign copies, this is a useful function and shows the translated copy (in English) below the original one.

“Sort ads by” will allow you to arrange results in three ways:

1. “Last seen” if you only care about ads that are currently running.
2. “Times seen” if you care about the performance of the ads – the better an ad is performing, the more times it would have been seen.
3. “Days running” if you’re looking for ads or campaigns that are very stable (and can likely be ran with minimal maintenance on autopilot).

In my case, I care most about performance so I select “times seen”. That’s it, press “search” to view your results!




Step 3) View Results and Submit Ads!

The most relevant ads on the page are shown at the top left corner, with the least relevant at the bottom right. Keep in mind there’s hundreds of pages of ads – however the first page is usually the most important.

Rolling my mouse over the first ad, I can see that the ad has been seen nearly a thousand times. Plus, it’s been running for close to 8 months! I can also view the targeting options that are doing best (in this case an older, single female in the United States). If you want more age groups that are doing well for this particular creative, just take the image URL and do another search!

You now have a proven ad copy, creative, and targeting options that you can start tweaking – all in a matter of seconds with Lots of Ads. Just rinse and repeat with all the offers that your affiliate manager sends to you, and you’ll be rolling in Lots of Cash!



If you have any questions or suggestions, please let us know!


12-29-2011 06:13 PM #2 mrgodlike (Member)

Pretty happy w/ LoA so far... Only request would be to add more European countries (NL, NO, etc).

Other than that, I'm lovin it.


12-29-2011 06:43 PM #3 mattmatt483 (Senior Member)

im guessing this gets ads off of facebook?


12-29-2011 06:52 PM #4 mrgodlike (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by mattmatt483 View Post
im guessing this gets ads off of facebook?
Ya. So far I like it more than ftricker


12-29-2011 07:01 PM #5 andy_d (Veteran Member)

Nice, I'm curious to check this service out for sure.

How often are the databases updated ?


12-29-2011 07:54 PM #6 ibanez (Member)

When browsing ads it takes ages for me to load.
Is this just an issue on my side? Screenshot looks good so far!


12-29-2011 08:33 PM #7 polarbacon (Moderator)

thanks for the tutorial...good stuff.....


12-29-2011 08:39 PM #8 jonnyscarface (Member)

Neat tool,
but it's a shame it doesn't do Australia.


12-29-2011 09:03 PM #9 lots of ads (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by mrgodlike View Post
Pretty happy w/ LoA so far... Only request would be to add more European countries (NL, NO, etc).

Other than that, I'm lovin it.
Really appreciate your feedback. I'm looking into adding 2 more countries at least next month. I'll keep Netherlands and Norway on top of the list, I should be able to arrange servers there. Otherwise I was thinking South Africa would be a good bet too since there's quite a few affiliate offers there! If I can get enough subscribers, the goal is to get servers in every single reliable country (at no added cost to customers of course).

Quote Originally Posted by andy_d View Post
Nice, I'm curious to check this service out for sure.

How often are the databases updated ?
The databases are updated daily. We also have immediate notifications in place if anything goes down. So far there's been no issues though!

Quote Originally Posted by ibanez View Post
When browsing ads it takes ages for me to load.
Is this just an issue on my side? Screenshot looks good so far!
Was there a certain query you ran that took a while to load? I just spent the past 15 minutes trying various searches and the results were fetched within 5-10 seconds. Also, we've improved performance significantly since PPC.bz and Finch made posts recommending Lots of Ads.. So if you haven't tried the service since, I would encourage you to do so now!

Quote Originally Posted by polarbacon View Post
thanks for the tutorial...good stuff.....
Thanks for the awesome forum!


12-29-2011 09:05 PM #10 lots of ads (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by jonnyscarface View Post
Neat tool,
but it's a shame it doesn't do Australia.
We have Australia as well since early this month. I just haven't updated the homepage yet, but we're continuously working to improve our service for subscribers behind the scenes. All the new countries we add come at no additional cost to our subscribers.

Currently we support these countries: United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, Brazil, Australia and Argentina.


12-29-2011 09:47 PM #11 sm1810 (Member)

btw - tried to use coupon STM11 says it's already used might want to fix that...


12-29-2011 10:06 PM #12 lots of ads (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by sm1810 View Post
btw - tried to use coupon STM11 says it's already used might want to fix that...
Could you make a new account? I think we found a bug. If you applied the code when signing up for the "demo" account (not sure why it even allowed that), then tried upgrading later with the same coupon - it'll tell you the coupon's already been used on your account. Just make a new account when purchasing a paid subscription and the coupon will work.


12-29-2011 10:49 PM #13 jonnyscarface (Member)

What does Lots of Ads do that 'ftricker' fbspy tool can't as it's more expensive?


12-29-2011 11:31 PM #14 lots of ads (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by jonnyscarface View Post
What does Lots of Ads do that 'ftricker' fbspy tool can't as it's more expensive?
#1) Lots of Ads isn't more expensive. On a 6-month term, we're $399/month (that's if you don't use the coupon). On a 3-month term, we're the same price as them at $449/month. It's only on a monthly basis that we're slightly more expensive - $499/month versus their $450/month. Of course, if you apply the coupon code technically we're a few pennies cheaper even on the monthly package. Also, there's several smaller packages if you don't care about all the countries. Our smallest package - United States only - is only $200/month (at regular price, without the coupon code).

#2) We don't have any downtime. If there's the slightest issue, we're instantly notified and take measures to rectify this immediately.

#3) We have more than double the countries. Ftricker only supports 5 countries, whereas we have servers in 11 countries and will be adding more monthly (at no additional cost to our subscribers)!

#4) We have more search features. Excluding features we have in common -
(a) Ability to search all creatives that used a particular image,
(b) Ability to translate foreign ads into English,
(c) Ability to weed out ads that haven't been running for X days,
(d) Ability to weed out ads that haven't been seen X times,
(e) Ability to specify when an ad was first or last seen!

#5) We're constantly improving! There is no settling for us - we'll continue adding more countries and features even if our customers are fully content. We're also extremely responsive and strive to integrate any suggestions immediately.


12-30-2011 12:10 AM #15 jonnyscarface (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by lots of ads View Post
#1) Lots of Ads isn't more expensive. On a 6-month term, we're $399/month (that's if you don't use the coupon). On a 3-month term, we're the same price as them at $449/month. It's only on a monthly basis that we're slightly more expensive - $499/month versus their $450/month. Of course, if you apply the coupon code technically we're a few pennies cheaper even on the monthly package. Also, there's several smaller packages if you don't care about all the countries. Our smallest package - United States only - is only $200/month (at regular price, without the coupon code).
There's also a coupon code for ftricker in this forum, STACKF22, which brings the price down from $450/month to $300/month.
http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...-keep-it-quiet!!

Still am impressed with the tool.
Just weighing out the pros & cons.
Thanks for your quick & detailed response.


12-30-2011 12:30 AM #16 polarbacon (Moderator)

hey justa fyi on this thread.....lets keep it to how to use the tool to profit...and not profit for the tool

There is a buy and sell section for coupon codes and the like.....


12-30-2011 12:53 AM #17 optimex (Member)

Yea if you don't search any keywords or anything specific then it takes forever to load the ads. So if you were to just search for like 20 - 25 females in UK, it takes forever...


12-30-2011 02:45 AM #18 Smaxor (Veteran Member)

I always like seeing other networks top lists, thanks


12-30-2011 03:01 AM #19 jonnyscarface (Member)

@lots of ads
Does Lots of Ads' English package include Australia?
Are there video tutorials on how to use each feature of the tool for your subscribers?


12-30-2011 04:06 AM #20 pancakes (Member)

Awesome tool! Keep up the good work and keep adding those countries.


12-30-2011 06:17 AM #21 minh1204 (Member)

is it only ads or are the landing pages viewable also?


12-30-2011 01:35 PM #22 brusik (Member)

question: lots of ads looks pretty cool but is this not outrageously expensive or am I wrong?


12-30-2011 08:07 PM #23 lots of ads (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by polarbacon View Post
your tool is case sensitive....I have no idea why that is the case....
This was from another thread. Just so I'm keeping track of everything, it should be noted that this was fixed within the same day. Searches are no longer case sensitive.

Quote Originally Posted by optimex View Post
Yea if you don't search any keywords or anything specific then it takes forever to load the ads. So if you were to just search for like 20 - 25 females in UK, it takes forever...
You're right, I just ran a query for 20-25 females in United Kingdom and it took a while to load. We looked into this immediately, it turns out the query when searching by a narrow age was just failing (it's not that it was taking a while to load). Anyways, this is now fixed and results are loading in seconds!

Quote Originally Posted by Smaxor View Post
I always like seeing other networks top lists, thanks
Why not see what offers are doing best that may not be on your network? Sign up for Lots of Ads!


Quote Originally Posted by jonnyscarface View Post
@lots of ads
Does Lots of Ads' English package include Australia?
Are there video tutorials on how to use each feature of the tool for your subscribers?
The new countries added this month (Australia and Mexico) were only available for subscribers of all countries. But you're right, it makes sense to have it in the "English" package. I've changed the packages so that the "English" package now includes United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia for just $350/month (or $315/month with the coupon "STM11"). Also, the "Latin" package now includes Mexico (so it has Brazil, Argentina and Mexico) for just $200/month - or $180/month with the coupon. You can view a breakdown of packages by clicking on "pricing" on our homepage.


Quote Originally Posted by pancakes View Post
Awesome tool! Keep up the good work and keep adding those countries.
Thank you, rest assured we will.


Quote Originally Posted by minh1204 View Post
is it only ads or are the landing pages viewable also?
You can click on the display URLs of the ads.


Quote Originally Posted by brusik View Post
question: lots of ads looks pretty cool but is this not outrageously expensive or am I wrong?
I "may" be biased, but we're pretty cheap. With our tool you can find working campaigns in a matter of seconds. You could recoup the monthly cost within a few hours with just one profitable campaign that you pulled from Lots of Ads. The tutorial I provided lays out how you can do this step-by-step! Plus it's really not easy or cheap managing servers (and profiles) in most of the countries we support.


12-30-2011 08:10 PM #24 lots of ads (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by jonnyscarface View Post
Are there video tutorials on how to use each feature of the tool for your subscribers?
There aren't, but I'll look into adding these within the coming weeks. Most of the features were discussed in my case study. The platform is very straightforward, just sign up for the free "demo" account if you want to test!


01-02-2012 06:24 AM #25 sm1810 (Member)

I sent you a PM too I signed up for full service today.. first when you use any of the Viewed column filters it takes forever to load.. I've tried so far US / UK / AU and AR same issue.. Then when I use Ad Format detailed vs simple I get the same results when I hover mouse over... A guide would be a good idea


01-02-2012 06:33 AM #26 minh1204 (Member)

What is the display URL on facebook?

If it goes ad -> landing page -> offer

is the display url the landing page url or the offer url?

if its the landing page url, is it the full url or just the root domain?

Thanks

Quote Originally Posted by lots of ads View Post
You can click on the display URLs of the ads.


01-02-2012 07:06 AM #27 sm1810 (Member)

^ from what I've seen so far it's the offer URL so you can't see the LP...

another gripe is also the age says i.e. 45 I assume that's max age which again is not very useful since I saw some of my ads scraped from AR which i was running 30-45 :/


01-02-2012 02:48 PM #28 pancakes (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by sm1810 View Post
I sent you a PM too I signed up for full service today.. first when you use any of the Viewed column filters it takes forever to load.. I've tried so far US / UK / AU and AR same issue.. Then when I use Ad Format detailed vs simple I get the same results when I hover mouse over... A guide would be a good idea
I'm having the same issue as well. When I input any variables into the "Viewed" column, it just shows the loading animation.


01-02-2012 06:55 PM #29 lots of ads (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by sm1810 View Post
I sent you a PM too I signed up for full service today.. first when you use any of the Viewed column filters it takes forever to load.. I've tried so far US / UK / AU and AR same issue.. Then when I use Ad Format detailed vs simple I get the same results when I hover mouse over... A guide would be a good idea
I've been looking into the loading issue and tested several queries. Could you retry the search? The results loaded within 5-10 seconds here. If it's still taking a while to load, just let me know what the exact search criteria is and I'll get it sorted.

Quote Originally Posted by minh1204 View Post
What is the display URL on facebook?

If it goes ad -> landing page -> offer

is the display url the landing page url or the offer url?

if its the landing page url, is it the full url or just the root domain?

Thanks
Just the final domain where the visitor ends up after all the redirects.. We don't want to send clicks to every advertisement. Plus, if there's no URL attached to the ad - it's going to a "Fan Page". The only other situation where the URL attached to the ad would differ from the actual destination where visitors are sent would be if there was cloaking. In that case, we would likely be cloaked as well so the end result would be the same.


Quote Originally Posted by sm1810 View Post
^ from what I've seen so far it's the offer URL so you can't see the LP...

another gripe is also the age says i.e. 45 I assume that's max age which again is not very useful since I saw some of my ads scraped from AR which i was running 30-45 :/
We can easily add more profiles.. It's getting servers in every country that's the hard part. I'll go ahead and add 35 year old profiles for every country within the week as well. That way we're covering pretty much all demographics.


Quote Originally Posted by pancakes View Post
I'm having the same issue as well. When I input any variables into the "Viewed" column, it just shows the loading animation.
If you could send the exact query that resulted in the lag, I can get it fixed immediately. If there's ever a lengthy delay, you should let us know the query since there's probably something resulting in a failure.


01-02-2012 07:13 PM #30 sm1810 (Member)

Jason (I assume it's you) can you explain the profiles part.. do you only cover 45 males? again these are nice stuff to clarify on your signup/faq/ or even here...


03-11-2013 07:12 PM #31 lots of ads (Member)

Romania, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia are now live!


03-21-2013 08:11 PM #32 lots of ads (Member)

We are proud to announce that Lots of Ads now has over 1,200,000 ads!

With over 500 profiles in 42 countries, and instant notification/replacement of "down" accounts, you can rest assured that NO profitable campaign can slip through your sight.


05-16-2013 05:35 PM #33 lots of ads (Member)

We now have over 1,500,000 unique ads in our database!


02-03-2014 01:04 AM #34 lots of ads (Member)

I know we haven't updated in a while. That's because we've been working non-stop behind the scenes, and are excited to announce:

Newsfeed Ads [Beta] is now live!



- Simply click the "NF" radio box under Ad Type in the search box to see Newsfeed Ads, or "RHS" for Right-Hand-Side Ads
- We're calling it "beta" as the launch is limited to a few profiles in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and France
- Once we know everything is running smoothly, and that there's no reported "bugs", we'll roll it out across all of our profiles
- We're capturing everything about these ads, across all of the formats (ie. Photo Ads won't have a link box)

That's not all. We've also been adding countries, and have had coverage in 50 countries for some time now: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam! We didn't feel we deserved to bump this thread until we had Newsfeed Ads integrated.

Last but not least, we have over 2.5 MILLION unique ads in our database now - and are scraping tens of thousands daily!

We have always been ahead of the curve - and promise to continue rolling out more features/coverage to make our subscribers the most money.


02-03-2014 07:01 PM #35 waltermitty (Senior Member)

Great job on accomplishing what no other spy tool has up to this point.

I just have one compliant and hopefully it will wind up helping you guys out from a marketing standpoint.
If you are going to have a 7 day demo account then you should show some value, or maybe a 1 week full price(monthly price/4) account that people can use to test the system.

What makes no sense and does nothing to drive sales is for someone to signup for a demo account and see the following screen.




I get you have to censor that data to stop people from just signing up for demo accounts but at that level of censoring you might as well just not have a demo account.

My advice would be to have 1-3 day accounts that are fully paid for people to test the system.


02-03-2014 07:43 PM #36 lots of ads (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by waltermitty View Post
I get you have to censor that data to stop people from just signing up for demo accounts but at that level of censoring you might as well just not have a demo account.

My advice would be to have 1-3 day accounts that are fully paid for people to test the system.
Totally understandable and I believe this concern was brought up before. Our sole intention with the "demo" account was to show that we are actively scraping ads.

For now the priority is rolling out NF ads across all of our profiles, but this is something we can re-visit down the road once there's a bit more time available.

Rest assured your input isn't taken lightly, and is very much appreciated.


04-03-2014 09:58 PM #37 waltermitty (Senior Member)

Please Please Please fix the issue of not having the URL available for some ads/


04-05-2014 03:52 PM #38 lots of ads (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by waltermitty View Post
Please Please Please fix the issue of not having the URL available for some ads/
Will have Technical go through all existing ads and find blank ones, then populate them once they're seen again. Thank you!

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As a side note, our NF coverage now spans the following countries: AU, CA, CH, DE, FR, UK, IT, and US. We're working hard to expand our NF coverage across all 50+ countries!

Just glancing over the ads though, I can confidently say that NF ads are an absolute GOLD RUSH:



Trust me - this is one of those times that you reflect on when the advertising costs have skyrocketed, and regret not jumping on when you could have made a fortune (literally).


04-18-2014 06:49 PM #39 waltermitty (Senior Member)

Still seeing allot of ads with "no url info available" curious as they are the ones im most interested in! Counter measures by smart cloakers


04-25-2014 05:01 PM #40 waltermitty (Senior Member)

Cancelled hit me up on here when you guys sort out the significant number of ads with "no url available".


04-25-2014 07:47 PM #41 lots of ads (Member)

I apologize for the delay in my response. We don't actively monitor this thread. Please reach out to us at "info@lotsofads.com" for the future with your concerns, or feel free to add me on Skype ("lotsofads").

Most of the ads with missing URLs are from ~2 years ago when we didn't capture this data. However, if the ad is seen again, the redirect URLs will be automatically populated. For the recent ads that are circumventing our redirect scrapes, I now have a pretty good idea of how they're doing it - and will be rolling out a fix for this on RHS ads shortly. NF ads should already be capturing all the redirect URLs now. Our focus has recently been on incorporating and increasing our NF coverage, so I'm sorry for the wait on this.

As a side note, we now have NF support for the following countries: Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Chile, Colombia, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States! We're working hard behind the scenes to increase our coverage to all countries (it's been extremely challenging), but all major markets at this point are already being captured.


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