ADSDAQ’s first payment - $65.50

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Posted in » Make Money - by Ades on December 16th, 2007

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ADSDAQ sent me my first payment, that totaled to $65.50. If you have forgotten about it, I had talked about it here. It’s a new publisher program from ContextWeb that allows you to set your own CPM rates.

I had tested it as a secondary ad network on my site www.adesdesign.net for about 2 months (tested it on this blog for a short while too). I am using TribalFusion as the primary ad network. TribalFusion fills about 55% of the time, so the rest 45% was filled with ADSDAQ banners.

ADSDAQ performance

Since I could set my own price. I started off with a CPM rate $5 per CPM, but with this rate it was barely filling, about 10% of the time. After that I reduced it to $3, then $2, and finally fixed it at $1/CPM. I also created multiple channels and set different rates for each channel. Most of them were set to $1, but some were set to $0.20 only (see screenshot). The sections which were set to $0.20 were 3rd level pages, homepage and secondary level pages were set to $1.

The reason I set higher rates for homepage and secondary pages was, because I didn’t want them to be filled with all the junk banners. But I could afford to display lower quality banners on the tutorial pages (on 3rd level pages).

As you can see from the screenshot, tutorial pages were doing really well for leaderboard banners (720×90), filling 55% of the time. But not so good for skyscraper banners (120×600), it filled only 1.93% of the time. Other than that, homepage and secondary pages were filled about 20% of the time, except for one section that was filled only 4.69% of the time. Overall fill rate was 16.41% for the site.

When I tested it on this blog as the primary ad network, the fill rate was about 30%. CPM was set to $1 for 300×250 banners, and $0.50 for 160×600 and 120×600 banners.

Verdict: I would say it performed below my expectations, I was thinking at least 60% fill rate, at the rate $1 per CPM. But I think it can safely be used as the secondary ad network. It’s not that bad to get once in 2 months $65 dollars.

As far as the ad quality is concerned, they are quite OK. Definitely better than ValueClicks, BurstMedia or CasaleMedia ads.

If you are interested, you can sign up for it at http://www.adsdaq.com (not affiliate link)


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10 Responses to “ADSDAQ’s first payment - $65.50”

  1. By xbrain on Dec 16, 2007

    OMG..How I can forget about the ADSdaq..Sites is approved and forgot to put up the code.

    Now I put the code already and try to monitor it for about 2 weeks..

    Ades, I don’t quite understand about the tag1, tag2 and etc..

    What is the different between put the backup or not?

  2. By Affiliate Confession on Dec 16, 2007

    Hey, I’m always for a few $65 checks. They’re nice for a dinner out on the town. Can’t beat that.

  3. By Ades on Dec 16, 2007

    xBrain, backup code is the secondary code that you want it to be displayed when the ADSDAQ cannot fill your inventory. You can put AdSense code or any other code that you have.

  4. By zaki blogjer on Dec 16, 2007

    Gonna try this later,at least it don’t set the payment limit at $100 such as adsense, kontera and auction ads

  5. By Shawal on Dec 16, 2007

    I never heard of this before and surely going to try it… Thanks ades for sharing the info….
    Priceless…..

  6. By Shawal on Dec 17, 2007

    Sorry Ades,
    Forgot to ask yesterday…
    Did ADSDAQ accept blogspot blog??

  7. By xBrain on Dec 17, 2007

    Ades, I tried to put the it since yesterday, now the fill in rate is 0.89% for both 728*90 and 160*600 but the income is a bit low at $0.06 and $0.05.

    What do you think Ades? Is it normal or should I lower down the rate to $1 like what you do.

  8. By Ades on Dec 19, 2007

    -Shawal, I think blogspot blogs are accepted if I am not mistaken, but please confirm with them.

    -xBrain, 0.89% or 89%? If 0.89% then I think you should reduce it further, until at least it fills 30-50% of your inventory.

  9. By le bital on May 21, 2008

    hey, i’d like to ask you something:

    how long did it take for the check to arrive? and whats your country?

    thanks

  10. By smystery on Oct 15, 2008

    poor me, ADSDAQ check from silicon valley bank and there is no silicon valley bank in my country.

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