CPX Interactive review

 CPX Interactive (formerly Buds Inc/Buds Media) is one of the third tier CPM (Cost Per Thousand Impressions) networks available out there so, unless you are able to fill your advertising inventory with Fastclick, Tribal Fusion or Burst Media you would not probably consider them as an ad provider for your websites.They offer the following ad sizes and types: banner (468x60), leaderboard (728x90), skyscraper (120x600), wide skyscraper (160x600), pop-unders, pop-ups, interstitials and pre-pops. Although CPX Interactive is a CPM ad network, sometimes you get CPC (Cost Per Click) and CPA (Cost Per Action) ads on your publisher sites. They have 60% payout percentage on their publisher accounts and a NET 30, $50 minimum payout.

CPX Interactive, 100% inventory fill

Well this is true, even if your inventory is filled with low paying ads you can monetarize your inventory, every impression is sold. This is a good option for sites that get a lot of international traffic unsupported by the other ad networks. I found that from displaying banners only you don't earn much, when I added pop-ups and pop unders my earnings trippled, but this was expected.

CPX Interactive publishers interface review

When I first logged into my publisher account I was a bit confised. For such a big company and such good company website I expected more. The thing is you have too much unnecessary information and charts but you are unable to see the things that most matter to you as a publisher as today's earnings. On your publisher dashboard you have very colorfull chats but honestly they are useless for me. There is an option for saved reports on your revenue, nice but again it's place is not there.

The Revenue Reporting tool is basicly a search for your revenue with option to save reports wich I have not found usefull. The most irritating thing is you have no way to track your monthly payments nor you know if they have sent them. (Google AdSense did a nice job there). The only thing you know is how much you have earned from the revenue reporting tools and again 6-8 clicks to get this stats, a bit annoying I must say.

Another thing is there are no FAQ or help pages just a simple support form that you fill in and wait to be sent an e-mail containg link to another support ticket interface. Integrating the support tickets into the publisher's control panel will be a good idea.

Customer service

When I first got an e-mail from CPX Interactive inviting me to join their network, I was surprised by the responce time for all of my e-mails, usualy less than 24 hours. But on my first support question I was quite disappointed, 3 days for a simple answer and guess what it was a support template. I asked them for a more detailed answer and I got the same template again. In other words the onsite support is terrible even though a personal representative is assigned to each account to walk you through any problems or questions you may come across. If you want something answered try using try calling them at their 1-800 number.

Payments and payment options

I have been a CPX Interactive publisher for 4 months or more I have not recieved a payment yet. I wrote the support a bunch of e-mails asking them when my payments will be made and when on earth I will recieve them, but again I got the same answer again and again: "Payments are made on NET 30 terms with a $50 minimum. Payments are sent 30 days after the close of the month the minimum is reached". I know I have earned over $50 after all I have over 100.000.000 impressions for the last four months.
The offer payments by check, wire (only if you make $5.000 per month or more) or PayPal but you have to write the support in order to receive your payment through PayPal account or by wire.

Website: http://www.cpxinteractive.com/
Toll free US number 1-800 368 1872

About the review: The review of CPX Interactive is based on my personal experience, reviews, opinions and other people's experience as CPX Interactive's publishers.