i am totatly agree with you, i worked with kontera since their beginning, kontera is losing publishers and almost have not enough advertisers, thats why their payout is very low, some clicks are under the 1 cent (0.005) !! i removed kontera couple months ago, and i am very happy with adbrite inline. kontera is startup company, and have no real feature, kontera managment dream is some big company like google or yahoo willbuy them !! they deveoped a good advertising method, and proved it in the market! , they don't care much about the small publishers. there is alot of rumors about kontera feauture, i dont want talk about that cuz there is no base for the rumors, but who knows .. maybe there are true! a company with few advertisers (no big advertisers are anymore), pays less than penny per click, all ads the same (shopping, or free dictonary) .. will not last for long.
Thanks for the info, I have been using kontera for a while now and i'm just waiting to reach $100 so I can remove them. It's nice to have a little income but I would rather try adbrite by the looks! Wish they paid to pay pal though and not cheque.
Kontera is israeli company, you can see their address in kontera contact page: Kontera Technologies, Inc. 8 Aba Even Blvd. Building B, 1st floor Herzliya Pituach, 46725 Israel T: 972-9-961-8800 F: 972-9-961-8801
Kontera is about the lowest payout you can get now, many friends have removed it due to slowing sites. Also daily stats are the last of the advertisers to report, not counting it being down for "maintainence" almost every weekend.
This is Mika from Kontera. I get angry sometimes too but I don't trash whatever is in my way to prove a point. Kontera’s far from being a beginning start-up . We offer an extremely successful advertising solution based on advanced algorithm. We have a vast network of publishers, growing by the day and we do our best to improve our services and to offer the best, most cost effective solution to all our publishers and advertisers. We are glad to receive feedback and see where we can improve and offer better services. We will also offer optimization tips and advice to any publisher who asks (and often to those who don't), as I have done many times on this forum. Still we do not control all aspects of CPC. Sites who have low traffic/non-US traffic naturally generate lower CPCs. This is not Kontera’s design but the reality of the world. We are not down for maintenance every weekend. We've recently launched a new Publisher Center for the convenience of our publishers and due to upgrades, some users may have experienced login issues for periods of time. And yes, and we have offices in Israel as well. I'm not sure what this comment means, anything you care to add?
What so it breaks almost every weekend then? Seriously if you think the publishers center is without problems you are badly misinformed. Almost every weekend either the center is not available or the stats do not update (or as with this weekend duplicate a previous day). Then when you finally get to see your stats, everything is jumbled up as the default sort on the stats just doesn't work. In Kontera land are the 8th & 9th really the first days of the month? Honestly Mika, the publisher experience from Kontera is very poor.
wow.. great stats from AdBrite.. I am using Kontera, but their CPC really sucks. Gonna try AdBrite now.
Hi Mika, Thanks for your response you don't need to be mad or angry at me because i am complaining about kontera very low payout !, come on 0.01 or less is pathetic, its like ripping off webmasters untill they get your minimum payment or just to give up, and keep you the money. i mean look at me .. took me 2971 clicks to get the 99$ !! 2971 clicks is a lot of clicks, while adbrite inline ads give me 152$ in 9 days only with 30% or less of the clicks !! just do the math mika. and please stop this non-usa traffic, what the rest of the world is trash or what ?? europe traffic is not even enough or good for you , but who cares my traffic was at least 90% pure USA!! so leave this speech for a publisher who is from india or afghanistan ( no disrespect ). also no matter how hard you try .. still .. you guys pay the very low ever in the market !! what i did is testing kontera with adsense and adbrite with adsense, what's better to work with, and if you notice this is section on DP is for adsense and webmaster want to share and talk about all sort of things. my test results were 0 for kontera , 1 for adbrite .. and i beleive many publishers and webmasters agrees with me. i dont care if you startup company or not, you guys at kontera have a very good system, and very good support, but you losing publishers because of the very low payout, and when someone leaves you they don't come back to you so quick !!!! remember that .. with the 0.01$ you make much money but it's only for the short term, publishers will leave you and go someone else, and this is what happend to me. so don't get angry at me .. i am just looking for what's better for me and my site.
Why you wanna use other ad network if you are using adsense, adsense is great. Well if you still wanna use other ad network then i'll recommend kontera, its better than adbrite, i'm using adbrite for sometime and i didn't find anything interesting in adbrite.
Funny. The basic feature of publisher's panel is absent to present day: TOTAL EARNINGS. How can I see all the revenue like AdSense's "Since last payment" without running all these long reports like "Current quarter", "Last Quarter", date..date?
My exact thought.... why is there not an option called "All time Earning" ... i never know how much i have made till date... since your report has only last quarter.. not prior to that and the date function also is not from the beginning... as of today I can get report from Jan 31st only..... So please include those... Ani
Good point. "Since last payment" is most wanted option of publisher's panel and actually very basic option that is for some strange reason still not implemented.
for my sites (forex, medicine) Adsense is better than Adbrite and Kontera. Difference in earnings were 50 times more for Adsense than for Adbrite and Kontera.