What are the best ad networks?

Ad networks

[craigstar3]

What are the best ad networks to work with? Which networks have the highest CPM's? Which networks pay the best? I know these are all very basic questions, but I am new to this and wanted to see people's opinions so I can check out the networks they refer to see who I might possibly work with. I have a site that will be launching in May and wanted to make sure I made any revenue possible and also have the adnetwork help generate traffic to my site. With an adnetwork do I get paid only or do I have to pay anything? Please help...

[edited by: eljefe3 at 3:33 am (utc) on April 7, 2007]

[mfishy]

What space are you working in?

IMHO, all CPM is bad, unless you are doing videos or games and have little other choices.

[centime]

why don't you experiment, what works for one site might not work for yours, the Top networks IMHO, appear to be

CJ
Google-adsense
YahooPN

in alphabetic order, Google an Yahoo are the easiest to set up ,

Yahoo is restricted to USA based businesses

And their are lots of others,

[themediamage]

How about AdBrite?

[John_Blake]

In my experience the listed above affiliate programs have proved to be most effective - in reverse order:

1. adBRite
2. Google adSense
3. YPN
4. Azoogle
5. ValueClick

Anyway, I have to add I haven't been in affiliate marketing for so long but these are my observations so far.