Has anyone successfully received the items they ordered off of this?
(Also, better aesthetics (like removing the stripe texture and the greyscale menu) would make this site way more trust-worthy in my eyes. Currently it looks too much like a rough tech demo quickly thrown together on Wordpress)
Are the video ads from direct clients of yours or through a general affiliate program?
Also, since your whole pitch is about the $$$ your leaderboard should be tied to $ somehow instead of just # of watches. That's more for your own dashboard. (ie highlight the wins, not the amount of pain other users have been put through)
That said, is your ad network aware of this and okay with it?
How do you verify these are real viewers? There are a lot of "attack" vectors here... automated servers + proxies, or even just somebody with a clickbot on their home computer cycling through videos and buying an item once its price goes below what they can sell it for elsewhere?
Also, why would your users not just buy giftcards at any number of the discount gift sites, many of which offer higher discounts than you, without the need to watch a video?
I'm very curious about the economics here, because I find it hard to imagine you could win all these "startup of the month" type accolades without thinking this through.
Also just a quick note - the copy on the About Us section could use some slight sentence structure and organization checking. :) The end in particular reads a little strangely:
> We even feature charity auctions, which apply the revenue users generate from watching video ads towards great causes around the world. Thanks for your interest in VidFall. Founded in September 2013, VidFall is a portfolio company of Wasabi Ventures, LLC.
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Kudos to their customer support.