At BanklessTimes, we strive to continuously provide free informational content and the latest news on various financial investments, including digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, stocks from various industries, and options trading strategies. We aim to help you make the right investment decisions in these specific areas.
However, there are some overhead costs to keep running the site, such as paying the team of writers and tech support for the site’s upkeep. As such, we need to find different ways to earn revenue to cover its overhead costs.
On this page, we provide a transparent view of our revenue sources and dispel any misconceptions you may have about our funding options.
Advertising space
Renting out advertising space is one of the most common ways for websites to make money. At Bankless Times, we may run Google AdSense advertisements to support the site.
We also offer our commercial partners tailored advertising services for financial compensation. Some of the advertising options available to our partners are:
Banner ads placement
Company reviews
Brand-sponsored content
Targeted comparison listings
Rest assured, our existing deals with business partners do not influence the content we publish. We take the time to thoroughly vet such content and ensure our editorial independence remains uncompromised.
That said, we take no responsibility for third-party misconduct or the functionality of their websites and applications. However, we are committed to addressing any issues that may arise and will take appropriate action, such as removing or updating content, if we become aware of any misconduct or functionality issues.
Thus, we urge all our readers to do their due diligence before investing in any digital currencies, stocks, options, or any other derivative investment products, as they are all highly volatile.
You can easily recognize banner ads on the site, and we will always label any advertising content accordingly.
Affiliate marketing
We have also partnered with some brokers and exchanges on our site to refer new customers to these investment platforms.
Our commercial partners may pay a referral fee whenever a reader signs up on their sites or buys their products and services through the links we provide on our site.This is called affiliate marketing, and the compensation we receive from these third parties will vary, depending on the existing agreement.
Still, we use three standard commission models for our affiliate marketing partners. These are:
Cost Per Action (CPA): Our partners pay a fixed commission for pre-specified actions, such as a minimum number of transfers or a minimum deposit amount. Our partners may pay us a commission whenever you take specific actions on our site, such as making a deposit or completing a certain number of trades.
RevShare: We will often apply RevShare to wallet providers and coin exchanges. Under this model, we earn a certain percentage from our partners’ profits.
Flat Fees: This simple model relies on a fixed fee we agree upon with our commercial partners. We currently use flat fees mainly for the table ranking content, but we plan to incorporate this commission model for advertising soon.
Our team will always strive to provide the best offers by our partners. We select our affiliate partners based on their reputation, user reviews, and the quality of their services. Bankless Times will never recommend platforms that our team hasn’t tested or wouldn’t use. This ensures that our recommendations are reliable and trustworthy.
However, note that our editorial team does not select these offers. The platform positioning on our lists will depend on the available commercial partnerships. Still, our reviews reflect our impartial opinions despite any affiliate relationships, and we always strive to provide the best paid offers by our partners.
Like with advertisements, affiliate links on our site will always be labeled.
What we don’t do
We have clearly outlined how we fund our site so it runs effectively. For total transparency, let’s also outline some tactics we don’t use here.
At Bankless Times:
We don't prioritize making money over facts
We have our readers’ best interests at heart and are dedicated to educating our audience through high-quality, fact-checked informational content. We take pride in providing unbiased reviews and opinions on crypto exchanges, wallets, and brokers.
Despite our existing affiliate partnerships, we are committed to offering our site’s visitors beginner-friendly guides and in-depth analysis and research. For this reason, we would never trade our authenticity for some quick money. We are on a mission to offer the most up-to-date information so you can make informed investment decisions.
We don't allow writers to accept third-party payments
Our team of writers upholds the journalistic standards expected of them and strives to ensure we offer our readers the most comprehensive and impartial coverage of the crypto markets. To maintain this objectivity when publishing content on our site, we don’t allow our writers to accept third-party payments through any back channels.
Moreover, we are pretty particular about our selection and require all writers to adhere to our strict editorial policy. Our rigorous content creation and review process includes thorough fact-checking, multiple rounds of editing, and peer review.
This process helps us maintain the highest standards of quality and accuracy in our content so that the information we provide is reliable and trustworthy.
We don't allow our crypto holdings to influence our writing
Our writers and editors at Bankless Times may hold various digital assets in their portfolios.
This is often an excellent way for our team to understand the industry better and keep up with the evolving digital currency markets. It allows them to provide more informed and insightful analysis, benefitting our readers in their investment decisions.
We understand that this may influence how the writers present their views in the articles. Therefore, we have an intense editorial process that ensures all our content follows the defined editorial standards and remains unbiased.
We don't harvest and sell data
At Bankless Times, we highly value our readers’ privacy and are committed to protecting it at all costs. We don’t have any databases on our website with visitors’ information, so we cannot disclose any of your information to third parties.
However, some of our third-party commercial partners may use cookies and web beacons when placing ads on our site. These technologies may collect information such as your IP address, browser, and browsing activity on our site. This data helps our partners target their AdSense ads and tailor them to you based on your location or interests, according to your browser history.
Google’s privacy policy governs AdSense advertisements, and Bankless Times has no access to any information that is collected or processed by Google.
We should also point out that our privacy policy doesn’t apply once a reader clicks on the external links on our site. We have no control of the content on external websites and many of our commercial partners will have differing privacy policies.
Since we are not responsible for these external policies, we urge our readers to ensure they suit them before engaging with any sites.
