Vibrant Media Review – In Text Advertising Case Study Part 2
Note: This review is not paid for. Just my honest opinion of the intext advertising solution provided by Vibrant Media.
This Part 2 in my case study on in text advertising. Be sure to read my review of InfoLinks in Part 1.
Like InfoLinks, Vibrant Media is also a provider of in text advertising and the subject of this review. I ran VibrantMedia text link ads on my test technology related website for one month. This is the same website that I ran InfoLinks on so that I could show an apples to apples data comparison between the two in text advertising solutions.
Income Results for 1 Month:
In 31 days I was able to earn $134.34 which translates to about $4.33 per day. This is nearly quadruple what I earned running ads on the exact same blog with InfoLinks.
Vibrant Media does not offer data for impressions so if you really wanted to calculate an eCPM the best way to do that would be to simply use your data from Google Analytics or another tracking software. I compared the traffic from the previous months to what I had in March and the difference was negligible which further solidifies Vibrant Media's dominance over InfoLinks in terms of payout.
Vibrant Media Ad Targeting is Great:
Contrary to InfoLinks, Vibrant Media's ad targeting is much better. This ad was displayed after hovering over the word Dell. I never found an ad without a picture or with a worthless description. I did find a few odd ads for a Verizon small business pack under words that I didn't think were related, but that was about the only result I would consider poor.
Wrap Up:
Vibrant Media is the clear winner so far in my case study on in text advertising. I earned nearly 4 times as much running their ads over what I did from InfoLinks. Their ad targeting is better as well as the actual ads that they display. I'm sure the overall quality of their network is due to their size in the marketplace (I believe they're the largest... someone correct me if I'm wrong).
I highly suggest that if you're looking at using in text advertising on your blog or website that you give Vibrant Media a look. I suggest you test all networks to see what works best for you, but the fact that they performed nearly 4 times better than Info Links makes me think their dominance would continue across all niches.
Sign up for Vibrant Media here
(Note, the above is not an affiliate link. If you think the research I performed is worth rewarding me than you can sign up for Vibrant Media using this link. Include MakeMoneyontheInternet.com in the "other notes" section and I'll get credit for the referral)
I've got data from Kontera to share later this month and I have one other network I've been testing out that I will include in this case study as well. If you like seeing more real life case studies from someone earning a living online than you should subscribe to my blog.
What do you think of this case study so far? Is this stuff valuable or would you prefer to read some list on '7 Steps to get more followers on Twitter' where I could regurgitate info found from around the web?
Tagged: Infolinks, Kontera, Vibrant Media
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I personally do not use Vibrant Media I have used Kontera in the pass and they SUCK!! they only pay you 1 cent per click if your lucky.
I have turn to Ebay Partner Network, theres a wordpress plugin called WPZix which enables your EPN just like Kontera and Virant Media.
Which currently there paying me 12-14 CENTS per click and the return is much higher because they too use pictures in there ads.
hope this helps, if you need any help let me know.
Edgar
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Your earning look good. Maybe it works great with high traffic site =)
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How many traffic are you getting frm that technology site to earn that much?
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
April 15th, 2010 at 10:10 am
100,000+ page views
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paul | entertainment tonight Reply:
April 18th, 2010 at 10:32 am
How long did you work for that kind of traffic? How many times a day are posting on that blog?
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ProMovieBlogger Reply:
April 25th, 2010 at 5:37 am
Nice page views.
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Blogging Banks Reply:
May 2nd, 2010 at 11:57 am
So how did your site get accepted with its 100K page views, when the prerequisites for Vibrant are 500K pageviews/month?
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:58 pm
I own numerous websites and have some that earn over 500k. It was a simple matter of saying, “Hey I have this website that has really targeted traffic and I’d like to run your ads on this site too”
He pretty much responded by saying ok sounds good.
The bottom line is that you should never take no for an answer. The only other time I’ve been denied and couldn’t get into a program that had a page view requirement was for Tribal Fusion and that was a couple years ago.
Thank you for carrying out this experiment for me.
It will save me do the comparison between the two systems.
I am impressed that a reasonably large amounts of cash company earned by using Vibrant Media. I will have to consider it further.
Kind regards,
John
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How long did you work for that kind of traffic? How many times a day are posting on that blog? paul | entertainment tonight´s last blog ..YES magazine 20 local celebrities that ruled the Decade
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:29 pm
18 months or so on that blog. I have others that I’ve worked longer on.
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I have try the vibrant-media ad tags on smartphone, but only few ads show,hot to get more?,thanks
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Just tried signing up for Vibrant. Hope I get accepted. Kontera ads have got better but Vibrant are far more on point.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
April 25th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
I suggest if you get denied just try and send a follow up to them. If your traffic is quality and even below 500k page views you may be ok.
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I called, then followed up with an email. Finding the email address for the person took hours. One or two days later I received an email reply that he had received my phone message and that they wanted to be in business with me. Their making the code for me now.
I’m glad I read your posts. Keep up the good work.
I can’t wait to get rid of Kontera and switch to Vibrant. I have wanted to use their ads for more than a year now.
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I got the code and its implemented on one of my sites. Its working really well so far.
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