Presearch Weekly News & Updates #136 — September 8th, 2023

Presearch

4 min readSep 8, 2023

This Week in Review

Find out about the latest progress with Presearch this week! Let’s start with the highlights…

315 million PRE staked!
Token value ~$0.027 / 1 bit
82.5k staked / 69.2k active nodes
CMC = 720, Coingecko = 880
Dev: autocomplete beta, ad integrations, email marketing integrations, Cosmos research/planning, search API
Weekly Wins
Marketing update
Monetization update
Roadmap update
Community questions

Weekly Wins

We make great progress every week, but these are the Weekly Wins we’re most excited about!

Presearch added to Android Choice Screen for third year!
Autocomplete ads now live
Potential bot traffic removed from network.presearch.com
CryptoPanic traffic swap
CoinRateCap.com traffic swap
UI/UX review completed
Community member Srikanth releases NodeMate app for iOS
Alkimi decentralized ads live in preview
Bitcoin.com promotion begins

Marketing update

We’re spreading the word to drive more users and increase the number of searches!

Android Search Choice
For third year, Presearch included in 32 countries — currently awaiting revision to app to be integrated.
Partnerships in works
Lots of traffic swap partnerships coming together.
Social media campaigns
Continuing to refine and expand social media efforts to reach new users and stay top-of-mind with those who already know Presearch.
Email marketing work
Starting next week, new users will receive an autoresponder email when they join, prompting them to install browser extensions and apps.
Video marketing
We’ve begun working on a viral video campaign to significantly increase awareness of Presearch and drive more usage.
Marketing campaign
Continuing to do foundational work to set Presearch up for a successful ongoing marketing campaign. We’ll be opening this up for community feedback shortly.
UI/UX refresh
A great refresh to make experience stickier is under way. Expect this to go live in October.
Searches steadying
A number of factors — rewards, reporting changes, seasonal changes — have lead to lower traffic volumes in the 1.5m — 2m searches per day range. Uncompensated searches have almost doubled YoY.

Monetization update

Presearch is ramping up monetization to ensure we reach our potential as a leading search business with a sustainable and regenerative token ecosystem

Homepage takeovers
Presearch has secured additional partnerships with CryptoPanic, CoinRateCap, StealthEx and others in the works.
Alkimi ad network
Alkimi decentralized ad network should go live next week.
Expanding ad networks
With the integration of a new Prebid server, we can easily expand to include additional ad networks. Working on getting access to private Microsoft ads similar to DuckDuckGo.
eBay revenue share increased
eBay continues to be excited about the partnership and this week proactively increased our commission rates.
New autocomplete monetization unit
The new autocomplete ad unit is now in place and driving revenue.
Onboarding team members
We are working to onboard new team members and ramp them up.