An archive · Built 2019—2022 MMXIX — MMXXII

Thank you for the trust.

01 · The numbers

What three years of quiet work looked like.

  • Monthly visits At peak
    0M+

    Routed across our Facebook page network at peak operations.

  • Active months 2019 → 2022
    0

    Continuous operation without a single missed payout cycle.

  • Campaigns delivered CUM.
    0K

    Across direct buyers, networks, and our own placements.

  • Countries reached GEO
    0

    Traffic served on every continent except Antarctica.

2019 2022

Three years. One careful machine.

02 · What we built

A small, sharp toolkit for moving attention at scale.

  • Traffic routing

    Real-time decisioning for hundreds of millions of monthly clicks across our Facebook page network — clean, fast, fraud-aware.

  • Campaign manager

    A control panel for advertisers and publishers to launch, approve and review live stats with no friction and a single dashboard.

  • Payouts, monthly

    Reliable monthly payouts to publishers, automated end-to-end. No missed cycles, no excuses. People got paid — every month, for three years.

03 · Timeline

A short story, told in four years.

  1. Beginning

    The first zone goes live.

    Founded under CrankySRL. The first ad zones ship; the first publishers get paid before the year is out.

  2. Scaling

    The page network expands.

    Volume crosses 100M monthly visits. First partnerships with AdsLeading and Adsterra ship. The dashboard is rewritten.

  3. Peak

    500M monthly visits.

    Peak operations. The platform routes over half a billion visits a month with a team you could count on one hand.

  4. Goodbye

    A clean shutdown.

    Operations are wound down with every partner paid in full. The team folds back into CrankySRL to keep building.

04 · Partners

The companies that trusted us with their traffic.

  • AdsLeading
    Network · 2020—2022
  • Adsterra
    Network · 2020—2022
  • Direct buyers
    200+ advertisers
  • Publishers
    A community we still miss
05 · A letter

From everyone who ever shipped a line of CrankyADS.

Dated
2022 — present

Signed
The CrankyADS team

We started CrankyADS to do one thing well: move attention honestly, and pay people fast. For three years that’s exactly what it did. Half a billion visits a month flowed through this thing, and almost no one ever talked about it — which, frankly, is how we liked it.

To every publisher who pressed publish, every advertiser who trusted a buy, and every partner who sent us a contract before we’d earned it — thank you. We closed the doors in 2022, but the work goes on at CrankySRL, and the lessons are everywhere.

cranky. — The team behind CrankyADS

The work continues at CrankySRL.

Everything we learned routing half a billion visits a month now lives on at our parent company. New tools, same crew, same care.

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