Examples Case Study
Vertical: Personal Loans Use case: Decline-path monetization Model: Revenue share

Personal Loans: Monetizing Loan Declines Without Traffic Caps

Replaced fixed-price redirect buyers with a performance-based revenue share model, allowing declined loan traffic to scale without artificial limits.

Publisher details are anonymized to protect partner strategies and competitive positioning.

Overview

Personal loan applications generate high-intent traffic, but a meaningful percentage of users are declined by lenders. Traditionally, declined traffic is sold to secondary buyers on a fixed cost-per-redirect basis—often in the $0.40 to $1.00+ range depending on demand and volume.

While fixed redirect pricing can be predictable, it also introduces caps driven by buyer budgets and pricing limits—restricting how much decline volume can be monetized through any single partner.

The Challenge

The publisher wanted to continue monetizing decline traffic while maintaining flexibility across buyers. The goal was to adopt a model that could scale with volume and performance—without introducing artificial limits or upfront commitments.

  • Fixed redirect pricing created caps as volume fluctuated
  • Upfront commitments limited testing and iteration
  • Revenue didn't scale with real-time performance

The Bright Offers Approach

Instead of buying declined leads upfront at a fixed price, Bright Offers proposed a performance-based revenue share model. This removed the need to pre-price traffic and enabled volume to scale based on earnings.

  • Receive uncapped decline volume
  • Optimize offers, routing, and pacing over time
  • Use real earnings data to refine the formula

Because the model is driven by performance, traffic allocation can shift dynamically as results change—allowing the publisher to maximize upside while Bright Offers focuses on mitigating lower-performing segments through optimization.

Implementation

Bright Offers was integrated directly into the loan decline experience. Declined applicants were routed into dynamic monetization flows with real-time offer rotation based on performance.

  • Integration point: Loan decline path
  • Routing: Dynamic monetization flows
  • Optimization: Real-time offer rotation + pacing
  • UX impact: No changes to the core application experience

Results

With a working formula in place, performance signals were visible within the first day of launch. Over time, the publisher saw the benefits of performance-based monetization versus capped, fixed-price redirect buyers.

Monthly decline volume
400K–500K
Rev share returns
$0.50–$1.75 / user
Time to signal
Day 1
Allocation
Moved based on results

Returns vary based on traffic quality and the number of unique records.

Key Takeaway

By replacing fixed-price decline buyers with a revenue-share model, the publisher unlocked scalable monetization without artificial traffic limits. Bright Offers aligned incentives around long-term performance—allowing the publisher to capture more upside while Bright Offers focused on mitigating lower-performing segments through ongoing optimization.

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