What do you think about Blam Ads?

asritad said:

my affiliate manager is Dan wolf and iam already on every top networks but Dan is the only affiliate manager who replies quickly the moment i ask any questions...

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Agreed, all of Blamads' AMs are very easily accessible on AIM and the girl who handles payments always gets back to me the same day if I email her.

GarrettWinthrop said:

I suppose it depends on the offer. I've had the exact opposite result when comparing those two networks. Also, the same 'type' of promotion is very vague. You might be promoting two survey offers but one has 10 pages and another has 30. Two mobile submit offers, one might have TOS that is very tiny writing and blends in with the background color while another has in big letters that they will be charged $9.99 per month.

I like Blamads personally.

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It's not about the offer (although I promote the same 2 offers - I tried them with proxies), but about the Clicks on the offer. The text on the content locker says the exact same thing, but when I use Blam Ads only few people click the text in order to complete the offer. With Lead bolt much more people click the text to complete the offer. And the content offered after they complete it is exactly the same.



I don't know, maybe they are intimidated by that woman talking in the background? Because I am too: "Time is running, act now" - It's like she's trying to make a sale or something, but the visitors have no idea that I will get money if they complete offers. So I think a good thing would be to erase that last few words that woman says.
You will probably tell me not to use it anymore, but the woman talking thing and the offers to complete before gateway unlocks (that, by the way, is not working for me) are the only features Blam Ads is better with. (if we only could change the text she says...)

cornkernel said:

does MGcash pay? i'm still waiting to here from someone who has been paid by them before i try them out!

thanks

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I don't know, I haven't reached minimum payout yet (I started with them 2 days ago).

Why not just remove the video of her.

I like Blam and Dan is good but the admin panel is a pain in the ass. Logging in 2 times is a pain as the panel is divided into 2 sections. The gateway has around 900 offers as far as I know but its a little tricky to use and you can easily edit the wrong gateway. However for me they dont mind FB traffic whereas Adscend dont seem to like it.

If Blam sorted out the admin panel they would be awesome

Just my 4 cents

crespozooooo said:

It's not about the offer (although I promote the same 2 offers - I tried them with proxies), but about the Clicks on the offer. The text on the content locker says the exact same thing, but when I use Blam Ads only few people click the text in order to complete the offer. With Lead bolt much more people click the text to complete the offer. And the content offered after they complete it is exactly the same.



I don't know, maybe they are intimidated by that woman talking in the background? Because I am too: "Time is running, act now" - It's like she's trying to make a sale or something, but the visitors have no idea that I will get money if they complete offers. So I think a good thing would be to erase that last few words that woman says.




I don't know, I haven't reached minimum payout yet (I started with them 2 days ago).

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crespozooooo said:

It's not about the offer (although I promote the same 2 offers - I tried them with proxies), but about the Clicks on the offer.

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Yeah, I understand what you're saying, I was only saying that unless the offers are the same offer (or if a simple email submit, very similar offers) that you can't get reliable results that way because one offer might seem similar but has an extra hoop or two for the visitor to jump through before they get paid i.e. extra pages of surveys. The text on the lockers isn't what I was talking about.

Now if you're saying you are promoting the same exact offer on both platforms and one is converting much more than the other then okay. But I've already have peerfly convert more on an identical offer than Copeac, and Copeac convert more on another offer more than Peerfly. There are a ton of variables, so it's not always as easy as taking one example and judging the entire network on that example.

The other day I took an offer that had almost stopped converting completely with Copeac and ran it with another network and it started converting immediately, which leads me to believe that there was a certain amount of leads budgeted to the one network but not the other. My AM assured me I wasn't being blacklisted for the offer, so it wasn't that. I'd love to know exactly what goes on behind the scenes that we don't know about.

crespozooooo said:

I don't know, maybe they are intimidated by that woman talking in the background? Because I am too: "Time is running, act now" - It's like she's trying to make a sale or something, but the visitors have no idea that I will get money if they complete offers. So I think a good thing would be to erase that last few words that woman says.

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Not only that but she's a bad actor. Her vocal inflection isn't believable. She sounds like she's reading it off of a script. I never use her, but I did split test with her at the beginning and she made very little difference in the amount of conversions I got.

I do think people would find her annoying rather than helpful though.

I've been using them for a few months. They are decent. The gateway isn't the best. I've had to do a lot of fudging around so that people can't simply bypass the gateway using NoScript or Adblock plugins.

Another problem I've had is that you can't select specific offers that you want to rotate on your gateway. It's either you pick a static set, or you're stuck with a bunch of random offers. There were even a few days I've had where the Gateway doesn't work at all.

On the upside, they're pretty good about their payment and it's a lot easier to get on a faster payment plan than monthly payment intervals that most networks put you on. They have a decent amount of offers too. The support is OK. The AM I've had is average (they think they are a lot more helpful than they actually are).

Lawlerskates said:

Another problem I've had is that you can't select specific offers that you want to rotate on your gateway. It's either you pick a static set, or you're stuck with a bunch of random offers. There were even a few days I've had where the Gateway doesn't work at all.

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When you click "automatic" you can then see the list and actually click "Skip this offer" on the right and it will remove that offer from the random set.