Monetize the photos and images on your blog automatically. A very brief review on several in image ads network.
Do you have photos or images on your blog? Photo and images can provide a visual explanation or simply just to make your article presentation look more interesting.
You might have ads on your blog but the photos and images could be the area that are underutilized for the purpose to make money with blog. Furthermore if have a photo blog, trying to make money with contextual text ads such as adsense or clicksor could be difficult simply because your blog has very little texts. The problem is, search engine bots and ads crawler can’t really ‘see’ what the image is all about . You can simply put a photo of an orang-utan and tagged it as Lady Gaga and search engine and bots don’t really know for sure.
Now, here a few solution to monetize the photo and images. You can join an image ads network which put ads on the images and you can earn money with it. Just insert a small javascript code provided by the ads network. You can apply to even on free blogging platform such as at Goggle’s blogger.
This type of advertising is called in-image ads. The ads provided by in image ads network are non intrusive and you will get commission based on impression (CPM) or click (CPC) or even by affiliate sales The ads mostly shown at the bottom, inside the image itself. Ads can have a mouse over ads view which a visitor can see more info or simply click. Similar to other type of ads network, the commission also depends on several factors such demographic which simply mean you gain more for impression and click from US visitors.
If you have a photo blog, these types of ads network can be your major source of income from the blog. For other type of blog, they can compliment your other source of income.
Here are images ads network you can register today and start to make money with photo:
No, Gumgum is not a brand of great tasting chewing gum. It is an in-image ads network that claimed they are the largest in-linage ads networks in the world.
According to Gumgum commission money vary depending on image use, size, frequency of images, demographics etc.
Of all listed here, I found Gumgum provided the fasted approval and the ads appeared within a few minutes after installing the script (that even before your application approved). Other image ads network take several hours to ‘analyze’ your images. Also, it has a variety of products ads.that should appeal to general non-targeted audience. Current I see a lot of ‘X-ray scanner ads’ on the blogs that use Gum gum, for example.
Commission based on impression (CPM). No click stat data due to revenue is based on CPM.
Approval within 24 hours.
Min Payout: $50. Method: cheque or PayPal.
Interactive ads: zooming and image sharing .
To apply, visit: Gumgum
Luminate (formerly known as Pixazza) splits revenue from impressions, clicks and sales with the publisher. A unique feature is, you can choose to tag a product within the mages and gain commission based on sales, similar to affiliate ads . I find tagging a product within an image is too fancy for my need. Or you can just leave it be and let ads come automatically for clicks and impression..
According to Pizzeria, commission varies based on your site’s level of traffic, audience demographics, and types of images.
Lots of physical products too and that probably why they can provide commission based on sales too (other image ads network don’t pay based on sales).
With support forum.
Approval: within 3 days
Min Payout: $10. Method: PayPal & Check
To apply, visit: Luminate (Pixazza)
Pixwise said to provide the highest commission split, a generous 80% of advertising revenue to publishers. Claiming the smartest in-line image advertising. (way too smart, on my few days trial, the ads didn’t appear even after 24 hours verifying the script installation). Not much information on the website compare to others.
Approval: within 24 hours
Min Payout: $100 Pay automatically via PayPal
To apply, visit: Picwise
Vibrantmedia (formerly known as Imagespacemedia) explanation on earning: There is no precise answer, because earnings will depend on a number of factors such as ad impressions and pricing. Pricing refers to factors such as changing advertiser budgets, your specific content, where your users are from and the ads your users choose to click may vary from day to day.
Approval within 24 hours.
Min payout: $25 Method: check or PayPal.
Choice of javascript or WordPress plugin.
With support forum.
Interactive feature: image sharing to social network.
To apply visit: Vibrantmedia (Imagespacemedia)
Know that commission rates are typically small for in-image ads, so don’t expect it as much as PPC or affilate commison. Expect probably $0.01 to $0.06 per click, that just a very rough estimation (not much different from in line text ads rates). At this moment, I can’t give any estimation commission rate on impression. I don’t think there are much different in term of commison rate among the in-image ads network mentioned here. You might want to consider other factors.
Which In-image Ad Network is the best for you?
I could have just suggest Gumgum, now the problem (at least for me), the commission money is based on impression (CPM) which don’t suit websites with small traffic. Consider bounce rate too. If your sites are low on traffic or you prefer commision from clickthrough rather than impression, I don’t suggest Gumgum at all.
Pixwise pay the highest commison percetange which seem interesting. I have tried Pixwise for a few days to see what type of ads will appear. Sadly, I don’t see any ads so far which I believe due to lack of advertiser. I didn’t get the problem with other ads network. Maybe the ad bots need more days to analyse the images. Also, not much info yet you can get on the homepage. The payment treshold $100 is quite high for this type of ads publishing.
Imagespacemedia has interactive rich media type on top of text ads which look attractive. If you have a photo blog, social sharing built-in feature is a plus. After a few days testing, it seem Imagespacemedia’s is the most eye-catching. Your visitor shouldn’t have missed the ads. You should get higher impression and click. Anyway, I didn’t get any revenue for clicks which I believe because the ads appeared so far are based on impressions. Imagespacemedia is not my choice now until it has more ads paid based on clicks rather than impression. Do try it anyway, it could suit the topics of your blog.
With Pixazza you can tag the photos and earn revenue based on sales. You need high targeted visitor for that. Or you can simply choose to get commison based on click. Great support forum. Also the payment treshold is $10. Nice.
The great thing about in-images ads is that it doesn’t take extra space of your blog. The area for ads could be limited on some blogs and you might want to ‘optimize’ the space taken by photo and images.
When it come to application approval, they are all fast and easy. By my experience, all applications approved within 24 hours. You might want to try them all. Also, try to apply even if you have non-English blogs. Do drop a comment here about your experience with in image ads network.
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so i have gum gum signed up few days ago
so can i get another payment method except paypal?
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Yes, payment by cheque also available.
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so im not 18 ,
i dont have paypal but if i get checks in my mail i can get my mom to use her bank account, i made 15 $$ last week so im trieng to get more traffic to my site and more money and now its upto 35 dollars
how do i get them to send me checks?
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For payment by cheque you need to email Gumgum your address and check payeee name. You can use you mother’ name as the payeee for the check.
You can still open a bank account even if you are below 18. Or asked your mother to open a paypal account. For international check, expect some delay. a few weeks for check to arrive to your adrees plus bank normally takes 3-6 weeks to process to check.
“GumGum pays our publishers within 60 days after the month once you reach the $50 threshold. For example, if your account reached $50 in June you would receive payment by August 31st. All payments are sent through Paypal. You can enter your payment information when you register or under the billing tab. If your country doesn’t support Paypal, please email us at support@gumgum.com with your billing address and who the check should be made out to.”
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this is another new way to make money via blog….nice
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So you know with GumGum the CPM will alter wildly sometimes too. I’ve had it range from .18 to $6.60, it just all depends on the images you use plus the advertisers they have going on at the time. Basically a lot of luck sometimes.
I thought that during the holiday season, it would be more lucrative but it seems that Fall is the best time to earn money from them. Another thing is that even if you have a very high traffic site, the impressions they show for you will differ wildly from what you’ll see in Google Analytics, Quantcast or any other stat program you have on your site.
We average 50-60K uniques daily, but many times on GumGum they show only 3K and we are a very image heavy site so that’s something to also know about.
They say that they pay on impressions so don’t be surprised if their impression of your impressions differ wildly.
GumGum approval is very quick and their system is very thorough so if you accidentally have an image that shows a naked person, they will suspend your account immediately. Blurs are okay over the parts though:)