If you’ve visited catapult recently, you may have noticed the Google text ads on the issue and article pages. While we’ve resisted advertising to this point for practical and aesthetic reasons, we’re running a two month test with Google to see what kind of ads are served to our pages and what the possibility for revenue might be.
We’ll let you know in a few months what our verdict is; in the meantime, please feel free to give us your feedback on this venture.
Last modified: March 4, 2020
I wish we didn’t need to, but if that’s what it takes to keep *cino afloat, then lets do it. It doesn’t look too invasive to me. Besides, the system might actually work and link to useful, applicable sites.
Here’s hopin’!
do you get more revenue if we click on the ads?
Good question! We actually get paid in two ways: per-click and per-view. Advertisters pay a fee for each click and another per 1,000 views.
So far we’ve earned $.71 and served up an interesting assortment of ads (to say the least).
where’s the subscribe to firefox ad is what i want to know. that one would be useful for more people to click on!
The Firefox link is now on the catapult home page. *cino will earn $1 for every Windows user who downloads and installs Firefoxt for the first time on their machine.
Why Firefox? Well, primarily because it’s a browser that follows web standards and displays *cino pages correctly, unlike Internet Explorer which seems to abide by its own standards (driving web developers crazy). And, according to several articles I’ve read, it’s more secure than IE on Windows.