CPC Guide
CPC, or cost-per-click, is a business model that requires an advertiser to pay a publisher each time an ad was clicked inside the publisher’s inventory.
CPC Rates
Here are some CPC offers along with their platform and country below.
| Platform/Network | Country | Rates |
| Admob | US | High, especially on Android, rewarded video: $23 |
| Admob | US | iOS rewarded video: $16 |
| Admob | India | Android rewarded video: $0.84 |
| Admob | India | iOS rewarded video: $1.18 |
| Google AdSense | US | $20 and above – but only with link unit ads |
Source: Blognife
List of CPC ad networks
| Founded | Employees | Revenues | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 101-200 | $16mil annually |
Collectcent is one of the leading programmatic advertising technology companies, with 7+ years of being on the market, working with direct publishers and advertisers. It’s been providing digital ad solutions via mobile, desktop, OTT and in-app to meet advertisers needs, using CPM, CPI and CPA business models.
With 180+ people across India, Singapore and USA, their key markets are SE Asia, North America and the Middle East. It’s been facilitating thousands of app and web publishers to monetize and yield revenue with their inventory.
- Mobile platforms: Android, Desktop, HTML5, Mobile Web, Windows Phone
- Campaign types: CPA, CPC, CPI
- Ad formats supported: banners
- Targeting: behavioral
- Key markets: India
| Founded | Employees | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 51-200 |
Zoomd is a public traded company on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSXV:ZOMD) with global offices in Canada, Brazil, S.Korea, Singapore, Israel, Mexico and Bulgaria. Zoomd is dedicated to helping advertisers and publishers achieve their key performance indicators (KPIs) through a patented, performance-based advertising platform.
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FraudScore is an independent antifraud solution that evaluates the quality of mobile and web traffic in advertising campaigns. FraudScore clients are direct advertisers and ad agencies, ad networks & mobile developers from all over the world. FraudScore offers antifraud solutions for all steps of ad campaign funnel: from DSPs, to CPI, CPM, CPA and CPC. FraudScore is well known to be effective in combat against click spamming, bot, malware and adware, click injection, bot farms and many more.
| Founded | Employees | Social | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 11-50 | 3k |
ConsoliAds Pte Ltd. is MENA and APAC’s mobile ad mediation and promotion platform. It provides advertisers with access to publishers inventory in more than 12,000 apps that deliver over 350 million ad impressions and helps to reach impression-to-install conversion up to 10%, the platform is capable to deliver CPI around $.0.40.
- Mobile platforms: Android, IOS, Mobile Web
- Campaign types: CPC, CPI, CPM
- Ad formats supported: Native, Video, Interstitial, Rewarded Video, Banner and Icon
- Targeting: Country, Demographic, Device, Geo, OS, Time
- Key Markets: CPC, CPI, CPM
myAppFree
High Quality Mobile Traffic & Exclusive Placements on SONY Xperia, Native SDK
| Founded | Employees | Revenues | Social | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2-10 | $8.9m+ | 7k | 1.36m+ |
myAppFree is a performance-based advertising platform, founded in 2015 in Italy by Massimo Caroli and Riccardo Fuzzi, that matches advertisers and publishers. One of the unique features it offers in terms of inventory for advertisers is an access to 40 million plus Sony Xperia smartphone users, as well as own App Discovery that features the best mobile apps for users to discover.
- Mobile platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone
- Campaign types: CPA, CPC, CPI
- Ad formats supported: Banners, Interstitial, Native, Notifications
- Targeting: Audience, Geo, Interests, OS, Platform
- Key Markets: Asia, Europe, Latin America, USA
| Employees | Social | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-10 | 100 |
Adsperfection is an ad tech company that helps brands and developers with users acquisition and in-app monetization. With Adsperfection advertisers can acquire engaged and paying users for their app/product/service, as well as buy media at scale and get advanced solutions for preventing fraud. Publishers can boost their eCPM with flexible ad formats, use high impact monetization solutions and arrange direct deals from most recognizable app developers worldwide.
- Mobile platforms: iOS, Android
- Campaign types: CPA, CPC, CPI, CPL, CPM, CPS
- Ad formats supported: Banners, Interstitial, Native, Video
- Targeting: Custom
- Key Markets: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Spain, UK, USA
Splicky is the new Demand Side Platform (DSP) for the mobile channel using proprietary Real-Time Advertising (RTA) technology. Their technology makes it simple to buy mobile ad impressions and clicks within mobile sites and apps - in real-time.
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| Founded | Employees | Social | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 51-200 | 2k+ |
Clickadu is a multi-format advertising network. We provide a technical solution both for advertisers and webmasters to monetize\buy the website audience.
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Startapp is a mobile advertising company. It provides a self-serve platform for advertisers to quickly build and launch ad campaigns, controlling audience, creatives and budget aspects of their campaigns. Among features that sets it aside from other ad networks are uniquely designed animated and interactive ads, data-enhanced targeting, using data derived from over 300,000 mobile apps and native ad units.
- Mobile platforms: Android, iOS
- Campaign types: CPA, CPC, CPI, CPM
- Ad formats supported: App Icon, Full Page Ads, InApp Ads, Interstitial, Video
- Targeting: App, Carrier, Competitors, Connection Type, Device, Gender, Geo, OS
- Key Markets: Global
Bidsopt is a leading Mobile Demand Side Platform connecting advertisers and users in real time. Key features of Bidsopt Mobile DSP include. Large Scale Native, Rich Media, Video and Standard Banner inventory from leading exchange/ssp and direct publisher relationship.
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Zucks is a Japan-based mobile advertising platform strong in the Asian mobile market. They offer a large number of campaigns supporting iOS and Android, driving app downloads as well as CPI,CPA and CPC.
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Vungle is one of the leading performance marketing platforms for app advertisers. It brings advertisers mobile users through engaging video ads. They rely on Vungle’s creative optimization technology, targeting, and HD video ad delivery to reach and acquire high-quality users globally. Top mobile publishers rely on Vungle to generate revenue with engaging video ads.
- Mobile platforms: Android, IOS, Windows Mobile, Amazon
- Campaign types: CPI, CPA, CPM, CPCV
- Ad formats supported: Video, MRAID
- Targeting: Custom
- Key Markets: Europe, US, China
| Founded | Employees | Revenues | Social | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 201-500 | - | 1.6k | - |
Chartboost is an in-app monetization and programmatic advertising company, founded in 2011 by Sean Fannan and Maria Alegre in San Francisco, US. Chartboost mobile ad network provides advertisers with a platform for a cross-promotion with native ads, sophisticated targeting and tracking. Also the company provides mobile game owners with developer-t0-developer mobile ad marketplace to exchange ads inside their apps directly.
- Mobile platforms: iOS, Android
- Campaign types: CPC, CPI
- Ad formats supported: Content Lock, Interstitial, OfferWall, Video
- Targeting: Custom
- Key Markets: global, United States
Twitter Ads is the Twitter advertising platform that allows app marketers to drive traffic to their apps from both on Twitter and off Twitter channels. In terms of targeting options and reach its rivals are only Facebook and Google. Twitter ads support deep linking technology that allows app marketers to link an ad to a specific part of a mobile app content.
- Mobile platforms: iOS, Android
- Campaign types: CPI, CPC, CPM
- Ad formats supported: auto-generated ads with creatives an app has on the App Store.
- Targeting: mobile OS, OS version, device (iPhone / iPad), location, gender, age, mobile connection type
- Key markets: global
Tapjoy is an advertising and app monetization platform that offers a novel way for users to engage in mobile advertising.. The Tapjoy mobile ad network services lineup are focused on helping premium mobile app publishers to increase revenue on each user they have. Tapjoy offers users virtual currency for watching video ads, subscribing to services, and downloading promoted apps. Users can then spend that virtual currency on unlocking in-app content from publishers. The key benefit that the company brings to the table is that it allows app developers and brands monetize users who do not have credit cards or do not wish to spend real currency on app content.
- Mobile platforms: Android, iOS, Mobile Web
- Campaign types: CPC, CPD, CPI, CPM
- Ad formats supported: Content Lock, Interstitial, Offerwall, Rewards
- Targeting: custom
- Key Markets: Europe, India, Japan, Kenya, South Africa, UK, United States
Facebook Audience Network
Expand the power of Facebook advertising with Audience Network.
Yahoo App Publishing
Monetize your app with native and video ads from Yahoo, Flurry, and BrightRoll advertisers
| Founded | Employees | Social | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 11-50 | 5k |
Mobupps is are a performance-oriented ad network, with over 10 years of experience in mobile user acquisition. The network leverages an access to private media from over 4,500 direct app publishers, as well as direct integration to all of the major global traffic sources.
- Mobile platforms: Android, iOS,
- Campaign types: CPC, CPI, CPM
- Ad formats supported: App Icon, Audio, Banners, Content Lock, Coupons, Custom, In-App, Incentivized, Interstitial, Native, Notifications, Offer Wall, Pop up, PopUnder, Redirect, Rewarded Video, Rewards, Rich Media, Search, Social, Text, Video
- Targeting: App, Carrier, Category, Country, Demographic, Device, Network, White & Black Lists
- Key markets: Global
Applovin is a marketing automation and analytics company, founded by Adam Foroughi and Andrew Karam in San Francisco, US. The core goal of the Approvin mobile ad network operations is delivering high quality users. To acquire such users the platform analyzes all ad campaign results to focus the consequent campaign on app users who will most likely to interact and transact inside an advertiser’s mobile app.
- Mobile platforms: iOS, Android, Mobile Web
- Campaign types: CPC, CPA
- Ad formats supported: Custom
- Targeting: Custom, Re-targeting
- Key Markets: United States
| Founded | Employees | Revenues | Social | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 11-50 | - | 1.5k | - |
TikTok is a short-form video app that has yet to launch official ad units for brands. With that said, its increasing popularity has put it on the radar for big brands eager to use the platform to advertise. Influencer campaigns on TikTok have been used by brands such as Universal Pictures, but TikTok is not currently involved with all of them.
- Mobile platforms: iOS, Android
- Campaign types: CPI
- Ad formats supported: Custom
- Targeting: Custom
- Key markets: UK, USA
