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Rules

There is no ad network here, no revenue share and no account. You pay to stand above everyone else, and you stand there until somebody pays more.

How ranking works

  • Bids are whole dollars, from $5 to $999,999.
  • Taking #1 costs $5 more than the current top bid. Paying less still puts you on the board, at whatever rank that bid reaches.
  • Passing anyone else costs $1 more than their bid.
  • Equal bids keep the order they were placed — the older bid ranks higher.
  • Rank is not stored, it is worked out from what everybody paid. So buying #1 pushes the old #1 to #2, #2 to #3, and so on all the way down. Nobody is removed; the listing at the bottom simply loses its screen.
  • Enter the same URL or @handle again to raise your listing. You are charged only the difference, and nobody can take your rank by paying that difference.
  • There is no expiry. A listing holds its rank until it is outbid.

What rank buys you

  • #13 Plaza jumbotron, 46 m and 23 m wide.
  • #421 Plaza wall, 21 m down to 18 m wide.
  • #22111 Building facade, 17 m down to 11 m wide.
  • #112186 Street level, 8.4 m wide.
  • #187300 Sidewalk poster, 4.2 m wide.
  • No screen is ever larger than one with a lower number, and among screens of the same size the one nearer the plaza comes first. Rank is the quality of the spot.
  • Below #300 there is no screen in the city. The listing still appears on the board with a live link.

What you can list

  • A product website, or an X @handle.
  • Group and invite links are fine — Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord and the rest. They are keyed by their invite code, so two groups are two listings.
  • No porn, NSFW or adult platforms.
  • Link shorteners are rejected. Paste the URL they point at instead, so the board shows where a click actually goes.
  • Query strings are stripped, so affiliate, referral and tracking URLs will not work. The one exception is the Play Store’s app id, which identifies the app.
  • App Store, Play Store, GitHub and YouTube links are keyed by their path, so two apps are two listings rather than one fight over a domain.

What goes on your screen

  • Leave everything blank and the screen shows a text card: your name, a line of copy, the price and the click count, all read off your page.
  • Write the name and that line yourself instead — up to 60 and 200 characters. What you write always wins over what we read; leaving one empty does not disable the other.
  • Or give it artwork: upload a file, drag one onto the field, or paste a link. JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, MP4 and WebM all work, and it fills the screen. GIFs and videos loop.
  • A YouTube link works too. Its player is a cross-origin iframe and can never be painted into the scene, so the screen shows the video’s thumbnail and the real player is laid over the panel for whoever is standing closest.
  • Video and YouTube start muted. Every such screen carries its own speaker, and turning one on turns off whichever was playing — one at a time.
  • Every screen is 16:9, so artwork made for one rank still fits when you are outbid down to another. Anything not 16:9 is scaled to fit and letterboxed, never stretched.
  • Uploads are capped at 8 MB for images, 12 MB for GIFs and 40 MB for video, and are identified by their contents rather than their file name.

After you pay

  • A completed payment is what claims a rank. Nothing is held before that.
  • Clicks go to the URL you submitted, with a utm_source and nothing else added.
  • Click counts are measured on the redirect, not in the browser, and once per viewer per listing per hour — so the number you are paying against cannot be inflated by anyone, including you.
  • Every one of these numbers is public at /stats, with how it is counted written next to it.