EthicalAds Newsletter - September 2022

September was a record month in terms of revenue, publisher revenue, and paid ads delivered!

New features

These are the major features we released in September:

• We released a couple cool pieces of content including a retrospective in dealing with some ad scammers impersonating open source developers and a privacy teardown of search engines.
• We released our Q4 prospectus. One significant change here was to further breakdown prices in Europe so we can deliver advertisers exactly what they're looking for at a fair price.
• One of the suggestions we got about our contextual targeting model was to spend more time and resources on training. As a result, we trained a version in the cloud on GPUs and it does seem to perform quite a bit better. That effort started last month and should roll out in October.

You can always see our latest server updates in our ethical-ad-server changelog and ethical-ad-client changelog.

September advertising stats

In September 2022:

• We generated $47,493.48 for our publishers. This was our highest publisher revenue month ever!
• We had 145 publishers on our network with at least one paid ad impression.
• We had 21,384,298 paid ad views across the world.

Our big push on marketing in August really paid dividends in September. Last month, I suggested that September would be a very good month and it was a record by all our metrics. I don't expect October to be quite as good as September for a few reasons, but it will still be a very strong month.

Upcoming features

The major features in our upcoming roadmap for October:

• We plan to put our GPU-trained model into production. In testing, it has shown considerably improved accuracy over our existing model.
• We are creating a campaign pricing calculator to help advertisers put together a campaign that meets their advertising goals and their budget.
• This month, both Eric and I will be at Djangocon US in San Diego. If you're coming to the conference, please stop by and say hello!

Thanks again for being along with us on this journey to build an ethical ad network. Please email us if you have any ideas or feedback on our product or roadmap, we always love to hear from you.