Graphical banners for our referral program

We added several graphical banners to our referral program, please see them here.

New feature: advertisers can set maximum desired CPM

Now advertisers can set the maximum desired CPM for their existing campaigns.

CPM stands for "cost per mille" or cost per thousand of views, in Anonymous Ads it denotes amount of bitcoins you pay to receive ad impressions from thousand of globally unique IP addresses.

Since we are not pay-per-click or pay-per-impression network, there is no guarantee that actual CPM will be below this value, but in most cases it should.

New feature: sign in with your Bitcoin address

Public key cryptography used in Bitcoin enables anybody to sign in to Anonymous Ads without registration.

Just enter your bitcoin address, use it to sign our message, paste the signature and click "Sign In" button.

Signed in users can see the list of their campaigns and ad units and edit some of their properties.

E. g. publishers can edit withdrawal parameters of their ad units.

We accept Bitcoin-QT - compatible signatures (supported by MultiBit, Electrum,  Blockchain.info and probably other wallets as well).

Instructions for popular Bitcoin wallets

Blockchain.info

1. Go to Receive Money section of your wallet
2. Find your bitcoin address and click Actions -> Sign message
3. Sign the message displayed in a-ads sign in form
4. Copy and paste the signature to the form

Bitcoin-QT

1. Click Receive Coins
2. Right-click your bitcoin address, select Sign Message
3. Sign the message displayed at a-ads sign in form
4. Copy and paste the signature to the form

Electrum

1. Open Receive tab
2. Right-click your bitcoin address, select Sign Message
3. Sign the message displayed at a-ads sign in form
4. Copy and paste the signature to the form

MultiBit

1. Select Tools -> Sign Message from the top menu
2. Specify your bitcoin address, sign the message displayed at a-ads sign in form
3. Copy and paste the signature to the form

Other

If you have access to private key of your bitcoin address, you can use http://brainwallet.org/#sign to sign our message as in the example below:

List of campaigns that reward for goals

We implemented several new features:

1. List of campaigns that reward for goals

If campaign has goal tracking enabled, it will appear in the list of affiliate programs. Each time advertiser rewards publishers via our API, his or her campaign goes to the top of the list.

Publishers can use this list to find out the most paying advertisers and to refer buyers to them via affiliate links.

2. List of active campaigns

Everybody can see the list of active campaigns sorted by daily budget.

3. Moderation of funded campaigns

Since most of the created ads are never paid, we decided to moderate only ads that have a funded campaign. So please deposit any amount to your advertising campaign if you want your ad to be approved.

Warning for scammers: if we suspect you in malicious advertising attempt, we may decide to ban your ad without refund.

Advertisers can select countries for their campaigns

We developed a new feature that enables advertisers to restrict their campaigns to certain countries. If the list of allowed countries is empty then all the countries are allowed (unless they are listed as disallowed).

However it doesn't yet affect how advertiser's moneys are being spent on ad units. It just replaces advertiser's ad with default ad if visitor's IP belongs to disallowed country.

Possible downtime due to server maintenance

Our hosting company is going to do some urgent maintenance work from 9:00 to 11:00 AM CET. Short downtime of our main site is expected. Ad rotation won't be affected.

Advertisers can see and ban their traffic sources

We implemented several features for advertisers:

1. Advertisers can see how much traffic they get from each ad unit (sorted by non-unique clicks)
2. Advertisers can ban/unban ad units
3. Advertisers can see if their campaign is waiting for moderation

Also fixed couple issues in statistics.