Thanks for kind words!

Implemented. When publisher adjusts the Max captcha rate, estimated percentage of budget is being displayed:



Implemented a "Reset" button in campaign's targeting section:


Thanks for helping us to improve a-ads!

Hi, thanks for your suggestion, I think such a button would be useful for advertisers!

But what happens if advertiser clicks this button but for some reason fails to add the traffic sources to the campaign's targeting?

E. g. this campaign: https://a-ads.com/campaigns/4027 (binarybase.co) has some balance that is not being spent (since 2014!) because its targeting is empty. I think the advertiser occasionally removed the traffic sources, and now we should either keep these money forever, or send them to the refund address or just add "All traffic" category and let it to be spent.

Maybe we should forbid empty targeting, and provide the "Reset" button instead (that would remove all the selected traffic sources with "All traffic" category).

Would you be satisfied with this solution?

Publishers get money from advertisers that target them. If publisher limits the captcha rate to 0%, but advertiser requires 1%, then that publisher won't fit the advertiser's targeting criteria (won't display that advertiser's ad and won't  earn from that advertiser).

Thanks for the idea, we'll implement it soon.

Thanks for your feedback!

This captcha in most cases is just a checkbox! We display captcha with a certain probability only after the visitor clicks the ad. If most clicks of ad unit are real then captcha is displayed only for 1% of clicks. If you don't want your users to see captchas at all then just set the "captcha rate" to 0.

I agree with Chromlea: since we are not pay-per-click network, we probably don't really need to check the clicks at all. The problem is that advertisers get annoyed when they get thousands of bot-generated clicks. Their statistics gets distorted and they get an impression that all our traffic is fake. Also we need to have metrics that would enable us to distinguish good traffic sources from the bad ones to better distribute funds.

By default ad unit's first click during a day will be tested with captcha. If captcha is solved then that ad unit's traffic is considered 100% real and the probability of displaying the captcha will become 1% (though if ad unit generates only 1 click a day, then the actual captcha rate will be 100%).

But publishers can set the captcha rate to 1% manually. Or they can set captcha rate to 0 and captchas won't be displayed at all.

If advertisers require a certain percentage of traffic to be verified with captcha, then they potentially reduce conversion of their campaign.

We allow our publishers and advertisers to decide what is better for them.

If you set minimum to 1000 satoshi then the minimum price of your traffic for the paying advertisers would be 1000 satoshi per day (+fees). If they pay only 900 satoshi per day to you, then they will get only 90% of your traffic, and the remaining 10% of your traffic will be used to display affiliate ads.

Affiliate ads is the last resort in our attempt to monetize traffic. The are being displayed for free, but there is a chance to earn a reward (rewards are public, see them here: http://a-ads.com/campaigns/affiliate , more they reward publishers - more traffic they get).

If your ad unit generates unique traffic and you don't want affiliate campaigns to be displayed on your site, you can set your wanted daily income to 0.

If your "Wanted daily income" is too high (e. g. your traffic is 100 impressions/day, but your wanted income is 0.1 btc/day) then your traffic might appear to be too expensive for advertisers.

The announcement of our new features (user accounts, pooled withdrawals, publishers' option to limit the captcha rate) is here: http://blog.anonymousads.com/2015/09/long-waited-features-optional-user.html (sorry for the delay)

Advertising is very cheap now. Advertisers, advertise!

Thanks for your question. I am not sure I understood it correctly, but will try to answer it.

If you want to advertise particular advertiser then you can use ad unit of type "Affiliate", it is just a referral link that doesn't affect your impression counts.

If you have several ad units of type "Site" on the same page, then the one that loads first will get most of the unique impressions, and the one that loads last will probably be undermonetized and display affiliate ads (you can adjust the "Wanted daily income" parameter).

Sorry for this bug, fixed (thanks for reporting!)

Thanks for your question. Sorry for miscommunication.

In brief:

1. We implemented optional user accounts (with optional email).

Users can authenticate via bitcoin address or login and password and control their objects in one place, or they can still use a-ads without any registration (we automatically  created user accounts for users that signed in with their bitcoin addresses in the past and linked their objects to them).

Earnings of all ad units that belong to the registered users are being accumulated on the users' account (and will be withdrawn automatically when they hit the configurable threshold).

2.  We enabled publishers to specify the maximum captcha rate for their ad units (default is 100%).

We let publishers and advertisers decide whether they want to display captchas to visitors. If publishers set it to a lower value, they might loose earnings from advertisers that want a higher captcha rate.

I will be able to explain it in detail tomorrow.

Since August, 21 (when there was a sharp drop in amount of clicks due to the introduction of captcha filters) amount of human clicks doubled.



(stats)


Advertisers, advertise!  

Cheap advertising opportunity right now!

Probably the reason is lack of unique impressions (solved)

There were some votes on http://bitcoinocracy.com/arguments/bip101-is-better-than-bip100 -- so yes, some people use Bitcoinocracy to verifiably express their opinion.

Though there is an embarrassing bug that displays 0 balances and makes voting impossible when blockchain.info is down (as it is now). Hopefully it will be up soon and everything will be back to normal.
(fixed)

Is it embedded to the exact URL specified upon ad unit creation? If so - please let me know ad unit ID, I will check it.

Oops. One of our moderators confused "News" and "NSFW" (fixed). Thanks for reporting it!

If you want BTC.001 of a BIP100 block - then you can leave your vote here: http://bitcoinocracy.com/arguments/bip101-is-better-than-bip100 (just click "Doubt" and sign the message with bitcoin address that holds BTC.001).

I doubt that Bitcoin future should be decided by miners, I think all bitcoin users should have a vote.

Thanks for your feedback. The traffic price is determined by competition of advertisers and competition of publishers. We try to design our algorithms in such a way that good publishers have an advantage over bad publishers, but we don't have a reliable solution that would guarantee fair money distribution.

Please give me a link to the source of good traffic that got 1 penny for 2000 unique impressions and I will try to understand why it happened. Traffic volume is not the only factor that influences earnings. Some ad units earn much more, e. g.: https://a-ads.com/catalog?ad_unit_id=55526&target_type=AdUnit


We don't care too much about how much advertisers get from affiliate ads because we send them unsold traffic. E.g. if publisher specified that his/her expectations are that ad unit should earn 0.01 btc per day, but actual earnings are 0.009 btc per day, then we consider 10% of publisher's traffic to be unsold and send it to affiliate ads with a hope that they would increase ad units' income. There is some kind of competition between affiliate advertisers: more they pay - more traffic they get for free. So you can think of it as an alternative way of selling your traffic, where the price is determined by market too.


Thanks for suggestion, but it is not trivial to formalize and decide which sites have to be deleted, so we are taking a smoother approach by setting the weights to the sites.


Just deployed some changes, will see tomorrow whether it improves the situation (though ad unit #67832 is not active any more, so I am not sure yet how to see it)

You are right. Such a little site gets so many impressions from a single country that are all unique... It looks suspicious indeed. We'll investigate it and try to improve our quality evaluation algorithm so that sources of good traffic earn more (and Brad Harrison is happy ).