Fiverr paid gig Promotion Ads - New Gig Analytics Coming Soon!

[marinapomorac]

The more you pay, the more clicks your promoted gig will achieve!

And the more you pay to be seen, the less revenue you get to keep for yourself. 😉

I applaud Fiverr for the additional revenue stream they are creating, but people need to realize too, that, within this system, they are giving away more of their income in order to go into an advertising rotation, that will also contain many other sellers competing for the same limited visibility slots. This isn’t going to be a “the more you pay, the more you are guaranteed to be seen” issue. That’s not how marketing programs like this work.

Sellers will be competing for advertising space, just as much as they are currently competing for search engine visibility.

just as much as they are currently competing for search engine visibility.

Only paying for it instead of counting on mysterious rotation.

[jovicdesigns]

Someone will have quite a good time just clicking around those ads and draining money from others.

Deff gonna skip that…

[jonbaas]

just as much as they are currently competing for search engine visibility.

Only paying for it instead of counting on mysterious rotation.

Only paying for it instead of counting on mysterious rotation.

Oh, there will be a rotation with the advertising feature as well, although, it’ll be more of a competitive, “the person who pays the best ad price during a specific time, gets the visibility” sort of thing.

[muhammadfaheem0]

The more you pay, the more clicks your promoted gig will achieve!

And the more you pay to be seen, the less revenue you get to keep for yourself. 😉

I applaud Fiverr for the additional revenue stream they are creating, but people need to realize too, that, within this system, they are giving away more of their income in order to go into an advertising rotation, that will also contain many other sellers competing for the same limited visibility slots. This isn’t going to be a “the more you pay, the more you are guaranteed to be seen” issue. That’s not how marketing programs like this work.

Sellers will be competing for advertising space, just as much as they are currently competing for search engine visibility.

The beauty of this new system is: you will only pay if your gig gets a click. It’s a payment/click not payment/view. 🙂

No doubt, this will help fiverr make much more revenue!

[muhammadfaheem0]

I can not wait to see this in logo section. Out of 180000 100000 will pay to be promoted, as in you pay to be on page 20 😃

You won’t pay anything if your gig doesn’t get clicks. However, I believe, all the sellers would click on each others gigs and waste the advertisers money lol

[mariashtelle1]

The beauty of this new system is: you will only pay if your gig gets a click. It’s a payment/click not payment/view. 🙂

No doubt, this will help fiverr make much more revenue!

It’s a payment/click not payment/view

There is no guarantee that you people will order from you even if they “click” on your gig. They might click just to see more examples in your portfolio and leave after that because they didn’t like it.

On top of that judging by this forum there are a lot of seller who is checking their gig position all the time and they might be clicking on your promoted gig just to get you spend a lot of money for clicks and get you out of the competition.

[jonbaas]

It’s a payment/click not payment/view

There is no guarantee that you people will order from you even if they “click” on your gig. They might click just to see more examples in your portfolio and leave after that because they didn’t like it.

On top of that judging by this forum there are a lot of seller who is checking their gig position all the time and they might be clicking on your promoted gig just to get you spend a lot of money for clicks and get you out of the competition.

There is no guarantee that you people will order from you even if they “click” on your gig.

This is an excellent thing worth pointing out.

It seems like many users in here are viewing this Fiverr ads program as the godsend that will suddenly make them successful. It’s not going to work that way. This program will be helping Fiverr to be the winners in this scenario,. There are no guarantees for sellers in Fiverr – not even a guarantee that the ads system will bring more sales. But there is the guarantee that it will make Fiverr more money, most likely from the profits of desperate sellers who don’t know how things actually work. 😉

[mariashtelle1]

There is no guarantee that you people will order from you even if they “click” on your gig.

This is an excellent thing worth pointing out.

It seems like many users in here are viewing this Fiverr ads program as the godsend that will suddenly make them successful. It’s not going to work that way. This program will be helping Fiverr to be the winners in this scenario,. There are no guarantees for sellers in Fiverr – not even a guarantee that the ads system will bring more sales. But there is the guarantee that it will make Fiverr more money, most likely from the profits of desperate sellers who don’t know how things actually work. 😉

But there is the guarantee that it will make Fiverr more money, most likely from the profits of desperate sellers who don’t know how things actually work.

exactly.

I liked their previous system with promoting much more than this one.

You remember when they were testing system where fiverr promote your gigs and you pay commission only on orders that were placed with that ad?

I think that system was more fair than “pay per click”

And I actually remember that I tested it and got a few orders with their ads. however I’m very sceptical of “pay per click” promotion, so many things can go wrong with it for a seller but of course fiverr will be always the one making higher profit on it.

[cherboub]

Fiverr platform from socialism to capitalism: The rich get richer, the poor becomes poorer.

[jonbaas]

Fiverr platform from socialism to capitalism: The rich get richer, the poor becomes poorer.

Fiverr platform from socialism to capitalism:

Fiverr was never socialist in function.

The rich get richer, the poor becomes poorer.

Yes. Usually because those who are making money here, care more about competing. Those who start out and either expect Fiverr to provide their sales and success, or sit back and do nothing, usually don’t see much income here. Sellers are always responsible for their own success.

[marinapomorac]

Fiverr platform from socialism to capitalism:

Fiverr was never socialist in function.

The rich get richer, the poor becomes poorer.

Yes. Usually because those who are making money here, care more about competing. Those who start out and either expect Fiverr to provide their sales and success, or sit back and do nothing, usually don’t see much income here. Sellers are always responsible for their own success.

And there I was wondering last couple of days, should I report high profile Fiverr seller, for click-baiting and scam and maybe end my Fiverr career if they side with him, but now it is obvious what the general direction is.

I do not need to discredit anyone; it is doing it very fine on its own.

[istvanszaboifj]

Fiverr platform from socialism to capitalism:

Fiverr was never socialist in function.

The rich get richer, the poor becomes poorer.

Yes. Usually because those who are making money here, care more about competing. Those who start out and either expect Fiverr to provide their sales and success, or sit back and do nothing, usually don’t see much income here. Sellers are always responsible for their own success.

What you forget at the moment, that right now people are earning less, about 50-75% less, than what they have earned when impressions worked as is. Do you believe that after serious losses, people will buy ads from that little amount of money they have? Think again. True, sellers are responsible for their success. That’s why Fiverr worked with the previous system as their hard work paid off and Fiverr also got its 20% commission. But when corporate idiots figure out that they’re artificially reducing the possible income of the sellers by reducing their visibility, regardless they worked hard, do you believe that these sellers will pay for ads to regain that visibility what they gained before for free? Think again. People are not idiots. And sellers definitely won’t pay for a system, when their income already reduced by Fiverr by killing Gig visibility and rotation, while they also take 20% of their income already. Sellers will move further instead and will leave Fiverr as no one is that stupid to pay first for their very own services to then maybe, just maybe get a $5 order. As I’ve written above, the ACOS of these systems are 800-1000%. Which means you get around 1 back for every 8 or 10$ you pay for advertisement. If you believe this system will work for your favor, think again. It won’t. Furthermore other sellers will use this against you by simply clicking randomly on advertisements (As its a pay per click system.). They’ll click on your ad, they won’t purchase anything, while you simply pay for the big nothing and you won’t get a customer either. Furthermore sellers will raise their prices to around the double, which also will work against Fiverr as the essence was to get reliable freelancers for relatively cheap. But if sellers must pay for their visibility, that cost must be taken into their pricing, which means we drastically must raise our prices to around the double.

[cherboub]

Fiverr platform from socialism to capitalism: The rich get richer, the poor becomes poorer.

The rich get richer, the poor becomes poorer.

Don’t think you are making sales because you are competent and you have a great skills.

Without the middle class you can’t continue living. It’s one of many life’s rules.

[muztre]

just started here and feels like this thing will drown me away

[atebha]

Unless Fiverr is doing something to drastically increase traffic to the site with buyers, sellers won’t be paying to increases impressions. Paying for impressions with no increase in sales overall for the market and increasing the market cap will drive away buyers and sellers.

It is understandable the strategy Fiverr is trying by increase their own take from every transaction, it will force sellers to raise prices and thus increase the overall revenue for Fiverr without increasing a supply of buyers.

[rina473428]

It will be very hard for new seller to get orders.

[wolfhowler]

After spending a good half an hour reading this topic, it’s given me time to stew over it. I am definitely in two minds about this.

If this system can have safeguards against manipulation (like other sellers clicking ads and wasting your money), someone suggested that you only pay for orders you get rather than clicks. I would use it.

But, I can see, especially when the system is first launched, many sellers trying to game the system. I’d want to see that my money wouldn’t be wasted. Ideally more sales would mean I could raise my prices slightly to offset the advertisement and then repeat buyers bring the profit. That’s in an ideal world though. And we certainly are not in one of them.

[jeromae]

anyone here who does not have the feature yet? or only selected sellers are allowed to?

[bodmas]

anyone here who does not have the feature yet? or only selected sellers are allowed to?

Still in beta mode for some selected sellers

[cyaxrex]

I can not wait to see this in logo section. Out of 180000 100000 will pay to be promoted, as in you pay to be on page 20 😃

I can not wait to see this in logo section. Out of 180000 100000 will pay to be promoted, as in you pay to be on page 20 😃

I heard on the grapevine that this whole thing was announced to some sellers a long while ago. They even sent out an email explaining the analytics situation.

All this being the case, I think Fiverr is quite cleverly trying to romance sellers who they want to see running ads, while rolling out the feature a lot more slowly to the unwashed masses of mek-sell-dom.

That’s also how I’d do it, to be honest. Get the sellers you want to appear on the first page getting used to paying for exposure, and they will keep doing that to keep up sales. In the meantime, their presence will ensure that your average “I will make a million logos and give you a zillion revisions” seller gets absolutely nowhere where they can be an embarrassment.

[wolfhowler]

I can not wait to see this in logo section. Out of 180000 100000 will pay to be promoted, as in you pay to be on page 20 😃

I heard on the grapevine that this whole thing was announced to some sellers a long while ago. They even sent out an email explaining the analytics situation.

All this being the case, I think Fiverr is quite cleverly trying to romance sellers who they want to see running ads, while rolling out the feature a lot more slowly to the unwashed masses of mek-sell-dom.

That’s also how I’d do it, to be honest. Get the sellers you want to appear on the first page getting used to paying for exposure, and they will keep doing that to keep up sales. In the meantime, their presence will ensure that your average “I will make a million logos and give you a zillion revisions” seller gets absolutely nowhere where they can be an embarrassment.

If that is the case, I think it’s poor form from Fiverr to not give us updates about the analytics situation. The amount of time isn’t been down for us regular sellers, you’d think they would have at least said sorry for the delay but we have a new feature being implemented etc etc.

[cyaxrex]

If that is the case, I think it’s poor form from Fiverr to not give us updates about the analytics situation. The amount of time isn’t been down for us regular sellers, you’d think they would have at least said sorry for the delay but we have a new feature being implemented etc etc.

I only heard that they basically said the same thing they officially said here about analytics. However, you really had to have a moldy potato for a brain not to see the connection between "we are rolling out paid ads where you pay for clicks" and "btw that thing where you can monitor your clicks will be down for a while."

[wolfhowler]

I only heard that they basically said the same thing they officially said here about analytics. However, you really had to have a moldy potato for a brain not to see the connection between "we are rolling out paid ads where you pay for clicks" and "btw that thing where you can monitor your clicks will be down for a while."

I didn’t ever see the “we are rolling out paid ads where you pay for clicks” bit. So no, I didn’t ever put two and two together until today. I must have missed that memo. So I’ll take my moldy potato brain thanks. 😐

[marinapomorac]

I can not wait to see this in logo section. Out of 180000 100000 will pay to be promoted, as in you pay to be on page 20 😃

I heard on the grapevine that this whole thing was announced to some sellers a long while ago. They even sent out an email explaining the analytics situation.

All this being the case, I think Fiverr is quite cleverly trying to romance sellers who they want to see running ads, while rolling out the feature a lot more slowly to the unwashed masses of mek-sell-dom.

That’s also how I’d do it, to be honest. Get the sellers you want to appear on the first page getting used to paying for exposure, and they will keep doing that to keep up sales. In the meantime, their presence will ensure that your average “I will make a million logos and give you a zillion revisions” seller gets absolutely nowhere where they can be an embarrassment.

In the meantime, their presence will ensure that your average “I will make a million logos and give you a zillion revisions” seller gets absolutely nowhere where they can be an embarrassment.

I agree and agree.

But I also see a lot of Level 2 and TRS pure scammers or outsourcing (the point where they try to convince me they use Photoshop to create a logo when in the file metadata clearly states PAINT, I love that). They have orders (I just come to accept after 2 months on Fiverr as seller 90% buyers have no idea what logo is) and since they have orders they will have money to invest, but the investment is not an issue. If you have 100 sellers and 2 pay for ads, OK, we can live with that, but if 60 pays for ads, what’s the point, they will probably have to rotate the first page with people who paid for ads, and… I do not know, clicks will not lead to sales.

I am happy in a way. I needed a reason to back off from Fiverr and get back to my books. This past month on the forum was fun but too much time consuming and not productive.

I actually spend the last 4 days reading the forum from 2010 and basically nothing has changed.

Scammers, frauds, buyers searching for slaves, and every now and then they roll out a new feature (badge, tips, packages, more than $5 etc.). Whole blogs and reddits on how to scam sellers into getting the free job done, “buy review” teams (whole schematic where 1 buys from 2, 2 from 3, 3, from 4, and 4 from 1 so you can not trace them. Even schedule when is who supposed to buy from whom.

Even if I come back 10 years from now, I see no possibilities in changes, only money pit, and for some fortunate souls money income. The rest will just drain their time into something that will not work.

[alsabur]

What you forget at the moment, that right now people are earning less, about 50-75% less, than what they have earned when impressions worked as is. Do you believe that after serious losses, people will buy ads from that little amount of money they have? Think again. True, sellers are responsible for their success. That’s why Fiverr worked with the previous system as their hard work paid off and Fiverr also got its 20% commission. But when corporate idiots figure out that they’re artificially reducing the possible income of the sellers by reducing their visibility, regardless they worked hard, do you believe that these sellers will pay for ads to regain that visibility what they gained before for free? Think again. People are not idiots. And sellers definitely won’t pay for a system, when their income already reduced by Fiverr by killing Gig visibility and rotation, while they also take 20% of their income already. Sellers will move further instead and will leave Fiverr as no one is that stupid to pay first for their very own services to then maybe, just maybe get a $5 order. As I’ve written above, the ACOS of these systems are 800-1000%. Which means you get around 1 back for every 8 or 10$ you pay for advertisement. If you believe this system will work for your favor, think again. It won’t. Furthermore other sellers will use this against you by simply clicking randomly on advertisements (As its a pay per click system.). They’ll click on your ad, they won’t purchase anything, while you simply pay for the big nothing and you won’t get a customer either. Furthermore sellers will raise their prices to around the double, which also will work against Fiverr as the essence was to get reliable freelancers for relatively cheap. But if sellers must pay for their visibility, that cost must be taken into their pricing, which means we drastically must raise our prices to around the double.

You’re right dude. This is the worst step taken by fiverr. They need to think again. But I think they are not happy with the revenue they get from sellers. They need more and this is the main problem. They must need to be happy with the revenue they get and also It is very hard to grow on fiverr now they are making it more and more complicated. I think they need to think again.