We’re continuing our blog series that’s all about getting started with AdThrive. After you’ve submitted your application, our team of performance experts crafts a custom ad strategy for your site.
Before we dive in, here are the friendly faces who will be taking care of your setup process!
We’ll start by analyzing your site’s traffic (and if you’re running ads, how they’re earning for you)
To help with this, you’ll add an AdThrive user to your Google Analytics account. This is also what lets us display your ad performance in your AdThrive dashboard once the ads are live on your site.
We’ll also get you started in the AdThrive Setup Assistant, our handy tool that walks you through setting up your AdThrive account, step by step:
1. You’ll fill out a Google Ad Manager form
While we’re able to submit your site to most of our ad partners for approval using just your AdThrive application, you do need to fill out an approval form with Google. It’s quick and easy, and it takes just a few minutes to complete. Once Google approves your application, we’re good to move on!
2. You’ll share about your current ad strategy
If you’re running ads right now, we want to know how you’re approaching it today and understand exactly what you’d like to see with ads on your site in the future.
If you’re not running ads yet, you’ll skip this step in the AdThrive Setup Assistant, and we’ll work with you over email to design an ad layout you love.
3. You’ll accept the AdThrive Service Agreement
You can check it out right here. This covers confidentiality and how we’ll use any data you provide for our analysis.
We’ll craft a completely custom ad layout for you
Once you complete these steps in the AdThrive Setup Assistant, we’ll get to work on your site analysis!
Our team of ad experts will dive into your traffic data, your site design, your preferences, and your current ad performance (if any), so we can design a perfect ad layout for you.
We will only move forward with your site if we’re confident we can help you earn more money, and we’ll share info on what you can expect to see.
You’ll get a big email with all the fun news!
We’ll get your start date with AdThrive on the calendar
Once you review our suggestions and share any feedback with us, we’re excited to move forward and get your start date with AdThrive on the calendar!
If you aren’t under contract with another ad provider, we’ll move right on to the next steps. If you are under contract with an ad provider, we’ll work with you to schedule your first day with AdThrive.
To prep for the exciting day your AdThrive ads will be installed, there are a few final steps, so you’ll hop back into the AdThrive Setup Assistant:
1. Fill out a Traffic Assignment Letter (TAL) for Comscore
Comscore is like TV ratings for websites and it’s a tool advertisers rely on to determine where they want to spend their money.
When you fill out a Traffic Assignment Letter (TAL) for AdThrive, that tells Comscore to include your traffic in the AdThrive group of publishers. AdThrive aggregates your traffic with all the other sites in our community, putting our network at the #11 spot for ALL web properties in Comscore. That means the collective AdThrive network is larger than companies like Pinterest, Meredith, and USA Today.
This massive scale of our network makes your site more visible to advertisers and helps our sales team secure the best deals for everyone in the AdThrive community!
2. If you’d like our team to install your ads, share website access
When your start day with AdThrive comes around, we don’t want you to have to worry about a thing! If you’d like us to install your ads and take care of removing any previous ad code on the site, you’ll add AdThrive as a user to your website.
If you’d like to install the ads yourself, just let us know and we’ll send instructions on how you can get everything up and running.
3. Add an Advertiser Privacy Statement to your site’s privacy policy
When you work with AdThrive, we’ll help you stay compliant with any governmental regulations about your ads. You’ll add a link to our Universal Advertising Privacy Policy to your site’s privacy policy, covering how cookies are used and information for EEA and California readers to keep your ads compliant with GDPR and CCPA.
Next stop, installing your AdThrive ads!
We’ll be able to get you up and running with AdThrive ads from within a week (if you’re ready to start right away) to just over a month (if you have to give a 30-day notice to your current ad provider).
When the day comes to get your shiny new ads live on your site, here’s what to expect…
