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Actually you would be surprised. The biggest advertiser in the CPA industry over the last few years closed their doors a couple of months ago. And now the EPC (

by Matsta 14y ago

Actually you would be surprised. The biggest advertiser in the CPA industry over the last few years closed their doors a couple of months ago. And now the EPC (earning's per click) are about 20% of what they used to be, so the majority of CPA networks are either going broke or shutting down for good. I imagine that the majority of them will be closing their doors this year as well which is kind of sad. As of now, not 1 of my friends promoting CPA offers is making money, they've either got themselves a 9-5 or just chewing through their savings.

kami8845 14y ago
Very interesting. Can you expand on that? I actually got out of the CPA industry around April 2012, when it stilled seemed to go well (though not as well as in the days of ringtone offers / acai and so forth)
- Matsta 14y ago
  Well I can say that the biggest CPA advertiser had a call centre which was there biggest way to earn back the commission they paid us to get us leads. Also these guys had big budgets, unlike all the other advertisers, so when there were days when a certain offer would earn more then 100k they would be happy to pay. I'm guessing the other networks didn't have enough liquid assets to pay back publishers on time (we would get paid every Tuesday usually). Also the main network wasn't fussy where the traffic came from, as where every other network wants organic traffic (which is basically impossible anyway), so they would usually cut you off as soon as you started sending social media traffic, email traffic, sms traffic etc. But I primarily did email submit offers, they would convert as soon as someone put in their email so we would usually get conversion rates of 30-60% which was pretty dang good. But yea acai/ringtone got wiped out when the FTC stepped in over all the 'legitimate' reviews and credit card companies got strict on rebilling (which was the only reason they made money). The whole industry is struggling though, most people are now trying to make money from selling SEO services or reselling Facebook Fans and Youtube Views (which Google nuked the other day).

by Matsta 14y ago

kami8845 14y ago

Very interesting. Can you expand on that? I actually got out of the CPA industry around April 2012, when it stilled seemed to go well (though not as well as in the days of ringtone offers / acai and so forth)

Matsta 14y ago
Well I can say that the biggest CPA advertiser had a call centre which was there biggest way to earn back the commission they paid us to get us leads. Also these guys had big budgets, unlike all the other advertisers, so when there were days when a certain offer would earn more then 100k they would be happy to pay. I'm guessing the other networks didn't have enough liquid assets to pay back publishers on time (we would get paid every Tuesday usually). Also the main network wasn't fussy where the traffic came from, as where every other network wants organic traffic (which is basically impossible anyway), so they would usually cut you off as soon as you started sending social media traffic, email traffic, sms traffic etc. But I primarily did email submit offers, they would convert as soon as someone put in their email so we would usually get conversion rates of 30-60% which was pretty dang good. But yea acai/ringtone got wiped out when the FTC stepped in over all the 'legitimate' reviews and credit card companies got strict on rebilling (which was the only reason they made money). The whole industry is struggling though, most people are now trying to make money from selling SEO services or reselling Facebook Fans and Youtube Views (which Google nuked the other day).