We replaced Google.
Here's exactly how.
Our 16-property network + 65+ security micro-tools runs alongside our own first-party stack. CyberAdX direct advertisers get priority placement over AdSense and affiliate fallbacks — your campaign runs first, house ads and affiliate fills run in the remaining inventory. First-party data, edge-native, real attribution. This is how it works.
Your journey as an advertiser
From first visit to live campaign — here's exactly what the process looks like, start to finish.
Explore the network
Browse our 16 cybersecurity properties, 65+ security tools, and audience demographics. Use the pricing calculator to build a custom quote — no account needed.
Try the calculator →Save a quote or submit an inquiry
Self-serve under $3K/mo? Create an account and save your quote — it stays in your dashboard for 30 days. Managed packages $3,500+? Submit the contact form and our team responds within 1 business day.
Contact sales →Create your campaign
Log in and run through our 3-step campaign wizard: pick your budget tier, upload creative (banner URL + destination), choose your target properties. Submit — it enters our review queue immediately.
Create a campaign →We review and approve — same business day
Email notification sent automaticallyOur team reviews creative for brand safety and category fit. You get an email the moment it's approved (or feedback if changes are needed). Typical turnaround: same business day.
Campaign goes live across the network
Fully automated — no manual deployOne status change triggers the pipeline: campaign syncs to our Cloudflare edge within 60 seconds, ads start appearing on your selected properties, impressions begin logging immediately.
Track verified impressions and clicks in your dashboard
Your dashboard shows Cloudflare-verified impressions, HMAC-signed click counts, CTR, scroll depth, dwell time, and geographic breakdown — all first-party data, no sampling, no estimates.
View dashboard →- →AdSense fills remaining slots — Google takes its cut, you get a fraction
- →Impact & CJ affiliate ads run when no direct campaign is live
- →Google Analytics tracks audience — data lives in Google's ecosystem
- →Competitor ads may appear — no category control with programmatic fills
- →Attribution is estimated, not cryptographically verified
- ✓Priority placement — your campaign runs before AdSense or affiliate fills
- ✓First-party pixel attribution — we own the audience data, not Google
- ✓Verified impressions and clicks — HMAC-signed, fraud-resistant
- ✓Category exclusivity available — no direct competitors on your pages
- ✓Real-time dashboard with Cloudflare-verified engagement data
End-to-end data flow
From the moment a visitor loads a page to the moment you see a verified impression in your dashboard — here's every step.
Visitor arrives — three independent bot filters fire before any ad serves
Every page load passes through three independent verification layers before a single impression is counted. First, Cloudflare's edge network (Pro tier) filters known threats and malicious traffic at the network level. Second, all ad requests route through a first-party same-origin proxy — so even users on NextDNS or Pi-hole who block ad network domains directly still receive ads, and those impressions are counted accurately. Third, an invisible Cloudflare Turnstile challenge verifies the browser is operated by a real human — no CAPTCHA, nothing the visitor sees or clicks. Requests that fail the challenge receive an empty response. No impression logged. No budget spent. Roughly 40% of raw traffic is filtered at this layer alone.
First-party pixel fires — no third parties involved
A lightweight tracking script (~2KB, loads async) fires a privacy-compliant beacon to our own infrastructure. No Google. No Facebook. No data leaves our network unless we choose. The visitor's IP is one-way hashed with a daily-rotating salt — raw IPs are never stored.
Edge infrastructure enriches and stores the event
The beacon lands at our global edge network where it's geo-enriched (country, region), device-classified, and written to our first-party event store. DNT/GPC signals are respected — those visitors contribute only to aggregated counts, never to individual profiles.
Smart ad engine selects and serves in real time
Our ad engine runs a four-layer intelligence stack on every page load. Exclusivity first — if a sponsor has locked a zone, only their creative serves. Then priority waterfall selection across all eligible campaigns. The multi-slot rolodex ensures every slot on the page shows a different advertiser. Within each slot, a 20-second carousel rotates new advertisers: positions 0–3 serve CyberAdX campaigns in priority order, position 4+ serves Google AdSense for long-dwell readers, ensuring no slot is ever blank. Every rotation is tracked by carousel position — enabling supply-and-demand slot pricing.
Clicks are verified, not just counted
Every click URL is signed with HMAC-SHA256 and expires after 5 minutes. Click fraud attempts — replayed URLs, bots that execute JavaScript, invalid referrers — are rejected before they reach your campaign budget.
You see real attribution, not black-box estimates
Your campaign dashboard shows verified impressions, clicks, engagement rate, scroll depth, and geographic breakdown — all from first-party data we own. No sampling. No estimated reach. No "up to X impressions" caveats.
Three independent filters before an impression counts
Your budget only spends when a real human passes all three layers. No bot impressions. No DNS-blocked ghost traffic. No inflated reach numbers.
Network-level threat filtering, DDoS protection, and known bad-actor blocking at the global edge — before the request even reaches our servers.
All ad requests route same-origin through /px/ — invisible to DNS-level blockers like NextDNS and Pi-hole. Impressions are counted accurately even for security-conscious users.
Every ad serve request completes an invisible Cloudflare Turnstile challenge. No CAPTCHA — visitors see nothing. ~40% of remaining traffic is identified as automated and receives no ad and no impression count.
Your ad works harder on every page load
Most ad networks pick one winner and call it done. CyberAdX runs a three-layer intelligence stack on every page — rolodex, carousel, and exclusivity — so every slot and every second of reader attention is monetized.
Multi-Slot Rolodex
Every ad slot on a page gets a different advertiser. Slot 1 shows your highest-priority campaign, slot 2 shows the next, slot 3 the next — rolling through your queue as readers scroll. No two slots ever show the same sponsor.
Carousel Waterfall — 6-Position Full Cycle
Within each slot, a new advertiser rotates every 20 seconds through a defined sequence: Position 0 → your highest-priority campaign. Position 1 → next brand. Position 2 → next brand. Position 3 → CyberAdX if available, else AdSense. Position 4 → Google AdSense (audience-matched for long-dwell readers). Position 5 → "This ad spot is available" — a live invitation for readers to become advertisers on that exact blog. Then the cycle restarts from position 0. No slot ever goes blank. Every position is tracked separately for CTR-based slot pricing.
Zone Exclusivity & Carousel Ownership
Two exclusivity modes: Zone Exclusivity blocks all other brands from serving in a specific property+zone — your creative is the only one readers see. Carousel Rotation Lock means your single creative owns all CyberAdX carousel positions in a slot — no competitor rotates in. Both are available as add-ons scoped in your IO. Every position is tracked individually so you see exactly which creative converts.
Priority-Based Queue
Campaigns are stacked by priority tier: enterprise (80–100) → flagship managed (65–79) → vendor IO (50–64) → direct/house brands (40–49) → affiliates (28–39) → house fill (5–27) → AdSense passback (0). Higher tiers always lead. Within a tier, weighted random determines order. Every slot position is individually tracked for CTR and priced accordingly.
Context Targeting
Every blog passes its audience context — compliance, security, privacy, iot, crypto — to the ad engine. Campaigns only serve where their targeting rule matches. A crypto wallet ad never shows on a career guidance page.
Frequency Capping
Each visitor is fingerprinted via a privacy-preserving one-way hash. Daily impression caps per campaign ensure the same person never sees the same ad more times than you set — protecting budget and user experience.
Example on compliancehub.wiki: Slot 1 → Ledger (priority 40) · Slot 2 → NextDNS (priority 35) · Slot 3 → LegalShield (priority 25) · 20s later slot 1 rotates → NextDNS · 40s later → LegalShield
Ask about zone exclusivity for your brand →Privacy by design, not by policy
These aren't compliance checkboxes. They're architectural decisions that make privacy violations structurally impossible — not just against our terms.
Session data lives in browser sessionStorage only — cleared when the tab closes.
Visitor IPs are hashed with a daily-rotating salt. Cross-day correlation is cryptographically impossible.
Users with Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control enabled are never profiled. Aggregated counts only.
Our pixel runs alongside Google Analytics. We capture audience data independently — so your campaign attribution doesn't depend on Google's reporting.
Event data is pruned automatically. We hold the minimum necessary, no more.
Data is enriched and stored without leaving the Cloudflare network. No data brokers, no intermediaries.
What you get as an advertiser
Your campaign dashboard pulls directly from our first-party event store. No sampling, no estimates, no middlemen.
Verified impressions
Every impression is a real ad render on a real page loaded by a real browser. Bots are excluded at the infrastructure level.
Signed click tokens
Click URLs are cryptographically signed and expire after 5 minutes. Replayed or forged clicks are rejected automatically.
Engagement depth
Beyond clicks — see 15-second dwell time, 50% and 90% scroll depth, and session engagement rate per property.
Geographic breakdown
Country and region-level data on every campaign, sourced from Cloudflare's global network — no third-party geo API.
Frequency cap enforcement
Set daily impression caps per visitor. We enforce them at the edge before the ad is served, not after billing.
25M+ Google search impressions
4,500+ articles across 16 properties generate over 25 million Google search impressions. Your sponsored content and ads appear alongside articles already ranking for cybersecurity queries.
Three-layer analytics stack
Cloudflare edge analytics (total reach, all traffic) + Analytics Engine (pixel-verified human sessions) + D1 SQL (per-campaign, per-zone detail). All first-party, all permanent — we snapshot zone data nightly so history never expires.
From approved to live in under 2 minutes
Two tracks — vendor editorial IO or fully managed multichannel package. Both use the same automated pipeline once approved. No deploys, no cache-clearing tickets, no waiting.
Start with a 30-day pilot
Submit your inquiry. We scope a pilot IO: sponsored articles, banner rotation across selected properties, and a podcast mention. $2,500 flat, no commitment.
IO signed + creative built
DocuSign or PandaDoc. Stripe / ACH / crypto. Editorial team builds your articles and configures banners. Build time: 5–7 days.
Priority assigned to your campaign
Vendor IO campaigns enter priority tier 50–64 — above all affiliate fill, below Flagship managed. Your creative leads every carousel position in that band.
Scale on proven fit
Quarterly, semi-annual, or annual IOs unlock more properties, more articles, and category exclusivity. Pilot report shows exactly what to optimize.
Scoping call → proposal
We cover audience targeting, creative direction, properties, podcast + social cadence, and exclusivity requirements. Proposal sent within 24 hours.
Creative strategy + assets
We handle banner production, native copy, and creative optimization if needed. Or you supply assets — we upload and configure.
Priority set at 65–79 (Flagship)
Managed package campaigns enter Flagship priority — above all vendor IOs and affiliate fill. Position 0 in every carousel across every property.
Optional: zone exclusivity
Your campaign gets exclusive = 1 on specific properties and zones. No other advertiser can serve there — even at higher priority.
Shared automated pipeline — same for both tracks once approved
The 16-property cybersecurity network
Each property serves a distinct cybersecurity audience segment. One pixel. One data store. No Google in the middle.
Plus a network of 65+ security micro-tools
Beyond the 16 editorial properties, the CyberAdX pixel runs on a growing network of free security calculators and assessment tools. These capture high-intent users actively solving a problem — the best moment to show them your solution.
Breach & Incident Response
- →IR Cost Calculator (ircost.breached.company)
- →Breach Notification Tool (notification.breached.company)
- →IR Maturity Assessment (ir.breached.company)
- →Forensics Assessment (forensics.breached.company)
- →Backup Assessment (backups.breached.company)
Compliance & Privacy
- →PII Navigator (pii.compliancehub.wiki)
- →GDPR / ISO 27001 Checker (gdpriso.compliancehub.wiki)
- →HIPAA Security Assessment (hipaa.compliancehub.wiki)
- →CMMC / NIST Alignment (cmmcnist.compliancehub.wiki)
- →Global Compliance Map (globalcompliancemap.com)
- →Generate Policy (generatepolicy.com)
Security Assessments
- →Rate My SOC (ratemysoc.com)
- →Phishing Risk Score (phishingrisk.com)
- →Ransomware Maturity (ransomwarematurity.com)
- →AI Risk Assessment (airiskassess.com)
- →Zero Trust CISO (zerotrustciso.com)
- →Startup Security Kit (startupsecuritykit.com)
IoT & Identity Tools
- →Smart Home Security Scorecard (risk.secureiot.house)
- →Smart Office Security Scorecard (risk.secureiotoffice.world)
- →Identity Risk Calculator (identityrisk.scamwatchhq.com)
- →Security Team Risk Analyzer (teamrisk.securitycareers.help)
- →Biometric Privacy Tool (biometric.myprivacy.blog)
Ready to reach cybersecurity decision-makers?
Your ads on first-party infrastructure. Real attribution. Audience data we own — not rented from Google.
What's changed
CyberAdX ships continuously. Here's a public record of meaningful network improvements — no internal ops, no PII, just the changes that affect advertisers and publishers.
Sticky bottom bar (320×50 mobile / 728×90 desktop) now active across every CyberAdX property. Highest-RPM mobile format. Dismissable per browser session.
D1 now tracks placement_type per impression — separating banner, anchor, vignette, multiplex, in_feed, and intent_link. Enables per-format performance reporting and tiered pricing.
Podcast site now serves CyberAdX placements. 26K+ monthly pageviews, audience: cybersecurity executives and practitioners.
BaseLayout ad coverage extended to SecureIoT.Office, ScamWatchHQ, and ThreatWatch.News — mid-page and in-grid placements now active across all three.
Properties not enrolled in AdSense (cannasecure.tech, cryptoimpacthub.com, cisoinsights.show, cisomarketplace.com) now show a CyberAdX self-promo at carousel position 4 instead of a wasted 20-second empty slot.
CyberAdX moved to invite-only. Every advertiser is reviewed before activation — protecting audience quality and category exclusivity for existing partners.
Core $5K / Pro $10K / Flagship $18K per month. Annual contracts at 15% discount. No self-serve tier — all advertisers are managed.
6-position carousel waterfall, HMAC-signed clicks, Cloudflare D1 event store, daily-rotating SHA-256 IP hashing. 328K+ verified impressions in week one.
Each slot on a page gets a different advertiser. Within each slot, a new brand rotates every 20 seconds through 6 carousel positions — all tracked individually by zone and position.
11 Astro blogs + CISO Marketplace (3 domains, 1 codebase) + ThreatWatch.News. Run-of-network campaigns serve all properties automatically.
All ad requests route through /px/serve (Cloudflare Pages Function per site) — bypasses DNS-level ad blockers and keeps ad requests first-party.
Internal technical changelog at docs/CHANGELOG.md in the CyberAdX repo.