Best ad company to monitize my website

[moneff]

Hello ;P,

Can someone tells me the best company for monetizing my Games Arcade Website ?

I'm currently using Adsense and Ad4game..
But Ad4Game are showing only CPA banners to my website.. And I don't like CPA banners at all..

I want to put good banners around my games.. I don't want to put Adsense around my Games, because Google will ban me..

Please tell me some good companies, that has best publishing rates..
I don't need CPA Companies..

CPC and CPM companies are welcomed

Best Regards,
Simeon

[RickyG]

The ones everyone are talking about:
bannerflux
surge
epic

[moneff]

The ones everyone are talking about:
bannerflux
surge
epic

I heard that Epic Game Ads are good..
Do they offer Footer and siteskin ads ?

And can someone provide me with a info about Surge and Bannerflux ?
..
Epic ?
Surge ?
or Bannerflux ?
Which one is the best ? Which one gives to most $ for a clicks, and which one offers cpm + cpc banners ?

Regards,
Simeon

[RickyG]

bannerflux.com
surgedirect.com

I dont think epic offers skins yet.

[comcenter]

I find Ad4Games to be really pushy. Once you take their banners off line, they will email you daily reminding you about it and saying they will delete the zone and such. Maybe it's just me, but I do not respond very well to this kind of pressure.

[moneff]

I will place epic game ads

[moneff]

By the way, which is better?

Epic Game ads or Surgedirect ?

[comcenter]

My 2 cents...

Epic: seems to be breaking down on the weekends due to the heavier load, hopefully they will perform enough upgrades to stop this from happening. However, every arcade webmaster knows traffic doubles during the holidays, I'm not sure if they will be online for Christmas.

Surge: Are also fixing bugs and glitches, personally, I don't like the idea of a separate code for each site. It's much to difficult to handle when you have a lot of them, plus you cannot use it as a default code in an ad server.

[lfhost]

My 2 cents...

Epic: seems to be breaking down on the weekends due to the heavier load, hopefully they will perform enough upgrades to stop this from happening. However, every arcade webmaster knows traffic doubles during the holidays, I'm not sure if they will be online for Christmas.

But at least Epic look after there publishers by offering a compensation pay automatically to your account.
I havent seen this from Surge when they have been down and I notify support.

Surges member area is quite buggy, the pub ID keeps going missing and tells me I have 114 referrals. When pub id shows, the referrals says 0.

There are pros and cons to both ad companies, I would say rotate them both in the mix.

Surges Footer ads are the best performing for me atm.

[comcenter]

This is the kind of feedback we should be sharing in order to make smarter decisions when deciding which ads to use in our sites. Too bad some forums are deleting / penalizing such posts.

Surges Footer ads are the best performing for me atm.

I agree with you on this, footer ads from surge seem to be better performers in terms of revenue. The only reason I don't use them in all of my sites is because I consider them too invasive, covering too much of my mini sites. They reduce the ctr of my in-content advertising, and the amount I receive from the footer ad is not enough to compensate.
Which led me to implement the 'floatie' from Epic Gameads. I was quite happy with this format, since it occupied just a small space on the bottom right hand side. Most arcades don't even utilize this space so the 'floatie' was completely non-invasive. I was also quite happy with the flat $1 CPM while it lasted. Turns out, according to Epic my websites were not converting and the 'floatie' was suspended from my account. I have to say according to them cause there are no statistics in their dashboard where you can tell how you're doing. That action got me thinking, suppose they decided to slash their lower converting publishers after a while, and just keep the ones that convert the most? Perfectly legal and understandable in this capitalistic world we live in. Plus, I'm sure the one's whose accounts are not penalized will be happy to continue with the program. But, can they be comfortable with this policy? Isn't that what Google is doing?

I also did get around a dollar for 5 hours of downtime on Saturday, but I would prefer this kind of incident just didn't happen at all.