Stunning rainforests, beautiful beaches…Central American haven is more than just a tourist destination? Yes, for affiliates, it’s a GOLDMINE waiting to be explored.

And guess what? AdCombo has just the right offers to help you discover this GEO!

37406 Foot Trooper – CR
37405 Magicoa – CR
37404 Simpla 360 – CR

If you haven’t considered this GEO yet, here’s some compelling data and insights that might just change your mind, swipe the carousel!

And remember, AdCombo has curated valuable insides from our advertiser (and quite a good bonus too)!

According to the Great AdVenture Challenge rules, affiliates who earn the most points – Golden Keys during the challenge will be able to participate in the drawing of luxury prizes.

This year we introduced a new regional mechanics, which allows you to earn extra points even without impressive amounts of traffic (see challenge rules)

The easiest way is to get extra Golden Keys in regions with low competition. We made a list of all the countries and matched them with the Challenge regions!

Navigating:

Europe

Asia

Africa

Central America & The Caribbean

MENA

North America & Australia

South America

Europe

Asia

Africa

Central America & The Caribbean

MENA

North America & Australia

South America

You can find The Great AdVenture tab in your AdCombo account. There you will find an interactive map with the Top offers by region, a list of countries, and payouts!

It’s time to conquer new profit peaks!

The first thing affiliates think about is legal problems. There are rumors that Arabian countries have strict laws about advertising and you may have big problems if you will not abide them. Well, Arabian countries do have strong laws but while our team ran the offers, they didn’t have any problems with them. You just need to learn a bit about those countries (and you can get some useful info from our review here).

Many affiliates think that those GEOs need a special approach. That’s not true though
Actually, you can use your usual creative materials for those countries, there is no need to change it. But if you want to make it as profitable as it can be, we have some tips.

Some local networks don’t allow creative materials with bellies so better use something more abstract. Pictures with skin and stuff like bottles and cans are pretty popular and have a good conversion rate for health and beauty offers. By the way, Goji Cream goes really well there – even though women wear the veils and almost no one sees their faces, they want to look pretty (as any girl does :). Speaking of the text part of banners, better present the information directly. What sort of product it is, how does it help, how much younger or thinner you may look after using it and so on.

In general, there is a lot of traffic – search engines, social networks, you can even try Instagram. But note that accounts are blocked more often and sooner than in other countries. Also, we recommend you to try push-traffic – it works really good with those GEOs. By the way, there are some local networks and they worth trying since they know its market better.

And as long as we’re talking about local “things” – take the details of every country into account. For example, Lebanon has electrical problems and sometimes it affects the conversion rates and traffic in general. And the UAE, for its part, has lots of immigrants and this is why you are free to use creative materials in English

Want to know other insights? Stay tuned for more useful info!

AdCombo has opened totally new offers in Jordan, Lebanon and UAE! No other network has such offers in these GEOs and you all know what that means – no competition. In addition, they were absolutely private and almost no one ran it yet! So we are glad to say it is a really new market with fresh traffic and there is a new audience that is starved for new content and eye-catching ads

And we begin with the United Arab Emirates (UAE, Emirates).

The majority of the population in the country are expatriates from other countries so no surprise they use both Arabic and English versions of the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) – .ae (English) and .امارات (Arabic).
And speaking of the popular things – we made a list of the 5 most visited websites in the UAE:

• Facebook
• Google
• Google.ae
• YouTube
• Yahoo!

As you can see the majority of these websites aren’t regional websites but global websites with a regional presence.
And what about top 5 regional websites? Let’s see:

• Google.ae
• Dubizzle.com
• Souq.com
• Gulf News
• Kooora

News, sport and shop resources – this is what the Arabs are interested in. Also, you may have noticed that they use regional Google site, not a global one.
But despite this, both English and Arabic are used in the UAE. Depending on the specific product you are promoting in the region it’s important to do your keyword research thoroughly in order to utilize your and efforts most effectively.

Also, a couple of insights for you: “UAE” as a keyword has much higher exact match search traffic than “United Arab Emirates” (obviously because it is much easier to type). Another important thing you should know is that the keyword “Dubai” has about 10 times more traffic than the country name (any of the versions).

And now let’s get to our favorite part, we are going to talk about social media.
In the UAE, as in most countries, social networks are becoming a central part of daily life. And, of course, no surprise that Facebook is a leader with 3.4 million UAE users. But then surprisingly goes Linkedin with more than a million users. And the third place is Twitter – 305K active tweeters.

What can we say about mobile marketing there? Go and explore it!
Mobile marketing is one of the most (if not the most) rapidly growing online channels in the UAE. Smartphone usage continues to grow and the country has the lowest cell phone usage cost (out of any Middle East country). Some lower class members of society may not even have regular access to a PC making their smartphone their sole gateway to the Internet. So using mobile banner ads may be a really good idea for your profit

Moving on – Lebanon

Lebanon (as well as Jordan we will talk about a bit later) is not such an advanced country as UAE when it comes to affiliate marketing and digital marketing in general. Regardless, Lebanon hosts an increasingly tech-savvy population of over 6 million, with a wide-open Internet-ready for digital marketers to make a profit from.

But back to the overview. The ability to target the right consumers for your product efficiently and intelligently depends on a good understanding of the motives, background, and culture of that audience (we hope it’s not news). So let’s quickly see what background this country has.

Lebanon has 6 million people, 95% is Arab and, what is way more important, 40% of the population is Christian. This actually makes Lebanon the country with the greatest amount of Christians in the Middle East. This information can be very useful to publishers both in terms of targeting their Lebanese audience respectfully, and also for the creation of various seasonal ads and promotions.

The official language is Arabic and French is used as the second language. Knowledge of English says about high levels of education.
Lebanon uses only one ccTLD – .lb .

Let’s see what sites they visit most often:

• Google.com.lb
• Facebook.com
• Google.com
• Youtube.com
• Live.com

The same situation as the UAE has – the majority of the list aligns to internationally popular websites such as Google and Facebook. Then let’s see top 5 regional websites:

• Google.com.lb
• Aljaras.com
• Bintjbeil.org
• Greenarea.me
• Saidaonline.com

Way more interesting, right? Apart from Google.com.lb and Greenarea.me, the sites focus on either entertainment news in the Middle East or on Lebanese current events. It is logical to assume, that there is a high level of interest across the Lebanese population on modern developments, entertainment, and information. Use this trend to target your ads more effectively

Social media and networks. There is no need to say that Facebook holds the first place but it takes the lion’s share of the market – 80.4% of the Lebanon population use the Internet and nearly 78% of that 80.4% use Facebook! Impressive, don’t you agree? Second place is for Twitter and then goes Linkedin.
By the way, Facebook boasts approximately 95.2% of the social media traffic on mobile, with Twitter earning 3% and all other sites (such as Google+, Tumblr, and YouTube) receiving other amounts of traffic.

Speaking of mobile traffic – Lebanon has been lauded as the country in the Middle East that is most quickly going mobile. It was around 25% penetration in 2006 and now it’s about 89-90%!

There is a lot of opportunities for affiliates to make a profit in Lebanon, with the country’s low competition and rising interest in mobile search and online exploration. All you need is be patient and research the local market as thoroughly as you can.

And the last but not less important – Jordan.

Begin with the basic information. Affiliates that are looking for an audience in Jordan should make their ad campaigns bearing in mind the young age of the country and population (about 42.2% is under 15 years old), large Muslim majority in the state and the emerging economy of the country, with the official unemployment rate 13% and the unofficial rate estimated at 30%.

The official language is Arabic, English is a common second language among the middle and upper classes of society. So, publishers that are hoping for high visibility on their ads should focus on creating relevant keywords and ads written in the Arabic language with Arabic characters, with a lesser focus on English.
As well as Lebanon, Jordan has only ccTLD – .jo.

Moving on. The 5 most popular global websites are almost the same as the UAE and Lebanon have. So, it’s more interesting to see the top 10:

• Google.jo
• Facebook.com
• Youtube.com
• Google.com
• Garaanews.com
• Alwakeelnews.com
• Sarayanews.com
• Ammonnews.net
• Alkawnnews.com

The most notable thing about this list is the high prevalence of news websites among the top visited sites there. Jordan is a bit of an anomaly in this way, as most countries typically have more social media pages and search engines (such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Bing) featuring in their top 10 listing.
You should use this insight to focus your advertisements toward a curious and knowledgeable group with a high interest in the future of their country.

Due to the high Internet and smartphone penetration, Jordanians are very active on social networking sites – 84% of Jordanians use social websites such as Facebook and Twitter with 28% accessing these sites on their phones.
Jordan has the greatest preference towards Facebook in the Middle East but also shows high loyalty to Twitter – with 63% of the country subscribed and checking the site daily – take that into account.

For a country with such a high rate of smartphone and Internet penetration, Jordan’s mobile market seems lacking. Most likely, the largest barrier to a thriving mobile market is the heavy taxation levied on mobile services.
And while competition for the mobile market is currently low in Jordan, the current state of taxes and the economy may mean that the market will not prosper in the future and mobile ads is not really a good idea yet.
So, affiliates may find great success running advertisements in Jordan due to the country’s low competition rates in PPC advertising, high Internet penetration rate, and young and increasingly technical population.

In conclusion of the overviews above, we can say that there are enough weighty reasons to explore this market now. People are only starting to learn this part of advertising. Hooks and tips that don’t work anymore for popular GEOs are totally new and interesting for this audience.

Stay tuned and don’t miss more tips

So, what general information do we have? Spain has about 46.7 million inhabitants. Almost 80% of them use the internet which is a little bit above the European average. Moreover, 96% of Internet users between 25 and 34 are accessing the Internet every day. That’s a lot!
It is worth pointing out that people there prefer online-shopping over usual shop trip. The Spanish go to offline stores as in the showroom and then order things through websites. And this is a huge audience for webmasters.

The proximity of several Mediterranean beaches and pleasant climate make people care about their body and skin. So it’s pretty obvious that health and diet offers are popular and in demand there. However, before we present you a list of our Spanish offers, let us recommend you Titan Gel Gold as well. In our experience, it works really well there.
So, offers are:

• 14682 Long&Strong – ES
• 13769 Diet Stars – ES
• 13398 Titan Gel Gold – ES
• 13074 Tibettea Active Joint – ES
• 12974 Diet Duet – ES
• 12959 Snail Farm – ES
• 12474 Wonder Cells – ES
• 12473 Mulberry’s Secret – ES
• 11733 FlyBra – ES
• 11719 Energy Beauty Bar – ES
• 11689 Waist Trainer – ES
• 9955 Princess hair – ES
• 8089 Motion Free – ES
• 7010 Bliss Hair – ES
• 6897 Detoxic – ES
• 6872 Black Mask – ES
• 5733 EcoSlim – ES
• 4175 Psorilax – ES
• 3537 Chocolate Slim – ES
• 3452 Valgus 2 in 1 – ES
• 3391 UpSize – ES
• 3390 Hammer of Thor – ES
• 3389 Varikosette – ES
• 3388 Titan Gel – ES
• 3387 Goji cream – ES

Many people in Spain use social media to follow their favorite brands. Fashion and leisure are two most popular directions and those who are interested in these use mostly Instagram and Facebook for this purpose. By the way, Facebook is the most popular social network there so the most part of the traffic is there.
Speaking of browsers, there is nothing surprising – the most commonly used one is Google Chrome. Second place is for Mozilla Firefox and the third one is Safari. Speaking of smartphone operating systems – 90% goes for Android and 9% for iOS.

What else? Spain has a lot of native traffic and this is where you can try to run whitehat offers. And our friends from MGID network will be glad to help you there.

And now let us say a couple more reasons to try our Spanish offers. Firstly, the payouts for these offers have been increased higher than the mountains
Secondly, we have a great call-center for Spain – operators are in different time-zones so they are always available and instantly react to orders! Sounds great, doesn’t it? Then what are you, guys, waiting for? Money doesn’t grow on trees but that money is easy to get

Stay tuned and good luck out there!

Actually, bypassing the Golden Shield is possible, but very few people do it because it’s really hard. Affiliates are confused and afraid because they don’t know where to get traffic from. Don’t worry, the Chinese have their own search engines, messengers, social networks. Let’s see.

First, China has its own Baidu search engine, its messengers, social networks. By the way, Baidu is one of the largest sources of traffic in the country, so you better pay particular attention to it.

Secondly, Wechat and Weibo. These ones are messengers and 90% of communication in the country occurs there. Also, Wechat is the most popular mobile app (given that there are more than 600 million mobile internet users in China). Every company has an account on this network.
In fact, many IT companies in China copy the original design and concept of blocked apps and resources and release their copies with a different name. And do a really good profit. However, there arises a problem of the language barrier arises – only 1% of the Chinese knows English on a fairly good level to use international services. The point is that it’s better to make ads in Chinese, and also one piece of advice – do not translate into Chinese by yourself. Don’t forget it’s not informal communication, it’s advertising where the right message is very important.

Finally, with regard to the offers. As it turned out, the niche that works the best there is the adult. Using adult networks with hubs, you can make good money. Also, native ads work well too. At least on our offers. Speaking of. Check out our hottest Chinese offers right below:

• [13035] Miracle Glow – CN
• [7647] Varikosette – CN
• [7648] Detoxic – CN
• [13034] UpSize – CN
• [3299] Hammer of Thor – HK
• [8574] Titan Gel – HK
• [3372] Hammer of Thor – TW
• [8644] Titan Gel – TW
• [4309] Titan Gel – CN
• [3297] Hammer of Thor – CN
• [8807] Titan gel – CN

We will release a full review of China soon. With all the advice and recommendations on how it’s better to run traffic there.

So stay tuned and good luck in conquering China

Experience has shown that only a few of affiliates use our Facebook tips, try to run new profitable offers and put into practice our advice. Others perceive this as entertaining content, not as really professional and helpful, unfortunately.

That’s why we decided to do an interesting experiment.

We leak something really important and useful, right here, right now. No sane person would tell it to everyone for nothing. Usually, there is someone who sells helpful info and tips and it doesn’t come cheap, as well as doesn’t always work out.

So what’s the deal? We snatched some really valuable info from our call-centers. There’s a chance that we will get in trouble but doesn’t that make it more interesting, huh?

Attention, DISCLAIMER: our VIPs have been using this for the last 6 months so they have squeezed all of it. But you all still have a chance to make a really good profit if you hurry. Okay, cut to the chase.

Do you know what Morocco is famous for? It’s only famous for the fact there’s nothing to be famous for. Business there is difficult to run and frankly, demand for advertising is pretty low. That’s why there is no COD offers at all (except ours). Facebook (as well as MGID, Taboola, and other native ad networks) has some GEOs where advertising is not popular. Therefore, local bots there nag creative materials not as much as they do in other countries and leads have a ridiculous price.

Actually, this is it. We have been running adult offers in Morocco for 6 months with the cost per lead from $0.5 to $2. And of course, you will need to use a lot of cloaking but our favorite Titan Gel goes with a bang

The approval rate is a bit higher than the very bottom – from 18% to 22% but even with numbers like this, you can do a really good profit. How though? Well, no competition, traffic runs great and bots don’t split hairs. What else do you need, right?

Also, we snatched the statistic of the people who made an order. Check it out:

Bonus: somehow, we convinced to make Morocco offers not VIP, but regular. You can start to make campaigns today

What’s the point of the experiment? The thing is that we are pretty sure that there are just a few publishers who will really try this out. Other will just read this and go about their business.

By the way, all of this is black-hat. Who run only white-hat have nothing to do here for now. Unfortunately.

That’s it for today. Don’t be lazy, try Morocco now, while you have a chance to make easy money!

The country we are giving a review of is rather small, but it gives many opportunities for affiliates to earn pretty good money running campaigns there. And this country is Cyprus. So, guys, we hope that the following information will help you a little. Enjoy!

General Overview

•         The total population of Greece is approximately 1.2 million people
•         Official languages are Greek and Turkish
•         Other languages are English, Romanian, Russian, Bulgarian, Arabic, Filipino
•         Ethnic groups:  Greek 98.8%, other 1% (includes Maronite, Armenian, Turkish-Cypriot)

Internet Usage

The total number of Internet users in Cyprus is 844,680.

Internet Speed:

•         Average Latency: 305 ms
•         Average Download: 6.23 Mbps
•         Average Upload: 1.57 Mbps

Top websites:

For you convenience and for visual clarity we have created multicolored diagrams showing various stats:

Social Media Usage

Cyprus ranks 5th place among other European countries in terms of Social Media use.

Social media is the second most popular Internet activity among Cypriots. The most popular one is to search for the information for goods or services online.

Facebook pages stats:

Almost all Cypriot users are Facebook subscribers.

Twitter stats:

Mobile Operators

1 MTN

2 CYTA

3 PrimeTel

Let us introduce our periodical article on Internet usage. Today we will be covering a wonderful country – Greece. There is a load of offers for Greece in our system. For example, EcoSlim, Chocolate Slim, Detoxic, Titan gel, Black Mask, Goji Cream, Varikosette. These offers are well-known for their quality and good approval and conversion rates. That’s why we have prepared for you an article describing the general information on Internet use there in order to help you in running your campaigns. Good luck!

General Information

•         The total population of Greece is nearly 11 million people
•         Official language is Greek (99%)
•         Other languages: English and French (1%)
•         Ethnic groups: Greek 93%, other (foreign citizens) 7%

Internet Usage

The number of Internet users in Greece is approximately 7 million.

Internet speed:

•         Average Latency: 158 ms
•         Average Download: 8.73 Mbps
•         Average Upload: 1.68 Mbps

Top websites in Greece:

For your convenience and for visual clarity we have created multicolored diagrams showing various stats:

Social Media Usage

Active social media users – 5.30 million (+10% since last year) – 49% of the population

Active mobile social users – 4.40 million (+16% since last year) – 40% of the population

Facebook stats:

The number of active Facebook users is 5.30 million.

•         Female profiles – 47%
•         Male profiles – 53%

Twitter stats

Mobile Operators

1.    Cosmote
2.    Vodafone (Formerly Panafon)
3.    Wind (Formerly Telestet, TIM)
4.    CYTA

Mobile subscriptions 18.41 million (+5% since last year)

Hope that this information will help you, guys!

It is high time to share with you our regular article related to Internet usage in Portugal. This GEO is really promising for running marketing campaigns there and our nutra offers are a real evidence to it.

General Overview

•         The total population of Portugal is around 11 million people
•         Official language is Portuguese; also Mirandese (locally used)

Internet Usage

The number of Internet users in Portugal is 7.20 million (around 70% of the population)

Internet speed:

Average Latency: 107 ms

Average Download: 22.83 Mbps

Average Upload: 9.55 Mbps

Time spent on the Internet by Portuguese

Average daily use of the Internet via a PC or Tablet – 6 hours 17 minutes

Average daily use of the Internet via a mobile phone – 1 hour 55 minutes

Average daily use of social media via any device – 2 hours 18 minutes

Top websites in Portugal

For your convenience and for visual clarity we have created multicolored diagrams showing various stats:

Social Media Usage

Active social media users – 6.10 million (+9% since last year) – 59% of the population

Active mobile social users – 5.20 million (+16% since last year) – 51% of the population

Facebook stats

6.10 million –the total number of monthly active Facebook users

85% is the number of users accessing Facebook via mobile

72% use Facebook everyday

•         51% – female profiles
•         49% – male profiles

Twitter stats

Mobile Usage

Active mobile Internet users – 6.93 million (67% of the population)

Mobile subscriptions – 15.18 million (+2% since last year)

Mobile activities

•         48% – use mobile messengers
•         66% – watch videos on mobile
•         49% – play games on mobile
•         26% – use mobile banking
•         36% – use mobile map services

Mobile operators

•         1 MEO (Formerly TMN)
•         2 Vodafone (Formerly Telecel)
•         3 NOS (Formerly Optimus)

Some Facts about E-commerce in Portugal

60% searched online for a product or service to buy

56% visited an online retail store

39% purchased a product or service online

33% made an online purchase via a laptop or desktop computer

15% made an online purchase via a mobile device

Hope that this information will help you in running your campaigns.

Good luck!