# Advertise on Awaitful

> Reach developers in the one moment they are watching and waiting. One sponsored line, a live auction, and billing only on verified attention.

- Source: https://awaitful.com/docs/advertise
- Updated: July 19, 2026

While an AI agent works, its developer is at the keyboard, watching the screen, waiting. Awaitful is the marketplace for that moment: one sponsored line, in the editor, only while the agent thinks.

## What you are buying

Attention, not pixels. On the editor surfaces an impression bills only when your line was genuinely on screen while the agent was genuinely working in a focused window - the same rule that decides what a developer earns, applied symmetrically. The terminal cannot observe a window, so terminal views bill from verified render ticks and carry the lowest price on the rate card for exactly that reason. The exact mechanics are in [What counts as an impression](https://awaitful.com/docs/verified-impressions).

Prices come from a live auction, not a rate sheet: your bid buys a proportional share of all sponsored moments, and you pay your own bid per verified view. How shares and slots work is in [How the auction works](https://awaitful.com/docs/how-the-auction-works).

## What an ad is

A sentence and a link, optionally with your brand name and a small logo. No images to design, no video to cut, no format that breaks on a narrow status bar - and nothing loaded from any third party into a developer's editor. The full rules, including review, are in [One line, one link](https://awaitful.com/docs/creative-rules).

## Getting started

1.  ### Fund your wallet
    
    Top up from $5 by card through Stripe checkout. You load what you pay: the full amount is credited and the processing fee is absorbed by the platform.
    
2.  ### Create a campaign
    
    The line, the link, your bid, and a daily budget. Setting bids well is its own short read: [Bidding and budgets](https://awaitful.com/docs/bidding-and-budgets).
    
3.  ### Pass review, go live
    
    A human [reviews every new campaign](https://awaitful.com/docs/creative-rules) before it serves. Once approved, your line enters the auction immediately.
    

## What you can see

Per-campaign impressions and clicks, and live market data: your rank by bid, how many campaigns are bidding, the top bid, and a suggested bid one cent above it. Delivery follows share of voice, so the dashboard tells you what a bid change buys before you make it.

**The developer is in the room**

Your audience knows exactly what these lines are - they keep 70% of what you pay, and the marketplace's whole pitch to them is honesty. Lines that respect that context are the ones that get clicked.