Withdrawals from user's campaigns go to user's account balance

A-ads users' balances are automatically used to top up the depleting balances of their active campaigns (the ones with positive daily budget and activated ads).

In order to pause or stop the campaign, the advertiser has to set its daily budget to 0. It may leave a tiny unsused balance that is sometimes too small to get withdrawn via bitcoin transaction.

That is why we introduced a change: if advertiser requests a withdrawal from her campaign, the campaigns' balance will be returned to her user account (instead of bitcoin address). So even a single satoshi left on the campaign's balance can be withdrawn (and the campaign can be safely deleted after that).

This change doesn't affect anonymous campaigns that are not linked to any particular user.

A-ads affiliate program: create affiliate link in less than 30 seconds

We share 50% of fees collected from advertisers with our affiliates that attracted them. We paid out over 44 btc in over 85 thousands of rewards (all are public and transparent).
 
Everybody can participate in our affiliate program, you don't even need to have a web site neither a user account to do it.

1. Click "Earn" in our top menu:

2. Select any ad unit type (if you don't plan to embed our ad unit anywhere, then select "affiliate"):

3. If you are in a hurry then just scroll down to withdraw parameters, click "Bitcoin address", paste your bitcoin address and click "Create ad unit":

That's it, notice your affiliate link!

Share your affiliate link with potential advertisers and get 50% of fees collected from ads that they create with it.

Note: for your own convenience it is recommended to sign up before creating your affiliate link (in that case on step 3 choose to withdraw to your user account).

Support system

We've integrated the Zendesk's support widget. It appears on the bottom-right of the browser window on every page.

Hopefully it will help us to improve the communication with our customers.

Results of the 1-week experiment: A-ADS is more cost-efficient for advertisers

We’ve conducted a one-week experiment: created identical advertising campaigns to promote our service at 3 major bitcoin advertising networks (including a-ads.com) with the daily budget of 0.01 btc per campaign. Here are the results:

	a-ads.com	Competitor 1	Competitor 2
Clicks reported by the ad network	309	469	655
Clicks reported  by goo.gl	472	532	663
Visitors clicked “Create ad” on our site	22 (4.7%)	11 (2.1%)	12 (1.8%)
Visitors converted into paying advertisers	0	0	0
Visitors converted into publishers	4 (0.8%)	3 (0.6%)	2 (0.3%)
Cost of attracting a publisher	0.018 btc	0.023 btc	0.035 btc
Ad units created by the attracted publishers	8	4	3

It looks like our advertising network is significantly more cost-efficient for advertisers than its competitors.

We got AADS ticker symbol at Havelock Investments

AADS units represent 40% of interest in Anonymous Ads and are tradable at Havelock Investments (https://www.havelockinvestments.com/order.php?symbol=AADS).

Returned 20% back to the campaigns' balances in order to compensate the downtime

Yesterday we had an issue with our SSL certificate that made our service unavailable for almost 4.75 hours (or ~20% of the day).

It didn't affect publishers' earnings, but it negatively affected the running advertising campaigns. So we sent 20% of yesterday's advertising spendings back to the campaigns' balances in order to compensate that.

Thanks for your patience and sorry for inconvenience.

New feature: dashboard for our users (publishers and advertisers)

We've deployed a new feature - user dashboard. It allows the user to control their ad units and campaigns in a single place.

Advertisers can see their campaigns and adjust their daily budgets without leaving the page. They can also deposit bitcoins to their user accounts (no need to fund individual campaigns any more).

Users' funds are being used to automatically top up their campaigns with respect to their daily budgets (daily budgets for old inactive campaigns have been set to zero).

Since we don't want to hold large amounts of users' money indefinitely, we withdraw them automatically according to the following rule:

IF
    there were no deposits during the last 30 days AND 
    there were no withdrawals during the last 24 hours AND
    user's balance is higher than the expected monthly expenses
THEN 
    withdraw the difference between the user's balance and the expected monthly expenses.

Automatic withdrawals occur only when the amount to be withdrawn is higher than the withdrawal threshold defined in the settings page.

Users can also withdraw all funds by clicking the button "Withdraw all funds". The minimum withdrawal amount is 0.0001 btc.