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Users have been coerced to give up their private data rights in exchange for platform services like search engines, social networks and web sites. Being coerced may not seem too perverse, but the collective value of each users data is now the basis for several trillion dollars in corporate and shareholder valuations, with no financial benefit accruing to owners of that data.  Historically household data was aggregated by services like Nielsen. Contracts were entered with families who were paid to provide psycho-demographic information and media viewing habits over weeks, months and years. From the 1950's that data was purchased and analyzed to shape the massive industry that television became, but web-site terms and conditions changed the payment model for use of an individuals private data.   So, why should users continue to be singled out and exploited when platform services are being commoditized and the value of private data, in exchange for these services is no longe...

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...

We want to run more ad campaigns for advertisers in South Africa and around the world to bring you more vote and click rewards. If you've received rewards already and you want reward opportunities to increase you can help by sending encouraging messages on social media pages or to web sites to your favorite brands. It will be a big help to us and will increase the number of advertising campaigns we can offer rewards on.  You may not be aware that you are eligible to receive local and international click-rewards, but only local vote-rewards on AdFreeway advertising campaigns run in the country you live. The reason is that voters must be sensitized to local market conditions in order that their voting patterns are relevant for local advertisers. This relevance helps AdFreeway to serve the right ads to the right people at the right time. However, web sites you have visited that are in common with people in international markets could keep you earning click-rewards. Other than voting, ...

Why would AdFreeway pay $3 per vote on an advertisers campaign creatives? We do so because a balanced advertising ecosystem is more productive for brands and audiences.  AdFreeway's Audience AdGraph is better explained using data from the present education campaign in South Africa where we are pre-emptively educating defined audiences ahead of a display media campaign for WPP agency Yonder Media client.  Part 1 of campaign with 'Vote Now' invitation Part 2 with no 'Vote Now' invitation The primary campaign objective is 'Vote' - 'Like' or 'Dislike' earns the same reward, secondary is 'Click' which redirects to adfreeway.com/vote . Voters are rewarded R30 for the first vote and R15-R30 each subsequent vote and can redeem immediately. A|B|C creatives start out with equal campaign budgets but, rate of spend adjusts competitively based on impression URL's to audiences and votes. The display campaign running via The Trade Desk builds ...

AdFreeway will always value members who are unique individuals. However, we will also go to great lengths to filter and remove any applicants or members that are found not to be unique or are associated with fraudulent IP or email addresses. The reason for this is simple. We rely on a network of registered users whose opinions on ads can have meaningful impact to AdFreeway ads delivered via ad exchanges. In addition to the opportunities to vote and earn, registered members will also be eligible to receive bonuses from click-rewards. We intend that  these additional click-rewards will eventually become the more significant earnings component. They are sponsored by AdFreeway and its advertisers for the benefit of registered members who have played a direct or indirect role delivering ads to active audiences via AdFreeway's AdGraph algorithms.  Look out for your first click-reward, we will notify you by email when that takes place. Please be patient, as more advertisers adopt AdF...

It pays to vote and register at AdFreeway. Why is that? Because your registration allows you to keep earning from future ad campaigns whether you vote in those campaigns or not. We have already shown our registered users that, even after one year their connections in our AdGraph remain as relevant to current advertising campaigns and therefore their potential to earn continues. Initially we connect your temporary advertiser ID to other ID's based on associated URL's collected during our frequent attempts to buy and deliver you advertising impressions. Once you vote and register your URL's become permanent and can provide ongoing, important links in our AdGraph. These links may connect a vote preference to ID's to enhance the delivery of advertiser messages. In the image above like or dislike votes for the blue, brown or green ads can preferentially inform which ad to serve to which ID's, based on their URL overlaps with other ID's that are more likely to agree a...

We set out to socialize display media. To do so we spent two years testing an opinion and reward ad-graph to see if it would improve response. We build an algorithm to value and reward all opinions, but also to decide which opinions should prevail and earn more. Our ads continuously invite and reward audiences for instincts by voting on A, B or C ad-campaign creatives that inform ad-delivery and improve campaign performance. Like or dislike votes are associated with similar audiences in our databases and applied competitively to serve A and/or B and/or C ads to other users. Voters collect an instant, unconditional reward and additional performance rewards. An A, B or C ad served to similar audiences always entitles an originating voter to an additional performance reward when an ad recipient clicks the ad. If the voters’ vote is uniquely associated with the audience the voter receives the full reward value or it is shared by other voters with identical votes who are also in the ide...