Advertising across the API Evangelist network
Laneworks Ads is the self-hosted ad network behind the notice at the top of API Evangelist, APIs.io, API Commons and its tools, APIs.json, Kin Lane, and Alternate Kin Lane.
Every ad is text. A small label, one sentence, and a link — rendered as an alert in the host page's own idiom, in the same places the banners used to run. No images, no fixed pixel sizes, no creative to produce, and nothing that reads as a banner to skip past. Every impression and click-through is counted by our own API and published publicly — no third-party trackers, no cookies, no auction.
See the numbers over time — day, week, month, by domain and slot →
A live ad from the current rotation, exactly as it renders on network sites — and the announcement bar version of the same unit:
Placement is earned, not sold. The rotation is my own research — every API Evangelist paper and every report — plus the top two providers in every published Trend Report, and the partners I work alongside. Nothing on this network is for sale.
- Market leaders — top your market on the Kin Score and you are in the rotation automatically, linked to your provider profile, with a Leader Short on YouTube and social behind it.
- Format — text, three layouts: a full-width notice, a stacked notice for sidebars, and an edge-to-edge announcement bar. A label, one sentence, a call to action, and a URL.
- Placements — notices below the top navigation and at the end of content, stacked notices in the sidebar, announcement bars above the navigation, and a slot in the weekly newsletter — across the whole network.
- Measurement — impressions, clicks, and CTR (per domain and per slot) published on the inventory page and via the API.
How you get in Email [email protected]
No rate card, no tiers, no auction — and the same public numbers as always. Tell me what you are working on.
Client domains can join the network and serve the same rotation. The ads inherit an alert style that sits quietly inside your own design — nothing to size, nothing to lazy-load. Add the embed below your top navigation, then ask to have your domain allowlisted — the API only answers domains in the network.
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