Basic :) Attention :) Token
Basic Attention Token radically improves the efficiency of digital advertising by creating a new token that can be exchanged between publishers, advertisers, and users. It all happens on the Ethereum blockchain.
The token can be used to obtain a variety of advertising and attention-based services on the BAT platform. The utility of the token is based on user attention, which simply means a person’s focused mental engagement.
The Challenge
Digital advertising is overrun by middlemen, trackers and fraud.
Users are abused
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Up to 50%of the average user’s mobile data is for ads and trackers, costingas much as $23 a month.
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Ads use about 5 seconds of mobile load time on average.
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Ads decrease phone battery life by as much as 21%.
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Privacy is violated when large media sites host up to 70 trackers.
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Malware (malvertisements, ransom-ware) is up 132% in one year.
Publishers are hurting
- Google and Facebook take 73% of all ad dollars and 99% of all growth.
- Revenue is recently down 66%.
- Bots inflicted $7.2 billion in fraud last year.
- Over 600 million phones and desktops run ad-blocking.
- Publishers cannot seamlessly monetize value added services.
Advertisers are losing
- Advertisers lack good information on what they are paying for.
- Marketers are often fooled by bogus websites and bots that commit fraud.
- Targeting is poor, making users more likely to ignore ads.
Blockchain Digital Advertising Introducing a decentralized, transparent digital ad exchange based on Ethereum Blockchain.
Stage 1: Brave Browser
Brave is a fast, open source, privacy-focused browser that blocks malvertisements, trackers, and contains a ledger system that anonymously captures user attention to accurately reward publishers.
Stage 2: Basic Attention Token
Stages 1 + 2 = A New Deal
The Brave browser knows where users spend their time, making it the perfect tool to calculate and reward publishers with BATs. This service creates a transparent and efficient Blockchain-based digital advertising market. Publishers receive more revenue because middlemen and fraud are reduced. Users opt-in to an inclusive and rewarding private ad experience. And advertisers get better data on their spending.
Measuring Attention
Attention is measured as users view ads and content in the browser’s active tab in real time. The Attention Value for the ad will be calculated based on incremental duration and pixels in view in proportion to relevant content, prior to any direct engagement with the ad. We will define further anonymous cost-per-action models as the system develops.
Ads are then anonymously matched with customer interests using local machine learning algorithms. This means fewer irrelevant ads.
More Privacy, Less Fraud
We plan to mitigate possible ad fraud through the use of cryptography, better client-side integrity, and transparency achieved through open source.
Up and Running
Much of the infrastructure required to deploy BAT at the back end is up and running, meaning it’s currently in place and being used to distribute donations to publishers based on customer attention. Use it today in the Brave Browser for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
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