Publishers seek to generate advertising revenue from their websites and mailings lists but often lack in time or size to deal directly with multiple large sponsors. On the flipside, advertisers want traffic to generate sales and leads for their websites without the commitment of dealing with hundreds of individual publishers. EnvyusMedia.com acts as a single point of contact for advertisers and publishers, acting as a trusted source for both sides. Publishers benefit from having access to hundreds of advertising campaigns and receiving a single aggregated “always on time” commission payment from Envyus. Advertisers benefit by having their CPA campaigns made available to thousands of publishers without having to recruit or maintain a single one.
CPA stands for Cost Per Action. Unlike other marketing models where an advertiser pays for every surfer seeing their ad (CPM) or clicking on their ad (CPC), an advertiser under the CPA model pays only when a specific action is taken on their website. The advertiser defines this action in advance and only pays when that action is taken. The advertiser action can be as simple as filling out a form on their website or as complex as a multi-page sign-up ending with a purchase through credit card. Generally speaking, the more involved the action, the higher a publisher would expect to be paid for generating it.
There is no specific campaign type which represents the bulk of our traffic. We generate leads and sales for clients across multiple niches including dating, financial, weight loss, education, surveys, health, mobile, etc. Generally speaking, we tend to stick with form-fill style lead generation or trial-based sale campaigns because these are the kinds of ad campaigns our publishers like best.
That's a little difficult to predict as Envyus has numerous publishers in the network and they selectively choose the ads they want to run themselves. A successful ad campaign might see traffic from hundreds of publishers across multiple traffic types such as banner placements, email marketing, search engines, social media and others. An advertiser can however specify in advance whether they want to exclude certain types of traffic, like search engine or social network traffic.
There is no direct contact between publishers and advertisers. All contact goes through the network. Publishers come to Envyus specifically for the benefit of having a single contact point with multiple sponsorship opportunities.
Envyus uses cookies and pixels to track actions. We provide the advertiser with a tracking pixel to place on the page where they declare an action as valid and should be paid for. This pixel, combined with the cookie generated when the surfer clicks the campaign link, generates a lead in our system.
We don't predict traffic volumes on potential campaigns. There are simply too many unknown factors to give a proper estimate. Much depends on the conversion of the campaign, the target countries and demographics, the decided upon CPA rate versus competitive campaigns and the final mix of publishers who decide to pick up any given campaign. Some campaigns can see hundreds of thousands of leads while others struggle to get hundreds per month.
Envyus puts potential publishers through a quality assurance and fraud check before we allow them into the network. This helps reduce the occurrence fraud and bad leads, but does not eliminate it. Advertisers must also work at monitoring data and reporting problems. We pass all advertisers the IDs of the publishers generating traffic for their campaign. Advertisers should use this ID with their internal quality checks to analyze the profitability of the traffic they are receiving on an individual publisher level.
Send us details about the campaign you'd like to bring to Envyus through the Advertisers or Contact Us page. Please include as much information as possible about your campaign including sample landing pages, CPA rates, target countries and budgetary caps. We receive many requests so please do not omit this information.
You can sign up by. Make sure you complete the application form thorloughly as we are very strict on who we choose to let into the network. Once you have submitted your application you will be contacted by someone at Envyus to go over your application. Please make sure you answer all questions correctly.
The fastest way to be approved is to make sure you fill out the publisher application form thoroughly and be very descriptive about your marketing strategy and efforts. We look for affiliates we think will be beneficial to our network and provide quality leads to our Advertisers. The more complete your application is the more interest we will have in allowing you into the network.
We accept publishers from several countries. Unfortunately due to the high level of fraud from various countries publishers from some areas are will not be accepted into the network.
It really depends on how you plan to push traffic to our Advertisers. Some people market with websites and some market without websites. You will need to talk to your Affiliate Manager and discuss how you plan to promote offers on our network.
Publishers are paid on a Net 15 basis. For example, publishers generating revenue in January will have their payments processed on February 15th. We require that you have your W9 or W8 form signed and submitted to our Accounting Department before payment is issued. If you fail to submit your W9 or W8 before payments are processed your payment will be distributed the following month.
We pay publishers by check or Electronic Funds Transfer. The options available are dependent on a publisher's home country. Our system tracks and distributes all earnings in US Dollars.
Incentive traffic is when a publisher offers a surfer a reward of some kind (virtual or real) to sign up to an advertiser through their publisher link. A potential publisher must understand that while Envyus does allow some forms of incentive traffic, publishers using incentive traffic will be limited to advertising only the few ad campaigns which accept it. Most campaigns do not accept incentive traffic. We're very selective on the kinds of incentive traffic we accept and very strict on incentive publisher adherence to only advertising the campaigns which allow it. Generally speaking, potential publishers who purchase or license common GPT (Get Paid To) incentive scripts, will not be accepted into the network due the higher level of problematic leads they seem to generate.
Yes, we generally accept this kind of traffic but only on campaigns which accept incentive traffic. The content to unlock should be not be pornographic in nature and is subject to the same terms and conditions a publisher's website is subject to.
EPC stands for Earnings Per Click and is displayed on all network campaigns. It's a computed average income publishers are earnings on a given campaign calculated on a per-click basis. This number isn't a guarantee of how much a publisher will earn by advertising a campaign but is simply a tool for publishers to gauge their potential interest in advertising a campaign and measuring their conversion compared to the average across the network.
Send an email to support@envyusmedia.com and include as many details about your account possible. Someone will contact you shortly and/or reply back to your email with your new password.
In most cases, leads and sales are tracked in real time, but there can be up to a 5 minute delay for our server to refresh publisher statistics. There are some advertising campaigns where a sale/lead is only declared days after the surfer signed up. In such circumstances, this will be disclosed in the ad campaign description.
No, it's against the terms and conditions which govern a publisher account for a publisher to generate his own leads or get his friends to sign up for him.
If you are not seeing leads/sales generated on a campaign and you know there has been some leads/sales generated this could be happening for a number of reasons. These include, but are not limited to surfers visiting a campaign page through another publisher link, surfers entering invalid data, surfers not fully completing the signup, surfer data not matching campaign demographic requirements, and surfers having cookies disabled on their computer. Generally speaking, most cases of untracked test or friend-generated leads are explained by a publisher simply unfamiliar with all the details an advertiser requires to validate a lead as real.
Publishers can purchase approved ad placements from third party traffic sources. Each campaign on Envyus has specific rules as to whether a given traffic source is allowed or not. For example, it's not uncommon for some advertisers to request they not receive social network traffic, to which publishers must comply. Publishers are responsible for the nature and quality of the advertising they bring into the network from third parties.
Click tracking between two sources rarely match 100%. Some of the clicks a publisher purchases from a third party might get IP filtered because they are from a country the campaign doesn't accept. Even if you're buying specific country-targeted traffic to send to a campaign accepting traffic from that same country, rarely does the logic behind two IP filters match 100%. It could also be that the surfer abandons the browser before a click is tracked on both sides. A small discrepancy in click stats is expected and normal.
Scrubbing is when an advertiser doesn't pay for invalid or duplicate leads. For example, while a publisher might have generated 100 raw sign ups to a campaign, 10 were already in the advertiser's database and 10 more contained bad data. So out of those 100 sign ups, 80 were valid leads and 20 were scrubbed. Shaving is when an advertiser doesn't pay for leads which would otherwise be valid but is attempting to increase their profit on a campaign. Envyus does not accept advertiser lead shaving.
No, you may not. It is grounds for account termination or worse. The only people interested in acquiring dormant publisher accounts do so with the intent of defrauding advertisers. If a publisher sells their account, they're likely assisting someone in committing a crime and are subject to potential litigation. Envyus fully supports advertisers and law enforcement agencies in their attempts to prosecute for fraud. If you don't want your publisher account anymore, simply tell your affiliate manager and we'll close it for you.
If you allow someone else to use your publisher link to generate leads keep in mind that you are solely responsible for the leads generated on a campaign. Should the second party in the joint venture generate fraudulent leads/sales, it's the publisher who risks account termination and litigation, not the second party.
In most cases, by the time you've noticed you are terminated, your account will not be reinstated. Our compliance department monitors traffic/leads constantly and action is swift when a problem is found. Publishers are generally told when a minor problem is found and given the opportunity to make corrections. Major problems usually result in immediate account termination. If you want to plead your case, send an email to support@envyusmedia.com. Your best bet is to admit wrongdoing, accept the reversal of your leads/sales and ask permission to try again. In the rare circumstance that a publisher is wrongly terminated from the network, they should contact Envyus Support and politely describe the problem and why they feel they are innocent - remember that your best bet is to be honest in the explanations of your actions.
