Do interstitials make money?

[jeremy860]

I see alot of the big boys running adbrite interstitials. Do they make that great of money from anyones experience?

[barcodeunit]

I'll put it to you this way. Interstitials, although they are extremely annoying to your visitors, bring in the $$$. :)

Adbrite and Valueclick are the only 2 advertising companies that have that feature that i know of.

With Adbrite, the interstitials just show up at a random time. Their policy states that they will appear after a vistor views 5 pages, but most of the time, it shows up immediately when you enter the site. (no complaints here!).

With Valueclick, you set the interstitials on all the links on your website. When a visitor clicks a link, it will take them to an interstitial and then go to the page they requested.

One thing i HATE about valueclick, is that some webmasters stick the code on their outgoing links such as their partners... So if you have a link partner who has a valueclick code on your link, and you want to know how many hits you are getting from that website using google tracker or extreme tracker, it shows as "media.fastclick.net" rather than the actual domain. kinda sucks, but i'm dealing with it. :) But overall, you have more control over the interstitials with valueclick since you can set where you want them to appear.

But adbrite interstitial's pay a LOT more. :)

[Jordan]

Paypopup has interstitials, I don't make as much off them as other advertising programs though.

[spaceboos]

I have a place with pops im making about 10.00 per day on 20 k hits. Can someone compare that to adbrite. Thanks

[nsmchris]

You can see how much adbrite charges for advertizing on those sites. Interstitials cost about .5 to 1 cent per ad. So about $5-10 per M uniques. But adbrite takes their chunk.

I bought some interstitial traffic from one of the big boys and thought for the most part it was junk.

Chris...

[jeremy860]

ok as far as adbrite. in order to start serving Interstitials you have to basically wait for someone to pay for advertising on your site right? or does it start immediatly through network advertising?

[MaxS]

Yes, but are obviously bothersome.

[YabbaDoo]

Simple answer is no.
You could make 50 bucks (example) from 1M visitors, but what's the point in that if those 1M visitors aren't gonna RETURN? lmao!

[Sergio]

Yup. I'd rather have my visitors return to my site and earn less, than having them never come back.

[edit]

I've actually never really been bothered by interstitials but I may be in the minority, it takes a simple click "skip this ad" and your good to go...though when they are after every link on a page I never go back. So if you're gonna use em I'd say try and do so sparingly.

[alexisthemovie]

I think adbrite's interstituals aren't as bothersome as the valueclick ones. Also, they have a minimum pricing of $10 cpm which is unbeatable.

[pimpmaspace]

Valueclicks are pretty decent. ;)

[supportomatic]

Trying Adbrite interstitials on a 20k site today... we'll see how it goes...

[mincioni]

imho, interstitials are a far better option than either pop-unders or invues. with vc the user can click to skip the ad so it's not as annoying.

i used them for a while and revenue went way up due to the higher ecpm, but the ctr was >15%--- that's a big chunk of traffic leaving and i wasn't getting 15% more ad revenue in exchange.

[supportomatic]

Seeing decent results thus far... I'll definitely be keeping an eye on how it affects adsense revenue.

[minnseoelite]

those things are the most annoying things I have ever seen.....I would rather the site had popunders at least those stay out of your way until you close or minimize your browser

[SWD]

The thing with interestials as some of you already said , is that they are extremely annoying, like the popups, the things is, they have high CPM rates so it converts well.

[PalmOS]

what exactly are interstitials?

[supportomatic]

Update: $48 so far with adbrite interstitials today... I'll run them through this week and see if they're consistent.