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Old 12-15-2018, 06:45 AM  
wankawonk
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Originally Posted by Nicky View Post
Its 90% in-house but there are some aff's but you need to buy on smaller sites and get deals, buying CPM on the big tubes is hard as an aff.
Yeah that's what I've been thinking based on everything I've tried and learned.

Even if I were to somehow hit it big with a campaign on exoclick, their in-house team would immediately notice I was spending big $$$, copy my campaign, and out-compete me with the better CPM that they have access to (since I have to pay exoclick's markup on every impression I buy; exoclick's in-house team gets ad-space for exactly the price they pay the publisher).

So--like you said--I've been focusing on trying to find smaller sites, keywords, etc, where I can get a positive ROI. And I've been pretty close in some cases, but there's no real volume there, so it's hard to get excited about fully optimizing a campaign where I can see from day 1 the profit potential is only a couple dollars a day.

It sucks because I'm really interested in adult media buying and probably have the skills to make a lot of money for someone. But it's too competitive to get in as a lone-wolf affiliate, it seems I need to work for someone.
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