Can advertisers partner with Open Source projects to make them even more awesome?
InfluAds is happy to announce a major effort to raise $1,000,000+ in sponsorships to fund 200+ open source projects, big or small: The InfluAds Open Source Sponsors initiative. InfluAds 2.0 launched recently with a vision to drive Quality-Only Ads & Sponsors to publishers that care about their audience and their content. Media is all about...
Crappy Ads are befriended by Crappy Content
FastCompany’s Co.LABS has an interesting article about how long-form quality content is affecting their stats positively. This is an interesting read for those that have been on the Web for a while, since it is a bit of an anti-cliché. You see, back in the days the only thing that would matter was impressions. A...
Sell QUALITY Ads and Sponsorships with your Email Newsletter
InfluAds helps publishers monetizing their Email with a quality-only ad or Sponsorship. Publishers have multiple options to achieve that: Create email newsletters automatically from your RSS, which your audience can subscribe to Use an Email Marketing platform like Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Campaign Monitor, aWeber, GetResponse or others Integrate our Ads via our ad API HOW...
Create email newsletters automatically from your RSS and monetize them with a quality ad
InfluAds helps publishers create and monetize email newsletters better. This can be done via existing mail platforms like Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor or others (which we will talk about soon) or by creating an email newsletter automatically sent with content from your RSS feed. This last option serves 2 main audiences and purposes: Alternative to the...
Introducing InfluAds 2.0, A FREE Ad Network for Publishers Borderline Obsessive about Quality
We’ve been waiting months to share this exciting news today. Site owners don’t deserve to dilute their quality, content and audience potential with fees charged by a third-party ad network that doesn’t care. We allow site owners that want to monetize their potential for FREE, driving 20% to 40% more earnings than other networks. Then we...
Welcome Chelsey, our new Ad Ambassador (aka Account Manager)
January has been a fun month at InfluAds with a lot of new faces and new stuff going on. We will take this as an excuse to introduce a few people of our team during the next few weeks, starting with our new Sales lady, Chelsey. Ahem…is this thing on? Hey, I’m Chelsey, one...
I don’t want ads on my site!!
The ad lobby will always refer to ads as the solution for everything as much as the gun lobby will always defend guns. So what about those publishers that just say: “Ads? No thanks. My audience deserves better”? Our view, as a Quality-driven Ad Network promoting more Quality and a better User Experience? Awesome! If your...
How Doctivity improved their click-through rates by 400% with InfluAds
Many times we refer to clients as friends and we mean it. What would naturally be a soulless communication between men and machine in other ad networks is likely to be an engaging chat and learning experience when advertising with InfluAds. Recently we learned how Doctivity.io, a service that puts simplicity and communication as a...
InfluAds launches a new Advertising Network focusing on Ruby on Rails
“Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive and effective in their work.” -Bruce Perens, Open Source Luminary No one can argue against the paradigm change that Ruby...
How to get a 17% increase in clicks? Run your ads during the Christmas season
Our advertiser friends often ask if they should advertise during the Christmas season. We didn’t know so we asked the data. The details are simple but interesting: A 17% increase in clicks is observed. Online advertising usually slows down during the Christmas season (roughly after Thanksgiving until Jan 1st). People get busy with personal lives,...
Why InfluAds Loves Small Advertisers? The Underdog syndrome
Underdogs are a favorite topic at InfluAds. We are underdogs ourselves and we love startups building awesome bootstrapped ideas since they push us forward in many ways. When it comes to advertising, small advertisers and startups have different needs and working with/for them make us think differently; it forces to evolve as a company differently. First some...
Our adspots are now 50% smaller and cheaper!
We’ve been listening to our advertisers needs and decided to cut our adspot sizes and prices in half. From now on smaller or new advertisers can, if they wish, to buy an adspot on the $300 to $600 range. This means more flexibility toward advertisers needs and more cool products and services provided to our...
