Presearch Weekly News & Updates #146 — November 17th, 2023

Presearch
4 min readNov 17, 2023

This Week in Review

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

  • 327 million PRE staked!
  • PRE value ~$0.025 / 0.7 bits
  • 80.5k staked / 65.7k active nodes
  • CMC = 820, Coingecko = 995
  • Dev: new design work, monetization, bug fixes, community search engines
  • Weekly Wins
  • Marketing + monetization and takeover ad update
  • Community questions

Weekly Wins

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

  1. UI refresh now live on production
  2. Flexible Takeover Ads now live
  3. Cosmos devs, Webisoft, hired
  4. New PTA for Bumper.com
  5. New PTA for Inspect.xyz
  6. 6 additional advertisers this week
  7. 3–7x clickthrough rate for PTAs
  8. TakeAds revenue 2x (logo/coupons)
  9. Cosmos devs, Webisoft, hired to complete discovery sprint

Development update

Lots of work this week on implementing the design refresh and migrating from homepage to full-site takeover ads, plus dealing with an outage on one of the gateway servers while deploying the changes

Marketing & Monetization update

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

  • Takeover ads are now live
  • Full-site takeover ads are now ready for use, increasing ad inventory by 10x and opening up new targeting options, including:

- Mobile /desktop
- Homepage / search results pages
- Dark mode / light mode creative

  • This set of changes makes takeover ads significantly more valuable and opens a world of opportunity for Presearch and its advertisers.
  • Staking Rewards calculator
  • The new StakingRewards calculator was previewed this week. There’s one more change to make and then it’s going live.
  • New affiliate network
  • Presearch is now working with performance marketing network, Belboon, to monetize further via affiliate offers.
  • Call for Search API reps
  • Looking for community members to work on acommission basis to help promote the search API to potential customers, so we can monetize as the product gets finalized.
  • Looking for more sales reps for takeover ads
  • If you are constantly thinking about ways to grow the Presearch user base, please contact collaborate@presearch.io and let’s talk about how you may be able to assist.
  • Growth team opportunities
  • Still growing the growth team as well — collaborate@presearch.io if you’re interested.

Takeover ad stats

Click through rates for takeover ads exceed industry averages for display ads. Here are some early results.

If you have questions, please join one of our Community links below

Run a node: https://nodes.presearch.com
Keyword Stake: https://keywords.presearch.com
Info site: https://presearch.io
Search with Presearch: https://presearch.com
Project statistics: https://network.presearch.com/

Community channels:

Telegram: t.me/Presearch
Presearch Community website & get involved: https://community.presearch.io/
X: https://twitter.com/presearchnews
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Presearch/videos
Rumble: https://rumble.presearch.io
Discord: https://discord.presearch.io
Minds: https://www.minds.com/presearch
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Presearch/
Twitter (Community): https://twitter.com/TeamPresearch
Telegram (News): t.me/PresearchNews
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presearch.io
Email: support@presearch.io
Interested in partnering? Send us an email at — promote@presearch.io

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