User Guide


  1. Create Account
    • Click on New user? (top right)
    • Enter required fields
    • On your email you will get verification link which confirms that you are the owner of the provided email address.
    • All the communication with TIME.mk will be done through that email.
  2. Upload your ads
    • Choose the resolution, link of your target web page and upload your ad (image or flash animation with the selected resolution)
    • All ads on TIME.mk must be approved. After your ad is approved you can use it on an offer
    • You can't place money on an offer until you choose an ad for that offer
    • You can't delete an ad that is connected to an active offer
  3. Load your Pre-Paid account
    • In the main menu, choose Account and then Buy credit
    • Use Moneybookers to load your pre-paid conto on Ad.Time.mk
  4. Bid for the offers (with TimeShare and TimeAuction)
    • There are two types of methods for buying ad space on our web sites. (- Both methods are patent pending -)
      • If you want an exclusive right on some ad position then you should use the auction method (not all positions are offered via auction method).
        More info in the section TimeAuctionTM.
      • If you don't have a big budget for winning auctions, you can buy percent of the impressions (appearances) of given ad positions.
        More info in the section TimeShareTM.


TimeAuctionTM

TimeAuction is a process of selling ad position by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the position to the highest bidder.
Participants in an TimeAuction know the identities or actions of other participants.
TimeAuction is an mixture of English auction (open ascending price auction) and Vickrey auction (winner pays the second highest bid).
This type of auction is arguably the most common form of auction in use today.
Participants bid openly against one another, with each subsequent bid higher than the previous bid.
TIME.mk sets a minimum amount by which the next bid must exceed the current highest bid.
The TimeAuction ends when the time period of the auction expires, at which point the winning bidder pays the second highest bid.

Automatic bidding

  • When you place a bid, you enter the maximum amount you're willing to pay for the offer. The other bidders don’t know your maximum bid.
  • We’ll place bids on your behalf using the automatic bid increment amount, which is based on the current highest bid. We'll bid only as much as necessary to make sure that you remain the highest bidder, up to your maximum amount.
  • If another bidder places higher bid, we’ll notify you so you can place another bid.
  • Your maximum bid is kept confidential until it is exceeded by another bidder.

    Example   

  1. The current bid for an offer is 1000 denars. Alexandar is the highest bidder, and has placed a maximum bid of 1500 denars on the offer. His maximum bid is kept confidential from other members.

  2. Marija views the offer and places a maximum bid of 1200 denars.

  3. TIME.mk automatically bid in behalf of Alexandar to 1250 denars (if minimum increment is 50 denars). Alexander remain the highest bidder.

  4. Elena views the offer and places a maximum bid of 2000 denars. Elena becomes the highest bidder.

  5. Elenas’s bid is now 1550 denars (maximum bid of Alexandar was 1500 denars + 50 denars as minimal increase).

  6. TIME.mk send Alexander an email that he has been outbided. If he doesn’t raise his maximum bid, Elena wins the offer for 1550 denars.


Buy It NOW

Buy It Now is the simplest way to buy on TIME.mk. When you see the Buy It Now in the auction box and you see a Buy It Now price, the TIME.mk gives you the opportunity to purchase the offer right away at a set price without waiting for the auction to end.
At the time of buying the position with Buy It Now, TimeAuction immediatly ends.

TimeShareTM

TimeShare is a process of selling part of the ad impressions on a given position.
Customers buy percents of the impressions, which means that on the same position during the predefined time period (one day, one week, one month, etc.) several ads will be shown (one at a time) with frequencies according to the bought percents of the impressions.
In practice, if you buy 20% of the impressions for given position, we guarantee that 20% of the shown ads on that position will be your ad.
Sometimes more. Much more.
At the end of the TimeShare selling period, unsold percents are divided between active customers, according to the amount of percent that they bought during the offer.

* There can be imposed maximum percents that single user can buy.

Example 1:

All impressions of an ad on position X on web site Y cost 6000 denars per week.
1% of the impressions cost 60 denars.

Alexandar bought 5% of impressions for 300 denars.
Marija bought 8% of impressions for 480 denars.
Elena bought 12% of impressions for 720 denars.

If these are the only customers that bought impressions, during the predefined week:

Alexander will get 20% of impressions,
Marija will get 32% of impressions and
Elena will get 48% of impressions.

If a web page have 300000 page views during the week,

Alexander's ad will be shown 60000 times,
Marija's ad will be shown 96000 times and
Elena's ad will be shown  144000 times.

Example 2:

All impressions of an ad on a position Z on web site W cost 10000 denars per week.
1% of the impressions cost 100 denars.

    Alexandar bought 2% of impressions for 200 denars.

If Alexandar is the only customer that bought impressions, during the predefined week:

   Alexander will get 100% of impressions.

If a web page have 300000 page views during the week,

  Alexander's ad will be shown 300000 times for 200 denars.