Small Publishers & Ad-networks

By exchange4media News Service

This Tyroo commissioned Research Report looks into the ever so growing Small Publisher market in India. Blogs and User generated content is the order of the day, and more and more people are taking to the street. It was this in mind, and their efforts to monetize the enormous cumulated inventory on these so called tier-II sites, that the research was conceptualized. It aims to understand the scale of the market, their needs, demands, from ad-networks which seem to be their best option to monetize inventory. The following are the key findings of the research- The inventory follows a skewed Pareto’s principle, with the top few (Approximately 5%) websites contributing more than 90% inventory, and the mass websites, in the form of blogs, Review sites etc accumulate only around 10% inventories. Among Ad-Networks, Interactive Agencies & Sales forces, Tier-II publishers prefer ad-networks to monetize their inventory. This is both out of reason, Better Targeting, Ad-relevancy etc and out of no other choice available, because of the lack of brand value. Currently small publishers face the following key issues with ad-networks Variety of advertisers is not much Delayed Payments because of manual processes Fixed payment lower limit – which means that small publishers find it really hard to earn their first cheque. Click Fraud detection is at the ad-network end, and not at the publisher’s end