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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

Direct Sales, Black Friday & Ad Seasonality Update

Direct Sales, Black Friday & Ad Seasonality Update

Black Friday weekend starts tomorrow! We’re very pleased with how much work everyone has been doing around optimization, viewability, and adding new placements/features, and that has us believing that the next thirty days will be close to record breaking for most of our publishers. Today we’ll cover

October 2020 Newsletter

October 2020 Newsletter

Happy Q4 everyone! We are in the home stretch for the year and things are ramping up like they normally do. Overall ad industry revenue is trending a bit lower than it has previous years, but higher than our expectations were earlier in the year when Covid-19 first hit the

June 2020 Newsletter

June 2020 Newsletter

Hey everyone, We hope your summers are going well. With today’s newsletter, we wanted to reach out and touch base on a few important topics. First of these is a new feature – we are now offering referral bonuses for new sites brought in by your recommendation of the NitroPay

May 2020 Newsletter

May 2020 Newsletter

Hey folks – To start, we hope you and your families are safe. Nothing is more important than your health, so we hope you’re managing to weather this storm. Second, we have a couple of short but important topics to cover. User Consent Updates A few months back, the California

Update on Advertising, CPMs, and Coronavirus/COVID-19

Update on Advertising, CPMs, and Coronavirus/COVID-19

Happy Friday! First off, we want to remind everyone that both video and sponsor/subscription options are available to use, along with our new anchor, rail, and sticky-stack placements. Please send us a message if you’re interested in these. Second, we wanted to provide a quick newsletter this morning

January 2020 Newsletter

January 2020 Newsletter

Hey guys, With 2019 coming to a close and the new decade upon us, we just wanted to take a second to thank you all for using NitroPay. We hope 2019 treated you well and we look forward to working with you all in 2020 and beyond. With the new

October 2019 Newsletter

October 2019 Newsletter

Hey guys –  It’s time again for an update on what’s been going on here at NitroPay since our last newsletter.  First and foremost I’d like to introduce myself, my name is Matthew Dartez and I’m the newest member of the NitroPay family. I’ll be working