# Sidebar (Sticky Ads)

A sticky ad is an ad unit which stays visible on the page while the user scrolls through the content of your page. Sticky ads are a non-intrusive format that can be very effective to increase CTR and your Active View metrics.

**Sidebar sticky ads** contrary to the landscape size of horizontal sticky ads, vertical ones are portrait-sized and exist on the sides of the webpage.

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Sidebar sticky ads mostly consists of these ad sizes. Indicating that creative size will be rather small. Therefore, it is essential to fit the information to the banner so it would be well visible.

<table id="bkmrk-creative-size-impres" width="237"><tbody><tr><td class="align-center" width="128">**Creative Size**</td><td class="align-center" width="109">**Impressions**</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">320x50</td><td class="align-center">878,588,743</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">300x250</td><td class="align-center">447,936,818</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">300x50</td><td class="align-center">125,748,099</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">320x100</td><td class="align-center">109,986,378</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">120x600</td><td class="align-center">86,401,726</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">300x100</td><td class="align-center">82,902,714</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">728x90</td><td class="align-center">80,623,027</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">250x250</td><td class="align-center">70,157,859</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">160x600</td><td class="align-center">66,512,232</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">300x600</td><td class="align-center">49,660,600</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">336x280</td><td class="align-center">37,290,889</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">234x60</td><td class="align-center">30,786,546</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">200x200</td><td class="align-center">29,395,316</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">160x90</td><td class="align-center">16,450,358</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">240x400</td><td class="align-center">15,631,884</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">970x250</td><td class="align-center">13,287,764</td></tr></tbody></table>

Additionally, almost **99% of all Sidebar sticky ad** traffic comes from sites.

<table id="bkmrk-types-impressions-si" style="width: 235px;" width="177"><tbody><tr><td class="align-center" style="width: 122px;">**Types**</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 112px;">**Impressions**</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center" style="width: 122px;">Site</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 112px;">2,216,119,289</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center" style="width: 122px;">App</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 112px;">941,154</td></tr></tbody></table>

While, when it comes to countries these are the **leading markets with the most traffic** for sidebar sticky ad.

<table id="bkmrk-country-impressions-" style="height: 638px;" width="425"><tbody><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">**Country**</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">**Impressions**</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">India</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">688,388,775</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">South Africa</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">300,994,061</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Nigeria</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">286,324,743</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Israel</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">111,919,042</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Kenya</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">97,584,306</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Ghana</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">74,210,105</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Russian Federation</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">71,967,234</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Japan</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">58,555,597</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Malaysia</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">45,506,242</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Bangladesh</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">38,867,995</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Georgia</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">27,731,901</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Indonesia</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">21,601,741</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Slovenia</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">20,106,944</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Tanzania</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">18,299,467</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Turkey</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">18,008,583</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Australia</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">17,173,808</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Cameroon</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">16,517,667</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Romania</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">16,514,997</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Zambia</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">14,749,561</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">Poland</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">14,745,105</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 202px; height: 29px;">**Global**</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 222px; height: 29px;">**2,217,060,443**</td></tr></tbody></table>

With default optimisation **Sidebar ads** may deliver these kind of results:

<table id="bkmrk-country-viewability--1" style="height: 203px; width: 678px;" width="629"><tbody><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 230.38043212890625px; height: 29px;">**Country**</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 245.40760803222656px; height: 29px;">**Viewability**</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 201.33152770996094px; height: 29px;">**CTR**</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 230.38043212890625px; height: 29px;">Nigeria</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 245.40760803222656px; height: 29px;">60.41%</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 201.33152770996094px; height: 29px;">0.14%</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 230.38043212890625px; height: 29px;">Kazakhstan</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 245.40760803222656px; height: 29px;">77.75%</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 201.33152770996094px; height: 29px;">0.42%</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 230.38043212890625px; height: 29px;">Kenya</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 245.40760803222656px; height: 29px;">62.74%</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 201.33152770996094px; height: 29px;">0.11%</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 230.38043212890625px; height: 29px;">Indonesia</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 245.40760803222656px; height: 29px;">67.64%</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 201.33152770996094px; height: 29px;">0.06%</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 230.38043212890625px; height: 29px;">Bangladesh</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 245.40760803222656px; height: 29px;">58.40%</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 201.33152770996094px; height: 29px;">0.12%</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="width: 230.38043212890625px; height: 29px;">**Total:**</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 245.40760803222656px; height: 29px;">**64.68%**</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 201.33152770996094px; height: 29px;">**0.14%**</td></tr></tbody></table>

Sites were dominating when it came down to placement comparison.

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-apps-sites-52.78%25-47" style="width: 679px;"><tbody><tr><td class="align-center" style="width: 338.5px;">**Apps**</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 339.515625px;">**Sites**</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center" style="width: 338.5px;">8.86%</td><td class="align-center" style="width: 339.515625px;">91.14%</td></tr></tbody></table>