@dawson I can't speak to isocket, as I've never used or talked to anyone who has used the software. What i can offer you about BSA are a few things:
- You’re not locked in to fixed 30-day rate pricing; publishers at BSA can also sell ads on a CPM basis.
- I'm not sure what type of site you have, but if you look around our directory (http://buysellads.com/buy) you will see many sites that have sold a ton of ads.
- It's true; we charge a 25% commission (includes payment fees, BTW). As such, we're incentivized to actually sell ads for you.
- For many people, the commission comes down to either a) selling ads commission free and keeping 100% (minus payment fees), or b) selling more ads, and likely making more money, with someone whose goals are aligned with yours… it's one of those 100% of a pie that's worth $100 or 75% of a pie that's worth $200 scenarios.
- If you were looking for a commission free ad-selling tool, I'd recommend using something free like OIO Publisher.
- There are dozens of publishers at BSA who would likely sell plenty of ads directly to advertisers without us; however, with BSA in the mix managing their sales they sell a ton more.
I haven't had a great experience with your service or support so far. I registered two days ago and logged in, came back a few hours later and couldn't login anymore. On contacting your support (which took over 3 hours to respond), I was told no such account existed and was asked to register again. I did, and received an email this time saying it was a success and all was fine. I added my website and waited for approval, two days later and this afternoon I'm still waiting for approval, I emailed you saying can you approve it and suddenly it's now disappeared from my dashboard completely, not waiting for approval nor is it approved! I emailed support just over an hour ago and am now waiting for this to be resolved.
I can't argue with you on that - poor 1st experience. I assume you'd rather not share your domain submitted here... if you have a moment, would you mind emailing me the domain and/or account email you signed up with to todd@buysellads.com so that I can look into this for you?
It seems likely that you're somehow not receiving emails from the app, and I should be able to figure this out for you.
ah, I see your account & support ticket, and the site was denied. I tried visiting the site URL and it doesn't resolve... which is likely why it was denied. I'm happy to help troubleshoot some more if you want to ping me at todd@buysellads.com
isocket is used by the web's premiere publishers like TechCrunch, Cheezburger Network, Lookbook.nu, GameZebo, Vator.tv, etc etc.
@Dawson - OIO is free, but it puts a lot of the support on your shoulders. So you've got a mix of options - SaaS software like isocket that includes support for you and your advertisers, brokerage services like BSA that include support and commissions, or total 'on your own' stuff OIO.
You mentioned already selling some ads on your own / having interested from advertisers. Congrats!
- You’re not locked in to fixed 30-day rate pricing; publishers at BSA can also sell ads on a CPM basis.
- I'm not sure what type of site you have, but if you look around our directory (http://buysellads.com/buy) you will see many sites that have sold a ton of ads.
- It's true; we charge a 25% commission (includes payment fees, BTW). As such, we're incentivized to actually sell ads for you.
- For many people, the commission comes down to either a) selling ads commission free and keeping 100% (minus payment fees), or b) selling more ads, and likely making more money, with someone whose goals are aligned with yours… it's one of those 100% of a pie that's worth $100 or 75% of a pie that's worth $200 scenarios.
- If you were looking for a commission free ad-selling tool, I'd recommend using something free like OIO Publisher.
- There are dozens of publishers at BSA who would likely sell plenty of ads directly to advertisers without us; however, with BSA in the mix managing their sales they sell a ton more.
There’s also a bunch of non-biased reviews of what BSA has done for other publishers here: http://www.google.com/search?q=buysellads
(Disclosure: I founded BSA and my blood, sweat, and tears are in the BSA software… so I might be a little biased)