In the affiliate industry, there are four main things you need to guarantee success.

The first one is an affiliate program or an affiliate network that will pay you for your productive efforts.

Second, a traffic source—you need eyes on whatever you want to offer, after all.

Third is competitive intelligence. This lets you know how your competitors are promoting the same things as you and what they are doing that makes their efforts a success.

Fourth is affiliate marketing tools and resources, which will guide you toward the right path when it comes to digital marketing.

The good news is that you can find all four in one place, and that is Mobidea.

What is Mobidea?

Mobidea is a leading player in the affiliate marketing industry. Established in 2011, it has rapidly grown to be a force to reckon with, serving as a reliable platform for both advertisers and affiliates.

The company’s headquarters is nestled in the heart of Lisbon, Portugal.

In its more than a decade-long existence, Mobidea has managed to carve a significant niche for itself in the affiliate marketing landscape, boasting a vast network of over 1,500 client partners, more than 9,000 offers, and 130,000 registered affiliates.

Mobidea’s dedication to providing superior service and creating innovative solutions in the affiliate marketing ecosystem hasn’t gone unnoticed.

The company has earned commendable recognition in the form of numerous awards, reflecting its unwavering commitment to excellence.

In 2017, Mobidea was bestowed with the prestigious title of ‘Best Affiliate Network’ by Affiliate Fix Bluebook Global Top CPA Networks and was nominated in the category of ‘Best Affiliate Network’ in the affLIFT Peak Award. Mobidea has also been featured among the ‘Top Affiliate Networks’ by BusinessOfApps.

It continues to be an innovative and forward-thinking company, dedicated to helping its users maximize their profits and reach their full potential in the affiliate marketing world.

Proof of this is its all-around solution: an affiliate network, competitive analysis tools, a traffic source, and an unparalleled knowledge base that talks about everything you need to know in the affiliate marketing industry.

Let’s talk about each one in depth.

Mobidea Affiliate Network

Mobidea’s affiliate network is the most popular side of the company. It is a mobile-focused network that currently holds more than 9,000 active single offers in its database.

Best of all, the network has offers for more than 200 countries worldwide. Wherever your traffic comes from, the network has an offer for you to promote.

But before you are able to promote any single offer, you must first earn at least €50 with Mobidea’s Smartlinks.

Mobidea Smartlinks

Don’t be disheartened by the thought of not being able to promote single offers immediately because Mobidea’s Smartlinks are not something to look down on.

Smartlinks are powerful tools in affiliate marketing that optimize your traffic monetization by automatically driving it to the most profitable offers.

Instead of selecting each offer manually, Mobidea’s Smartlink system uses an algorithm to direct your traffic to the best converting offers based on the location, device, operator, and other parameters of your audience.

Essentially, Smartlinks act as traffic directors, ensuring each visitor is steered towards the offer most likely to result in conversion, thereby maximizing your potential profits.

There are six types of Smartlinks you can choose from in Mobidea, and these are:

• Mainstream
• Push Notifications
• Android CPI
• Adult
• Dating
• Mainstream Middle East PIN/SMS Flow

Once you start running single offers, you can also use these Smartlinks as your safety fallback. This means when the offer reaches its daily or network-wide cap, your traffic will automatically be sent to other relevant offers using the Smartlink.

With this feature, your traffic will not go to waste, and you can earn more. This is a good option since it can be hard to immediately pause traffic the moment you receive notice of the cap.

To get a Smartlink, head over to the dashboard, choose any of the categories listed above, and click “Go for it!”

There are a few rules per Smartlink, so make sure you adhere to them to avoid not getting paid for your conversions.

You’ll be asked to confirm that you’ll follow the rules on the pop-up window, then you’ll have access to your Smartlink.

Once you’ve agreed and saved, your new link will appear at the bottom of the Smartlink page.

You can edit the settings of your SmartLink by clicking on Edit (pencil button). Under the options, you can:

• enable the Postback URL if you’d like to use S2S tracking
• enable APK offers
• enable Auto-download offers
• enable Back offers

Once you’re satisfied, you can start promoting the link using the allowed traffic methods.

You can view the performance of your traffic through the Analytics dashboard. Just click on Affiliate Network in the main menu, then choose Stats per Smartlinks.

In the analytics dashboard that opens up, you can view the results in a multitude of ways, which we shall discuss further down below.

Single Offers

Once you’ve earned €50 and above, Mobidea’s regular offers will automatically be opened up for you by the system. You can find them by clicking on Affiliate Network in the main menu, followed by Offers Directory.

The offers fall under the following verticals:

• Gambling
• Desktop (although the network is focused on mobile offers, it has a handful of desktop ones, too)
• Streaming
• Surveys
• Adult mobile content
• E-commerce
• Nutra
• Sweepstakes & coupons
• Finance
• Mobile content
• Push subscriptions
• VPN
• Dating (mainstream and adult)

The top verticals right now are Adult Dating, Sweepstakes, Mobile Content, and Surveys.

To narrow down the list, you can filter down results based on target country, category, sub-category, or flow (this is the conversion type, such as CC submit, email submit, direct billing — single opt-in, and more).

Additional filters are price models (CPI, CPL, etc.), platforms, prelanders (with or without), and traffic restrictions.

When the results load, you’ll find a brief summary of each available offer. It includes the following:

• offer name and ID
• category and/or sub-category
• payout (which will show N/A if the offer is on revenue share)
• country
• price model
• Conversion Rate (CR)
• eCPM
• Revenue for Yesterday

You can arrange the results based on the last three columns (CR, sCPM, and Revenue for yesterday).

These are good indicators of how well the offer is doing for the network. These are network-wide results, though, so other affiliates’ results may not necessarily reflect or predict how yours will perform. Just use these as a guide when choosing an offer.

In order to promote a single offer, you must first request Approval.

Choose any of the offers listed and click on either the name of the offer or the Apply Now button. I suggest clicking the name first and learning all you can about the offer before deciding to promote it.

Let’s go over some of the details you’ll find on the single offer page.

You’ll, of course, find the main details of the offer, such as:

• offer name
• offer ID
• payout
• country
• price model
• flow
• accepted platforms

If the offer has a network-wide cap, the level at which this cap has already been reached for the day is also shown.

Other information and restrictions will also be indicated on this page.

Click on each of the Tracking, Allowed traffic, Screenshots, and Creatives tabs for other relevant information about the offer.

If you are satisfied with what you see and are ready to promote this offer, click on the Apply Now button.

A pop-up window will open up, asking about how you plan on promoting this offer. Just select all that apply.

Indicate whether you plan on using a prelander or not. If you will, your affiliate manager will contact you to inquire about your prelander to make sure it is compliant.

Take note of the Mandatory rules and strictly follow them. When you’re ready, confirm that you will respect the mandatory rules, then click Apply.

Depending on the day of the week and the offer’s restrictions, you will likely be approved or contacted by your affiliate manager within the day (or the next business day, if on a weekend).

Reports

Monitoring performance is a crucial aspect of any network, and Mobidea recognizes this priority. This is why they have taken proactive steps to develop their proprietary in-house tracking solutions for their affiliates.

This innovative system allows affiliates to efficiently track their performance, enabling them to adapt and optimize their strategies in real-time. The aim is all about empowering affiliates with accurate and timely performance insights, reinforcing Mobidea’s commitment to being a top-tier affiliate network.

You might notice that the analytics dashboard is unlike anything you’ve seen, but it provides highly accurate results that you can drill down in various ways.

Once you master this analytics tool, you will find that almost everything you need to understand the performance of your media buying and organic campaigns is already here.

It supports different views:

• Totals – This is the summary of your traffic’s performance in terms of clicks, conversions, Conversion Rate, Revenue, and eCPM, all based on the specific filter (the default filter is Latest Day, but you can choose any from what’s available).

• Table – This view is the most commonly used one. It gives you a full breakdown of your traffic based on your chosen filters. You can split the data based on any metric — may it be Offer ID, Offer name, Country, Browser, etc.
  There are literally dozens of options for you to choose from. If you place more than one in “Split” element, you will be shown the data in Tree view, so you can deeply analyze your performance. The platform supports up to 5 splits.

• Line Chart – The Line Chart view presents a graphical display of data changes over a period of time. It is particularly useful for analyzing trends and spotting patterns in the performance.
  With this view, you can visualize how your traffic is converting, how your revenue is growing, and how any changes you make to your promotion strategies impact performance.

• Bar Chart – The Bar Chart view provides comparative data. It is particularly useful when you’re managing traffic from multiple sources, as it allows you to compare performance across different metrics simultaneously. The values of each bar correspond to the “Measure” metric you choose.

• Heatmap – Heatmaps reveal hotspots where activity is most concentrated, allowing you to focus your attention and resources where they matter most. Equally, the Heatmap view can highlight areas of underperformance, enabling you to pinpoint regions that may require optimization or further investigation.

• Grid – The Grid view is another versatile tool in your analytics arsenal. It provides a comprehensive, tabular view of your data, making it easy for you to organize and sort your metrics.
  This view is particularly beneficial when dealing with a large volume of data, as it facilitates easy data manipulation and exploration. You can sort by columns, filter for specific values, and drill down to the specifics of each offer, campaign, or traffic source. This view is still in Beta, though.

Available metrics or “Measures” as Mobidea calls it, are as follows:

• Clicks
• Impressions
• Conversions
• Paid Conversions
• Revenue
• Average Payout
• Conversion Rate (CR)
• eCPM

Mobidea’s analytics tool updates hourly by default, but you can also enable auto-updating. You can have the reports update every 5 seconds, every minute, every 5 minutes, and so on.

Once you master how to use Mobidea’s analytics tool, you’ll see that everything you need to analyze your campaigns is right here. You won’t even have to use third-party tracking tools.

Tracker Integrations

While the platform’s analytics feature is in-depth enough, if you still want to use a tracker, you’ll find that connecting them to Mobidea is pretty straightforward.

Just click Settings in the menu and you’ll immediately see the options for Global postback.

The top tracking tools are already integrated into the platform. Simply select any of the following:

• Binom
• Voluum
• Bemob
• AdsBridge
• RedTrack
• Thrive

If your tracker is not included in the options, choose Custom.

With any of the integrated trackers, you only need to add the domain that you are using and it will automatically be connected. Your tracker will start receiving conversion data.

VIP Affiliates

To be considered a VIP affiliate is more than just for show, especially in Mobidea. But first, you need to earn at least $10,000 per month to be considered one.

Once you qualify, you are in for the following treats:

• Private Offers – As a VIP affiliate in Mobidea, you gain exclusive access to private offers. These high-converting offers are hidden from the general public, giving you a competitive edge. Payouts and conversion rates are higher with these VIP offers.
• Free Access to Mobidea’s Spy Tools – Mobidea has Push and Native Ads spy tools, which can be useful for media-buying affiliates. VIP affiliates get access to these premium tools for free. We’ll talk more about them below.
• Free Traffic – VIP affiliates’ advertising accounts are topped up with 2% of the affiliate’s total revenue for the previous month. So, if you earned $10,000, you’ll get $200 worth of advertising credits.
• Hassle-Free Withdrawals – VIP affiliates get priority withdrawals, meaning their payments are processed faster than those of regular affiliates. You can even request to withdraw your money immediately — no need to wait for regular payout schedules.
• Expert Recommendations – VIP affiliates have access to Mobidea’s media buying team, which provides personalized advice and recommendations for campaigns.
• Giveaways and Getaways – Last but not least, VIP affiliates enjoy a host of exclusive perks and experiences. Mobidea goes above and beyond to appreciate its VIP affiliates. They gift branded merchandise, host sponsored dinners, and reward hard work with all-inclusive getaways. This will surely make you more excited to continue promoting their offers.

Visit this page for more information on the benefits of becoming a Mobidea VIP.

Getting Paid

All withdrawals are processed through the Cashier page. Initially, the Cashier section is not yet active. Once your earnings reach the minimum threshold of 50 EUR, you’ll gain access to it so you can move to the next step of the payment process.

This involves submitting relevant documents about your identity (KYC process), which is a standard procedure to authenticate your account. You’ll also be asked to create a security question, a measure put in place to enhance the safety of your account.

After completing these steps, you undergo an account verification process. Upon successful verification, you’ll be able to initiate withdrawals from your earned revenue from hereon.

There are several ways for you to withdraw your funds, and these are:

• Bank transfer
• Paypal
• Paxum
• WebMoney
• Bitcoin
• Litecoin
• USDT (ERC20)
• USDC (TRC20)
• USDT (TRC20)
• Capitalist

Fees that apply depend on the payment service you choose.

Payments for regular affiliates are released once a week, every Wednesday, to be exact. However, the cut-off time for the payment request is 11:59 p.m. GMT+1 on Mondays.

In an effort to offer the best service to esteemed VIP affiliates, Mobidea has a special provision in place — the processing of their payments is expedited.

Instead of the standard schedule, VIP affiliates enjoy the privilege of receiving their payments up to twice in a single calendar week. This means they gain quicker access to their earnings, ensuring a seamless cash flow.

Exclusive by Mobidea

Exclusive by Mobidea is a unique platform that offers top-of-the-line monetization solutions for affiliate marketers. As is obvious with the name, it is the invite-only side of Mobidea.

With a primary focus on user experience and performance, the platform provides a diverse selection of premium and direct CC Submit offers. Offers fall under Sweepstakes, E-com trials, and Video-on-Demand verticals.

Aside from the ones we’ve already mentioned, additional benefits of working with Exclusive with Mobidea are as follows:

High Market Caps

For affiliates, this is a critical consideration as it directly correlates to earning potential. The higher the market cap, the more traffic you can send towards a specific offer.

Practically speaking, this means you can significantly increase your earnings without the limitations of a lower cap. This opportunity allows affiliates to scale successful campaigns rapidly, driving more traffic, increasing conversions, and ultimately, enhancing revenue generation.

Custom Landing Pages

This feature is not available in the regular Mobidea network. Custom landing pages offer a competitive edge to affiliates as they help create a more tailored and engaging user experience.

The affiliate only needs to discuss this with his manager to get personalized landing pages.

Billing Pages Customization

It’s not just the landing pages that can be fully customized; the billing pages can get the same treatment. This is important if you want to maintain consistency and avoid losing customers or referrals because the brand’s billing page looks different from the pages of your funnel.

Offers for Tier 1 Countries

If you prioritize promoting to locations that are often considered “premium” markets, characterized by high internet penetration, robust digital infrastructure, and substantial purchasing power, then you’d be happy with Exclusive by Mobidea. Most of the offers come from Tier 1 geos such as US and EU.

Smartlinks Available

You won’t have to worry about choosing which offer to promote — just like in Mobidea, you can quickly get started by running Smartlink campaigns. This feature saves affiliates time and effort in manually selecting which offer to promote.

How to Join and Use Exclusive by Mobidea

There are two ways you can join this platform: one is to receive an invite, and the second one is to request to be invited.

If you fall under the first one, then you’re all set.

To request an invite, visit Exclusive by Mobidea and click on the Request Invite button.

Fill out the form and wait for an email.

In the email you receive, you will be asked to complete a questionnaire regarding your affiliate marketing activities (verticals you promote, how you promote offers, etc.)

Once the team finds your expertise sufficient enough, you will receive an email telling you of your acceptance and the link to the login page.

If your application is rejected, it only means you need to gain more experience in promoting CC submit offers. You can reapply once you gain more experience in this field.

Now, once you’ve been approved, this is what your dashboard looks like:

If you are already a Mobidea affiliate, navigating through the Exclusive platform will be easy as a pie. You have the menu on the left pane, where you can click the Stats Per Hour or Stats Per Offer for the analytics, and the Offers Directory to find offers to promote.

Of course, you can just as well scan through the main dashboard for interesting offers.

Applying for offers here is basically the same as when applying for offers with the regular Mobidea platform. You have to check the offer details and restrictions before applying for one.

Some offers still have a cap per publisher, but the caps are higher than usual.

Also, while most of the accepted traffic in Exclusive is similar to that of regular Mobidea affiliate network, you will notice that some traffic types are not included.

For instance, network syndication, i-frame, and co-reg traffic types are noticeably absent in Exclusive.

To monitor the performance of your campaigns, click the Stats Per Hour or Stats Per Offer. The analytics are the same as those of the regular Mobidea affiliate network.

The same goes for third-party tracker integrations.

Mobidea Push

When we say Mobidea is an all-around company, we mean it. Proof of the pudding is its advertising arm — Mobidea Push.

While it is called Mobidea Push, it doesn’t just offer the classic push notifications. It also offers three other ad types: in-page push ads and pop ads. It’s called Mobidea Push since this traffic type is the most dominant when it comes to volume.

To start buying traffic, simply log in to your Mobidea account (yes, the same one you use for running affiliate offers), then select Buy Traffic in the menu, and then Push Ads.

Mobidea Push Features

In the following section, we delve deeper into the distinctive features that make Mobidea Push a remarkable advertising platform.

Ad Types and Volumes

While there are three ad types, only the traffic volume of classic push notification ads and in-page push ads are available for viewing.

Using Mobidea Push’s CPC Rates page, you’ll find the following details per country:

• Daily impressions available
• Recommended bid
• Top bid
• Average click-thru Rates (CTR)
• Competition (low, medium, and high)
• Mobidea+ (This is the recommended bid if you’re planning on buying Mobidea+ traffic. Available for Push ads only.)

Push Notification Ads

Now, when it comes to overall traffic volume, Mobidea’s push type delivers up to 3.8 billion daily impressions. This comes from more than 45 push traffic providers, plus our own exclusive sources.

The top countries are India, the United States, Brazil, Germany, and Mexico. The minimum bid is $0.001 per click.

In-Page Push Ads

For in-page push, daily traffic volume can reach up to 33 million a day. Its top countries based on the amount of traffic are China, Portugal, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Just like regular push ads, the minimum bid is $0.001 per click.

Pop Ads

Finally, Pop Ads traffic volume is also unavailable. This is the cheapest ad type, with a minimum bid of $0.0001. This format works well for Utilities, Gambling, and Betting verticals.

Its top countries for Mainstream are UAE, Australia, Bangladesh, Czech Republic, and Iraq. As for Adult traffic, the countries that dominate are once again Australia, Bangladesh, and the Czech Republic, with the addition of Cyprus and Germany.

Keep in mind that the minimum rate for all ad types still depends on your target filters, such as country and device. The platform will let you know the actual lowest bid you can enter during campaign set-up.

Mobidea+ Premium Traffic

We mentioned the premium traffic under Push Ads, but what exactly is it? These are high-quality sources that have better chances of converting for your offer than other sources.

Mobidea monitors and manages these traffic sources well. Hence, only white-hat offers and landing pages are accepted. Adult offers are not allowed, and even grey hat tactics are a big no-no.

If you choose “Adult” under traffic type, Mobidea+ will automatically be greyed out and cannot be chosen.

Being of high quality, you can also expect the price per click to be high. The recommended bids for Mobidea+ traffic can be found on the CPC Rates page.

Automatic Rules

With Automatic Rules, Mobidea Push provides a proactive mechanism to streamline and optimize your advertisement campaigns. This feature allows you to establish specific conditions and thresholds for your campaigns.

When these criteria are met, the platform automatically implements the action you’ve defined. Consequently, this feature enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of your campaigns, enabling you to achieve better results without constant manual monitoring and adjustments.

The rule items that can be evaluated (and for which the actions are applied to) are:

• campaign
• supply (source)
• site ID
• freshness

The metrics that are assessed are:

• viewContent (can be utilized if you use conversion tracking)
• ROI
• CPA
• Clicks
• Deliveries
• Conversions
• Win Rate
• CTR
• Conversion Rate
• Spent

Your campaigns are evaluated according to your specific time frame (within the hour, the day, every 6 hours, etc.), at an interval of a minimum of every 30 minutes and a maximum of every 24 hours.

The actions that can be performed by the system automatically should the result be true are as follows:

• Pause
• Resume
• Increase Bid
• Decrease Bid
• Increase Budget

Visit this guide on how to apply Automatic Rules for more information.

What if you have not applied rules before? How do you know what to automatically optimize?

It should depend on how you manually optimize. What are the rules that you apply to yourself when it comes to pausing or increasing bids for a supply source or campaign? Use those as a basis.

Or you can also try our tried and tested Winning Rules.

Keep in mind that while you can run multiple automatic rules within a campaign, be careful not to over-optimize too fast. You may end up losing the chance to find well-converting segments or worse, not receive any traffic at all.

Advanced Targeting

Targeting is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of digital advertising. Realizing this, Mobidea provided advanced targeting features that rival even that of the most popular advertising networks in the industry.

Available targeting options are:

• Traffic Type – Mainstream or Adult
• Geolocation – country, region (US or India only), and cities
• Carrier
• Network Types – mobile or wifi
• Device – desktop, smartphone, tablet
• Operating System – This will only be enabled once specific devices are chosen. If you leave the default “All devices are chosen” under device, this will not be enabled. So, if you want to use all device types but specific operating systems only, add all devices manually then choose the OS.
• Browsers
• Languages
• Android versions – Must choose Android under OS first to enable this.
• Windows versions – Must choose Windows under OS to enable this.
• Device Name – Must choose Smartphone or Tablet under Device, and Android or Windows phone under OS to enable this.
• User Freshness – This is how long since the user has subscribed to receive ads. It’s available for classic push ads only.

Auto-Optimization by Creativity

This is another useful feature of Mobidea Push that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance the performance of your ad campaigns. It is designed to automatically funnel your campaign traffic towards the ad creative that yields the best results.

The auto-optimization feature is available for all push types — classic or in-page. However, it’s important to note that this feature functions effectively only if conversions can be tracked within Mobidea Push.

Without proper conversion tracking, the AI algorithm will not have enough data to optimize your campaigns appropriately.

This feature saves you time and effort by systematically improving your campaign performance without the need for manual intervention.

Bot Traffic Detection

Just like with the affiliate network side, Mobidea Push’s reporting solution is in-house as well. But more than that, it is coupled with fraud detection tools to eliminate the instances of bot and fraudulent traffic. As such, you can be confident that the traffic you receive is real clicks from real users.

Quick Moderation

Mobidea’s review team operates swiftly and efficiently, ensuring the moderation of campaigns within a span of just 1 to 2 hours during business days. This rapid review process facilitates a smoother, faster campaign execution, allowing advertisers to launch and optimize their campaigns without unnecessary delays.

The team’s in-depth scrutiny ensures compliance with Mobidea’s standards, fostering a transparent and quality-centric advertising environment.

Adding Funds to Mobidea Push

To add funds to your Mobidea Push account, follow these simple steps.

Step 1:

Navigate to the ‘Cashier’ section in your Mobidea dashboard, or click on your Balance at the upper right corner of the Mobidea Push page.

Step 2:

On the Top-up Push page, input your desired amount. Take note that the minimum deposit is just $50. This deposit requirement is one of the lowest in the industry, allowing even those with strict budget allocations to have a chance to advertise.

Step 3:

Choose the payment method that suits you best. We provide several options to accommodate your needs, as shown in the image below.

As you can see, you can even top-up your advertising account with your affiliate earnings from Mobidea. This guarantees a smooth cash flow, allowing you to continue your media buying activities without delay.

Step 4:

Add your promo code. If it’s your first time trying Mobidea Push, we encourage you to take advantage of our current promo.

For a limited time, we’re offering a 10% top-up bonus when you deposit at least $100. This means that if you deposit $100, you’ll get an additional $10 added to your account, completely free of charge. This is a fantastic opportunity to stretch your ad budget, allowing you to reach a wider audience and potentially achieve better campaign results.

Use the promo code INPAGE10 on your first deposit for the bonus to apply.

Step 5:

Confirm the payment details and process the transaction.

Once the transaction is successful, your account balance will immediately update to reflect the added funds. You can now start running campaigns!

How to Create a Campaign in Mobidea Push

Now that you’re familiar with the advanced features, targeting options, and funding methods of Mobidea Push, it’s time to delve into the crucial next step — purchasing traffic.

On your advertising dashboard, click on the +Create Campaign button.

Add Basic Information

The first section is all about the basic information on your campaign, as well as the tracking details.

Add your campaign name and tracking URL. Available macros are shown in the image below.

If you enable conversion tracking and monitoring of ROI, you must copy the postback and use it in your tracker or affiliate network.

The Labels section is not required, but if you’d like to group your campaigns so you can efficiently monitor them, use it. Apply any label you want to group your campaigns properly.

Under the Category section, choose the vertical of what you are promoting. Your choices here are:

• Sweepstakes
• E-commerce
• Dating Mainstream
• Travel
• News & Entertainment
• Finance
• Casino
• Mobile Apps and Games
• Health and Beauty
• Mobile subscriptions
• Branding
• Other
• Dating Adult
• Crypto
• Gambling
• Betting
• Antivirus
• VPN
• Loans

Keep in mind that this cannot be changed once the campaign is live and running.

Choose Ad Format

Select the traffic type first: whether Mainstream or Adult. If you choose to include Adult, Mobidea+ will be deactivated.

Now, select the ad format, whether Classic Push, In-Page Push, or Pop Ads.

Setting Your Targets

Targeting options are essential to ensure that your ads reach the right audience, so make sure you set your filters correctly.

However, we discourage hyper-filtering too much to avoid getting very little traffic. You can further narrow down your traffic once you receive enough data.

So start with the basic targets first.

If you’d like to, you can expand the Advanced Targeting section for more filters.

After selecting your targeting options, you can also set the time and days when your ad will show up. And if you have IP whitelists, you can add them in this section.

Other settings you can edit include User Freshness (for classic push only), Frequency, Whitelists, and Blacklists.

Bid and Budget

Setting your campaign budget is a crucial step. The minimum daily budget per campaign is $20.

The platform automatically displays the minimum bid, recommended bid, and top bid right under the CPC bid section. These figures are calculated based on your specific target filters, giving you a clear understanding of the competitive landscape and helping you make an informed bid.

Under Budget Distribution, choose either:

• Accelerated (spend your budget as fast as possible within the day)
• Smooth (spend your budget evenly throughout the day)

Add Your Creatives

The creatives or creativities are essential for classic and in-page push ads only. You only need to add your landing page link if using pop ads.

You can add up to 10 creatives per campaign. We recommend having at least 5 so you can thoroughly evaluate which ads work best for your audience. Also, this is to prevent audiences from getting tired of repetitive ads.

If you’d like to personalize each ad to the viewer, you can utilize dynamic keyword insertion using {deviceName} for the device and {city} for the location.

Auto-optimization and Automatic Rules

We’ve previously touched on Auto-Optimization by Creativity and automatic rules and their role in streamlining your campaign management process.

You can put these rules into play here, transforming the task of optimization into a quicker and more efficient operation. It’s all about harnessing the power of automation to maximize your campaign efficiency and effectiveness.

Once done in this section, you’re ready to submit the campaign for moderation. Make sure you set the campaign status to Active or Paused.

Active if you want it to run automatically once the campaign is approved, or Paused if you want to manually activate it after moderation.

And when you’re ready, hit Publish Campaign.

The moderation team will check your campaign and approve it within the same day (if on a business day).

That’s it! Now, all you need to do is wait for traffic to come rolling in. You can review your campaign reports under the Campaigns section of the dashboard.

Recommended Verticals

Virtually any affiliate offer can convert well with the traffic, given the right targeting settings and a good set of ads.

However, there are some verticals that we’ve seen perform better than most, and these are:

• Pin Submit offers
• CPL offers (dating, coupon, sweepstakes)
• Nutra
• Antivirus
• Games (browser games, erotic games)
• Casino/Gambling

If you’d like to see the traffic in action, check out this Mobidea Push Guide + Case Study.

Mobidea Spy Tools

You know where to get great offers to promote, and you now also know how to get traffic for them. You’re on your way to success! Well, not quite.

As proven time and again, you need good ads and great targeting to actually profit from your media buying campaigns. But where will you get an idea of what to run? How should you promote the offer you chose to guarantee (or at least increase the probability) of success?

That’s where ad intelligence tools come in, and Mobidea is not about to let you down in this aspect. They created Mobidea Spy Tools for this purpose.

Mobidea Spy Tools Features

Spy on Two Ad Formats

Mobidea’s spy tools actively delve into the world of both push notification ads and native ads. These advertising formats are two of the most popular ones today.

The native ads spy tool holds more than 10 million ads from more than 157 thousand advertisers. These are monitored across 80 countries and 27 advertising networks, including Google, Outbrain, Taboola, Revcontent, and more.

The push ads spy tool, on the other hand, has a database of more than 3 million push ads from more than 32 thousand advertisers running campaigns in 92 countries. This comes from 38 ad networks, including Propeller Ads, EvaDav, RichAds, AdMaven, and many others.

Full Data on Ads

Mobidea’s spy tools provide a comprehensive outlook on each ad, transcending beyond the creative itself. It collects detailed information about where the ad is being promoted, including the ad networks and the specific countries.

The tools also identify the devices being targeted, offering insights into the advertiser’s audience preferences. You’ll also be privy to other ad variations, granting you an overview of the advertiser’s testing strategies.

In addition, the spy tools reveal statistics on the ad’s performance, enabling you to assess the ad’s efficacy and how it resonates with its target audience. Occasionally, the tools even uncover the bid amounts placed by the advertiser, giving you an understanding of the competitive landscape and the investment level required for success.

Landing Pages

Mobidea’s Spy Tools go beyond just exhibiting screenshots of landing pages; they provide access to the actual landing pages themselves.

You can visit the actual landing page so you can observe every detail, from content layout to call-to-action placement, up close and personal.

But the brilliance of this feature doesn’t stop there. Perhaps the most advantageous aspect is the ability to download these landing pages directly. That’s right, you can claim these meticulously designed pages as your own!

Given a few tweaks here and there to maintain originality, you’re all set to take advantage of expertly structured landing pages, saving you both time and effort in your campaign preparation.

Landing Page Edit Options

The platform also provides two ways for you to edit the landing pages without having to download the landing page.

• Link Editor – The simple editor allows you to change the links within the landing page so you can quickly use it as your own. No other parts of the landing page can be edited, though. This is best used for sweeps, surveys, and quiz-type landing pages.
• Full Editor – This is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Editor, which allows you to make drastic changes to the landing page—from links to content to format. This allows you to fully personalize the landing page and make it your own while still preserving aspects that make it perform well with your campaigns.

Rapid Deployment on Server

After you’ve made your edits to your landing page in Mobidea Spy Tool, you’re now ready for the next exciting step: deploying your landing page. But don’t worry if you’re new to this. I’m here to guide you through the process, and it’s simpler than you might think.

Mobidea Spy Tool offers two ways to deploy your landing page: via FTP/SFTP or AWS S3. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) are methods of transferring files over the internet from one computer to another – in this case, from Mobidea Spy Tool to your server.

In the Mobidea Spy Tool interface, you’ll see an option to connect to your server using FTP or SFTP. After providing your server’s information (like the server address and your login credentials), you can directly move your landing page files into your server. It’s pretty much like moving files around on your computer!

If you’re more comfortable with Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can choose to connect your AWS S3 account to Mobidea Spy Tool. AWS S3 is a storage service where you can keep and retrieve any amount of data at any time. Once your account is linked, you can smoothly transfer your landing page files straight into your AWS S3 storage.

And voila! Your landing page is ready to go live.

Comprehensive Filter Settings

With millions of ads in the database, it’ll take you days just to find what you’re looking for. Your eyes need not bleed just so you can find the right ad—all you need to do is use Mobidea’s comprehensive set of filters.

You can find ads based on:

• Ad network
• Geo/Country
• Device/Platform
• Language
• Category
• Affiliate Network
• Tracker
• Technology – This is the platform used by the advertiser for his webpage. It could be WordPress, Shopify, Magento, etc. This filter also includes Adsense Arbitrage or Search Ads Arbirtrage, which shows native ads by advertisers who are presumed to be content arbitragers.
• Type – For push ads only. You can show classic push ads only or in-page push ads.

But that’s not all. What if you want to search ads based on keywords? Or call-to-action? Or maybe based on the contents of the landing page?

You can do any of these and more with the help of the Advanced Search filter, which features a Boolean search feature. It allows you to combine keywords and other search filters with operators such as AND and OR to yield more accurate results.

Once you find a combination that works for you and you plan on using it again, you can save it for future use. So the next time, you can just select the Saved search to run it again and find new ads with the same search.

Ad Scoring

Mobidea’s Spy Tools implements a two-tier ad scoring system comprising Ad Gravity and Ad Strength to comprehensively evaluate ad performance.

Ad Gravity takes into account the consistency of an ad over time. It evaluates the duration an ad has been live and its regularity in the ad network. An ad with a high gravity score has been consistently active, indicating a successful and profitable campaign.

On the other hand, Ad Strength considers the freshness of an ad. It measures the ad’s activity in terms of how widely and frequently it has been deployed across networks in recent times. An ad with a high strength score indicates a strong and potentially successful current campaign.

By utilizing both these metrics, Mobidea’s Spy Tools provides extensive insight into the performance of ads, helping you identify successful ad strategies and make informed decisions in your campaigns.

You can sort the ads in your results by ascending or descending order based on Ad Gravity, Ad Strength, Duration, and Dates First and Last Seen.

All these features are in one straightforward dashboard. We’ll discuss more about how to use these spy tools in a separate article.

Plans and Price

Mobidea Spy Tools offers three distinct pricing plans to cater to your specific needs. If you’re interested in spying on push advertisements, their Push Ads Spy Tool is available for $89.99 per month. For those who want to focus on native advertisements, the Native Ads Spy Tool costs $69.99 per month.

However, if you’d like to make the most of both worlds, there’s a combo option. The Combo: Push + Native Ads Spy Tool is priced at $139.99 per month, allowing you to monitor both push and native ads.

Learning with Mobidea Academy

The final aspect that consolidates Mobidea as a well-rounded network is Mobidea Academy. Acting as a vast repository of knowledge, Mobidea Academy equips you with a wealth of information indispensable for succeeding in your affiliate marketing journey.

Here, you’ll find an array of resources covering almost every aspect of affiliate marketing—from beginner guides to expert strategies and industry updates. Mobidea Academy keeps you informed, educated, and ready to navigate the dynamic landscape of affiliate marketing with confidence.

At Mobidea Academy, we expertly categorize our resources into five primary sections: Ad Network Reviews, Case Studies, Best Picks, Deals, and Training Guides. Each section focuses on a unique aspect of affiliate marketing, providing a well-rounded learning experience.

Ad Network Reviews present an in-depth analysis of different ad networks, helping you identify the ones that best match your campaign objectives. All platforms reviewed are thoroughly tested by members of our team and reviewed in an unbiased manner.

Case Studies provide real-life examples of successful campaigns, offering insights into effective strategies and tactics.

In Best Picks, we compile our top recommendations for tools, services, and strategies that can maximize the efficiency of your campaigns.

Deals keep you updated with current offers and discounts in the affiliate marketing landscape, ensuring you never miss a cost-saving opportunity.

Lastly, our Training Guides serve as an educational cornerstone, offering comprehensive lessons on various affiliate marketing topics, from the basics to more advanced strategies. This organized approach ensures that you can easily navigate and find the resources you need to succeed in your affiliate marketing journey.

Whatever your query or learning requirement, Mobidea Academy stands as your go-to source for comprehensive, up-to-date, and actionable affiliate marketing knowledge.

Final Thoughts

In conclusion, Mobidea is not just an affiliate network—it’s a comprehensive platform designed to cater to every aspect of affiliate marketing.

From an affiliate network, to an advertising arm, to spy tools for push and native ads, and an Academy packed with resources for learning, the platform brings all essential affiliate marketing tools under one roof.

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced marketer, Mobidea provides an invaluable suite of tools and resources to help you navigate and succeed in the dynamic affiliate marketing landscape.

Working with us means having access to almost everything you need, saving you time and resources while increasing your efficiency and profitability. So why wait?

Register as an affiliate today and embark on a successful affiliate marketing journey with Mobidea.