Quote from: Gary13579 on March 05, 2012, 10:33:54 PM

Deposited 30.49293495 btc thus gaining ~60955 impressions, CPM = 0.50025076 btc
Paid 10.65445235 btc to affiliates thus gaining ~548597 impressions, CPM = 0.01942125 btc

am I right in reading this to mean that 30 BTC has been paid for bootstrapping, while only 10 BTC has been paid to affiliates? I know/understand that AA needs bootstrap BTC for income, but these numbers seem waaaay too out of whack. AA getting 75% of the BTC seems a bit much, doesn't it?

Thank you for your question and feedback. The system is yet in its infancy, it is too early to judge.

Just several days ago statistics looked very different. Amount deposited to bootstrap ads was about the same as amount paid to affiliates. Most of the money paid to affiliates were paid by me on behalf of advertisers (they show up in statistics as if they were paid by advertisers).

But several days ago 20 btc was deposited to bootstrap the ad of Dragon's tale, and it influenced statistics a lot. I am thankful to this advertiser because I have some spare btc now to support affiliates and to promote the service. Bootstrap deposits work for the whole billing cycle (30 days by default), but affiliates need to be supported on the daily basis.

Also it seems that advertisers started paying to affiliates themselves. For example, the ad of SteamCoin already paid to affiliates more than to anonymous ads. And we can see that it gets more unique impressions for less money.

It is good for affiliates, because I was paying them only ~0.3 btc daily, whereas advertisers pay much more.

I think that generally it is not a good idea for me to support affiliates on behalf of advertisers, because:
1) I don't know what visits are successful, only advertisers know it and can pay for it... If I pay, then I give incentive for fake clicks.
2) I don't want to interfere with advertisers that do it themselves and to reduce efficiency of their advertising campaign.

So I expect that in the long run affiliates will get much more than Anonymous Ads, and I will not have to support affiliates on behalf of advertisers at all.

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Which to me seems to imply we have only earned what advertisers have paid us, and that we've gotten none of the 30 BTC from bootstrapping.

Bootstrapping money are generally not supposed to go to affiliates (except 10% referral payment to affiliate that attracted the advertiser). But it is not correct to say that affiliates didn't get anything from 30 BTC. I used this money to support them and will be using if advertisers won't.