Blog
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Instant Message versus Video Slider ad format
Giles Hirst — Head of Communication
January 22, 2020 — Ad formats, Advertisers, Business intelligence, Dating, Desktop, Games, Mobile, Publishers, Tips, Video
Both of these ad formats work in a similar way, they are both shown to the end user by appearing from the bottom right of the screen. Both formats are eye catching and offer higher visibility due to their movement on the webpage. Because of each format's position, only one can be used on a web page at a time, which means publishers need to decide which format to use.... Read More
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API Masterclass #4: Zones Targeting
Juanma Cortes — Technical Support Specialist
December 11, 2019 — Advertisers, API, Platform features, Tips, Tutorial
As an advertiser you can use the PUT /campaigns/{campaignid} Exoclick API endpoint in order to target or block zones in a campaign. The JSON structure provided includes the section where the zones and the zones targeting are defined, however, the setting is slightly different depending on which targeting option you choose. Zones Request Including Zones: [snippet slug=api-masterclass-4_1 lang=json] Request Excluding Zones: [snippet slug=api-masterclass-4_2 lang=json] Please note: when Excluding it is... Read More
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Target mobile gamers with your gaming offers this holiday season
Giles Hirst — Head of Communication
December 3, 2019 — Ad formats, Games, Manga & Anime, Mobile, Pre-roll in-stream, Tips, Video
During Christmas mobile gaming is huge! New research from Tapjoy states mobile gamers are planning to relax and use their free time to playing games on their devices. Tapjoy surveyed 8,000 mobile gamers and found that 68% have plans to get in some serious additional gaming time over the holiday break. 41% of respondents intend to play three additional hours or more during the holidays, going above and beyond their... Read More
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Is your marketing material compliant?
Bryan McDonald — Head of Compliance
November 25, 2019 — Ad formats, Advertisers, Affiliates, Compliance, Native, News, Tutorial
ExoClick does not accept marketing material that is considered to be deceptive or misleading. We have provided some examples of the types of marketing material that we don't accept to provide clarity and to help you avoid your campaigns getting rejected. Fake Messages: Ads or other elements that resemble chat apps, warnings, system dialogs, or other notifications that lead to an ad or landing page when clicked. Misleading Mouse Pointer/Tap/Swipe... Read More
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Case study: How 3 publishers increased earnings with our in-line popunder code
Ad blocking continues to negatively affect publisher revenues, ExoClick provides a free solution to publisher clients called Neverblock which circumvents ad blockers and still shows publishers ads. But we also have a second option that Publishers can try based around forcing popunders to show even if the end user is using an adblocker. It’s called our in-line popunder code and is very easy to implement in the <body> tags on... Read More
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Automation is here, don’t get left behind!
Giles Hirst — Head of Communication
November 6, 2019 — Advertisers, Affiliates, Automation, Bidder, Business intelligence, Platform features
In the age of data driven decision making, automation is becoming more and more important in the ad tech world. Why spend your valuable time reading and analyzing tons of data to make advertising decisions? Instead, advertisers are using automation tools to increase engagement, ROI and profits without the need for endless hours of building and managing online campaigns. ExoClick provides a range of automation tools, it’s like having a... Read More
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Native advertising: Tips to get creative
Native advertising is paid advertising where the ad matches the look and feel of the editorial content of a website. You can get really creative because getting a higher CTR for Native ads is all about psychology in order to create meaningful engagement from a potential customer who is viewing the website where your ad is placed. Think of it as content marketing. Once a user clicks on your Native... Read More
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Push Notifications: Why is subscriber lifetime so important?
Giles Hirst — Head of Communication
October 30, 2019 — Ad formats, Business intelligence, Case study, Publishers, Push Notifications
When a subscriber opts in to receiving Push Notifications from your website you want the user to stay opted in for as long as possible. Subscribers can decide to block your Push Notifications at any time, so you need an ad network that will ensure that the notifications your subscriber gets are useful to him and that he doesn’t get annoyed by receiving too many. The longer the subscribers stay... Read More
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Video slider advertiser tips
Giles Hirst — Head of Communication
October 30, 2019 — Ad formats, Advertisers, Affiliates, Tips, Video
Our culture is driven by the fast consumption of short video content and consumers have become totally accustomed to seeing videos on all their devices from various sources. Hence we have the Video Slider ad format! The Video Slider is a pretty compelling ad format, because it slides in from the bottom right of the page, giving you plenty of eyeball time from potential buyers of the offer you are... Read More
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Native advertising tips for higher conversions
Giles Hirst — Head of Communication
October 28, 2019 — Advertisers, Affiliates, Business intelligence, Native, Targeting, Tips
Benefits of ExoClick’s Native ads We serve very high volumes of the Native ad format, it is ExoClick’s second highest used ad format and we serve over 50 billion of them every month. This is because the majority of our top publishers have Native ad zones implemented on their websites. Native ads are also cheaper to bid for than ordinary banner formats, plus ExoClick’s platform has lots of great tools... Read More
