Google AdSense vs. Yahoo Native

If you own a small website with a general audience, [Google] AdSense is for you. If you have a larger website, and/or very niche subject matter on your site, finding individual partners to sell ads to generally can result in higher earnings. Adsense will pay you based upon impressions and clicks, typically individual partners will only pay for clicks in my experience.

Incentivized

Good for instances where search campaigns are driving poor overall traffic. Campaigns for awareness work well, and you have pretty good control of how your ads look without having to do too much work. We've used this successfully for law, financial services, and political campaigns effectively. With Twitter banning political ads, and Facebook becoming increasingly strict on their approval guidelines, this may turn into the best alternative. Would not necessarily recommend for ecommerce campaigns, or lead based campaign where keeping cost per conversion down is a primary objective.

Incentivized

• Excellent Ads type and useful content
• Excellent follow up and analytics
• Secure your particular ads by following the plagiarism bloggers who steal your content. It happens to me and Google AdSense aware about these thief's by tracking my Google Adsense particular ad code
• Excellent revenue for the bloggers who are honest about their content

• Offers extensive solutions to reach a high volume of users and create new reach outside of major networks like Google and Bing.
• Provides unique ways to differentiate advertisers in top positions on search results pages.
• Creates unique tactics to utilize on display networks (carousel and video takeovers).

Incentivized

• Google AdSense should monetize mobile applications
• Google AdSense should monetize Mac native applications and games
• Google AdSense should pay out more for a click for tier 1 countries traffic

Incentivized

• No traffic -- despite a high ROI, the lack of overall spend led to us eventually remove support for the channel from our services.
• Nothing to differentiate it from other paid platforms -- Gemini didn't particularly offer anything new or novel that made it worth using over Bing and Google.

Incentivized

One of my main pain points with yahoo gemini is that the product is very difficult to use and the UI seems like they took a skeleton of a similar product and made it bare bones functional for the purpose of generating ad spend. It is a huge barrier for new customers and I feel one of the main reasons they have new customers at all is all the free trial dollars they offer.

Incentivized

They were always super helpful during training and demoing and would answer any questions we had. We didn't have a direct account manager, which would have been nice, but I just don't think their size accommodates for that type of set up. They are very knowledgeable and help guide you through a set up for each particular client.

Incentivized

As part of the Google ecosystem as well as being the world's foremost browser, a company has to start with AdSense as a foundational element in any web presence monetization strategy. Other competitor offerings should be considered niche nice to have features suitable for specific use cases.

Incentivized

Yahoo Gemini! does stack up well against its competitors in the smaller spending realms. We've never been able to justify the ROI when we try to scale it up to even 10% - 15% of our spend. No, we've found that it's much better as a tangential win than a mainstream channel.

Incentivized

• Helps us strategize better around potential ad revenue models
• Helps us evaluate the impact of ads on the user experience on the front end
• The optimization recommendations have generated an improvement revenue-wise

Incentivized

• It has created a more comprehensive understanding of the audience to whom a client is marketing.
• It allows clients to target and reach audience members on all major search platforms.
• It provides data and reporting to understand and analyze campaign success and optimize campaigns towards client goals.

Incentivized