In the future, the company is also looking into the adult content like betting, porn and other publishers and advertisers that were dropped out of Facebook and Google. Targeting the crypto industry and adult contentĪdEx is targeting advertisers in the crypto industry. AdEx would have a validator in every channel, which will collect fees around 2-3% of the transactions volume.ĪdEx is aiming to get at least 1% of the whole digital advertisement market, which for 2018 has a volume of around $100B (60% of which is now taken by Google and Facebook). While publishers and advertisers are saving money, validators are earning fees, which is equivalent to the transaction fee in Ethereum. On the other hand, micropayments provide liquidity, meaning that the publisher can access all the funds that were generated, without any threshold. This way advertisers and publishers have a clear view of the transaction history at every moment. Every impression triggers a microtransaction, which provides high transparency and the safety that if a transaction happened you would get your money. The payments are transferred through the Ethereum network, using the DAI stable coin. It is the same with publishers, who might earn twice as much. When it comes to advertisers, AdEx’s unique selling point (USP) is that their solution removes the middleman and saves up to 50% of the budget spend on advertising.
One of the characteristics that outline AdEx is that they do not store users’ data, without taking the opportunity of the advertisers to target their audience. Build on Ethereum blockchain, the platform connects publishers and advertisers without intermediaries on a decentralized ad exchange. Saving up to 50% of the advertising budgetĪdEx is a trust-minimized solution for digital advertising, that grants transparency reporting to all of the involved sides. The company has remote team members from the Netherlands, Nigeria, and Gibraltar and is aiming to attract five new talents by the end of the year. Half of the team is technical, the other one is communications and biz devs.
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The extended team of Smart Code has 15 people, ten of whom are working full-time on AdEx. The whole budget of the ICO was between $15-30K (the big gap is because all the payments were in crypto, which is highly volatile), which was quite a little budget, as “by the end of 2017 there were ICOs that took millions to be launched,” clarifies Georgiev.Ĭurrently, AdEx and Stremio are sharing their developers through a third venture, called Smart Code. It took them two mounts of intensive preparation, which resulted in reaching their hard cap of $10M in only eight hours. In mid-2017, AdEx was able to prepare for an ICO. As the team was already into the crypto philosophy it was their next logical step to raise capital.
It all happened with the support of Bitmain, who has introduced them to the ICO concept.
The first announcement of AdEx was made in December 2016, which according to Georgiev put them among the first three companies that were introducing advertisement on the blockchain. Two years after their Initial Coin Offering (ICO), one beta behind and a lot of lessons learned, AdEx is launching their new platform. At that point, the team combined their disappointment with their knowledge about the crypto world and decided to build their own solution. At the same time, there was no transparency, no track record and at the end, the providers even try to scam them, by giving false data. The company started looking through different networks, but they all got a large percentage of what an advertiser pays. “The only way to monetize the streaming service of Stremio was through advertising,” says Georgiev. This was the moment the team had its first touch to the crypto world. After a few years of bootstrapping the company was able to secure funding from the China-based Bitmain, the world’s largest designer that produces chips (ASIC) for bitcoin mining. In 2015, Georgiev founded Stremio, a service that combines video content from different sources. “The reasons why we choose to do it, was that we already had the connections, it was the right moment and we had a very bad experience from VC funding”, explains Ivo Georgiev, CEO of the decentralized advertising platform AdEx.
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