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Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« on: January 16, 2018, 05:16:21 PM »
I propose that we place a banner ad on the Bitcointalk forum for ~8-11 days
(but wait until we have an exchange back online)

Bitcointalk currently has 1,686,605 Members
and is now ranked a top 1,000 website globally by Alexa

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I noticed the Bitcointalk Forum has ads every now and then inbetween thread posts,
there is an auction held by an admin every ~8-11 days,
there are 9 slots, minimum bid is 0.02 BTC, bids can only be multiples of 0.02 BTC

Current Round #233: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2716553.0
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats

Each slot gets 2-4+ million impressions over 8-11 days

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Previous Winning Bids:

Auction #232
4 0.14 ChipMixer
2 0.12 Blocklancer
3 0.10 Aengus

Auction #231
3 0.14 FortuneJack
4 0.14 ChipMixer
2 0.12 Aengus

So this would come out to ~1.5k-2k for one slot for 2-4 million impressions over 8-11 days

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The banner ad has to be HTML/CSS (and not just an image file),

Our Logo Design files: https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/7asnaa/new_coin_logo_zip_of_images/

BiblePay Colors: Red (Maroon) #971b20, Yellow (Gold) #e2ae24, White #ffffff

Potential Banner Ad Contents:
BiblePay Symbol and Name
"10% of mined coins go to Charity"
"Masternodes now live"

Potential Links:
Main Website: http://biblepay.org/
Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.0
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BiblePay

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Current Banner Ad (In Progress):

fox123me:
http://fozy.altervista.org/bbp-banner.html

The previous banner by fox123me was rejected for being one large image,
so he changed it to be just a small image for the logo/name
and the rest is CSS, he requested help with the CSS though, hes totally new to it

Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/7ndg5g/bitcointalk_banner_ad_need_htmlcss_skills/

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QUESTIONS:

1. What should the banner say? What should it look like?

2. Should we have multiple links?

3. Anyone with CSS skills that could help?
3a. What is a good way to find someone with CSS skills?

4. Is the cost worth the amount of impressions?

Z. Any feedback? concerns? ideas? Anything I missed?


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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2018, 02:31:41 AM »
I'll ask around for someone with CSS-skills :)


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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2018, 01:01:19 PM »
I'll ask around for someone with CSS-skills :)

Okay, I found a CSS professional. Do you know the best way to contact fox123me?


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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2018, 01:22:01 PM »
Okay, I found a CSS professional. Do you know the best way to contact fox123me?

https://www.reddit.com/user/fox123me

fox was also okay with someone taking his work and running with it,
so fox doesnt neccessairly have to be in the loop per se

This was the 1st banner that was rejected for being a full image: http://fozy.altervista.org/banner.html
But it looks a lot nicer then the current CSS one: http://fozy.altervista.org/bbp-banner.html



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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2018, 01:49:58 PM »
https://www.reddit.com/user/fox123me

fox was also okay with someone taking his work and running with it,
so fox doesnt neccessairly have to be in the loop per se

This was the 1st banner that was rejected for being a full image: http://fozy.altervista.org/banner.html
But it looks a lot nicer then the current CSS one: http://fozy.altervista.org/bbp-banner.html

Thanks! I've contacted fox and will post updates when needed :)


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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2018, 03:02:49 AM »
Fox hasn't responded to my message, so I guess I'm gonna do this on my own. I have no idea what I have to do though. Does someone know what the requirements for the banner are, or where I can find them?

I shall than adjust the banner to make sure it's ready when needed.


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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2018, 04:49:05 AM »
Fox hasn't responded to my message, so I guess I'm gonna do this on my own. I have no idea what I have to do though. Does someone know what the requirements for the banner are, or where I can find them?

I shall than adjust the banner to make sure it's ready when needed.

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for (haven't been around for very long here on the forums) but this is what I had seen that had some requirements:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2785868.0

Also it seems dimension-wise, most of them are 900px x 40px if you cared for that information as well.


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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2018, 09:51:10 AM »
Bad News on this, Theymos the head forum admin and the one who runs the advertising campaign every week, he rejected BiblePay saying that we are an ICO

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2785959.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2795166

So I took the steps he requested and sent him 2 messages afterwards explaining we are not an ICO, but he has not responded in a very long time... I feel like we are being targeted/discriminated against, and on top of that, adrianbits, a known hater of the project, keeps bashing the public Meta thread calling us a scam, I cant set a Meta thread as moderated sadly.


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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2018, 01:28:00 AM »
Thanks for the link Laurie :) And adrianbits is a sour person, don't know why...

Togo, if you ever get an approval, I'll look at the banner. Just let me know.


Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2018, 04:37:26 AM »
Bad News on this, Theymos the head forum admin and the one who runs the advertising campaign every week, he rejected BiblePay saying that we are an ICO

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2785959.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2795166

So I took the steps he requested and sent him 2 messages afterwards explaining we are not an ICO, but he has not responded in a very long time... I feel like we are being targeted/discriminated against, and on top of that, adrianbits, a known hater of the project, keeps bashing the public Meta thread calling us a scam, I cant set a Meta thread as moderated sadly.

You can simply delete the thread and that's what I would do, because what is the purpose of that thread now?

But yeah, this looks like discrimination of sorts, I am refusing to believe that theymos, with so many years of experience in the field, can say that we're an ICO. And he will not take a second look. I don't know what to say...


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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2018, 03:42:59 PM »
I dont think I can delete a thread, I think I can only delete the original post and change the title,
I think only admins can delete threads sadly

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I just sent Theymos another message, I havent heard back from him for over 2 weeks,
I compiled all the previous messages together to give him a recap, hopefully I will be able to change his mind


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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2018, 09:25:25 AM »
Hello everybody,

Sorry for the delay in replying your messages, but I've had some setbacks.
I tried to make a dynamic banner, but the result is a disaster. I hope that with the help of your friend Jaap you can do a good job.
As I have already explained to Togo I'm not a programmer and I don't mean CSS or anything else. In fact, the first test 'banner1' contains many syntax errors, while the second test 'banner2' has a better script.  I have looked at examples from Bitcointalk and I have made some changes according to their suggestions.

Here you can see the result of my efforts:

http://fozy.altervista.org/banner1.html
http://fozy.altervista.org/banner2.html

Please, let me know if I can help you in any way.
Sorry for my bad english.


- I attach script.
Remark: remember to modify href of link in the HTML, with your CSS file URL.
« Last Edit: February 05, 2018, 10:20:54 AM by fox123me »


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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2018, 10:41:06 PM »


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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2018, 06:26:17 PM »
Thanks fox! Looks very nice.

If the bitcointalk ad campaign gets a green light in the future, I'll make sure the banners are compliant and without errors :)


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Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2018, 12:50:31 PM »
Theymos just rejected another Masternode coin from advertising, Argo Coin,
I dont think we are going to be able to change his mind any time soon.
Im going to give up on this for now,
I went through most of the history of these auctions, Ive never seen any coins advertised, its all cryptocurrency services: coin mixing, gambling, exchanges, etc
Im not sure if coins just dont know about this or what,
If we could get an advertisement on this it would be HUGE, but I dont think its going to happen, sorry.

My last post I wrote to him that he ignored:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2857537.msg29899769#msg29899769

His new ICO rules:
"[1]: For the purposes of forum ads, an ICO is any token, altcoin, or other altcoin-like thing which meets any of the following criteria: it is primarily run/backed by a company; it is substantially, fundamentally centralized in either operation or coin distribution; or it is not yet possible for two unprivileged users of the system to send coins directly to each other in a P2P way. The intention here is to allow community efforts to advertise things like Litecoin, but not to allow ICO funding, even when the ICO is disguised in various ways." -Theymos

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Do any of you know if there are other places we can advertise? Other popular cryptocurrency forums? etc?
« Last Edit: February 13, 2018, 12:53:56 PM by togoshigekata »