Window Sizes in Traffic Exchanges

I’ve got something interesting to show you. I tracked 178,862 hits yesterday from many exchanges (ok so I didn’t count that) and recorded the size of the browser windows the ad was being displayed in. Then made a headmap of it so you can see exactly which areas had the most view time:

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Dealing With Wasted Space

There are so many toolbars, browsers, computers, etc that your big monster screen might trick you into thinking your advertisements are great. In realitiy, there’s lots of wasted space happening:

See, out of my huge monitor only about half of it is showing your advertisement. OK so I don’t really surf with that many toolbars but [...]

Who’s Job Is It Anyway?

Sometimes things don’t work properly and owners don’t know about it. But who’s job is it to make sure it works? This is the topic for the day.
I’ve been noticing more and more things not working on exchanges. From big to small it seems the technical problems are coming up, and many times remaining unfixed [...]

Your Privacy is at Stake

I’m in the process of joining an exchange, I read the Privacy Policy and it all seems normal to me:
We will not sell, share, or rent personal information to others.
Sounds good right? Until you look above it where your referrer’s email address is. Oh, but guess what, I didn’t have a referrer. It gave me [...]

I’m calling this a Surfdown..

I’ve been in on this for a little while now, watching Jon Olson add a super cool new thing to ILoveHits. I’m calling it a Surfdown. The Surfdown is for surfing what the smackdown is for wrestling. Or something like that..
There are now brackets, and you surf against different people every day. All you have [...]

3 Things Every Owner Needs

There are literally hundreds of exchanges online today. Which means there are hundreds of owners out there too. I’ve tried my best to offer services to owners that will help them be better owners. The more quality exchanges we have online, the better our industry will look to those coming in.
#1 Traffic Exchange Owner Reports
This [...]