Looking for Native Ads advice, budget, ad networks, tracking?

What's up guys, I've been really interested in native ads for a while now, I've done a good ammount of research and I believe I'm almost ready to make my move.

I have a budget of around 1k, but I've seen a lot of people and blogs say that native ads are super expensive, and I'd need a budget of 10k+, I've also heard that people have made it work with a lot less.

My strategy is based on basically copying and improving what's already working for others, swiping the ads and landing pages and split testing landers/headlines.

I will use MGID for traffic, Clickbank for offers, Anstrex for spying -
$59.99 a month, Clickfunnels for my landing pages (trial), and the last thing I need is a tracking tool. Redtrack is one I've been looking at, I know voluum are really good but they have no trial. If you have used any of these or others please share your experience.

Thank you, I really appreciate all advice.

Clickfunnels....I'm using it, the software is great, the price is not imo...not sure you its wise for someone to spend $97/month that isn't generating sales/revenue yet...what if in two or three months you haven't made any sales? Or you going to continue to pay $97/month? And even on the $97/month plan you are limited to 20 funnels, I'm probably going to choose a different funnel builder for this reason alone. There are cheaper alternatives out there.

Anstrex - i'm currently using it, the software is quite good, $60/month isn't terrible for the amount of networks you get...there are competitors that charge alot more for fewer networks

Redtrack - they are good, they have excellent support and customer service, I think I was on a $50/month plan so the price is very reasonable....I would choose them or Clickmagick as my tracker, i'm currently using Clickmagick which I love, the only "bad" thing I've seen that I don't like about Clickmagick is they don't allow adult, so keep that in mind if you are promoting an adult offer or getting traffic from an adult traffic source. I've never used Voluum but from what i've seen they look good. The only thing about them is their starter plan is $70 which only allow 20 active campaigns which honestly is probably
enough for most folks especially newbies but if you want unlimited campaigns you have to jump up to $150/month.

MGID - Haven't used them yet. But like you I'd like to hear other people experience

How are you tracking?

MunnyMachine said:

How are you tracking?

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I decided to use BeMob for trakcing, they have a free plan until you get to like 100k events.

I used to run native ads on MGID last year so will give my input.

You should be fine with 1k budget, you will at least get a good feel for the traffic source. Just limit your budget by clicks, that way you can set your daily budget less than $50/day.

For spy tool I used spyover, it picks up most ads for nearly every geo. Or you can just use VPN or free proxynova proxy (google it) to change your ip. Be sure to change your browser language to suit the geo. Eg: if you want to spy Romania ads, change language to Romanian. Then google 'websites that use mgid', or go to publicwww.com and search for mgid.com and you will also find sites with mgid ads.

Once you find some ads that have been running a while, create a campaign using same ads/lp, set low budget and let it run a couple of days without touching it, then slowly optimise bad widgets/ads etc. Then you can start split testing variants of your winning ads.

I personally wouldn't use click funnels, just use HTML if you can. To be honest I used the affiliate network landing pages because I ran cod offers. I didn't have much luck with clickbank. You will find 90% of t2/t3 geos all run cod offers and most affiliate networks you can just use their own landers. Some cod networks are adcombo, leadbit, drcash, leadrock, terraleads.

Hope this helps.

I tried MGID but lost 20%, but still trying good landing page