CPM with Forums?

[Shrekonline]

Hi everyone,
Does anyone know any ad companies that accept forums for CPM? I plan to open a site with quite a bit of content and it will have a forum and I would like to put ads on both parts of the site. Thanks for reading =)

[Jan]

I would suggest you create the forum first. If you are only opening one to make money from, then you are in for disappointment. Get the forum popular and populated and then think about advertising.

[Shrekonline]

Oh thanks Jan. And no I'm not opening the forum just to make some money =)

[Scunner]

Hi Shrekonline,

I have a forum ( www.calis-beach.co.uk/forum ) and have started using Google Adsense. They are happy with forums, and with targetted ad's you get paid (poorly) for CPM (of sorts) - although for CPC click rates are generally poor on forums - for every $100 I make from ads on 100,000 forum pages, I make $50 from around 11 HTML pages.

One problem with forum advertising is that a large percentage of page views comes from a small percentage of members, so they eventually go blind to them.

I haven't ventured further than Google yet, that is what I am looking at now, and google sent me here :)

Scunner

[Shrekonline]

Thanks for all your help =)

[desbest]

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