Banner advertising on GDNet for $5!

Jason Adams · 2014-11-24T13:59:41

We're currently experimenting with opening up our advertising to the community at a low cost! At the time of posting there are still only two ads in rotation (which means potentially 800,000 views for your ad), so if you get in early you'll get the most exposure for your project, services, or whatever you're offering! Why are we doing this? We need your help to keep the site running and freely available. We're struggling to raise enough money from major ad networks, and we're also aware that some of the ads they show on our site are annoying or not always of interest to our audience. We're experimenting with opening up our advertising to you for only a few dollars per month!How does it work? First, read our post on "Opening Up Advertising to the Community" for some more details. Next, get yourself a GDNet+ subscription. This can be as cheap as a one-off $5 payment, although the yearly subscription is the best value if you'd like to remain subscribed. All proceeds go directly towards supporting the site. Once your subscription is active you should be able to purchase ad units (such as our 728x90 leaderboard ad) and upload your ads from the store. The price for an ad unit should be free for all members with active GDNet+ subscriptions! Note that once submitted adverts must be manually approved for display on the site -- we'll get to this as soon as possible, usually within a couple of hours. This is a bit of an experiment, and we haven't set firm rules on what will or won't be allowed yet -- obviously nothing that breaks the site's rules, and no illegal content, and we won't allow this to be an outlet for spammers -- we also expect some minimal level of quality/professionalism, so take some time to make your ad look good! If you have any questions or feedback use the comments on the linked article or head over to our "Comments, Suggestions & Ideas forum". Happy advertising!

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Started by jbadams November 04, 2014 06:29 AM

11 comments, last by Erik Rufelt 9 years, 11 months ago

Hodgman

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November 24, 2014 04:26 AM

I wanted to replace my first (rushed) banner, so I just uploaded a 3rd one, and my 1st one became disabled. So that part of the system seems to be working

High rep users seem to get two slots.

Also, I just discovered by accident that if you go here, it shows you the click/impression count:

http://www.gamedev.net/index.php?app=nexus&module=clients&section=purchases

Apparently I've had 26793 impressions and 115 clicks.

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Given GDNet+ is $40, that's 0.15c per impression, currently, but will continue to go down as the ads are displayed more and more.

AFAIK average CPI costs around the intarwebs are over 0.2c/impression. Or ~0.15c for an impression via one of those tiny Facebook sidebar ads.

So, after about 3 weeks of this experiment, as a client of the system, you seem to be offering decent value for money

Hopefully it boosts GDNet subscription numbers...

. 22 Racing Series .

jbadams

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November 24, 2014 04:55 AM

Given GDNet+ is $40, that's 0.15c per impression, currently, but will continue to go down as the ads are displayed more and more.

It's also worth noting for anyone who's on the fence about it that $40 is the yearly subscription, which is the best value for those who want to stay subscribed, but that you can also take advantage of the promotion with a $13 quarterly subscription or a $5 monthly subscription, which works out even cheaper per impression.

We would love everyone to support us as much as possible with the yearly subscription, but any of the shorter terms are also appreciated! :)

- Jason Astle-Adams