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NitroPay is Hiring!

NitroPay is Hiring!

NitroPay is seeking a full-time, remote Account Manager. Account Manager at NitroPay Your Responsibilities As an Account Manager you’re in charge of maintaining healthy and successful relationships between NitroPay and our publishers. You’re the first point of contact and a trusted advisor that will help new and existing

NitroPay's Statement on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

NitroPay's Statement on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

VANCOUVER, WASH. – NitroPay is the monetization partner of websites based all over the world. We strongly condemn the Russian Federation’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the continued escalation of the conflict. In response to this and the extensive global sanctions levied against the Russian government, we have taken the

Harness the Power of First-Party ID and Contextual Targeting

Harness the Power of First-Party ID and Contextual Targeting

For consumers, the tracking of third-party data has been increasingly frowned upon. This data tracks behaviors on a device, allowing advertisers to target ads specifically related to those behaviors. It’s far from subtle, isn’t a transparent process, and can even feel invasive at times. Ultimately, consumers value their

How Data Privacy Shifts Are Impacting Digital Marketing

How Data Privacy Shifts Are Impacting Digital Marketing

Data privacy is an ever-present concern in the digital age. This data can include varying levels of information about consumers that is then used for targeted marketing, such as: personal contact details (name, address, phone number, etc), financial information (credit cards or bank accounts), identifying details (date of birth, social

How Publishers Can Benefit from the Q1 Ad Slump

How Publishers Can Benefit from the Q1 Ad Slump

During Q1, publishers experience a decrease in ad revenue due to several factors, such as advertisers bidding less after focusing on Q4 advertising, a potential drop in website traffic causing lower impression rates, and lower fill rates. While every publisher does not experience a huge drop in revenue, Q1 is

Video Ads vs Display Ads

Video Ads vs Display Ads

In the adtech world, publishers have a lot of choice when it comes to advertising unit options. While you can’t go wrong choosing one over the other, both video and display ad types have benefits that make them potentially lucrative to use together. Video Ads Video ads are a

Tis the Season… to optimize your earnings!

Tis the Season… to optimize your earnings!

Come the fourth quarter (Oct. through Dec.) of each year, most publishers tend to see a seasonal boost in traffic and earnings. Holidays—both commercial and cultural—are the driving force of this boost, with Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday all packed into the year’s

How Publishers Can Increase Ad Revenue

How Publishers Can Increase Ad Revenue

Recently, we covered RPM vs CPM as well as viewability, and how publishers can use those metrics as both a gauge for optimization changes and to better understand their earnings. Typically, ad revenue is based on the amount of viewable impressions that an ad generates.   However, there are several things

Understanding the Metrics: RPM vs CPM

Understanding the Metrics: RPM vs CPM

The digital marketing world has many facets to optimizing revenue. Two very common acronyms, RPM and CPM, are metrics that give publishers a tool to better understand their earnings. RPM: Revenue per Mille (Revenue per Thousand Pageviews) RPM is a publisher metric that allows them to estimate potential earnings of

Ad Viewability and Its Impact on Revenue

Ad Viewability and Its Impact on Revenue

What is ad viewability? Ad viewability is a metric of determining how visible ads are to readers on your website. For an ad to be considered “viewed,” at least 50% of the ad must be displayed on the reader’s screen for at least one second (for display ads) or

Q1 2021 Updates - Referrals, CLS, and Interstitials

Q1 2021 Updates - Referrals, CLS, and Interstitials

Happy midway point of Q1; from here on out things should be hitting a nice stride for the rest of the year. I wanted to cover a few things in this February newsletter, specficially cumulative layout shift (CLS), customer referrals, and the new “interstitial” placement (brought to us by Google)

End of 2020 Newsletter - Service Agreement Update

End of 2020 Newsletter - Service Agreement Update

2020 is almost over – time to celebrate the end of this crazy year! We have a few pieces of housekeeping to go through to tighten things heading into 2021, primarily an update to our Service Agreement, Q1 seasonality and new takeover placement options for your sites. Service Agreement Update We

GDPR, CCPA, and future privacy law compliance for publishers

GDPR, CCPA, and future privacy law compliance for publishers

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was a groundbreaking win for privacy advocates and members of the European Union. After arriving in May 2018 the legislation has, among other things, regulated how companies store and transfer personal data. The month following the GDPR’s implementation saw the California Consumer Privacy