eCommerce Tycoon

**J0ker** · 03-21-2007, 09:10 PM

There are countless amounts of incentive based sites that work by giving users money and gifts by doing some mediocre task like playing a little number game (netwinner.com) or playing a game, and uses graphic, video, and text ads to pay for it. However, I want to know where they get these ads from. These are ads where all the user has to do is see the video, or graphic, not click on it and the site gets paid. The sites are completely incentive based meaning that is their sole content, so they had to start off with ads without having loads of traffic, meaning its like a per view type thing. Where would you get these kinds of ads?

**vangogh** · 03-22-2007, 01:23 AM

Looks like netwinner has their own program to attract advertisers. I know of a few sites that will help you find text links you can use as advertisements on your site like the appropriately named Text Link Ads.

I'm not sure who are the networks for the ads you're asking about, but I'm sure they exist. Maybe try searching for things like 'banner network' or 'add network' or other things like that.

**J0ker** · 03-22-2007, 01:49 AM

I believe it must be some kind of publisher type program because why would their advertiser's be attracted to a site that had just began without and traffic (I'm speaking of the start of netwinner).

**bzimage** · 03-22-2007, 07:47 PM

Its by impressions

**vangogh** · 10:01 PM

J0ker do you know if they had the ads shortly after launching the site? They may have worked to first build traffic and only asked for advertisers after they had an audience.

I'm sure there are programs that exist to connect advertisers and publishers. I'm only aware of the ones that deal in text links, but I'm sure they exist for image ads as well.

Two of the more popular programs when it comes to text ads are

Text Link Ads
Text Link Brokers

**J0ker** · 03-23-2007, 04:57 PM

No way, the site runs because of the ads, how could they give money if they did not have ads? They had to have started with the ads without traffic, unless they just took the loss of paying without recieving money untill ads would pay them.

**vangogh** · 03-24-2007, 12:56 AM

I'm not familiar enough with the site to know. They could have taken a loss or they could have been using something like AdSense in the beginning. Do you know if they were giving out the money from the start? That could have been something they added later too.

I'm not really familar with the site so I'm just guessing here.