Like many other users of Adgitize, I really enjoyed the service they provided. (You can read my review here). I was taken by surprise when I read the latest post regarding Adgitize raising advertise cost from $14 to $24. However, the reason why I am taken by surprise is I actually thought they would do this much much EARLIER!
According the Adgitize blog, the payout for last month was over $2400. Base on my calculation, there were an average of less than 200 advertise during the past month.
$14 x 200 = $2800
$2800 – $2400 = $400
So essentially Adgitize made less than $400 for the work they put in last month even before considering operational cost and affiliate bonus. I would definitely like to see Adgitize succeed and to succeed they will need more funding to cover the operational cost.
I for one will keep on advertise with them. Keep up the good work Adgitize!
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I agree. They need to have funds to cover their expenses (maintenance & improvement). I have always been happy with Adgitize and like you, I will still continue to advertise with them.
I’ve been meaning to do the same calculation myself, but never bothered. It is interesting how transparent they seem to be about their finances and that they’ve only kept $400 out of their revenues for operating costs. Some of that will obviously go to hosting costs which leaves even less for covering development costs, etc.
It will be interesting to see what the boost in price does. Will it drive away some advertisers? Will it attract others? Given that my typical payout is typically between 125% and 200% of what I pay for an advertisement, will I end up getting payments of $30-$50 once the new prices go into effect? I suspect this might not be the case initially, but I suspect that might be the case longer term.
I have been very happy with Adgitize so far, and it will be interesting to see how they grow over the coming months.
Hi Aldon,
They are using Amazon Web Services so the cost for them to expand isn’t as bad as long as they don’t have to manage their own servers.
The main earning for them will come from people that advertise with them but don’t actively participate in writing articles or visiting different websites. I will keep track of how they are doing on a month to month basis. Meanwhile, I really like how honest and open they are. It is one of the reasons why I don’t mind paying extra.
now it depends how much my online income as full time blogger I cannot manage to advertise all blogs on adgitize.