Viral Ad Network

Archive for July, 2010

CPM vs CPE

July 30th, 2010 by Dan Fitzpatrick

The advertising industry has generally relied on the CPM (cost per mille, or cost per thousand impressions) for many years, originally formulated for traditional media.

Here at VAN, we work on a CPE (cost per engagement) model – which we think is a far fairer and suitable model for use in the online space (because let’s face it, “new” media surely needs “new” methods?)

This article on Social Media Today explains the differences very simply, and offers an example which is useful for advertisers who are unfamiliar with the potential extra value a CPE model creates.

Updates – 28th July 2010

July 29th, 2010 by Tim Wintle

We pushed a bunch of new features out yesterday, including:

  1. More compact, faster, ads (file size for all our ads has been reduced noticeably, which should make them display faster on publisher sites)
  2. Language specific targeting. Previously, users have seen ads based purely on their location. Now, ads may be targeted based on the user’s preferred language. For example, a French language ad may now be targeted at French speakers in Canada, in addition to users located in France.
  3. Extra precision for targeting options – from now, certain ads may only target individual Operating Systems and devices, while this feature is in test, this may include users across 20 different operating systems.