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We’ve heard that around Halloween, even the quietest accounts start showing signs of life. If yours hasn’t seen its first campaign yet, we’ve prepared a little treat to get things moving.

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Meet HilltopAds MCP: your account, connected to AI chat

Hi everyone! HilltopAds MCP lets you work with your account directly from a supported AI assistant – without exporting reports or copying figures between tools.

Advertisers can check balances, analyze campaign statistics, and prepare campaign, bid, and source-list changes for review and approval.

Publishers can check balances, list sites and zones, and compare earnings across different periods.

Try asking:

• "Show last week's campaign statistics by country."
• "Compare my zone earnings for the last two complete weeks."

The benefit? Follow-up questions in the same conversation. Start with an overview, investigate a change, and turn the data into a clear summary or table.

Review proposed account changes before approving them. The connector doesn't move money.

Setup guide:HilltopAds MCP https://hilltopads.com/advertisers-help/en/collections/19719547-hilltopads-mcp

 

Are You Tracking the Right Marketing Data for Your Ad Campaigns?

Ever had a campaign with a great CTR and cheap leads that still ended up losing money?

That's because clicks and low CPA don't always tell the full story. Sometimes, a campaign with more expensive leads can actually be more profitable if those leads convert into paying customers.

I came across an interesting article on the HilltopAds blog that breaks down the different types of marketing data, from zero-party and first-party data to behavioral, transactional, and conversion data.

What I found particularly useful was the explanation of how misleading certain metrics can be and why advertisers should look beyond CTR and CPA when optimizing campaigns.

Here's the article: Types of Marketing Data: How to Use Them to Build More Effective Advertising Campaigns

Curious how others approach this. Which metrics do you rely on most when deciding whether to scale or stop an ad campaign?

 

Are You Losing Ad Revenue Because of How Visitors Use Your Website?

Getting more traffic doesn't always mean earning more from ads. Sometimes, the problem isn't how many visitors you have, but what they actually do once they land on your website.

For example, you might have a page with thousands of daily visitors, but if most people leave before reaching your ad placements, you're missing potential impressions.

Here are a few things worth checking:

• Scroll depth: Are visitors actually reaching your banners, or are the ads placed too far down the page?
• Engagement time: Are users actively reading, or just leaving tabs open?
• Pages per session: Do visitors explore more content, creating additional opportunities for ad impressions?
• Ad loading speed: Are banners loading quickly enough, especially on mobile?
• Returning visitors: Are regular readers contributing to your overall ad revenue?

Tools like Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity can help you understand visitor behavior. But it's also important to compare those insights with your ad network's statistics.

For example, if your Session RPM drops while CPM stays stable, visitors might be generating fewer paid impressions per session. If CPM falls while engagement remains unchanged, the issue could be related to advertiser demand or traffic GEOs instead.

A good starting point is to test one change at a time: move a banner, improve internal linking, or adjust ad density. Then compare revenue and engagement metrics before applying the change across your entire website.

HilltopAds recently published a detailed guide explaining how user behavior affects website monetization, which metrics to track, and how to use that information to improve ad placements.

Read the full article: How User Behavior Affects Website Ad Revenue
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