Waste Not, Want Not – Monetize Thank You Pages With AfterDownload

Roi Carthy

Roi Carthy is the Managing Partner at Initial Capital. Previously, Roi has worked at companies such as Soluto, Zend Technologies and 888.com. Roi has been covering the Israeli startup scene for TechCrunch since 2007. Born in Israel, Roi has spent many years abroad living in both the US (Boston, Olivet, DC) and in Europe (Budapest, Zurich). Today, Roi works... → Learn More

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Straight from the Benjamin Franklin department of “waste not, want not” comes upstart AfterDownload with a simple idea about how to enhance those typical download and ecommerce ‘Thank You’ pages … use them to promote more wares.

Good ol’ Ben would surely ask: ‘Why let them go to waste when you can squeeze them for some additional revenue? Am I right, or am I right?’

AfterDownload delivers a convincing pitch: for publishers, the benefit is obvious, as they get to monetize exit traffic with practically zero effort.

Advertisers, which are strictly software vendors, benefit from pay-for-performance (predominantly CPC) so they really have nothing to lose. Users aren’t really hurt along the way, seeing all they are exposed with is yet another ad – no biggie, right?

Under the hood, AfterDownload is a self-serve ad network with all the basic ad-server features you would expect: geo and browser-targeting, reporting, etc.

Currently averaging 15 million impressions a day, I have a feeling Ben would approve.

Company: AfterDownload
Launch Date: February 2010

AfterDownload is an innovative software distribution & monetization platform, dedicated to download and after download pages of high volume downloadable apps and software. We help software developers generate new revenues and increase their distribution simply and effectively.

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