Oct 24

A First Look at the eBay AdCommerce Program

Tag: Ecommerce @ 9:56 am

Several years ago, eBay had a banner ad program for sellers that allowed them to bid on certain keywords and have a banner displayed at the top of search. I participated in this program at Glacier Bay DVD. 

I remember that I loved the idea of my company name getting millions of impressions on eBay, but that the click thru rate was terrible. It made sense for me at the time because, I sent buyers to my store and the FVF at the time was 5%.

Now, many years later eBay is trying to sell ads to sellers again, with AdCommerce. In fact several select sellers are now part of a pilot program that will begin running soon.

Thanks to ColderICE, for pointing me to a video for the new service, explaining how it works.

I’m on record for not liking this idea for a couple of reasons:

For low margin businesses, it doesn’t make […]

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