Advertising on LOOKING HOUSE

Why advertise on LOOKING HOUSE?

LOOKING HOUSE offers a unique service for hosting providers: it sets up and maintains Looking Glass servers. To set up a looking glass server, all the hosting provider has to do is provide us with a virtual server meeting minimum technical requirements. We take care of doing all the setup, maintenance, and monitoring, allowing the hosting provider to focus on their business. Looking glass servers are very useful both for new and existing users. They can use them to check the download speed and other technical network characteristics without ever contacting the hosting provider. We add all looking glass servers that we support on a map allowing potential clients to find your company just by visiting our website. Currently, 182 hosting providers have trusted us with over 500 servers in 58 countries. We invite all hosting providers to join our project and benefit from free of charge looking glass server setup, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Any hosting provider can add an unlimited number of looking glass servers.

LOOKING HOUSE is not just a convenient looking glass tool, but also a powerful customer acquisition instrument. Typically, only advanced and professional users know that looking glass servers can be used to assess the performance of a hosting provider’s network. Therefore, most visitors of Looking House are professional IT specialists or people with specific hosting needs. This group represents the key target audience of hosting providers. This makes LOOKING HOUSE the perfect platform for hosting providers to reach new customers.

Advertising options

We have two advertising options: classic banner ads for a flat fee on a monthly basis and customer acquisition services.

• Banner ads
Banner ads are always a good way of getting new clients since they allow advertisers to display all the key information about their services. Also, banners can be animated, drawing the user’s attention to the ad. One ad space can be distributed amongst several advertisers, whose ads will be rotated, which makes advertising more affordable for any hosting provider. Banner rotation also makes the advertisement more engaging for users who see new content every time the page is refreshed.
  • Banners at the top of any page - $750 per month per advertisement slot
  • Banner in the middle of the home page - $500 per month per advertisement slot
  • Banner at the bottom of the home page - $500 per month per advertisement slot
  • Banners at the bottom of pages other than the home page - $500 per month per advertisement slot
  • Small banner on the website menu - $250 per month per advertisement slot
We can display almost any banner format, including animated ones.
• Customer acquisition services
This type of advertising requires no effort from the advertiser, like designing a banner ad or drafting a compelling ad text, allowing the hosting providers to focus on their business, which makes this type of advertising the most popular amongst our advertisers. This type of advertising is truly good value for advertisers because they pay for advertising only after new customers purchase services from them, compared to classic banner ads for which they pay a fixed fee in advance without knowing how many new customers they will bring.

LOOKING HOUSE has several pages where information about hosting providers can be found by new customers, such as the map of looking glass servers, list of hosting providers, list of all looking glass servers, pages for each hosting provider, and pages for each looking glass server.

There are two pricing options for customer acquisition services.
  • A percentage of the payments made by the new customer to the hosting provider. This percentage depends on the revenue generated from the new customers coming from our website and in most cases ranges from 5 to 20%.
  • A flat one-time fee when a new customer purchases services from a hosting provider. Specific fees will be discussed with hosting providers individually. They depend on the number of new customers that we bring.

If you are interested in any type of advertising, please contact us at info@looking.house.