Archive for the ‘Advertisers’ Category

The Free Trafficspaces Package is now available

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

As most of you already know, we launched Trafficspaces to give publishers more control on how to manage their ad inventory. Since then, we have received tons of emails about our free 7 day trial and suggestions on how to make the platform serve you better. We've been asked frequently to ...

How to Set Your Ad Prices Via a Real-time Auction Like Google and Facebook

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Chris Petersen has a successful blog. He generates millions of page views monthly, which he currently monetizes with Google AdSense and a couple of other ad networks. He also gets about 10 - 20 emails from advertisers every day. Requests range from "Send me your price list (or rate card ...

Techcrunch Switches to Self-Service Ad Platform and Validates Trafficspaces’ Business Model.

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Today, a friend of mine sent me a link to an article that confirms that Techcrunch, the leading tech blog, has decided to dump its long term ad partner in favour of a self-serve ad platform.This is great news because it validates what we've always believe in - self-serve ad ...

How to Use Coupons and Discounts to Increase Ad Sales

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

One of our stated goals at Trafficspaces is to make it easy for publishers to convert more advertisers. Today, we've taken one step further in achieving that goal by providing support for discounts and coupons (promo codes). Coupons Promotional Codes are extremely popular online. They offer a huge incentive to shoppers. They ...

Selling Ads on a Monthly/Weekly Sponsorship Basis

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

In addition to traditional CPM and CPC ad sales, the sponsorship monetization model is gaining massive popularity. Blogs from Techcrunch to Perez Hilton, to CNN  and Youtube  sell some of their ads on a sponsorship basis. The sponsorship model usually has two key attributes - a minimum time period and an incremental time ...

When it Comes to Text Ads, A Picture Says a Thousand Words

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

What’s the difference between a  Facebook text ad and a Google text ad? Well it is simple really. Google ads are plain old text ads whilst Facebook ads have little pictures attached that help to illustrate the text. Personally, I love picture text ads. I think they are a great ...

OpenX vs Google Ad Manager – Which is better?

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

There is an updated version of this post here - Google Ad Manager vs OpenX vs Trafficspaces I came across this interesting comparison of OpenX and Google Ad Manager on Mahalo Here is a summary: 1) OpenX is an independent, neutral provider - a point which Bernard Lunn expanded on here in a ...