Why Should Publishers Start Doing Content-Driven Advertising?

Contextual advertising sounds great. However, its use is far from prolific. The reason is that in the current practice, the contextual advertising is confined in a specific ad network. For example, to do contextual advertising in Google Display Network, you define ads with targeted keywords or topics in the network, webpages need to be analyzed by the network prior to participating in contextual advertising and the network takes control of ad display.

Content-Driven Advertising, a new form of contextual advertising, doesn’t have the above limitations.

First, in Content-Driven Advertising, ads with targeted keywords or IAB Categories can be from any ad networks. Actually, any searchable sources like product offering repositories can be used to create ads.

Second, webpages don’t need to be analyzed by an ad network prior to participating in contextual advertising. Actually, a page participates in contextual advertising in the first view request. With viewership decays exponentially over days, you don’t want to wait to participate in contextual advertising until your pages are analyzed by an ad network. You want to display contextual relevant ads in the first view request and from day one.

Third, you as a publisher take control of the advertising process by providing keywords or IAB Categories of your page content. The ads are matched by the keywords or IAB Categories. The matched ads are displayed.

With inception of content-relevant native ads, Content-Driven Advertising is no longer a theory, it is a reality. With millions product offerings from affiliate marketplaces, it can display product ads that are relevant to almost any type of content. So, give a try now.

Any questions? Contact us at info@adrelevantis.com.

To understand what the Content-Driven Advertising is and how it works, please read the following posts:

Content-Relevant Native Product Ads Make Different

Content-Driven Native Ads with Google Ad Manager – Part 2

Content-Relevant Native Product Ads Adapt to Your Pages

Content-Relevant Native Product Ads not only match your page content, but also adapt to your page’s look and feel. They mix with the page content naturally and natively. Here are a few examples.

Content-Relevant Native Product Ads are between text content and image content.

Content-Relevant Native Product ads are between image content and text content.

As you can see in the above screenshots, there are a few different layouts of the Content-Relevant Native Product ads. They are: Square, Cross Board, Horizontal Rectangle and Vertical Rectangle.

It is very easy to design a layout and its size. In the ad unit, you specify sizes as follows.

Square: You specify width and height as follows.

{
  ......,
  sizes: [[250, 250]],
  ......
}

Cross Board: You specify width as 1 and height as 1. The ad will be rendered as height=100px and width=100%.

{
  ......,
  sizes: [[1, 1]],
  ......
}

Horizontal Rectangle: You specify the width and height as follows.

{
  ......,
  sizes: [[320, 250]],
  ......
}

Vertical Rectangle: You specify the width and height as follows.

{
  ......,
  sizes: [[250, 400]],
  ......
}

To see the complete page and code, please go to https://www.adrelevantis.com/hb/gardenmanage-statuses-1000452175.html.

Feel free to drop us a line at info@adrelevantis.com or contact us at https://www.adrelevantis.com/ if you have any question or would like to know more about Content-Driven Advertising.

Content-Relevant Native Product Ads Make Different

Look at the following screen.

This is a side-by-side comparison between Content-Relevant Native Product Ads and other ads. Yes, you are right. The ads on left-hand side are Content-Relevant Native Product Ads. The ads on the right-hand side are the other ads.

The Content-Relevant Native Product Ads are ideal to go within content as shown in the following screen. The right-hand side is the original page while the left-hand side is the page that uses Content-Relevant Native Product Ads.

Here is a live example that shows how the Content-Relevant Native ads are different.

The page with regular ads: How you can maintain your pet’s dental health.

The page with Content-Relevant native ads: How you can maintain your pet’s dental health.

Got the idea? Ready to try it with your content? Please go to the open source GitHub project at https://github.com/ghguo/adrhbexamples to find the code and more examples.

Feel free to drop us a line at info@adrelevantis.com or contact us at https://www.adrelevantis.com/ if you have any question or would like to know more about Content-Driven Advertising.

Header Bidding, CPA and Content-Relevant Native Product Ads

Header Bidding (HB) bids on every impression, and therefore, is measured by CPM. On the other hand,  affiliate markets (Amazon, eBay, Commission Junction, etc.) works by CPA that you earn commissions based on how many referrals you generate.

For an affiliate market works with Header Bidding, you need to convert CPA to eCPM and make your bids based on eCPM. As a marketer, you will need to experiment with publisher’s content to come up with an eCPM.

As you may already know, Content-Relevant Native Product Ads are directly from affiliate markets and it works with CPA. So, you will need to convert CPA to eCPM to join the bid process of the Header Bidding.

Among other things (site traffic, demographics and locations), Content-Relevant Native Product Ads have one more advantage – Content Relevant, which means ads displayed are matched with page content. Here are a few key features of Content-Relevant Native Product Ads.

  • Content Relevant (better user experience without annoying irrelevant ads)
  • Native (go between content paragraphs seamlessly)
  • Works with Header Bidding (Prebid.js)

You can learn more about Content-Relevant Native Product Ads in the following blogs:

How Money is Earned from Native Product Ads | Improve Ad Relevancy (adrelevantis.xyz)

Content-Driven Advertising for Publishers | Improve Ad Relevancy (adrelevantis.xyz)

Content-Driven Native Header Bidding | Improve Ad Relevancy (adrelevantis.xyz)

Drop us a line at info@adrelevantis.com or contact us at https://www.adrelevantis.com/ if you have any question or would like to know more about Content-Driven Advertising.

How Money is Earned from Native Product Ads

Content-relevant Native Product Ads are directly from affiliate markets (Amazon, eBay, Commission Junction, etc.). You earn commissions based on how many referrals you generate. So, it is type of CPA marketing.

On the other hand, the Real-Time Bidding/Header Bidding (RTB/HB) often is measured by CPM or CPC. It is convenient to convert CPA to eCPM or eCPC.

The Publisher Report does these conversions and gives detailed effective Click Earning and effective Impression Earning.

In this report, the site generated $1.16 with 2 referrals, 341 impressions and 4 clicks in the selected period (the current month). Here are a few calculations in the report.

eCPC = 1.16 / 4 = 0.29
eCPM = 1.16 / 341 x 1000 = 3.40

The column eClickEarning is effective Click Earning. As an example, on 2022-03-07, there is 1 click, the eClickEarning is calculated as follows.

(Click in group bucket) x eCPC = 1 x 0.29 = 0.29

The column eImpressionEarning is effective Impression Earning. As an example, on 2022-03-07, there are 43 impressions, the eImpressionEarning is calculated as follows.

(Impression in group bucket) x eCPM / 1000 = 43 x 3.40 / 1000 = 0.15

Drop us a line at info@adrelevantis.com if you have any question or would like to know more about Content-Driven Advertising.

Publisher Report for Native Product Ads

Your sites have started to display relevant native product ads with AdRelevantis. You would like to see their performance. Here comes the Publisher Reports.

There is a report for each of your sites. You can download the report as a CSV file for each site.

You can select a date range or specify a custom date range as follows.

You can specify how the data is grouped as follows.

Please feel free to contact us at info@adrelevantis.com if you have any question or would like to know more about Content-Driven Advertising.

Content-Driven Advertising for Publishers

To display ads relevant to page content, you need to drop the Adrelevantis ad tag to the page.

The Adrelevantis ad tag has integrated with a Content Analyzer service, the Adrelevantis Bidder Adapter, and the Google tag service. You include the tag code to a page and specify ad areas. The relevant ads are displayed.

The ad tag supports both banner ads and native product ads. Native product ads are ideal to mingle with page content since they not only look and feel like the content but also are relevant to the content.

With Content-Driven Advertising for Publishers, you focus on providing best content to your audience while we focus on providing relevant ads to monetize your content.

To learn how to add the Adrelevantis ad tag to a page, please go to https://github.com/ghguo/adrhbexamples to see the examples.

If you are a publisher or a SSP (Supply-Side Platform) and would like to have Content-Driven Advertising capability in your systems, drop us a line at info@adrelevantis.com.