Advise in picking an ad-network ?

Hi,

I recently started looking into implementing optional video’s that the user can watch to receive free in-game currency. I noticed there is a lot of different plugins Corona provides us with to do this. 

Appsaholic Commercial Break

AppLovin

Facebook Audience Network

AdMob

Vungle

AdBuddiz

I would love to hear some statistics from others and maybe some advice which one to choose or not to choose.

 

My opinion only. At this might be completely different for you and your app.

  1. If you can live with the extra permissions, i think Commercial Break is awesome. Great CPM and people are use to seeing commercials on TV. You can even configure how many to watch and give them partial credit for not watching them all. Last project where I used it, I was getting about 0.01 cent per successful view or about $10.00 CPM.

  2. I didn’t think you could do rewarded (incentivized) ads on Admob or Facebook Audience Network. You might be in violation of their term of services if you use the normal interstatials to do so.

  3. From my experience both Vungle and AdBuddiz require that the viewer click on the ad after viewing or install the app after viewing the ad. For me with limited testing on AdBuddiz the CPM has been lower than just normal interstatials on Admob (so not worth the headache). Although they are very nice people and provide great support. Vungle again with my limited testing it is not significantly better than normal interstatial on Admob.

  4. People love Applovin and looking at historical CPMs they look good. Looking at the AdsTapy historical data (Oct 2015) worldwide Applovin had a CPM of $7.07 compared to $5.59 for Admob. All the numbers that I mentioned are on iOS. The numbers are lower on Android.

What is “AdsTapy”? I would love to know where you got those numbers from. Specifically: “historical data (Oct 2015) worldwide Applovin had a CPM of $7.07 compared to $5.59 for Admob”

Here:

http://ecpm.adtapsy.com/

And here is the data from one of my native iOS apps for the last 30 days using appodeal:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/69742134@N00/shares/8sbfzU/

Wow! This is great info agramonte! Thank you for sharing!

@agramonte,

Did you implement adtapsy? Didn’t see any plug-in for them.

No. There is no plugin for Corona. They take 10% of all impressions.

Thanks. So nothing we can do about it currently.

Correct. But they do publish data from time to time which has been helpful for me.

My opinion only. At this might be completely different for you and your app.

  1. If you can live with the extra permissions, i think Commercial Break is awesome. Great CPM and people are use to seeing commercials on TV. You can even configure how many to watch and give them partial credit for not watching them all. Last project where I used it, I was getting about 0.01 cent per successful view or about $10.00 CPM.

  2. I didn’t think you could do rewarded (incentivized) ads on Admob or Facebook Audience Network. You might be in violation of their term of services if you use the normal interstatials to do so.

  3. From my experience both Vungle and AdBuddiz require that the viewer click on the ad after viewing or install the app after viewing the ad. For me with limited testing on AdBuddiz the CPM has been lower than just normal interstatials on Admob (so not worth the headache). Although they are very nice people and provide great support. Vungle again with my limited testing it is not significantly better than normal interstatial on Admob.

  4. People love Applovin and looking at historical CPMs they look good. Looking at the AdsTapy historical data (Oct 2015) worldwide Applovin had a CPM of $7.07 compared to $5.59 for Admob. All the numbers that I mentioned are on iOS. The numbers are lower on Android.

What is “AdsTapy”? I would love to know where you got those numbers from. Specifically: “historical data (Oct 2015) worldwide Applovin had a CPM of $7.07 compared to $5.59 for Admob”

Here:

http://ecpm.adtapsy.com/

And here is the data from one of my native iOS apps for the last 30 days using appodeal:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/69742134@N00/shares/8sbfzU/

Wow! This is great info agramonte! Thank you for sharing!

@agramonte,

Did you implement adtapsy? Didn’t see any plug-in for them.

No. There is no plugin for Corona. They take 10% of all impressions.

Thanks. So nothing we can do about it currently.

Correct. But they do publish data from time to time which has been helpful for me.