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Tribal Fusion with an Ad Server

What has your experience been?

         

dataguy

7:24 pm on Jun 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Today I started using Tribal Fusion for the first time, served through an ad server in conjunction with AdSense.

So far, to my amazement, CPM on Tribal Fusion is paying more than what I have been receiving from AdSense.

I've heard people talk about this not being uncommon, but that there is a "shelf" with Tribal Fusion where after so many impressions, CPM drops off sharply.

Can anyone confirm this as typical? How many impressions until this drop off usually occurs?

Thanks for your insight.

tomp_gl

2:42 am on Jun 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

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The CPM drops very quickly, at least in my two experiences on the platform.

dataguy

12:31 pm on Jun 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Yeah, wow. After a day with Tribal Fusion, CPM has dropped to a small fraction of what it was initially, making the payout pretty much the same as any other 3rd-tier advertising aggregator. I'm very disapointed.

CentennialEmpire

10:07 pm on Jun 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

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TF states in the terms and conditions that the early onset of earnings will be higher as the system adjusts to the traffic and target settings of users on a site. Once the system knows more about the site it will adjust earnings.

You have to cap TF otherwise it will start displaying cheap default ads or revert to default networks (you can setup defaults to whatever network you want -- in my case it's Adsense).

As long as you geotarget your ads to US/Can/UK traffic your CPM will stay relatively high, but of course to get higher earnings your site has to be selected by an advertiser or be part of an advertisers broad niche selection.

Either way TF almost outperforms Adsense in daily gross revenue with roughly 1/5 of the impressions Adsense receives.

Thez

10:46 am on Sep 2, 2008 (gmt 0)

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TF pays by far the best rates for banner ads. They filter out poorly performing ads though, so make sure TF's banners are visible on your site.

Their pops are mostly CPA based though, and they do not offer the possibility to set up defaults for them. I had 5% fill rate and 95% charity ads shown (you can't even disable the charity ads). Just terrible.

lkevinl

9:03 pm on Sep 11, 2008 (gmt 0)

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TF is at the top of my chain...