MySpace Don’t Want My Money Either
September 30, 2008 · Print Post
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So Facebook didn’t want my money. But I think Facebook hates me since my ads never get through most of the time. Well I heard about Myspace Ads and I was really excited until my ads are not getting approved! I was really eager to get some ads through and I was hoping it would do better than me advertising on Google Content Network on Myspace. But I was kinda of hesitant to advertise on MySpace. Thinking back I did well with Myspace before pornstars took over and gothic children, but it is hard to advertise on Myspace.
I even tried some Google Content stuff on there and nothing converted or not as good. But when Myspace Ads came out there were some things that are different and made me think a little. I also thought to myself traffic is traffic, but is it good? Everything looks good because:
- You are able to chose demographics - but do not have a lot of options to really chose from
- Image only, good banners capture good audience - but only 2 sizes are allowed
- The interface is really nice - real professional
Well I started on the 25th of this month and only created 2 campaigns in hopes to see some clicks soon. Hmmm well I think they were bombarded with everyone trying to advertise, so I allowed 24 hours. Ok so they are getting hit hard because everyone is blogging about this platform, so I allowed 48 hours. GOSH! I am losing it still pending after close to 5 days! Below still pending!
have anyone been able to advertise on Myspace, I know some of my friends were able to get some ads through. They waited about 4 days or even less, I should be like I am IAN FERNANDO - let my ads through! Ha they will prob just point and laugh. Well right now it does not look that I will be advertising on Myspace soon enough. I was hoping it would be better than facebook, I mean facebook did well on one offer but I was not able to get other offers approved. But what Myspace needs to do is stop letting the intern pornstars look at the ads!
Has anyone been able to advertise on Myspace? If so what is it like? What is the conversion? The traffic like?
September 30th, 2008 2:46 pm
I have a post going up tomorrow about this same issue. They need to do a lot of work before they make any real attempt at being an ad network.
September 30th, 2008 2:50 pm
I have a bunch of campaigns running/approved… 2 out of 20 got rejected… low conversions across the board. Now it’s a tweaking issue…
September 30th, 2008 3:01 pm
i remember the mention of this last week and just as i thought.. i’ll kick back and watch how others feel about the program before I invest my money. it’s crazy to see that Myspace has all that funding but yet can’t get a simple advertising platform to work… hmmm…
September 30th, 2008 3:40 pm
Yo, Ian. The reason why they are not approving your ads is that your end date is September 25th which has already past.
September 30th, 2008 3:44 pm
That is odd I had mine approved the next day, I think Neil is right with the date. Try re-submitting them.
September 30th, 2008 3:57 pm
> just adjusted and changed the date 1 week ahead. I will be piss if that was it. -> wow I just saw an email update coming in saying it is approved!
thanks!
October 1st, 2008 3:37 pm
I have 3 campaigns approved and one pending. I am pretty much breaking even across the board but feel with tighter ad groups theres profit to be had.
October 1st, 2008 3:49 pm
Ian, i have a few campaigns running and have found that the approval turnaround tends to vary probably depending on their workload bc they’re probably bombarded as you said.
i’m getting about 3k impressions/day, but they are not converting very well (>1%). not sure what else i can do as there’s not much you can do as far as fine tuning your target audience. they have basic demographic filters, but nothing really granular. maybe myspace traffic truly is just junk…anyone have any good experience?
October 1st, 2008 9:04 pm
Boss! At least you guys can run your friggin ads being in the US. Millions of Canadians have myspace accounts and they failed to open the doors to us.