If there is, I haven't seen 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.

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Also, the website is showing a "heavy load" warning.

"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."

Love the changes to the user area dashboard Thanks for your work, glad to see the site is up again!

I'm sure there's lots of reasons for declining revenues, but here is my case, which I'm sure isn't a singular example. I am a publisher and an advertiser.

As a publisher, I have a higher traffic site where I display a-ads to earn money.

As an advertiser, I pay sites on the a-ads network to bring more traffic to my lower traffic site.

I used earnings from my higher traffic site to pay for advertising to draw more visitors to my lower traffic site. But after the big changes, my publisher earnings went way way down, so I didn't have the ability to keep paying as an advertiser anymore, even though I wanted to because the costs per impressions were very advantageous at the time.

If my publisher earnings from the higher traffic site were at the old rates, I would have more money to continue running ads through the a-ads system. But without the earnings, I cannot run the campaigns to my full wishes.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! 

That actually would suit my purposes, because funny enough I even tried to do this hoping it would remove all the individual sites in favour of the broad "all traffic", but it left all the other sites still on the list and then added in addition the "all traffic" category to the bottom. I was actually hoping it would swap the many sites for the one category like you suggested!

Hello again

So, I was trying some things out on one of my advertising campaigns and noticed there's no easy way to remove all selected traffic sources at once. I added quite a few sites as I was experimenting with budgets (I'm trying to find the best group of sites to advertise on matching my budget), but having to remove each site separately is very time consuming. Not sure how hard of a change it would be to add something like a "Remove all selected traffic sources" button, but it could be a helpful feature.

Thanks for listening to my suggestion!

So great to hear! Thanks for always working to improve this service

Yes, I'm aware as a publisher that I can set the captcha rate on my ad units to 0%. What is unclear however is how much advertiser revenues I would lose out on if I do so. It would be nice to have some sort of metric to look at that would show just how many advertisers are available to my ad unit at the different captcha rates. Like, it could show next to the box where publishers set our max captcha rate.

Something like the advertisers see when they put in their captcha rates, it shows how many ad units are connected at that %.

Like as an advertiser, I can see that at 0% captcha rate, my ad is connected to "~3521 ad units". If I raise the captcha % to 50%, this number increases to "~3534 ad units", then at 100% captcha rate, that number shown on the page increases to "~3533 ad units". This is automatically updated as I write in new percentages.

Would something like this be possible to show the publishers in a real time way? Something that would show how many advertisers are a match for our current ad unit based on our entered captcha rates?

Like if I enter a captcha amount as a publisher, is there a way to show something like this:

0% captcha - 10 advertisers (of a total 18 advertisers)

Which would automatically show the new numbers if I entered a different captcha rate:

25% captcha - 12 advertisers (of a total 18 advertisers)

or

100% captcha - 18 advertisers (of a total 18 advertisers)

I've tried playing around with the captcha rates myself, but I can't really tell what effects it's having on my ad unit.

Using captcha to prove that a click is a human is a dangerous idea. This is because it very much favours publisher sites with Bitcoin faucets (a large portion of the sites that display a-ads falls into this category). This is because faucet users are very used to completing captcha, so people clicking an ad on a faucet site will be much much more likely to complete the captcha, than a person on any other kind of site. This means the faucet sites will have a more favourable rate of "real human clicks" than others.

If publisher revenues depend on a captcha system to "prove" their percentage of human clicks vs fake clicks, then non-faucet sites are put at a serious disadvantage here because a much higher percentage of their clicks will appear to be fake, because people who aren't as accustomed to completing captchas, won't be expecting to see one after clicking an ad and will be more likely close the window and refuse to complete the captcha.

Worse yet, I would think that many people who click an ad, especially on a non-faucet site and then see a captcha, would become annoyed thinking, "why must I fill complete this extra step? Is the publisher to blame? Is this a scam? Something seems fishy." -closes window- Even the ones that do complete the captcha will be annoyed at being forced to do this extra step, and annoyed ad clickers are not happy customers.

Plus, as an advertiser myself, there is no way I would choose to show captcha just to weed out false clicks. Because it will undoubtedly also weed out real human customers who were annoyed with the captcha appearing instead of the site they were expecting. It might be important to ensure that all clicks are from humans in a pay per click system, but this is not what a-ads is. Instead it is a pay per impressions model which means if there are non-human clicks on our ads, that is okay, because we don't have to pay extra for them. Why even send one potential customer away, just so you can verify the ones jumping through the hoops are human? That's lost sales and seems silly to me.

This is just what I think.

Thank you very much! This clears things right up for me!

I've got a question...

I recently became aware of the affiliate ads, but am scared to implement them on my site knowing that any additional ads on the page (any loading after the first one) won't count for globally unique impressions, therefore earning barely anything.

My question is, since affiliate ads don't pay based on impressions, are they still counted against the globally unique pageview statistics? I hope to put an affiliate ad on a part of my site that is higher up in my page code, meaning it would load first. But if this uses up my one unique pageview, then my regular publisher ad (loading second) will lose all it's money.

Is this how this works? Or do the affiliate ads not count against my globally unique view count?

I hope this made sense, it was rather hard to explain lol

I'm also seeing this issue. Like, I first put an ad on my site which was/is reporting the proper amount of traffic in my a-ads stats. According to a-ads's stats, it has received between 1600 to 1900 unique views a day. Non-unique views per day are showing at 2900 to 3500.

So I thought I would add some more ads to the site, since the first one was doing so well. So I put these other ads on the exact same pages, but something is preventing them from registering the unique visitors. Like one of the ads is showing only 21 unique visitors, but 3100 non-unique visitors yesterday, even though it's the same visitors on the same pages so the number of unique/non-unique visitors should match the uniques seen by the first ad (or certainly be close).

At this point, it's pretty much useless to have the other ad units on my page, since there is some bug preventing unique views from being reported as such.

Any ideas?

Edit:
Okay, so I just found your post that explained how unique impressions work...


I understand now why the other ad slots won't count the unique impressions.