This looks awesome! Do you have any info about publisher payout rates, or how the revenue earned (like RPM) compares to, say, Adsense? I'm psyched to try it :)
Yes, publishers get payed 70% of our revenue compared to Adsense's 68%.
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Re: Show HN: ContextCue – Create and host private, ethical ads
#22I will 100% try this within the next weeks. I am ddg-ing every possible variation of "ethical adsense alternative" without any useful leads for months now.
You will have the same experience from this one :(
At least judging from their page where all they claim is ethically correct, not effectiveness.
Re: Show HN: ContextCue – Create and host private, ethical ads
#23I will 100% try this within the next weeks. I am ddg-ing every possible variation of "ethical adsense alternative" without any useful leads for months now.
You will have the same experience from this one :( At least judging from their page where all they claim is ethically correct, not effectiveness.
I haven't had an experience. That's the point. Most of my projects remain unmonetized for ethical reasons. The only thing I could find until now was tize[0], which is a completely different approach to advertising that didn't strike me as particularly circumspect.
Re: Show HN: ContextCue – Create and host private, ethical ads
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey there, I'm Corey one of the developers at ContextCue. Thanks for the feedback! ContextCue is run by me and 3 other developers out of Indianapolis, IN.
Hmm... If me and 3 designers would start a new project, we would use our original HN accounts to communicate. Put our names on the project and link to our other projects and social media presences. And we would for sure announce it on our Twitter accounts. None of this happened here. Why?
... maybe they didn't have HN accounts before?
Re: Show HN: ContextCue – Create and host private, ethical ads
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
You will have the same experience from this one :( At least judging from their page where all they claim is ethically correct, not effectiveness.
I haven't had an experience. That's the point. Most of my projects remain unmonetized for ethical reasons. The only thing I could find until now was tize[0], which is a completely different approach to advertising that didn't strike me as particularly circumspect. 0: https://tize.io/
Tize looks pretty cool. I will check it out more. Note to Tize branding folks, "get woke" as a call to action? Made me laugh but not sure if it was meant to be cheeky or not.
Re: Show HN: ContextCue – Create and host private, ethical ads
#26Good to see.
I always thought a way to have individually targeted ads but not give up privacy is for the user to indicate what topics they are or are not interested in. An agent could manage an anonymous profile somewhere that provided a identifying token that the user's browser provides in place of a tracking cookie.
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#27How do I know I can trust the numbers you give me as an Advertiser?
This is a great question, and a very important one.
The number of users referred to your site or product (based on traffic logs) should be similar to the number of ad clicks that you're charged for. This won't be 100% accurate due to some browsers removing the referral header, but there should be a strong correlation between the two.
I think ultimately though, it's about trust. I don't believe it's in our long term interest to attempt to defraud our partners as a company. We do well when our partners do well, and providing fake numbers will cause our partners to have a lower ROI, making them less likely to stay on our network.
It will take time for us to establish trust, but I believe that we won't be successfully unless both advertisers and publishers trust us.
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#28How are the ads served? Are you using Javascript or simple images? If it's the former I'm afraid there's no way to trust you (as the JS can change at any time and become malicious).
We use JavaScript to fetch the ads, but the ads themselves are static images. We went with static images for a few reasons.
1) Speed. There's no need to download a bunch of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
2) Security. No JS in the ads means no bitcoin mining on the ad network [1]
3) Privacy. Since we host all of the images/ads, advertisers can't inject their own tracking code.
If the JavaScript to load the ads is a non-blocker, send me an email and we can discuss other options.
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/now-e...
Re: Show HN: ContextCue – Create and host private, ethical ads
#29Just a heads up, you might want to look over your site. You've got a unfinished tag in the bottom "user data/p>", and several links don't work such as https://contextcue.com/pricing (After clicking the "start now" button it's linked to)
This should be resolved now. Thank you!
Re: Show HN: ContextCue – Create and host private, ethical ads
#30Who is this company which wants to help me deal with my customer's "trust issues"?
I really am interested in this advertising model because really hate what these trackers have turned the internet into, but when I can't even find a street address and phone number on their web page then that's a no-go for me.