Does anyone know if this system is better now? Or should I stay weary of sponsoring and switch to advertisements?
Nope it is still disgusting, I tried it recently.
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can confirm, sponsorship ad space is diminished, its not even competition, its purely Roblox making the capacity small to start with. Roblox should’ve just made it so sponsored games appear across all sorts etc,
Its just amazing how 50k ad impressions can compete with 1 million sponsor impressions.
You can save your robux quite literally just by running low quality ads compared to higher quality icons
I ran a text ad (for experiment purposes) 0.31% CTR and only at 450 robux I got like 5 times the clicks of a 1,800 robux sponsor ad.(0.04 CTR)
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This, it’s pretty crazy how low the CTR is for sponsors
i’ve managed at best 0.04% ctr, even a very low effort ad can do way way better than that, it’s a shame because sponsors are pretty convenient to use
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Roblox seems to experiment with Sponsored ads a bit more now
here’s a screenshot of how it looks after expanding it, you can notice that there are a few experiences with 0 concurrent players meaning these are actual sponsored games, roblox algorithm wouldn’t recommend private experiences.
and Aimblox being shown 2 times, one for the dev place and second being main game, meaning devs probably sponsored 2 places on mistake, but still it proves that these are actual sponsored ads now
last proof is finding my own game after sponsoring it
this can be either a really good thing or a change that will be reverted if doesn’t work well enough, no matter which one it is, at least roblox knows sponsors sucks and tries to fix them, note that this might be AB tested so not everyone can have this sort shown on their account
- one more important thing, with this change sponsored games no longer pop up every few games in other sorts, they’re exsclusively in the sponsored sort now
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We’ll just have to see now if that actually helps.
It’s been almost a year since this update and sponsors are still almost entirely worthless.
With the lack of good sponsorship options, it is extremely difficult for newer and smaller games to be discovered under this current system. I am barely able to break even on sponsorships and it is making my game fairly unsustainable despite fairly high revenue/visit; My game has made over 600’000 in revenue in 2 months, but I had to reinvest over 400’000 of that back into sponsors/advertisements in order to maintain my playerbase. This is such a high portion of revenue that it is bordering on exploitative. Roblox can’t claim to give 24% of its revenue to developers when it is taking such a high proportion of revenue in sponsors
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With the reworked sponsor feature (sorting all sponsored games into a single sort, and displaying like ratio and CCUs) we have seen a huge spike in CPC. CPP is NOT a reliable metric and does not effectively translate into visits. Essentially, even for established games, running sponsors is no longer profitable and is simply a cash sink for developers.
This change has effectively made launching new games economically unviable using sponsors.
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The bottom line is that sponsored games are completely useless now. Even with a high ARPU, I can’t make a case for spending on sponsored icons. We will be scaling back our sponsor spending immediately. Desperately hoping Roblox comes to their senses and starts allowing sponsored games to show in all sorts again.
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I’m exactly the same. I don’t think I can even calculate how much Robux I’ve lost through the new sponsor system compared to when I was using the old system. I hope soon enough they’ll do something to boost sponsored games showing up.
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did something change recently with sponsored ads, as in the past week
CPC has spiked way higher then normal and our average playerbase has been almost halved, yet nothing has changed
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Can we get an update on the situation please?
We’ve been left completely in the dark about it
There’s now only a sponsored sort apparently which means users actually have to scroll down in order to see them?
Sponsors are horrible, have been horrible, and competing with them is horrible.
@auggadoodle an update on the situation would be lovely.
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I’ve done more research and it turns out that the “Sponsored Game” box only appears when you search for a game.
There are 0 sponsors on the front page, except the sponsored sort which is already hard to see.
How have sponsored been improved if there’s virtually no way to see it unless you search?
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I’m also interested in whether or not Roblox is actually going to do something about this? Sponsoring has been horrible for the past year now and there are absolutely no indications that Roblox is even trying to fix the issue?
Roblox might as well remove the sponsoring system since its of absolutely no use to any developer at all and anything invested into sponsors WILL be lost with minimal return. Even with great monetization you just simply can’t make the money back.
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I hope they consider reverting this change or at least make more improvements. Though given the time passed, it’s highly unlikely.
Any updates about this? Is it still worth sponsoring?
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