New Chitika Mega Unit

**Will.Spencer** · 14 May, 2009, 21:34 PM

Chitika just released a brand new Chitika | Premium unit called the MEGA-Unit.

Check out this 550x250 whopper of an ad:

But... it seems to work:

AskDaveTaylor.com increased his Chitika earnings from $85/month to $2000/month by adding the new MEGA-Unit to his site (Dave talks about this in greater detail on his site).
ArticleAlley.com tried the new MEGA-Unit and reports that "The result was a massive 721% increase in income - without any noticeable knock on effect to our other income providers." - Adrian from ArticleAlley.com
Couponmom.com added the MEGA-Unit to just 1 of her pages, and immediately doubled her eCPM and revenue.

**tmongy** · 14 May, 2009, 21:43 PM

Wow that is one big Ad unit!

And amazingly impressive revenue increases... might have to reconsider chitika

**Shenron** · 14 May, 2009, 22:14 PM

I was about to post about this...

I guess I might try it somewhere, but I can't recall a website of mine where I have some 550 spare pixels...

**Mr.Bill** · 14 May, 2009, 22:47 PM

Wonder if these can be dropped into proxy sites

Never have tried to use them on any before even though I have an account.

**Will.Spencer** · 15 May, 2009, 05:22 AM

Originally Posted by Mr.Bill

Wonder if these can be dropped into proxy sites.

I've tried Chitika Premium on proxy lists and the results are not good.

The issue is that Chitika Premium ads target on search terms, and the proxy search terms just don't have a lot of related ads.

Admittedly, I didn't give them a good ad placement. But still, .0.16% CTR, $0.12 CPC, and $0.19 eCPM isn't good.

On the other hand, Chitika Premium is doing fantastically well on Tools Keep and reasonably well on The Tech FAQ and Expat Intelligence.

**Aquarezz** · 15 May, 2009, 12:09 PM

Great, now make a lot of sites and search for a place to put it

Will, are you going to try to replace some adsense ads by this one and post the results or not?

**Will.Spencer** · 15 May, 2009, 18:38 PM

I don't see this as an AdSense replacement. I see this as more of a "put this in the footer for some additional revenue."

**Blogger** · 15 May, 2009, 19:08 PM

Has Dave Taylor been paid by Chitika? Thats an incredible jump in CPM just for making the size a little bigger and moving the ad up a bit.

**untreatableonline** · 19 May, 2009, 04:10 AM

I figure that it is worth a shot although the 4X increase is probably not very realistic on a long term basis although it would be nice. The ad is huge though so it is pretty hard to miss.