Please,how I can marriage all my ad units under one BTC address?
Thanks for your question. I am not sure I understand your problem. Please send a message with your your bitcoin address and ad unit ids to contact@a-ads.com (or send me a PM). |
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Hi all, here is the list of my bitcoin-related projects that I don't have enough time to develop: Here are the unused domain names that I registered but never used: - bitcoinslaves.com
- bitcoinservants.com
- btcne.ws
All the domains are registered at name.com and can be easily transferred to any verified name.com account. I haven't decided yet whether I should renew them. Do you think they might cost anything? If you want any of these projects or domains - please place your offer. Thanks! |
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"This website is under heavy load
We're sorry, too many people are accessing this website at the same time. We're working on this problem. Please try again later."
Oops, it looks like we are having the issues with our main site, working to solve them (ad rotation is not affected). though there's no way to simply pause campaigns? This seems like a core part of having one. If there is, I haven't seen it. Yes, can set your campaign's daily budget to 0 to pause it. 
Automatically sending coins from our balance to our non-funded campaigns might need some more thought. One of my ads which I want to be paused right now automatically started advertising itself again!
If my campaign has zero coins in it, this meant before that the ad was paused until I added more funds, but with this new coin top-up change all of my campaigns flipped the on switch without warning and spent funds in a way I didn't approve of.
If I wanted my campaigns to have automatic top-ups, I would have set my publisher ads as "pay to campaign" instead.
Now if we hold any balance in our accounts, we have no control over a maximum spend on our ad campaigns, unless we go back in there afterwards and manually set the daily budget down to nothing.
Thanks for pointing this out. You are right, we should have thought more about the transition process. Existing users might not expect that their zombie-campaigns become active. I've set daily_budget to 0 for all campaigns that are older than 1 day and have a low balance, so it shouldn't be an issue any more. If the funds of your user account were spent on your old campaigns that you didn't want to run then please drop an email to contact@a-ads.com. |
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Love the changes to the user area dashboard  Thanks for your work, glad to see the site is up again! Thanks for your kind words! Yes, we deployed a new dashboard that is supposed to make publishers' and advertisers' life a little bit easier. Users can deposit funds to their accounts now. Account's balance will be used to automatically top up campaigns when they run out of funds. No need to deposit funds to each campaign individually any more. Since we don't want to accumulate and store large amounts of money indefinitely, account's balance will be withdrawn automatically if user's earnings are greater than expenses or funds are not being touched for a while. I will create a blog post with a more detailed explanation in a few days. |
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We are upgrading server software. Downtime of our main site is possible, but ad rotation won't be affected. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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There is a misconception here. You are not paid per click or per impression. We just use the network-wide unique IPs to determine the relative size of your traffic. That's just one of the metrics to determine your cut of advertisers' budgets. See http://blog.anonymousads.com/2014/08/why-am-i-not-paid-for-clicks-what-is.html for details. We don't use Javascript/flash on the embedded ads and don't store cookies. That makes us different from AdSense and other networks. The only unique ones are those that haven't ever seen another A-Ads ad that day. So if someone visits Coindesk before your site, for example, Coindesk gets paid and you don't.
It doesn't matter. The visitor can visit your site before Coindesk, or 24 hours may pass after s/he visited the Coindesk. It is a stochastic process. The important thing is that if you have exactly the same audience as Coindesk and users open your page as often as Coindesk, then both of you would get equal amount of unique impressions. If they open Coindesk 100 times more often, then you are likely to earn 100 times less. That's fair. A-ads is only good for advertisers because the rate is so cheap, but as a publisher you will make pennies
The rate is determined by the market. All the non-unique impressions are supposed to be priced in (same as all the tried hashes are priced in the bitcoin mining process). Publishers' earnings mainly depend on their traffic (think of it as of hashing power) and advertisers' spendings. If traffic is converting and is too cheap, advertisers are expected to pay more. They don't pay per impression, they pay for share of traffic and expect to get all the non-unique impressions too. So theoretically CPM in our network should be higher than in others. |
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Thanks for your feedback! But it's hard to justify using banners, which may or may not go to unique users, rather than using ads where they're counted regardless.
Is it really that hard? Think of it as of Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin miners don't know whether they are going to find a block now or not, but still they continue hashing and sometimes they find the block and get rewarded. In average miner's income is proportional to his/her share of the total hash rate. Similarly is in a-ads sometimes you get unique IPs and get rewarded, your income is proportional to your share of the total traffic. |
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How would they work under your current system? for popunders you need to count every impression not just unique or the publisher is annoying there visitors for very little income!
I don't yet know how it would work, that's why I'd like to discuss it. Perhaps the visitor would receive a popunder only if 2 conditions are met: - the publisher enabled pop-under ad
- the visitor's IP is unique
Thus publishers must explicitly enable pop-under ads if they want to have them on their sites, visitor won't see pop-unders more than once per day and advertiser will receive only unique visitors. |
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Some advertisers request pop-under traffic. What do you think, should we implement optional pop-under ads?
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Our average CPM skyrockets:  It is pretty volatile though. |
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ranlo, winspiral, Chromlea, thanks for your feedback! So you highlighted the following problems: 1) Our main metric is globally unique IPs. It doesn't work well for some publishers, especially for the ones that share the same audience or have multiple ad units on the same page. 2) If publisher's ad unit doesn't generate a single globally unique IP per day then it doesn't earn and there is no easy way for advertisers to locate and buy non-unique traffic from such ad units. 3) Our interface doesn't communicate the available features well, many aspects are not intuitive. 3. Set withdraw parameters
to user's account
to bitcoin address
Not very clear this... Here you specify whether you want your earnings to be sent to your user's account or to your bitcoin address. If you have multiple ad units then the first option is preferable since it enables automatic pooled withdrawals (withdrawal threshold is set for user account, not for individual ad units). PS: We'll be upgrading server software today. Downtime of our main site is possible, but ad rotation won't be affected. Sorry for inconvenience. |
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We have a generous affiliate program: people that attract paying advertisers get half of fees we collect from them (~10% of their spendings). We probably over-deliver since we display only globally-unique IPs by default and advertisers get more impressions than they probably expect for their money. We even offer free advertising for advertisers that agree to integrate with our API ( http://blog.anonymousads.com/2015/04/receive-free-traffic-pay-after-you-get.html). But the advertising budgets are low, average CPM is only ~$0.15 for 1000 of globally-unique IPs. That probably means that advertisers (i. e. the ones that pay money for advertising) switched to other advertising networks. What do you think is the reason of the declining revenue? What is the most important thing that needs to be done to fix it? |
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Hello there. I would like to ask if there is anyway to increase the maximum a-ads ad slot from one to two? Having limited to just one a-ads ad slot is a good idea in a sense that there will be no duplicate advertisement. However, it is also bad for some advertiser who like to use a-ads.
Hi, thanks for your feedback. Publishers can embed as many ad units as they like. It won't have significant effect on their earnings though unless advertisers decide to concentrate their budgets on them (or reward them for the attracted customers). |
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2. I think unique visits across the entire network are really bad idea. If you have site with main traffic source from referrals, you have really bad earnings. Im sad about this :-(
That's just the metric that allows us to evaluate the relative size of your traffic (a little bit more reliable than amount of non-unique impressions that are trivial to fake). |
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Someone wrote me and said:
do not put more than 1 a'ads on your page because the second does not make money...
it this is in mind of many publisher,they will go to concurrance compagnies.
And if advertisers think that the banners are not wiewed by unique visitors,then they will not pay for it.
Well, that's true, if you have N ad units on your page, that doesn't mean you will earn N times more than if you had 1 ad unit, because amount of visitors you display ads to doesn't change. You can't multiply your income by just multiplying the number of ad units on your page. I agree that it is a bit weird that if you have 2 ad units, the first one earns much more than the second one. Perhaps we could calculate amounts of unique impressions based on the publishers' pages, not on individual ad units, and distribute funds accordingly. That wouldn't increase the publisher's income, but would split it among publisher's ad units more evenly. So instead of getting 90% of your income from the first ad unit and 10% of your income from the second one, you would get 50% from the first one and 50% from the second one. But the total amount would be the same (100%). Is it what you want? |
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I'm now testing a-ads with 15 banners displaid on my sites.
I feel something wrong.
The system is certainly ok,but it is not understood by the advertisers.
(by the publishers certainly not undertand too,but I will only talk about advertisers)
The question is:
Are advertisers not manage well the a-ads system?
or
Is the a-ads system not enough informative or do the information mislead the advertisers?
Example:(it's only an example)
I have on my site 2 banners almost at the same place.
For one a-ads say:100 unique views.
for the other close at it 10 unique views.
The advertisers are almost not interested by the 10 unuque.
All advertisers pay for the 100 unique
and almost nothing for the 10 unique.
For me if I see a page...with 2 banner spaces at the same place,the both spaces are worth the same.
But a-ads say indirectly to the advertisers that one is seeing 10 time more by unique visitors.
If I compare a-ads with other ads companies the difference is till bigger.
I have for two close spaces more advertisers and more incomes by other ads compagnies.
Why?
Certainly because if I have 5 banner spaces viewed by 100 unique visitors and a advertiser see 100 for 4 banner spaces and only 10 for one...he will pay for the 100 and not for the 10.
Banner spaces are not unlimited on a page...webmaster will go there where it is the best paid by advertisers...normal...
I believe if the difference I see on my sites is so big,it is why a-ads informations for advertisers is misunderstood and advertisers go to other compagnies...
Thanks for your feedback! Most of the time advertisers don't pick ad units manually, and their expenses are automatically being split between ad units with respect to their unique impressions. Amount of unique impressions doesn't depend on amount of ad units on your page. Perhaps the term "unique impression" is misleading and should be replaced with "unique visitors". And probably it would be better to display non-unique impressions to advertisers by default. Do you think it would solve the problem? |
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A-ads is a transparent service, everybody can see the traffic and financial stats of any advertising campaign or ad unit (e. g. here is the public page for ad unit #1: http://a-ads.com/ad_units/1 and here is the public page for campaign #1: https://a-ads.com/campaigns/1 ). Do you think the information about user accounts should be transparent as well (perhaps except their usernames and emails)? It could be interesting to see the list of ad units and campaigns that belong to the same user. So should we have a public page for every user as we do for ad units and campaigns? |
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I love the captcha change, and think this helps alleviate my original issues. It brings more transparency to how much it's affecting us as publishers, which is huge. What captcha service is being used, btw?
Thanks for your feedback. We use Google's "no CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA" that is usually trivial to pass.  It may raise privacy concerns, but since the captcha is being loaded only after the visitor clicks the ad, it shouldn't be that a big problem. Ideally we'd use our own solution, but there are a lot of higher priority tasks right now. |
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