What's good for a gaming site ?

[chillin]

I've been reading around the forums trying to figure out the best way to monetize a flash gaming site (gets around 50,000 visits a month). CPC is low, as seems to be the case for most gaming sites, so I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good CPA network and maybe a general method ? There seem to be so many networks I can't figure out where to even start.

My first thought after reading through posts is straight forward email/zip submits, but if someone else has experience regarding a gaming site I'd really appreciate it!

thanks

 

[DevMang]

We have a lot of great gaming offers on PublisherRev that will work for you. PM me or email me (wes [at] publisherrev.com) after you sign up and I can give you a couple campaigns to test along with creatives custom made for our network.

 

[DevMang]

I just went to edit that post and add a bunch more but it said I couldn't and then I lost everything I wrote. Oh well...fail....

We also own an arcade around that size. It depends on the type of games, demographics and international traffic mix on what you should go with. It's pretty straight forward. MMO type game sites will love MMO ads. Younger females love dressup games. Younger males love shooters, racing, sports games and sometimes MMOs. Older females (and males surprisingly a lot) love puzzles games.

You always want to go for the most eCPM so you might want to set up your own ad server like OpenX to test different things. CPA campaigns might be best or ValueClick might be best. You never know until you try. It will likely be a mixture though since a company like ValueClick doesn't fill 100% of the inventory. Google adsense can be good for picking up all the rest at the end of your chain or sometimes have better eCPMs for certain countries than CPA or countries where you have no good CPA offer. Drop me a line if you need some help getting started.