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ShoppingAds Followup – AuctionAds & ShoppingAds Both Suck
By Max | October 18, 2007
A couple weeks ago, I got an email from Patrick Gavin from MediaWhiz. He was starting a new ad network called ShoppingAds. I thought I would give them a shot since my AuctionAds campaigns have done progressively worse month after month.
I am sorry to report that ShoppingAds is no better and possibly worse than AuctionAds. My previous AuctionAds reviews are here:
AuctionAds Review 1
AuctionAds Review 2
My worst month with AuctionAds still managed to make me $33. I also got a decent number of clicks. ShoppingAds performance is just gross right now. For the month to date, I have displayed 82,326 impressions resulting in only 36 clicks. For those 36 clicks I am earning $8.42. The pay per click isn’t bad at all. The problem is that I am not getting nearly as many clicks as I would like. With AuctionAds, I got click-through rates over 1% on good days. Now with ShoppingAds, I am getting an abysmal 0.05% CTR.
Compare the two ad units.
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Due to the disappointing performance of these two product based ad networks, I am going to try some others. I really think my ipod site should do well with product based ads, so I am going to try TTZMedia and WidgetBucks. TTZMedia offers very specific product targeting which could help the bottom line, while WidgetBucks has a really nice presentation for their ads. Look for reviews of them in a week or so.
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Topics: Ad Network Review | 5 Comments »
October 18th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
The widgetbucks advert is really sleek, but it takes twice as long to load as the ttzmedia block. I hope one of these pans out.
October 19th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
I got the shopping ads invite and decided to replace a spot that was not performing. Guess what? I could have just left the other non performing offer there. Oh well. I will replace it with something else in a few days.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:40 am
If you’re already a ShoppingAds user, or considering becoming one, you should check out http://www.emptyspaceads.com (a product I left my full-time job at Microsoft to build), which allows you to put ShoppingAds units in your website’s empty space. After all, when was the last time you made any money from your site’s empty space? Better yet, you don’t have to give up any existing ad units to run emptyspaceads. Keep what works!
We hope to add more ad networks soon! You can also create your own TextAds, ImageAds, and even HTMLAds. I invite you to try it out and send your honestly brutal feedback. Thanks!
-David Parkinson, emptyspaceads founder
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:29 am
Agree on ShoppingAds, so far not much success for me either
Ajith
September 18th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Where did you go? I really liked this blog.