Project Wonderful is an advertising service created by programmer and webcomic author Ryan North

Ryan North

Ryan M. North is a Canadian writer, computer programmer, and occasional songwriter who is the creator and author of Dinosaur Comics, and co-creator of Whispered Apologies and Happy Dog the Happy Dog....

 headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Though it is not specifically designed for webcomics, they do make up the majority of its users.

Concept

Rather than paying for clicks, Project Wonderful is based on the purchase of time on a website. Advertisers bid on how much they feel time on a website is worth in an "Infinite auction".

Usage

Many webcomics, including Awkward Zombie, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is a humorous webcomic by Zach Weiner. SMBC is "at heart a geek comic, but it nevertheless addresses a broad range of topics, such as love, relationships, economics, politics, religion, science, and philosophy." It has been featured on a variety of websites and...

, Questionable Content

Questionable Content

Questionable Content is a slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. It was launched on August 1, 2003. Jacques currently makes his living exclusively from QC merchandising and advertising, making him one of the few professional webcomic artists...

, Qwantz, MS Paint Adventures

MS Paint Adventures

MS Paint Adventures is a collection of webcomics written and illustrated by Andrew Hussie. Because of the frequency with which the site is updated, MS Paint Adventures is estimated to be the longest web comic on the Internet with over 6000 pages total among its four series.These comics are written...

, Sinfest

Sinfest

Sinfest is a webcomic written and drawn by Japanese-American comic strip artist Tatsuya Ishida. The first strip as a webcomic appeared on January 17, 2000, although the very first strip appeared in print on October 16, 1991 in the UCLA newspaper, Daily Bruin, while Ishida attended UCLA. A new strip...

, Dr. McNinja and A Softer World

A Softer World

A Softer World is a thrice weekly webcomic by Canadians Joey Comeau and Emily Horne. It first came online on February 7, 2003. Early comics had been published, intermittently, in zine form. With the launch of the website, the comic has gained wider recognition, most notably when Warren Ellis...

 use Project Wonderful as an advertising service.

In addition, social media site Reddit

Reddit

reddit is a social news website where the registered users submit content, in the form of either a link or a text "self" post. Other users then vote the submission "up" or "down," which is used to rank the post and determine its position on the site's pages and front page.Reddit was originally...

occasionally uses Project Wonderful for its ads.

External links

• Project Wonderful
• Project Wonderful Blog