Paid attention market
Attention is for sale. Reputation is not.
BetterBid is a public auction for clearly labelled promotional inventory. You can see the current price, who holds the slot, what they paid and how it performed. What you cannot do is buy a BetterRank position.
6
Live auctions
8
Active bidders
52.7k
Impressions served
2.2k
Clicks delivered
$1,800
Total spend
Homepage Crown
One global winner at a time, reset daily. It sits below the homepage search so the primary product promise stays unbiased.
Category Crowns
Every meaningful job gets its own small attention market — a rolling 24-hour auction for one sponsored card above the organic leaderboard.
Other inventory
Additional placements, some live and some on the roadmap.
Homepage Crown
LiveSponsored hero card directly below the homepage search.
Category Crown · Social Media Scheduling
LiveSponsored card above the Social Media Scheduling leaderboard.
Category Crown · Email Marketing
LiveSponsored card above the Email Marketing leaderboard.
Category Crown · SEO
LiveSponsored card above the SEO leaderboard.
Category Crown · Newsletter Platforms
LiveSponsored card above the Newsletter Platforms leaderboard.
Use-Case Spotlight · Forms
LiveInline sponsored placement on the Forms use-case page.
Trending Boost
Coming laterLabelled slot inside the trending module.
Newsletter Crown
Coming laterTop sponsorship in the weekly BetterSaaS digest.
Recent bids and outbids
Spending is public. That transparency is the point — and it makes the auction itself worth watching.
Eligibility and conduct
- The product must have a claimed and verified page.
- The product must be genuinely relevant to the category being bid on.
- Creative must match the verified product — no bait headlines.
- No malware, deceptive claims or prohibited products.
- Review-manipulation or bad-actor status suspends bidding.
- Sponsored placement adds exactly zero BetterScore points.
- A continuous win is capped at 24 hours so no bidder holds a slot permanently.
- Auction and click history stays public on the activity page.
How to tell paid from earned
Organic row
#1 BetterRank
Earned. Cannot be purchased at any price.
Paid card
Sponsored — BetterBid winner
Bought. Never described as "#1" anything.
A BetterBid winner is never labelled the best product. Paid placement contributes zero points to BetterScore, and creative that implies otherwise is rejected at review.
Pricing models we evaluated
Launching with a hybrid: a daily Homepage Crown plus rolling 24-hour Category Crowns.
Buy attention with clear pricing
Every placement reports impressions, clicks, CTR, cost per click and tracked signups, so a bid can be evaluated like any other acquisition spend — not like a directory listing fee.