The staging server of AA2 is available at
http://s.a-ads.com. The site is far from being complete (this is just a preview of basic functionality) but you are welcome to play with it. There is no content on the site yet, so I am putting some info here.
Advertiser1. creates ad, selects categories, sets campaign params (including goal tracking and daily_budget) and receives an unrecoverable password
2. deposits money to campaign (small amounts require just 1 confirmation) and waits for impressions from ad units that satisfy campaign's conditions
Every day up to daily_budget btc will be distributed from campaign to ad units with respect to their weights (weight is currently estimated as amount of daily unique IPs).
If goal tracking for campaign is enabled, then the param
<campaign.id>_<ad_unit.id> will be injected into ad's link and advertisers will be able to track visitors.
Advertisers can register goals (either through web interface, or using
simple API).
If campaign's balance is enough to pay for registered goal, the goal will be paid and corresponding ad unit will start receiving bitcoins (possibly giving you more impressions during <goal's duration>).
Publisher1. creates ad unit, sets few params, receives ad unit's HTML code and embeds it on his/her site
2. embeds it on his/her site and waits for profit
Publishers can organize "traffic exchange" if they specify that they want to withdraw to their advertising campaign upon ad unit creation (in that case withdrawal threshold is negligibly small).
Publishers can customize colors adding GET params to their code, e.g.:
<iframe data-aa='17'
src='//ad.s.a-ads.com/17?background_color=000000&text_color=ffffff&title_color=ffff00&title_hover_color=ff0000&link_color=00aa00&link_hover_color=00ff00'
scrolling='no' style='width:160px; height:600px; border:0px; padding:0;overflow:hidden'></iframe>
would look like
this.
Affiliate programAlso affiliate program should work. That means if you invite somebody who creates an ad with your affiliate link (that is just
http://s.a-ads.com?partner=<your ad unit id>), you should receive 10% of all deposits for campaigns that use this ad. This link is also present on ad unit code.
AA2 feesWe aim to make a fully transparent service, we have nothing to hide. The following info is preliminary and can be changed any moment:
1. we take 20% of each deposit (or 10% of each ad unit's withdrawal to campaign)
2. we take 20% of daily_budget every day
So we hope to earn 10-36% of money paid for campaign.
If advertiser is invited via affiliate link and pays for goals only, our profit is ~10% (because 10% goes to referral).
If advertiser comes from google and doesn't pay for goals, our profit is ~36% (i.e. 20% + 20% of the remainer).
WarningPlease remember, that this is a staging sever with software that is under development. If you are sending bitcoins to it, you take the risk. Your money and data may disappear anytime. It won't be migrated to production server.
Feedback is appreciatedIf you place ad unit code on your site, you have a chance of getting some btc. We can't guarantee you will ever hit withdrawal threshold, but we will definitely spend some btc to test. Also if you invite advertisers, you can receive 10% of deposits to campaigns that use their ads.
If you are an advertiser, you can loose some money and maybe even get some impressions. It is likely that I will be spending small amounts to support your campaign, so you don't need to pay if you don't want to, just create a campaign.
If you are a publisher and advertiser at the same time, you can create a campaign and ad unit with "withdraw to campaign" parameter. In that case you don't need to spend money, you don't even need to have a bitcoin address.
Please participate!
Thanks!
Update 2013-02-03: we
launched it on our production server
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