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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: grizzly admin on January 30, 2013, 04:19 pm

Title: Advertisement on TOR
Post by: grizzly admin on January 30, 2013, 04:19 pm
Grizzly search engine launched advert-engine so its possible to promote your services there. No private info needed. Bitcoins only. Refunds are possible. Statistics available. No pedos.

Grizzly search engine
http://grizzlykijswtj2x.onion

Ad might be placed here
http://grizzlykijswtj2x.onion/#/advertise
Title: Re: Advertisement on TOR
Post by: grizzly admin on February 13, 2013, 09:18 pm
Grizzly search engine launched advert-engine so its possible to promote your services there. No private info needed. Bitcoins only. Refunds are possible. Statistics available. No pedos.

Grizzlye search engine
http://grizzlykijswtj2x.onion

Is there anyone who were thinking about advertising with Grizzly search engine? If so, what stopped you? Please feel free to tell what was bothering you. Were there any problems with creating an ad? Payment methods? Security issues? Any actual feedback is highly appreciated.
Title: Re: Advertisement on TOR
Post by: chris_dolmeth on February 13, 2013, 09:46 pm
could you disclose the kind of traffic it gets?
Title: Re: Advertisement on TOR
Post by: grizzly admin on February 13, 2013, 11:03 pm
could you disclose the kind of traffic it gets?

58000+ searches so far since Grizzly started in the middle of January.
There is a a search queries counter on the main page. Than there is a chart on the Advertisement page (see "Grizzly stats" chart and place mouse pointer over the columns here: http://grizzlykijswtj2x.onion/#/advertise/ ). It shows search queries for the last 15 days.

Unique IPs or simple visit counters are pretty much useless within TOR. That's why Grizzly uses search queries counter instead. It shows how many times someone actually used Grizzly for its purpose... and saw the results page... with ads on them...
Title: Re: Advertisement on TOR
Post by: chris_dolmeth on February 13, 2013, 11:11 pm
awesome, would you mind pm'ing me with pricing information?

best regards
Title: Re: Advertisement on TOR
Post by: grizzly admin on February 13, 2013, 11:46 pm
awesome, would you mind pm'ing me with pricing information?

best regards

It's not a secret either. :) Minimal price or so called bid is 0,0001 BTC per view (single impression) and there are only three ad spots there. With future rotation in mind, so technically there are more.

Basically if someone places an ad with default bid (0,0001 BTC per impression), and than another someone bids 0,0003 BTC for his/her ad, the latter is shown. The one with 0,0001 bid just waiting for that other campaign to end though. And if no-one bids more meanwhile, his/her ad is shown.

Simply put, minimal price is still 0,0001 BTC per single view until someone is willing to pay more. In the end market itself dictates the price. It's a sort of generalized second-price auction.
Title: Re: Advertisement on TOR
Post by: grizzly admin on February 25, 2013, 08:26 pm
Small but useful update. We've added Grizzly bookmarks on the mainpage to improve your Grizzly experience. Hope you'll find it useful. Grizzly search engine is here: http://grizzlykijswtj2x.onion/
Title: Re: Advertisement on TOR
Post by: grizzly admin on April 04, 2013, 08:17 am
Bye from Grizzly

Grizzly was always meant as a business opportunity. Now it's clear it failed. Since it has no actual commercial value (no advertisers) and according to our aversion to the donation system we decided to kill The Bear. Grizzly is going out of business. This is the last couple of days for Grizzly search engine. Enjoy and... ТHANKS FOR ALL THE FISH.

PS. Special thanks goes to Demonfifa, the one and only advertiser to try Grizzly for commercial use. Thank you for that. He and his reliable services (credit cards for example) can be found at Black Market Reloaded.
Title: Re: Advertisement on TOR
Post by: grizzly admin on April 04, 2013, 07:58 pm
Here are some numbers some might find useful or just interesting:

- main page visits since our launch in January - 230 000++
- search queries since the launch - 120 000++
- advertisement page views - ~230