You’ve Never Seen a Locker Like This:

How it Works:

Mobile users accessing your premium content are served a short app trailer, which features an option to download the app. Users can choose to download the app, or simply proceed to your content. For every app downloaded, you will earn up to $4!

Revenue-Generating Features:

Attention-Grabbing Video: Mobile Video Locker replaces boring ads with high-quality app trailers. These videos engage users, holding their attention and helping you generate more revenue.

Apps That Convert: Users will want to download apps from your Mobile Video Locker, as these relevant apps come from some of the biggest names in app stores, including StubHub, Candy Crush, and Pepsi.

Easy Mobile Monetization: After viewing an app trailer, Mobile Video Locker lets your users download an app in just one click, just like they do millions of times each day.

Better User Experience: Tired of annoying ads? So are your users. Mobile Video Locker lets your users choose to download apps and presents apps in a low-friction ad format, creating a better UX with more return visits and conversions!

Integration in Seconds: Simply paste one line of JavaScript code onto your site and you can start generating revenue with Mobile Video Locker today!

Higher-Performance Video: Mobile Video Locker serves videos blazing-fast at optimum quality, ensuring you won’t lose conversions due to poor video performance.

Ready to Make More Money With Content Locking?

Get Started with Mobile Video Locker Today!

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With the upgrades listed below, along with Adscend’s massive global offer inventory and strong customer service, now is the perfect time to join Adscend Media and test AdLock Link.

New Link Locker Upgrades:

Create Customized Landing Pages: That plain landing page on your link locker is killing your conversion rates. Whether you would like your landing pages to be more native to match the look of your website/traffic source, or want to create a landing page for a specific offer, you can now quickly create custom landing pages with AdLock Link. Simply add some short HTML/CSS code, and you can have an awesome landing page (like the Clash of Clans landing page above) in less than five minutes!

Better Offer Management: You know which offers convert best for your users. Therefore, we’ve made adding/removing offers on AdLock Link even easier, as you now can make multiple offer changes in seconds.

Choose Your Offer Categories: Do you normally earn more from video offers? How about surveys or mobile apps? With just a click of a button, you can now choose to display only the offer types that make you the most money.

Ready to Test AdLock Link?

Join Adscend Media today and start generating more revenue from your files and passwords!

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Now, for your monetizing pleasure, we would like to introduce the AdLock Vault!

A member of the AdLock® family of content locking solutions, AdLock Vault technology prevents users from accessing your premium files until a user completes an action in an advertiser-sponsored offer (such as installing a mobile app). Once the user completes the action, you will receive a commission, and the user will get access to your file.

Easy to install and customize, mobile-friendly, and packed with revenue-generating features, AdLock Vault is poised to become the preferred monetization choice of premium file publishers. Whether you are interested in monetizing your apps, music, art/graphics, videos, images, or any other premium downloadable files, here are:

10 Reasons Why AdLock Vault Maximizes File Monetization

1.  Mobile-Responsive Design: AdLock Vault’s mobile-responsive design features full functionality across all smartphones and tablets, allowing you to dramatically increase your conversions from mobile traffic.

2. Web-to-Mobile Monetization Capabilities: AdLock Vault technology enables you to provide your desktop traffic with multiple options to complete mobile offers via their preferred mobile device. Essentially, AdLock Vault technology lets desktop users choose to complete offers on their mobile device through email, text message, short URL, or QR code. This functionality is about more than just convenience for mobile users, however. Web-to-mobile functionality can also have a large impact on your earnings, as we have seen web-to-mobile offers consistently deliver higher EPCs than web-only offers on our network.

3. Vibrant Offer Creatives: Most link lockers and solutions from PPD networks present only simple text links to users on their offer interfaces. Therefore, one of the many ways that AdLock Vault helps create a better user experience is by displaying vibrant, colorful, and mobile-optimized creatives.

4. Quick Setup and Deployment: No one wants to waste time stumbling through confusing setup and installation pages. AdLock Vault features a simple configuration wizard, quick multiple file uploader, one-click setup process, and easily shareable file links, allowing you to start monetizing your files in minutes.

5. Access to Highest Incentive-Based EPC Offers: Many incentive networks and PPD sites claim to have the highest incentive-based EPC offers, but we actually do! Our offer inventory is currently over 2,000 offers and features many high EPC mobile app offers. Thus, utilizing AdLock Vault technology to monetize your files will ensure that you are generating as much revenue as possible from your PPD technology.

6. Quality Network Service: Adscend Media is one of the first CPA networks with true PPD capabilities. Therefore, besides gaining access to innovative PPD technology through AdLock Vault, becoming an Adscend publisher allows you to gain access to our massive global offer inventory and industry leading publisher support services (one of the reasons why we have been recognized as one of the top ten CPA networks in the world by mThink for three years in a row).

7. File Type Flexibility: AdLock Vault’s offer interface is designed to allow for monetization of a virtually unlimited amount of file types. Here are just a few of the file types that can be monetized via AdLock Vault: eBooks, videos, images, mobile apps, art/graphics, templates, wallpapers, music, codes, game cheats, software, guides, and themes.

8. Lightning-Quick File Delivery: AdLock Vault technology helps ensure high-conversion rates for your file downloads by delivering files to your users through a secure Content Delivery Network (CDN). Our CDN serves your files from the around the world to areas closest to your users, allowing them to get your file downloads faster.

9. AdLock Products Generate Revenue: Since our inception, we have seen our publishers consistently generate higher levels of revenue by using AdLock content locking solutions vs. traditional content monetization solutions. Based on historical, network-wide data, we expect AdLock Vault to deliver eCPMs of approximately $50-$80 for our publishers.

10. Professional-Grade Design: AdLock Vault’s mobile-responsive offer interface features a can’t miss area for your CTAs, concise offer descriptions, easy to understand instructional text, offer completion tracking screens, and vibrant offer creatives. AdLock Vault minimizes download abandonment, as users are treated to an offer interface that matches their expectations for a professional file download page.

Start Monetizing Your Files With AdLock Vault Today! 

To get started with using AdLock Vault, you first need to become a publisher on the Adscend network. Sign up to Adscend Media today with information about how you plan to generate revenue with AdLock Vault, and an Adscend account manager will help you get started!

Already have an account? Log into the Your AdLock Vault Profiles page to begin monetizing your files with AdLock Vault technology.

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What is AdWall?

AdWall is a comprehensive offer wall technology that allows you to generate significant revenue from your virtual goods, services, or perks. With a one-click set up, and quick customization options, AdWall allows you to deploy a complete no-cost to user, rewards-based system on your mobile app or website in minutes.

Your AdWall comes fully loaded with all of the features that you will need to monetize your desktop or mobile visitors. Below are just a few of its many features:

Fully Mobile Responsive, Willing, and Able!
Your AdWall is designed to monetize mobile traffic, as it is fully mobile responsive. Therefore, whether your AdWall is displayed on a desktop, tablet, smartphone, or laptop, you can be sure that it is being displayed in a format that is appealing to your users.

Your AdWall Has Your Back!
Aiming to save you time, we built user support services into your AdWall, including a pre-populated FAQ section and support form for crediting and technical issues.

Monetize Mobile Users via a Desktop Site
When it comes to cashing in on mobile offers, mobile app and game developers shouldn’t have all of the fun. Your AdWall features send-to-device functionality, allowing your desktop visitors to complete mobile offers on your AdWall by sending mobile offers to their device directly via email link, shortened URL, or QR code.

Monetize in Minutes
Time is money. Therefore, AdWall technology features a publisher dashboard with easy customization options and a one-click set up.

Did Someone Say Customization?
Your AdWall dashboard allows you to easily adjust numerous features on your AdWall, including the height and width of your AdWall, choosing which offers are displayed on your AdWall, changing the name of the currency on your AdWall, and more!

Mobile Device Targeting is No Problemo
Mobile device targeting comes standard on your AdWall. Therefore, users on your AdWall can select their current mobile devices, allowing them to see mobile offers that are most relevant to them.

Who Doesn’t Love More Offers?
The more offers that a user sees, the higher the chances are that they will find one that they like. Therefore, AdWall technology features an innovative scroll mechanism, allowing you to continuously display offers as a user scrolls down on your AdWall.

It’s Time for Total World Monetization!
Offers on your AdWall utilize automatic geo-targeting, ensuring that they are displayed based on the current country location of your users. Thus, you can be sure that your users are only seeing offers that are targeted to their current location.

The Choice is Yours
You can choose whether to manage offer crediting and credit history, or to have AdWall take care of those functions automatically!

Your Shiny New Toy
Once you deploy your AdWall, you will see a mobile responsive, and fully developed, rewards-based system that is designed to help monetize your visitors. From bright call-to-action buttons, to offer selection via sort or filter functions, to attention-grabbing image spaces, the sleek design of your AdWall was built to help you generate revenue.

From Soup to Nuts
AdWall technology is designed to be a comprehensive offer wall solution. Featuring a fully developed design, credit tracking system, and support services, your AdWall is immediately ready to use “right out of the box.”

Create an AdWall Today! 

To create an AdWall, you need an Adscend Media account. Sign up to Adscend Media and take the first step to creating your first AdWall!

Already have an account? Log into the Your AdWall Profiles page to begin creating your AdWall.

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AdLock Widget Becoming Mobile Responsive: According to a recent mobile traffic report from Cisco, mobile data traffic grew 81% worldwide in 2013. Additionally, users tend to ditch their desktops for mobile devices in the summer. Cash in on mobile traffic by taking advantage of new mobile responsive functionality for the AdLock Widget. Featuring customization options and a sleek design that displays well across all major smartphones and tablets, your new mobile AdLock Widget is bound to turn heads (and put more cash into your pocket)! Look for mobile responsive functionality coming to the AdLock Widget later this month!

Faster Publisher Dashboard: Our goal is to help you work as efficiently as possible. Therefore, we turbo-charged your publisher dashboard to allow you to work faster than ever before! From the loading of tracking links to report generation to the execution of offer searches, everything moves quicker now in your publisher dashboard. Hopefully, our speedy new dashboard will shave some time off of your workday and allow you to spend more time enjoying the summer! Log into your account today to see your quicker dashboard in action.

Multiple SubIDs/Parameters Are Now Supported: You can now pass in more data as our system now supports multiple subIDs/parameters. Learn more about this new functionality here.

New Pixel/Postback Variables: You requested it and we listened! Multiple pixel variables are now supported. View all of the new pixel variables here.

We Welcome Your Suggestions: As mentioned above, we are invested in your success. If you have suggestions to help improve our technology, or our publisher services, we would love to hear them! To provide us with a suggestion, visit the Suggestions sub-forum in the Adscend Media Publisher Forum, or reach out to your account manager.

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5 Ways to Earn More with Adscend Media This Summer

1. Run Mobile Traffic: According to a recent report from Cisco, mobile data traffic grew 81% worldwide in 2013. This enormous increase in mobile usage, along with the common summer trend for most people to ditch their desktops in favor of mobile devices, makes this summer the perfect time to ramp up your mobile marketing efforts. You can take advantage of this huge increase in mobile activity by picking up more of our high-EPC Android and iOS offers. Whether you are a mobile pro, or just starting your journey into mobile marketing, we can help you earn more with mobile. Therefore, make sure to also reach out to your Adscend account manager for mobile offer recommendations, marketing tips, and mobile offer requests. Speaking of reaching out to your Adscend account manager…

2. Reach Out to Your Adscend Account Manager: Your Adscend account manager is ready to help you ramp up your earnings during the next few months. All levels of questions are welcome! Therefore, feel free to use your account manager as a resource in helping you to take your earnings to the next level this summer. Here are just a few of the services that your Adscend account manager can help you with:

• Fulfilling Your Offer Requests
• Providing Offer Recommendations
• Offering AdLock® Product Support
• Brainstorming Niche Ideas
• Supplying Content Locking and Offer Promotion Best Practices Information

So, don’t be shy! If there is anything that you can think of that stands in your way from earning more in the next few months, reach out to your Adscend account manager today for assistance. You might be surprised by how helpful we can be!

3. Create a Summer Progress Report: With the summer months taking place around the year’s halfway point, now is a great time to evaluate your year-to-date efforts in the Adscend network. A great way to evaluate your current efforts is to give yourself a progress report. To do this, first choose three or four areas of your daily workflow that you feel are vital to maximizing your earnings potential. Then, honestly list your successes and strengths in each of these areas. Here is what a sample progress report on a potential performance area may look like:

• AdLock Widgets: Grade B-. Strengths: Widgets have been added to all content pieces and feature website colors and logo. Weaknesses: Widgets need to be split-tested more often to determine which header text is generating more conversions.

By taking the time to note successes and failures in the key areas of your business during the summer months, you will have time to make the adjustments necessary to increase your earnings during the rest of 2014 and beyond.

4. Make Your Content Mobile Responsive: As mentioned above, summer is built for mobile traffic. Therefore, to cater to summertime users who are browsing by the pool, on the beach, or anywhere outdoors, it is vital that you make your content responsive to mobile devices. Not only will non-responsive content look bad on mobile devices, this content may also not even function properly enough to allow users to access it. If your content isn’t able to load properly on mobile devices, your earnings from mobile users will drop significantly.

We also recommend testing the appearance of your content on popular mobile devices often. Additionally, though your content may have been designed in a mobile-responsive format, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it will display in an ideal manner on a particular device. Therefore, running your content through a few mobile device emulators is always recommended. Some of our favorite emulators and responsiveness checkers include Mobile Phone Emulator and Screenfly.

5. Take Advantage of Enhancements to AdLock Tools: As you may have noticed, we have made a number of enhancements to our AdLock content locking tools throughout 2014. These enhancements have given our publishers the power to generate more revenue than ever before. Here are some of the most recent enhancements to our AdLock tools:

• AdLock Link is now fully responsive and features a streamlined design
• AdLock API now retrieves offer OS/browser and EPC data
• AdLock Widgets can now be easily installed on any WordPress post, page, or attachment via the Adscend AdLock WordPress Plugin.

If you haven’t tested these powerful content locking tools before, or haven’t deployed them in a while, summer is a great time to test out their new features and see if these tools can increase your network earnings.

Lastly, if there is anything else that you need from us to help increase your earnings this summer, feel free to reach out to your account manager, or send us a message via our contact form.

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By taking advantage of recent enhancements to the Adscend network, and through utilizing AdLock® technology, the action items listed below have the ability to help publishers of all skill levels generate more revenue. Therefore, why not give a few of them a shot and see if you can turn a good March into a great one?

5 Ways to Boost Your Adscend Media Earnings in March

1. Place Key Offers on Your Watch List: If payout or status changes on a particular offer are important to you, we recommend that you add that offer to your Watch List. Formerly known as Bookmarked Offers, adding an offer to your Watch List will allow you to receive an alert via email or by server-side postback on any payout changes to that offer. You will also receive an alert if a Watch List offer is paused, or returns active from being paused. Taking advantage of the Watch List can help you decide when to increase, or pause traffic to an offer, thus helping you earn more each month. For more information on the Watch List, check out: New Publisher Dashboard Feature: Introducing the Watch List!

2. Revisit the AdLock® Link: Formerly known as the File/Link Gateway or Hosted Content Locker, the AdLock Link has been redesigned to help increase conversion rates and provide a more polished user experience. Therefore, if you are looking to generate more revenue in March from our customizable hyperlink monetization technology, we recommend that you give the new AdLock Link a try. With easy to follow steps, a clear call to action, and a sleeker design, utilizing the new AdLock Link may help put some extra cash in your pocket in March. For more information on the AdLock Link, visit the AdLock Link home page (note that you must be logged in to your Adscend account to view).

3. Split-Test Adscend Offers vs. Your Other Incentive Offers: We know that most publishers work with multiple networks or providers. However, if you are currently running incentive offers with another party, we recommend that you try split-testing a few with us. We pride ourselves on having a large inventory of high EPC offers and technology that gets those offers in front of users worldwide. Therefore, split-testing a few non-Adscend offers against our offers may provide you with a quick revenue boost in March. Additionally, within the last twelve months, we have picked up a large amount of sought-after offers, including mobile app installs and offers that allow offerwall traffic. Thus, if you haven’t checked out our offer catalog in a while, you may not have seen some of our new offers that could be worth a split-test. Finally, if we don’t have your desired offer currently in our inventory, we may be able to get it for you as well. Which leads us to our next tip…

4. Request Offers: Is not having a particular offer hurting your revenue generating abilities with our network? If so, we would be happy to try to acquire an offer for you to help boost your earnings in March and beyond! Even though we have 1500+ incentive offers, we may not currently have a particular offer that you need. However, within the past year, we have enhanced our offer request process to be able to get the offers that you need quicker than ever before. Whether an offer is “crushing it” at another network, in a unique vertical, or from an advertiser that fits your marketing methods, we would love to track it down for you. To request an offer, please contact your account manager with as many details about your desired offer as possible (payout, current network or provider, landing page URLs, etc.).

5. Split-Test Your AdLock® Widgets: If you are currently using the AdLock Widget (formerly known as the Content Gateway or Content Locker), then you probably know how powerful it is. However, are your widgets currently optimized for maximum conversions? If you haven’t done so already, split-testing your AdLock Widgets can be a great way to learn more about the preferences of your audience and help you generate more revenue from your widgets. With multiple aesthetic, monetization, and performance options available for you to choose from, you can create an unlimited amount of different AdLock Widgets!

Does your audience respond better to certain types of offers? How about different widget color schemes or header text? Does an On-Exit Action work for your audience? Finding out the answers to customization questions like these can help you market more effectively to your audience and can help increase your revenue generation from your AdLock Widgets. With enough traffic and data, you may also be able to see results of AdLock Widget split-testing during the month of March. To learn more about split-testing your AdLock Widgets, visit the Widget Code page.

Looking for Even More Earnings in March?

If you have tried all of the applicable tips listed above, and would like more help increasing your earnings in March, don’t forget to reach out to your account manager! Whether it’s providing content locking best practice tips, finding new offers for you to test, or brainstorming niche and/or content ideas, your Adscend account manager is always willing to do whatever it takes to help you succeed.

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Today’s Question: February 11, 2014

“Hi Doc, I’m new to content locking. I have a nice eBook written by one of the top internet marketers and he allows it to be distributed for free. If I take that advantage and lock it, would I be against Adscend Media’s TOS? Thanks.”

Kubai M., Nairobi

Dr. Lock: Kubai, first off, I like that you are paying attention to our terms of service. This dedication to learning the rules of our network shows that you are a valuable publisher in our network. A “tip of the cap” to you for focusing on compliant content locking!

Now let’s get back to your question and hopefully the information below will give you some more clarity on whether to proceed with locking the eBook in question. Is locking that particular eBook a violation of our terms of service? Unfortunately, I won’t be able to provide you with a definitive “yes” or “no,” as more information is needed. An eBook, as with all pieces of published content, isn’t consistent in the types of usage rights and copyright restrictions that it allows. Basically, usage rights and copyright restrictions can vary from one eBook to the next and depend on the author’s discretion. Therefore, I can’t say with certainty that locking the eBook that you referenced is not against our TOS.

The fact that the author allows free distribution of the eBook is a great start in the process of making sure that locking the eBook is a TOS compliant practice. However, more information is needed before you can know if your usage would violate our TOS. For example, an author may allow an eBook to be distributed for free, but may not allow that same eBook to be used for commercial purposes, may require some sort of source attribution, or may have other usage restrictions that the author considers vital to protecting the rights of that eBook. Therefore, even though an eBook may allow free distribution, locking that eBook may still constitute copyright infringement. At Adscend Media, any usage of copyrighted materials without permission is a violation of our terms of service.

So, how can you find out if you can lock that eBook without violating our TOS?

To determine if you can lock the eBook, I recommend first reviewing the terms of service and/or terms of use on the eBook publisher’s site and on the eBook itself. These areas may have information which can help you decide if locking the eBook may cause copyright infringement. Next, and most importantly, I recommend that you contact the author and ask for permission to lock his or her work. This method is the easiest way to know if you have the author’s permission to lock the eBook.

In the end, to avoid going against our TOS, it is always easier to lock content that you own or have the rights to use as you please. However, locking content from other sources isn’t necessarily a bad idea. I just recommend that you get permission from the creator of the content first.

Finally, please note that we aren’t legal professionals and this post shouldn’t be taken as legal advice. If you have any additional copyright and/or fair use questions, please contact your attorney. For more information on our terms of service, please visit: https://adscendmedia.com/terms.php.

Good “Lock”

-Dr. Lock

Dr. Connie Tent Lock is the “World’s #1 Content Locking Expert” according to himself. When not content locking everything, you can find Dr. Lock roaming the halls of the Adscend Media offices.

The Doctor is always available to help you make more money using Adscend Media’s AdLock® technology. To ask Dr. Lock a question about content locking, please email your question to doc.lock@adscendmedia.com. Please note, if you submit a question to Dr. Lock, you are giving Adscend Media permission to post your question on the Adscend Media Blog. If you do not want your question posted on our blog, please add “Don’t Post” in the subject line of your email.

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What is AdLock?

Simply put, AdLock^® is a powerful suite of content locking tools that will help you generate more revenue from your visitors and users. Our flagship solution, AdLock tools are customizable, adaptable to almost anything digital, and can display offers to your users or visitors based on their current location! Our current suite of AdLock tools includes:

AdLock® Widget: Previously known as our Content Gateway or Content Locker, the AdLock Widget is a flexible solution that allows you to monetize web content by locking user access to your premium content. The AdLock Widget is extremely easy to use, as it comes with a set-up wizard to help you customize your widget and guide you through the widget creation process. Once you have created your widget, all you have to do is place a simple snippet of code on your site and you are done! To learn more about the AdLock Widget, visit: https://adscendmedia.com/content-locking.php.

AdLock® Link: Previously known as our File/Link Gateway or Hosted Content Locker, the AdLock Link allows you to monetize files, links, passwords, and more by locking user access to your premium content. Don’t have a website? No problem! AdLock Links are hosted by us. Additionally, all AdLock Links can be appended with descriptive text or keyword data to help increase conversions!

With the release of AdLock, we have also upgraded the AdLock® Link! Besides being an easy to use lead generation tool, the AdLock Link has been given a sleeker design to help increase conversions and is now fully responsive! This also means that the AdLock Link is now mobile phone and tablet friendly! To check out the new AdLock Link design, visit: https://adscendmedia.com/link_info.php and click on “View Demo.”

AdLock® API: Got apps or games? Then you will love the AdLock API! Formerly known as our API, the AdLock API allows you to monetize virtual goods such as in-game items/currency, in-app features, account upgrades, and memberships.

Besides providing the ability to monetize virtual goods, the AdLock API allows you to take full control of the look and feel of our AdLock technology. Your monetization options are limited only to the imagination with the API, as you can monetize virtually anything digital with this technology. One use that many of our publishers have for the API is to use it as an offer feed for a points/rewards site. For more information on the AdLock API, go to: https://adscendmedia.com/virtual-rewards.php.

Stay tuned to the Adscend Media blog for news on enhancements and new feature additions to AdLock products!

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The Doctor is always available to help you make more money using Adscend Media’s gateway technology. To ask Dr. Lock a question about content locking, please email your question to doc.lock@adscendmedia.com.

Today’s Question: August 25, 2013

“I saw one of Adscend’s posts on Twitter about content locking and I would like to learn more about it. Where can I go to find more information on content locking?”

Jeff M, Carmichael, CA

Dr. Lock:  Jeff, thanks for your email and if you are looking for more information on content locking, you have definitely come to the right place! Below are some of our favorite resources which provide the “ABC’s” of content locking, including concise explanations of content locking, gateway installation procedures, and strategies for success with content locking. If the hand-picked resources don’t meet your needs, feel free to shoot me an email at doc.lock@adscendmedia.com, with any content locking related questions that you might have.

Adding Content Locking Into Your Traffic Monetization Mix: Featured in Search Engine Journal, this article provides a brief overview of content locking and discusses the differences between content locking and traditional traffic monetization methods (e.g. text ads, banners, in-text ads). Definitely a nice read for those who have experience with monetizing sites.

Adscend Media Publisher Forum: Though we probably are biased, the Adscend Media Publisher Forum is a great resource for publishers looking to get started with content locking. On our forum, you can interact with fellow Adscend publishers and discuss content locking related topics, such as content creation, traffic sources, and gateway design. Besides the general forum structure, our forum also features a Chatbox, which allows you to instantly communicate with other Adscend publishers who are currently on the forum. Finally, the forum also has an area that allows publishers to partner up, which provides new publishers with a great opportunity to work with more experienced publishers on content locking campaigns.

Adscend Media Gateway Guide: Our gateway guide was designed to help new publishers install a content gateway or file/link gateway by providing step-by-step installation instructions (including pictures!). Along with installation instructions, the Adscend Media Gateway Guide also features installation best practices, to help publishers lay a foundation for success with their content locking campaigns. To get a copy of the Adscend Media Gateway Guide, please contact an Adscend Media account manager.

Introduction to Content Locking, the Basics: Published on IanFernando.com and written by Adscend CEO Fehzan Ali, this article is a quick read that is designed to provide a basic familiarity to content locking for those new to this alternative monetization method. One of the highlights of this article is data comparing the effectiveness of marketing efforts of those using content locking verses those using AdSense.

Adscend Account Managers: Our account managers love to help publishers on any stage on their content locking “journey.” Therefore, if you need help getting started, our account managers are happy assist you in any way possible, including taking the time to brainstorm niche ideas with you, help you install your gateways, and discuss content and traffic source options. For the more experience lockers, Adscend account managers can provide campaign recommendations, discuss more advanced implementation strategies, and provide dedicated support. To contact an Adscend account manager, please use our contact form.

Finally, if you still have questions regarding content locking, don’t forget to send your questions to my favorite source for content locking information–Ask Dr. Lock! 

Good “Lock”

-Dr. Lock

Dr. Connie Tent Lock is the “World’s #1 Content Locking Expert” according to himself. When not content locking everything, you can find Dr. Lock roaming the halls of the Adscend Media offices.

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