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Case Study: Profitable Traffic from Adsterra to BadBoys

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Plenty of quality traffic — both desktop and mobile

B) Country coverage — 190 GEOs available

C) You can run high volumes

D) Less strict moderation

E) Many targeting options, which means many optimization opportunities

Minimum deposit for advertisers is $100. Payment methods: wire ($1,000) / paxum ($100) / epayments ($100) / webmoney ($100) / bitcoin ($300) / payoneer ($500) / yandex money ($500) / visa+mastercard ($500, verification required)

Priority countries for launching your campaigns:

France, Russia, Denmark, Canada, Finland, Austria, Kazakhstan, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, Spain, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Malaysia, Bulgaria, Philippines, Mexico, Romania, Slovakia, Jordan, Iran.

You can also run any other countries — check with your personal manager at Adsterra for traffic volumes per country. Before launching, always CHECK the rates by country in badboys (Desktop/Mobile), as they change from time to time.

Check current rates here:

https://v2.badboys.network/?c=price

Platform FAQ:

https://v2.badboys.network/?c=faq

This is the overall screenshot showing browser conversion rates for the day.

Use these figures as your benchmark when launching campaigns.

Conversion by device type, also for the day.

Top OS by conversion rate:

And here’s the actual campaign stats from Adsterra:

We’ve also prepared a blacklist of placements you should consider pausing:

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Creating a Direct Link in BadBoys

Where 1 is the Adsterra token for passing placement IDs into BadBoys stats:

##PLACEMENT_ID##

(Required for building your blacklist)

Is it better to run with or without a tracker?

Running through a tracker will result in:

A) Traffic loss

B) Conversion loss (observed on some trackers due to the way they handle postbacks from BB)

C) Lower ROI due to point A

So it’s better to run direct to the Direct Link. That’s the approach we’re covering here, since it’s what we use ourselves. That said, you can still use a tracker for more detailed stats analysis. (See the FAQ for postback setup instructions, or just reach out to support — they’ll help you set it up.)

Creating a Campaign in Adsterra

General:

1 – Select traffic type

Mainstream+Adult (or mainstream only or adult only — though traffic volume will be lower)

2 – Device Format

Due to how landing pages render on mobile, it’s better to run mobile only — conversions are consistently better there and your earnings will be higher.

Of course you can also create a desktop campaign if you prefer.

Countries:

You can specify a single country or multiple countries in one campaign by entering country codes from BadBoys (e.g. ru, kz, ua — or any others; check the top countries by price in this section: https://v2.badboys.network/?c=price)

The most convenient approach is to launch the top BB countries in a single Adsterra campaign — those with the highest rate per 1k installs. Then if a specific country underperforms, lower the CPM or turn it off. Also, if a placement delivers bad traffic, it will underperform across all countries — because the placement itself is just weak.

You can start with a fixed rate of $1.10 and watch conversions, turning off underperforming placements and adjusting based on per-country payouts. As for campaign budget — the more, the better. If your campaign budget is $10, it’s basically a coin flip. That amount might fill from a single placement and you won’t get any meaningful data. The bigger your budget, the clearer the picture. There’s no universal method — you need to look at each country’s performance and make decisions accordingly.