The Good Tech Companies - A New Era for Digital Advertising - Redefined by Klink Finance

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/a-new-era-for-digital-advertising-redefined-by-klink-finance. Klink Finance is the AI-powered infrastructure for Web3 earnings, driving crypto wealth creation through its multi-chain partner ecosystem and integration tech. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #crypto-airdrops, #klink-token, #klink-finance, #online-advertising, #crypto-rewards, #klink-app, #fintech-startups, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @hacker26440857. Learn more about this writer by checking @hacker26440857's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Klink Finance is building a Web3-powered ad ecosystem where users get paid directly for engagement through cash, crypto, or tokens while brands gain higher-quality leads at lower costs. Co-founders Philip Jonitz and Chris James Murphy share how they’re bridging Web2 ads with Web3 rewards, tackling challenges like privacy, ad fatigue, and user acquisition inefficiency.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. A new era for digital advertising, redefined by Clink Finance, by Clink Finance. Chris James Murphy and Philip Jonitz are two entrepreneurs on a mission tour. Imagine how users interact with digital advertising completely. Their globally active startup, Clink Finance, has built an earnings platform where you can earn cash or crypto by completing online offers, playing games, joining social quests, and even participating in airdrops. From answering surveys and trying new apps to exploring online rewards,

Klink makes it easy to earn money every day, right from your phone or laptop. Given that Web 2 advertising is facing mounting challenges from ad fatigue, privacy concerns, and skyrocketing user acquisition costs, Clink Finance has positioned itself as the bridge between the Web 2 ad model and the emerging Web 3 reward economy. The platform now serves over 850,000 users across 140,000. countries, with partnerships including Arbitrum Foundation, Bybit, Coinbase, Crypto, Com, Binance and Ledger, among many others.

Klink also recently announced the upcoming launch of its Dollar Klink token in October 2025, a major milestone empowering its reward-driven ecosystem. Mr. Jonitz and Murphy, thank you for taking the time to answer some questions and share your knowledge with us. We're hoping to understand how you're building the future of user rewards and what this means for the broader advertising industry. To get started, can you tell us a bit about your background and how you realized traditional advertising was fundamentally broken? Philip Jonitz over the past decade working across startups, crypto, and venture capital, I've seen

firsthand how companies of all sizes struggle with advertising and user acquisition. For startups in particular, limited budget sand uncertain outcomes make it risky to invest in ads. Traditional Web 2 advertising turns users into resources to be sold to advertisers instead of participants who should be rewarded. When Apple gave people the option to opt out of tracking in 2021, it wiped out billions in ad revenue overnight and showed how broken and extracted the Web 2 model had become. Chris James Murphy. As I finished university, I started my career at Twitter before moving on to help several scale up tech companies expand into new markets across different verticals. I also built and successfully exited an e-commerce company in the US. Through these

experiences, I saw firsthand how broken the traditional digital advertising model really is. Online businesses pour massive budgets into Google, meta, X, and other programmatic ad networks for user acquisition, sometimes spending hundreds of dollars just to secure a single APP download, only to face terrible retention rates. You've been building clinked since the crypto bear market started. How do you see the transition from Web 2 to Web 3 advertising happening, especially during market downturns? P.J. Launching right as the bare market hit in 2022 was tough, but it forced us to focus on real utility rather than hype. We discovered that economic downturns actually accelerate the adoption of earning platforms. When people need additional income streams, direct

rewards become incredibly appealing. Our top users consistently earn over $100 monthly through passive engagement, with high performers reaching $1,000 plus monthly as a side hustle. There's so much buzz around Web 3, but you're actually solving practical problems. How does Kling's reward system differ from traditional advertising models? C.JM. Instead of the Web 2 model where advertisers profit from user data and engagement while users get nothing, we create a direct value exchange. UserCrypto AR cash payouts for completing online tasks, engaging with new apps, and contribute to their ecosystems. Brands get highly engaged, qualified users who choose to interact with them.

We see 60 to 70% better engagement rates compared to traditional ads because users are incentivized to actually try products rather than scroll past them. You mentioned impressive user numbers. Can you break down what this looks like in practice? PJ. We operate a dual ecosystem. Our 850,000 plus platform users across 140 countries earned through curated partner offers. from trying new online services to testing gaming platforms. On the other hand, we provide companies with our offer integration API, letting them embed earning opportunities directly into their platforms on a revenue-sharing business model. To date, we expanded our global reach to 5M users across this growing publisher ad network, actively driving up revenue and new user acquisition for our

partners. How to established companies view this transition? Are they resistant to paying users directly? all, the transition to affiliate marketing is becoming a common consensus among advertisers. Companies like Bybit, Crypto, Com, Binance and Coinbase have existing programs in place where they insensitiveize third parties to drive users to them, but with our model we flip it on its head by giving Theser a direct share of the advertising revenue in return on their efforts for engaging with new services. We have already seen cases where user acquisition costs drop massively for our advertisers, along with engagement quality increasing dramatically. Even traditional companies are realizing that paying users directly for attention and data

is more efficient than paying intermediaries who may or may not deliver engaged users. The dollar clink token is launching soon. How does tokenization change the advertising game entirely? PJ The dollar clink token creates a sustainable economy around our earning infrastructure. It powers the value exchange between advertisers and users, ensuring that campaign budgets flow into the token economy. For users, this means enhanced payouts, early access to new features, and exclusive perks. For partners, it creates a transparent and scalable way to acquire users.

This forms a self-reinforcing growth flywheel that Web2 models simply can't replicate. What role does AI play in making this model actually work at scale? CJM. Although we don't brand ourselves directly as an AI company, it is a part of our day-to-day operations and also baked into our product to enhance it such as matching users with relevant opportunities and optimizing partner ad campaign budget performance. Our recommendation engine analyzes user behavior, preferences, and earnings history to suggest the most valuable opportunities for each individual.

For partners, AI features that we are rolling out will help optimize campaign targeting, predicting which user segments will have the highest engagement and completion rates. What have been your biggest challenges building in the Web 3 space, and how have you overcome them, P.J. User education remains a huge challenge. Many people still see crypto as speculative rather than practical. We've invested heavily in U.X to make earning online, whether that be in fiat or crypto as simple as using any traditional app. Users don't need to understand blockchain to benefit from it. Via our partners, we support withdrawals in various global currencies, including traditional fiat like U.S.D., UR, and GbP, alongside multiple crypto options.

the user on how they want to receive their returns. Looking ahead, where do you see this space in five years? Will traditional advertising still exist? CJM. I believe direct user rewards from engagement with online advertising will become the standard, not the exception. Every consumer-facing platform will need to adopt similar affiliate models or risk losing users to different alternatives that offer actual value sharing. We estimate 500 plus million people will enter crypto over the next few years, and we want Clink to be their entry point. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs looking to build in this transition period? P.J. Focus on solving real problems, not just leveraging new technology and following new narratives or new trends. Web3 tools are powerful, but they're only

valuable if they create genuine utility for users. Don't build Web3 solutions looking for problems. Identify pain points in existing systems and use Web 3 to solve them better. Also, think about commercial sustainability from day one. Too many Web3 projects launched in this cycle with unsustainable thought processes on how to generate real revenue, even in market downturns. What's next for Kling? Where should we expect to see you expanding? CJM. We're expanding into serving more localized offers to global regions. Our platform will support 15 plus languages, and our commercial offer API will move out of beta into self-serve mainnet, whereby any product can easily embed offer Sinto their own services to assist further.

monetization on their own existing user base. Our vision is to become the primary advertising infrastructure layer-powering online earnings-based advertising across the entire internet. The companies that recognize this shift early and start building bridges between Web 2 and Web 3 will capture the most value during this transition. Any final thoughts on why the disruption of Web 2 advertising is inevitable. P.J. Users are demanding more value, privacy and autonomy in their online actions, and our business model offers fundamentally better alternatives. The companies that wait will find themselves competing for attention in an increasingly expensive and ineffective traditional ad ecosystem. The future belongs to platforms that reward their users, not exploit them. That's not

just good ethics. It's better business. Philip Jonitz is co-founder of Klingk finance, bringing 10 years of startup, crypto and venture capital experience. Chris James Murphy is co-founder, with extensive experience scaling tech companies and successful e-commerce exits in the U.S. market. Together, they're reshaping user acquisition through Web 3 rewards at Clink Finance, as Clink gears up for the highly anticipated dollar Clink token launch in October 2025. Thank you for listening to this Hackernoon story, read by artificial intelligence. Visit Hackernoon.com to read, write, learn, and publish.