In-image advertising – earning with your images
We have been quite familiar to text links service such as infolinks or contextual ads such as Google Adsense. However, do you know that we can earn money from our images? If your blogs or sites are image focused such as Entertainment sites, movie news, celebrity fansites, Wallpaper sites, it is worth considering these networks to earn some extra money.
In-Image Advertising Sevices
Image Space Media
ImageSpaceMedia looks almost the same with youtube video ads and it won’t affect your blog/website. Click here to register ImageSpaceMedia. Once approved, you can login and copy a small javascript code and put it into your blog or website. I recommended that you use ImageSpaceMedia on wallpapers/photo website for high CTR, but you can use in it on your blog.
ImageSpaceMedia was the first to experiment In-Image Advertising Sevice.Image It is a TechCrunch50 demopit company and is one of the most populars in this field.
The key to get ads on your images is description some people usually to lazy write about images description even it sometimes important for search engine. They have a highly intuitive dashboard called the PubStop platform. This platform allows publishers to value which of their images are yielding higher earnings so they can place content in the places that earn the highest click-through-rates (CTRs). The dashboard features section through which you can view the ad impressions, earning, CTRs and eCPMs (much like Google Adsense).
Good news for wordpress bloggers: Image Space Media also offers a plugin for WordPress Users so that they do not have to insert codes and all.
Payout details: The minimum payout is $25, payment can be done through mail, paypal or wire transfer.
GumGum
Currently, I am a publisher for Gumgum in one of my blog: World Showbiz.
GumGum was first started in 2008 as an technology to track photos so that the photo owners could generate royalty revenue from the people who published/use the photos on their web sites. Just a few days back they completely transitioned to in-image ads. The company had stated testing in-image advertising a few months back and now it is live.
Even though the dashboard of this network does not have many options and shows the Earnings and Impressions report.
This advertising network overlays small banners on your Images.You just need to add a small Javascript code on your site to start earning and Payments are made via Paypal. See below for an example of the advert.
Payout details: Payouts are done monthly but no payout limits has been mentioned. Pays through Paypal.
Embed Anything
While this platform is not a fully In-Image Advertising Network but this Company does use the in-image advertising framework to help you earn money.
Embed Anything‘s basic idea seems to be somewhat similar to what GumGum had implemented when It first launched. The idea that to help picture owners profit off whenever somebody uses their images.
The startup’s technology allows you to add an embed button (only displays when you move over it) on your images ( as well as on articles ) in your website so that anyone can grab a image code and use it in their web pages. Once the image is embedded, an overlay image will start displaying along with a link back to the source.
The network allows the publishers to choose what advertisement they want to display in that adspace. The publisher can use any Ad networks like AdSense, AdBrite etc. For 50 impressions the publishers ad will be displayed and for other 50 the network will display their own Adsense ads (50-50 split revenue sharing). The network offers you a dashboard where you can check how many impressions your image has got, where the Image has been embedded and also allows you to delete unwanted embeds.
Embed Anything also offers you a WordPress Plugin which you can use in your WordPress Blog. For other sites, you need to add a small Javascript code.
Payout details: You do not have to worry about payout for this because you will be using your own Advertising Network (Adsense, Adbrite) and they will just display your ads.
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