quick one for the buyers. everyone runs from tier3 but some of it still convert if you know where to look. what is the cheapest geo that is actually making you money right now, not two years ago? for me a couple of asia and latam markets still work if the offer match. is depend of the offer a lot. curious what others see, share the geo not just say tier3 bad.
cheap geo that still prints for me is a couple of sea markets on pops and one specific latam on in-page. the trick isn’t the geo, it’s matching a low-friction offer to it, smartlink dating or a simple pin-submit, not a $40 rebill nobody there will ever pay. tier3 converts fine once you stop feeding it tier1 offers. 
fair ask. honest answer is it rotates, so i’m not gonna name one geo and watch twenty people burn it next week, but the method holds. take a cheap geo, run a low-payout high-volume offer, judge it on epc not cpm. most people call tier3 dead because they ran a tier1 offer with tier1 expectations and lost. match the offer to the wallet and it converts.
depends on the offer, yeah. i keep a couple tier3 geos alive on push and native purely because the traffic’s cheap and nobody’s bidding against me. margins are thin but it’s steady volume i can scale the second a winner shows up. cheap uncontested inventory is underrated, just don’t walk in expecting tier1 per-click numbers.
same deal for social traffic. i push some tier3 off telegram and the only offers that live are dead simple, one tap, no card. anything with friction dies on arrival. the geo was never the problem, the ask is just too big for what that audience will actually do. keep the funnel short and it holds.
this is why i don’t trust anyone’s geo list, mine from last quarter included. track it per geo per offer with proper postbacks and let the data say what’s alive this week. a geo doesn’t die, its economics shift, and if you’re not watching epc by geo continuously you’re just working off a stale map and calling it experience.
i do not trust the old dead-geo list, mine included. geo that stopped converting two year ago can be fine now, and the one that was gold then is maybe dead. the market and the offers move all the time. so i just test the cheap geo fresh with small spend instead of believing a list from last year. only the current test tell you.
before you write a geo off, check whether it is actually dead or just wrong for the offer you threw at it. a geo that flops on a demanding offer will often convert fine on a dead-simple one that matches what that traffic will actually do and actually pay. the geo and the offer are two separate things, and people blame the geo when the offer was the mismatch.
is why these cheapest-geo answers go stale so fast. the geo that convert cheap today move all the time as competition and traffic change. any name someone give you, even a fresh one, is a thing to test now on your own traffic, not a fact to keep. check it before you chase it.
unsatisfying but true, the cheapest-converting tier3 depends on your offer, your vertical and your funnel, so anyone handing you one geo is ignoring how much it swings. run your actual offer across a few candidate geos and read your own conversion data. the answer lives in the geo-and-offer combo, not the geo by itself.
right, is why i stopped giving geo names like they are permanent tips. by the time someone act on it, the geo maybe already moved. now i only say it as worth-a-test-this-week, nothing more, because the cheap-converting ones churn faster than any tip stay true.
Cheap and converting almost never stay together for long. The moment a geo is both, people find it and bid the price up until it is just another normal-cost geo. So the edge was never the geo, it was catching it early and moving on when the price caught up. Treat these as temporary windows you exploit and rotate out of, not permanent finds. The skill is the ongoing hunt for whatever is underpriced right now.
honest answer, the cheapest tier3 geo that converts is whichever one you have actually tested, not the one someone names here. i have had the same geo print for one offer and die on another. run a small cap, read revenue per session, kill it if it does not move.
for me some balkan and latam geo convert surprising good on dating smartlink, better than the tier1 everyone fight over. is less competition on the offer. but depends of the offer, you have to test, not trust my geo.
one more on tier3, the dip people see mid-year on the cheap geo is mostly seasonal, the summer is always soft on those. i do not churn network over it, i wait for the autumn to come back. is the calendar, not usually you broke something.
Indonesia and the Philippines still make money for me on popunders, but only with a simple offer. A dating smartlink works fine. Anything that asks for an email or a card dies there. The clicks are cheap and the volume never runs out, so it adds up even when each one is worth almost nothing.
The trouble with sharing a geo is that it stops working the moment you share it. Twenty people read the thread, pile into the same markets, and the cheap traffic you found is gone in a month. The quiet ones never stay quiet for long.