Frequently Asked Questions

Adbidvertiser is a crowd-powered advertising platform with two visibility levels. You can create an ad and, after approval, list it free in the Evergreen Directory without buying adbid rights. When you want ranked promotion, you can optionally buy and activate adbid rights for the Public Exposure Ledger and Top Sponsor competition. The paid product is measurable advertising exposure.

No. Anyone can view the Public Exposure Ledger, Evergreen listings, the current Top Sponsor, adverts, rankings, and countdowns without signing up. You need an account to create or manage a free listing, buy or activate adbid rights, or challenge the Top Sponsor.

No. Adbid rights are advertising credits only. They are not money, not stored value, and not an investment. You are buying advertising exposure, not a financial product. There is no passive income, guaranteed return, or cash-out.

Adbid rights are non-redeemable advertising credits used inside the platform. You hold them in two balances: inactive (bought, not yet on the ledger) and active (entered into the current round of the Public Exposure Ledger).

A 10% platform fee is added to every purchase. The rights purchase amount is credited to you as inactive adbid rights after the payment is confirmed.

USD purchases use the configured USD minimum of USD 5.00. NGN purchases are calculated differently: the NGN minimum is the rights purchase amount needed to buy at least 1.00 inactive adbid right before platform fee and VAT are added. At the current configured rate of NGN 1,400 per USD, that pre-fee, pre-VAT minimum is NGN 1,400.00. If VAT is enabled, VAT is added at checkout and tracked separately from adbid rights and platform fees.

No. Adbid rights are non-redeemable and non-refundable except where required by law. They cannot be sold back to the platform or exchanged for cash. See the Refund Policy for the full billing-error and failed-payment rules.

The default minimum entry into the Public Exposure Ledger is 1 active adbid rights. Activating rights is one-way: active rights cannot be moved back to inactive.

Challenge Score is all of your paid active rights in the current round. It determines whether you can depose the Top Sponsor. Rising Challengers are the nine eligible advertisers closest to the Top Sponsor and are ranked by Challenge Score; Exposure Score breaks ties, then earlier activation. Exposure Score is that same paid-active-rights base plus eligible referral, comeback, coupon, and share-load exposure boosts. All other eligible advertisers appear in the Public Exposure Ledger, ranked by Exposure Score; Challenge Score and earlier activation break ties. Visibility boosts never create Challenge Score, depose a sponsor, or trigger a reward.

No. Search and category tabs only filter the ordinary Public Exposure Ledger so visitors can discover relevant approved ads. Every result keeps its true Ledger # and the underlying Exposure Score ranking remains unchanged. The Top Sponsor and Rising Challengers stay in their own sections and are not rearranged by search. Advertisers can see aggregate search appearances, qualified search views, clicks, and shares in their Exposure Report, but visitors' raw search phrases are not stored or shown.

When country ledgers are enabled, every eligible advertiser remains ranked internationally and also appears in the ledger for their registered primary advertising market. A visitor may initially see their country ledger, then the site can switch to International after a short delay unless the visitor is interacting. Country selection affects viewing and country-level competition; it does not change an advertiser's registered country by IP.

No. Your full paid-active-rights base counts in both International and your primary-country ledger. Country and International can have separate Top Sponsor contests, countdowns, and reservations, but they do not split your paid-active-rights score into separate country and International balances.

It is the amount locked for one specific Top Sponsor position. A reservation prevents those active rights from being freely used for another spotlight, but it does not reduce or divide your paid-active-rights base score. The next challenge target is different again: it is the amount a challenger must meet or exceed, including the configured Top Sponsor bonus.

If admin enables country badges and the advertiser allows it, public cards show a compact flag and ISO code for the advertiser's primary advertising market.

For privacy, the public ledger shows only the last three letters of your first name, with the rest replaced by * (for example, "Michael" appears as "***ael").

You challenge the current Top Sponsor by reserving enough paid active rights to meet or exceed the next challenge target. On success your ad takes the spotlight, the countdown resets, a 20% bonus raises the amount the next challenger must beat, and challenges lock briefly.

If a funded challenge validly deposes you, your reserved spotlight rights come back as a Deposition Return — expiring inactive adbid rights usable for the round you were deposed plus 2 more rounds — plus a Comeback Boost to the ledger scope in which you were deposed for that round plus 1 more. These are advertising credits only, never cash.

If you enable auto-reactivation in your profile, returned inactive rights from a valid deposition can become active again automatically where the platform rules allow it. This move is irreversible: active rights cannot be changed back manually and expire when the round ends. They can return as expiring inactive rights only if you are later validly deposed from a Top Sponsor spotlight before that round ends. You can turn this preference off in your profile.

Then the round expires, your active rights for that round expire, and nothing further is owed — you received exactly what you paid for: premium advertising exposure for the duration you held the spot.

Shared cards open the live ledger focused on the shared advertiser, so viewers see the actual current ledger context instead of a detached landing page. Share links can target International or a country ledger where available.

If admin enables verified share-load bonuses, qualified destination-page loads can award exposure bonus credits subject to daily and lifetime caps. Share rewards are visibility credits only. They cannot be withdrawn or used as cash.

Coupons can award inactive adbid rights or bonus exposure credits, depending on how admin creates them. Each coupon can have an expiry date, redemption limit, instant termination, and per-user redemption controls. Coupon and promotional credits are tracked separately from ordinary paid-purchase accounting.

When someone you referred activates paid adbid rights, you earn a 20% referral exposure boost based on their activated amount. It increases your Exposure Score and visibility only.

Yes. Referral boost that counts toward your Exposure Score is capped at 100% of your own paid active rights. Excess is banked and can unlock as you activate more of your own rights. Boosts expire after a set number of rounds or 30 days.

No. Referral boost cannot be used to depose a Top Sponsor, cannot trigger or increase any reward, and cannot be redeemed for cash. Self-referrals are not allowed.

These values come from current platform settings and may change for future activity.

Yes. Ads are reviewed to prevent scams, impersonation, illegal products, hate or harassment, misleading financial claims, and unsafe links. Admin may approve, reject, suspend, or limit an ad. You can report any ad you believe breaks the rules.

Use the Contact page. Messages reach our team directly, and we reply to the email you provide.

When the upgraded ad library is enabled, you can save multiple ads. Every activation, challenge, spotlight commitment, score, alert and automation rule belongs to the specific approved ad you choose. Changing your default ad does not move rights, scores or history away from another ad.

Changes to public ad copy, public display name or media create a new version for moderation. The last approved version can remain public while the revision is pending. Removing a CTA link or changing only the path or query on the same previously approved hostname may be approved automatically. Category, taxonomy and state or region coverage are classification metadata: changing them is audited but does not by itself return the ad content to moderation.

Ads are assigned to the deepest available matching subcategory. Opening a parent includes ads in every descendant category, while official economic order is preserved. In a country market, viewers can combine category, search and a state or region filter at any category depth. Countrywide ads may match a selected region, but only regions with an explicitly assigned eligible ad are advertised as public region choices.

An approved ad can remain in the clearly labelled Evergreen Directory when it has no active rights in the current round. Evergreen is discovery only: it creates no Challenge Score, cannot challenge or depose a sponsor, reserves no rights and earns no spotlight reward. Advertisers may have to reconfirm a listing periodically. Activating rights for that ad promotes it into the paid competitive tier for the round.

An exposure reward that is not assigned to an ad stays in your account-level growth wallet. It does not affect any ad's Exposure Score until you permanently assign it to an eligible approved ad.

Yes, where enabled. Each saved ad can use its own card image or GIF and its own gallery images. Uploaded images are compressed against the configured size limit, and animated GIFs must comply with the configured slide count, frame rate, minimum slide delay and loop duration.

The compact view card remains the public ledger format. Where gallery media or a supported video link exists, clicking the card can open a larger detail view with the full ad description, image gallery controls, and a click-to-load external video area.

No. The platform accepts supported YouTube or Instagram video URLs only, where enabled. Videos are click-to-load and remain hosted by the external provider. Viewers can report a video mismatch if the video content does not match the approved ad.