Online Marketing

Well, I find Asia Century funny. First there was an issue of an expired domain. Then I noticed that Asia Century is hosting their ad images on a free photobucket account, so I got some “bandwidth exceeded” images from photobucket instead of the campaign banners.

Asia Century Using Photobucket

Asia Century did call us during the first week of running their ads. They were impressed by the statistics that they’re getting from us. During the first week one of our site was getting Php 200 to Php 800 per day. Impressive huh? Well not for long. From then on the earnings started to drop in notches. In the site that we ran the Asia Century ads, we were giving them about 500K Philippine impressions per day but we started to average around Php 80 for about 3 weeks.

Then came the payment schedule. They were late for a week even though the bank details were clearly specified in the Asia Century account tab. Wow we got the first months payment! But guess what…

Asia Century's August Payment

Unionbank Screenshot of Asia Century's August Payment

The payment that I should get does not match the amount that they actually deposited to my bank account! I haven’t noticed this till yesterday when I started making plans about this blog post. The screenshot of my account with Asia Century above also indicates that I still have around Php 5,457.75 receivable from the company but that amount should have been sent last September. I wonder if they will still send that payment.

In general I love the idea that there’s a local advertsing company like Asia Century. It somehow gives me hope that the Phillipine online economy will improve significantly in the near future. But Asia Century should fix a lot of things first. I removed their ads on all of my sites for the time being but I still hope they’ll be able to make things better.

Asiacentury is a new advertising company specifically targeting Philippine online market. It is a combined CPA and CPC program and publishers can choose which banners or programs that they would like to run. The thing I like the most about Asiacentury is the friendly staff, a day after installing their ad codes on my main site, I got a mail from Anders and Carlo even called us.

Today I’m already at around Php 195 for 381 clicks. However since it’s a new company I’m seeing some startup glitches, their server was down for at least twice in the last 3 days. There was also an incident of an expired domain (asiacenturyph.com) weeks back. I emailed their support and here’s is the reply that I got:

I believe we have around 4 affiliates who joined during the weekend and they are all showing large amounts of ads. Good for them, as their earnings are good.

We are adding more ram and power to the servers right now, so it will be down for a few minutes. Hope you can bear with us.

I can also say it is great that so many websites are joining us. We have almost 250 affiliates already, so it seems the local market has a need for more ads.

It seems high traffic sites have started to join the Asiacentury Network and their server is having a hard time serving and tracking those ads. Looks like they need some server optimization work to stabilize their system.