I recently added the ability to display banner ads in
CGWatcher, a free GUI and monitor for cgminer and bfgminer (most popular mining software), in order to advertise my new project,
CGRemote. Being a GUI, CGWatcher is something that is watched or checked often throughout the day by most miners, and as of this post it is running on over
14,000 28,000 computers (the count shown on
www.cgwatcher.com is updated in real-time and only includes version 1.3.1 and newer when I began collecting usage stats). I designed the banner ad system so that I could add additional ads at any time, without requiring a software update. Ads are displayed in rotation, one per hour. The default duration is 30 seconds. Both the duration and frequency are customizable. Ads can be closed by the user by clicking an X in the corner, or can be clicked on to open the website of the product.
Along with CGWatcher's in-app ads, I can also display banner ads on the CGWatcher download page, which is currently getting
10,000+ 20,000 views per week (and climbing).
If there are any problems that prevent the ads from being displayed, I will refund the full amount. I would suggest setting up landing pages to determine its effectiveness since it will not be apparent in referrals. This way you can decide if the ad is bringing you visitors when it comes time to renew it.
If you don't have thousands of dollars to spend on a Bitcointalk ad, want to throw some pocket change into additional marketing, or just want to support CGWatcher and CGRemote development while giving some attention to your product, CGWatcher may be a good platform. I am only looking to help legitimate products or services.
You can find more information on CGWatcher at
http://www.cgwatcher.com or its Bitcointalk posts:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=185553.220 and
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159267.340 (newbies)
More information on advertising specifically and how stats are collected:
http://manotechnology.blogspot.com/p/advertise.htmlUpdated stats: CGWatcher is now running on 28,000 computers, and its download page is getting around 20,000 views/week. These stats have doubled in two weeks. If you're looking to reach miners, feel free to PM me. I'd like to get some feedback and want to help good products get some attention. I can verify all statistics are accurate. The platform is already there... I might as well do something with it.
468x60 banner ad in rotation inside CGWatcher: 0.1 BTC/month
Text ad at top of
www.cgwatcher.com: 0.2 BTC/month
Open to offers, especially if I think you have a great product or service.