Bought Tracker, Landerlab and Adplexity. Coming from FB eCom background + have copywriting / programming experience - any recommendations on best network / offer types to start out with. Have money to loose but obviously understand some verticals / networks require more experience and are less "beginner friendly".
Taboola and Outbrain are generally considered the "best" native networks, when it comes to traffic quality and they are also the biggest. Revcontent kinda comes next, then MGID etc...
Since you have adplexity, you already know what people promote on these networks or you can have a look now
Plus I gave you some tips in your other thread, vortex shared some ideas as well.. so it's basically up to you now, to choose something to start with. You don't have to select the one thing that you will stay with forever, so do not over-think this and simply start with something.
If I was in your shoes, I'd likely stay with ecomm, since you already have experience with it.
I have tried pretty much all of them and had successful campaigns , I guess you have to look at what kind of traffic they have and what offers are successful on those networks and based on that you might wanna run offers ? The best bet is to reach out to network support and ask them what works best on their networks and based on that choose a network and promote stuff ...
We run on Taboola, Outbrain, Revc, and Gemini (about a 60%/30%/5%/5% split, respectively), so I think all of those are good networks.
For the very first one to try though I would do either Outbrain or Revcontent.
If you want to promote anything aggressive (Clickbank vsl's, CBD, etc) then you'll pretty much have to do Revc, and if you want to do a lot of INTL volume you'll have to do Outbrain, otherwise other stuff like ecom or US lead-gen you could do either.
They both combine good traffic with ease of access and you don't really need a rep on either to have profitable campaigns.
Taboola can be very hard to get things approved starting out with self-serve, but is the best of the four in my opinion once you actually get some approved campaigns going.
Then Gemini is just its own beast... very different setup... very hard to get going with... we only managed to get going with them thanks to the help of the folks at Maximus... without them connecting us to a decent rep I doubt we ever would have managed to run anything there...
I've also heard good things about Content.ad and PowerInbox but haven't tried them.
How to get a revcontent rep? Just for the faster approvals.
Following the advice in the thread > Outbrain / Taboola is the best place to start.
I started my native journey on RevContent and then Content.Ad, and while they drove conversions, it was hard to control spend without a tool to help manage your bids or run auto rules. Lost a pile without it.
Since jumping on Taboola and Outbrain, I've found it easier to get profitable campaigns going. But both drag on approvals. Been waiting over week for Outbrain to review my recent ads. Content.ad approved ads daily, sometimes even in the same day.