Quote for accipiter

[Umaro]

I just got a quote, for around 20 million adservs a month.

They charge around .09cpm. For a publisher mod its another .3cpm. Setup fee over 2000 and a setup fee of over 3,000 for the publisher mod.

So, 5K setup and .12cpm costs...

What should I do? This is about double what I planned on paying. Are there really any other solutions if I'm going to be serving up 15+million ads a month.

[RevenuePilot]

wow they probably think you dont know any better lol

Try zedo....

I just got a quote, for around 20 million adservs a month.

They charge around .09cpm. For a publisher mod its another .3cpm. Setup fee over 2000 and a setup fee of over 3,000 for the publisher mod.

So, 5K setup and .12cpm costs...

What should I do? This is about double what I planned on paying. Are there really any other solutions if I'm going to be serving up 15+million ads a month.

[OnlineGuide]

You could prob. get better rates from DoubleClick's DART. There is also 24/7 Open Ad Stream, Thruport's AdJuggler, Zedo, and Right Media's Yield Manager.

[Umaro]

Yeah, I thought it was a bit crazy, .05cpm maybe, even .07, but .13cents is way too high.

Also considering I'm going to be more of an Ad Rep then a large advertising network.

[RevenuePilot]

if they think you dont know how much it really suppost to cost they will try to charge you crazy money i am sure this is the case here...

[Umaro]

Any suggestions on how I should reply to his e-mail, anything I should say or bring up to try and bring it back down to normal levels? lol

[RevenuePilot]

just tell him how much you are willing to pay and if i would be you i wouldnt even consider paying anything above 4 cent cpm........ also tell him you know marker rates including their competitors so they would understand that you are not some joe shmoe with no idea about pricing : )

Any suggestions on how I should reply to his e-mail, anything I should say or bring up to try and bring it back down to normal levels? lol

[masm50]

I would agree. I wouldn't accept anything over $0.05 CPM as serving fees.
Tell them what you have seen elsewhere and they hopefully will give you a more reasonable quote.

-Tim

[Umaro]

I contacted accipiter and told them that there is no way I could go a head with their 13.5 cent cpm charge and that some of the people I contacted offered .05 cpm or less. The reply I got is summed up here..

"So you are aware, I can be somewhat flexible on rate, as long as the
term of the agreement is in place (2+ yrs), however I know I can't drop
to a .05cpm for the volume you mentioned.
It's unfortunate that our rates won't fit into your plans."

So, I didn't even ask them to beat, or match the other offers I got from their competitors, but they didn't even supply a counter offer, I guess they don't want my business?