Thanks for the feedback on self-service. There are several companies that do this that we could partner with. It's just been a matter of prioritization.

Thanks for the feedback on the widgets. I will look into it.

So the way I interpret this is, because WordAds are not available on self-hosted (correct?), the earnings remain associated with the account but wouldn't be paid out unless the account returns the same blog or launches another blog on hosted WordPress and runs WordAds. ??

Being under $100, it's not that big a deal, just wanted to know.

It would be great if hosted WordPress had a way for us to self-manage ads with specific advertisers, in addition to WordAds. I'm contacted by home decor retailers that are doing a great job of micro-targeting because they would be perfect for people visiting my blog. With my traffic it's not big money, it's mostly about having options available to accept any advertising. It also saves us the trouble of reviewing and selecting from the ad management services, so instead we can focus on our content.

Another way of leveraging blog traffic that many bloggers in my topic area do is to launch a shop, on etsy or elsewhere. A non-Java widget for etsy would be a welcome option for hosted WordPress. Or I suppose it's possible to hard code a "look alike" text widget.

I understand the java widgets interest. We are thinking of offering self-service ad sales in WordAds. From what we have seen there is not a lot of money there - lots of scammy offers - but we do hear from a lot of sites that want it so we are scoping it out.

I am receiving requests for advertising and paid promotional opportunities from specific companies I want to support, and I also want to use Java widgets. So I've decided to switch to self-hosted WordPress. It will be a few more months before I'd reach $100 for WordAds. Will I receive the balance earned thus far when I move to self-hosted? I'd like to move ASAP, please answer. Thanks.

The blog I need help with is indiapiedaterre.com.

I am moved my site to self-hosted and my WordAds earnings are 3 dollars adrift of $100. Am I able to redeem because I no longer run WordAds on my site?

For your site in particular, I have worked on advertising with some of the larger manga sites on the Internet and they tend to not perform well with networks like Adsense. The primary reason is that they tend to be a lot of images and not much context for advertisers to hang on to. So that is why whether you work with WordAds or directly with Adsense your earnings per view in a specific country will likely be much less than say a finance or technology focused site.

I believe I'll be leaving wordpress.com once my 3 pro Bundle run out if it stays so lame.

You pour a lot of time and effort into your blog and you deserve better.

to see if that evolve in the future but it's pretty much a miss for now...

Even if not a big difference, September still had 6 000 more views then August. Second point, I've been seeing those supposed "up to 5 times rates" video ads for several weeks already, if not a month or more. Lastly and despite the increased number of views and the presence of video ads, I had the "pleasure" to see my earnings for September dive by 30%...

Seriously?

As posted above, we are passing on the earnings for each site that we collect from the advertisers which varies. I understand you are seeing your earnings decrease but its possible that it might jump up next month or the month after and the you might understand better that advertisers don't pay a fixed price for every site and every impression.

We are also always making improvements in our optimization to help. For example you might see video ads on Smart phone views in the US. This pays about 5x what we were seeing. We know that we are enabling a lot of publishers to see steady and often growing earnings but we understand that some like you are not happy with their earnings and will be doing our best to turn that around for you.

Hello,

Why does the earning generated by wordads decrease as time pass?
In short why does the ads gives each month less?
June: 0,55cpm
July: 0,36cpm
August: 0,25cpm

I know that maybe the total monthly visits of the site can impact in such cpm which I believe is the basis of your system, or close. However, the visit's variance over that period was only of -13%. Isn't it a bit light for a decrease of over 50% in only 3 month?

Is there a reason? A special gimmick of the wordads system or simply a lack of ability to meet the promise done?

I'm not about aiming to make the most money through a blog/site but it simply isn't right to have such differences in a widely used (and imposed) system.

Thanks for your answer.

The blog I need help with is sunkenrock.com.

This is from Jon Burke

hope it will help if I can explain what is WordAds and how online advertising works. Online advertising is like a stock market where prices raise and fall for geos and specific sites in real time. We try to control that by signing long-term agreements but much of our advertising is real-time auction-based.

So WordAds is not the advertiser, we are really a rep firm for you to optimize the different ad partners.

There are two projects that we are working on that we hope will help. One is to give you the ability to sell ads yourself. The other is to report to you how many ads you serve. We don't serve ads on every page impression so this data will give you a better view.

Does the value of $/thousand impressions value vary that much per month?