List of game-oriented ad networks?

[GoldFire]

Here are the ones that I know about, are there any others?

http://leetmedia.com

http://game-advertising-online.com

http://advertiseyourgame.com

http://cpmstar.com

http://ad4game.com

http://game-advertising.com

Edited July 7, 2011 by GoldFire

[Rasheed saeed]

I could imagine Google, being one?

[Jordan Palmer]

Google ads Mine actually has the correct link though :P

[GoldFire]

Google is everything-oriented, I'm looking for a list of ad networks that tailor specifically to online games.

[BrowserGamesFactory]

Actually google has a specific ad mechanism for in game advertising.

http://www.google.com/ads/games/index.html

[Jordan Palmer]

If he would of my link it would of shown that to :L

[BrowserGamesFactory]

oops didn't clik, thought you had the adsense link

[GoldFire]

Okay so is that the only other one?

[BrowserGamesFactory]

This old topic might be valuable, no clue if all links there still work

Game Advertising - breakdown -

[GoldFire]

Thanks, looks like http://ad2games.com and http://pbbgads.com can be added to the list. Unfortunately it looks like those don't offer much volume, and with GAO slipping lately, it seems hard to find sufficient volume without having a massive budget. Where do you all advertise?

[Zeggy]

I prefer advertising on non-game sites, but still related to games, such as forums, news sites, top game lists (these don't seem to give good results).

[GoldFire]

I prefer advertising on non-game sites, but still related to games, such as forums, news sites, top game lists (these don't seem to give good results).

Any sites that you have found good results with that you would like to share?

[Lilith]

I have no idea about return, but xat chatting systems have advertising for browser based web games. I mean good audience, People with to much time, and nothing to do go there .... and expirienced Gamers in clans.

[Zeggy]

Sites like digg, reddit, stumbleupon, etc are really good for traffic if you're lucky.

When my game was launched I submitted it to reddit as a news article, and received a decent response. It reached the front page of the gaming subreddit, but only around 17th place for a few hours before it got pushed down. Even so, it got me over 100k page views, hundreds of members, traffic increased 3000%, etc. I can only imagine how much traffic you could get if you get to the front page. Although you should watch out, your host needs to be able to support a huge influx of users if you try this. If your site is down while it's on reddit, it will quickly get buried and nobody will see it.

This should all be the same for digg, although it's probably more difficult to get to front page of digg.

 

Anyways, I also advertised on reddit. Minimum is $20 a day, and your link gets shown at the top of reddit (or a subreddit - a subreddit is just a category). Although, you need to choose your targeting carefully. I ran a site-wide ad and it received very little pageviews because there are so many competing bids. When you choose a subreddit to target, if you're lucky there will be no other competing bids. About half of the time that my ad was being run, it was the only one for that subreddit, so it got about 10 times the amount of views and clicks as a site-wide run. Best results I got were 5000+ views and 50+ clicks per hour.

The traffic is nothing like hitting reddit's front page though, or any normal reddit submission (which is free!).

I'm going to look into other social news sites too. Would appreciate it if other people posted any experiences as well :)