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Help yourself be seen on Ad Networks

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How to allow cross site/app tracking AdFreeway must be able to serve ads to our registered users and advertiser audiences. If we can’t do that then we can’t improve campaign performances which finance the rewards that benefit our members. Some of your phones and browsers might have settings configured to prevent the receipt of these ads which is impacting your visibility on Ad Networks and therefore, impacting your ability to earn and redeem. To become more visible on the Ad Network follow the steps below: Enable Cross-Site Tracking on your phone      iPhone Users Go to Settings on your iOS device Find Safari in your Settings menu Scroll down to Privacy & Security section, and ensure the Prevent Cross-Site Tracking slider is off     Android phone Users: Open Chrome application on your Android phone Tap on More right by the address bar, and go to Setting Go to the Privacy and Security tab Tap the Do Not Track option, and ensure the setting is off Enable Cross-Site Tracking on your c

Data-Assists for Advertisers are Fair-Trade for Users

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Application of real-time data to buy some component of programmatic media is useful compared to most platforms that execute 100% of media buys in retrospect. The cookie is widely used after the 'horse has bolted', in retrospect, which explains why many ads keep appearing well after a purchase or interaction. AdFreeway introduced data-assists which are an instance of user provided, prospective data obtained during a programmatic advertising campaign that is associated with an advertisers desired outcome for their ad impression. These data-assists are reported as an event of the impression which is reported to advertisers and the user, with payment. It works because votes discover cohort identifiers that cluster with the voter. The discovered identifiers are rarely in the advertisers audience and the voted ad unit is rapidly delivered on the first available brand-safe impression. This just-in-time approach discovers new customers, ensures freshness and a responsiveness that gives

AdFreeway Social - Pointers

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  Over the past few weeks we've been excited to work with the first approved users. Every day they enthusiastically uploaded content, voted regularly and increased their individual earnings. We learned some important things from this first group and applied our learning. We have now opened it to all registered users.  AdFreeway Social is supported by advertisers and agencies whose ad campaigns benefit from the important data our Social users generate. With increased advertiser support comes our ability to payout more rewards. There are several ways AdFreeway users earn including; voting, uploading, votes received on uploaded content and performance-rewards from data applied to ads. There are a few key rules for AdFreeway Social worth noting; 1. Vote once earn once. Earnings per vote rises of falls based on a users uploads to votes ratio. To maximize earnings a user must keep uploading. 2. Upload once, earn many times. Rewards for votes received on each upload can vary considerably.

Socially Responsible Advertising

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  The social movement away from Web 2.0 is a paradigm shift. Its taking place around a unique token that is issued to record and report a database-transaction. The issued token should be directed to benefit a user whose data was involved in steps that led to a commercial event or goal. If the token, issued to the user, can be exchanged for some financial benefit it is Web3 compliant.   Web3 principles will move a share of revenue to users, acknoweldge their contribution and quickly penetrate blockchains for cryptocurrencies, NFT's and reward platforms. This video explainer covers all these points, the most important being that users get paid. AdFreeway is leading the way toward socially responsible advertising that gives all participants a financial stake in transactional outcomes. Agencies and brands should be encouraged to adopt these practices, it'll be better for business and improve relationships with users, afterall they are the market.  @jessicaelawson Reply to @sythe

Ads In The Wild!

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At AdFreeway your location on the internet can be very important. Ad votes and rewards earned at AdFreeway.com, pay out a lower value than on ad votes on ads delivered to you in the wild. There can be a big difference! The wild means web sites and applications other than adfreeway.com  What's the difference? The face value on rewards you earn. For example the face value of vote and sign-up rewards earned from ads displayed at wild locations, other than adfreeway.com can be worth as much as 2X or more the values for the same actions at adfreeway.com . Your invitation to vote and earn Why is this? Its simple, AdFreeway is an environment for serving ads using programmatic advertising exchanges. There is less benefit to AdFreeway and its advertisers if you do most of your voting or clicking on AdFreeway.com. However, if you encounter an ad with an invitation to vote (like the image above) and that ad is delivered to you on a web site or application in the wild, be sure to take up the o

Lost Your Audience? AdFreeway Will Find It.

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Life for the cookie has reached the end making identification data increasingly ephemeral. Adjustments and technical challenges for users of cookie technology are significant. This will result in increased dependency on incumbents and the collective efforts of exchanges like The Trade Desk's Unified ID's.  Anticipating the shift  AdFreeway invested to research, develop, test and launch  an important component for every media buy that re-discovers lost audiences and extends reach without intensive intervention. Media buyers know how complicated it is to follow audiences and improve performance of each campaign creative by manually adjusting to optimize media spend. AdFreeway automated the entire process. The results have been exceptional. A|B|C creatives for 4 campaigns - orange arrows demonstrate third party audience extension for each creative. In the chart above, orange lines highlight third party incremental reach and purple bars vCTR performance of third party vs. first par

Aligning Agency, Advertiser and Audience

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It's time to discuss the elephant in the room, to quantify the value of a users' data to publishers, advertisers and to level the playing field. AdFreeway has made a start, a path toward a user driven value-exchange for data and participation that genuinely improves advertising campaign performances and underwrites the economics of audience rewards.  Advertisers are the eight hundred pound gorilla who want a friendly elephant, but publishers have often played host to tensions. The present rumblings between free-content, data-privacy and hosted-services, like social media and instant messaging are seismic. Data-privacy is in the sights of regulators trying to balance content that is provided free with host-publishers who exploit the market of advertisers looking for audiences. The free-content tradeoff for data-privacy is not as good as it once was. Choices abound and hosted-services should no longer exploit their massive private-data libraries without paying their users who com

AdFreeway Adgraph

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Is there a better way? I asked myself that question many times about advertising on the Internet. From 2000, during my time with Kazaa to 2010, with Skype now 2020 and we may just be ready! We tried several iterations, many different models, crossed technologies and standards, but it always came back to the right of the end user! Since Google first crawled the web, compliant web servers have entertained bots, users resigned themselves to rights exploitation all the while advertising standards shielded brands. Legacy media management systems of the first 15 years entrenched retrospective ad serving. To this day, the faithful cookie ensures a steady stream of similar product impressions - after you have completed your purchase! Cookie lifespan is ever shorter, squeezed by the big players to benefit their walled gardens and mobile media is strictly contained in applications, which make internet media increasingly attractive to big brands. That’s good, but how do things shape up for users