The internet forgot how to own a place.
Everything you buy attention with now is rented by the second. Stop paying and you vanish without a trace — no history, no address, nothing that says you were ever there. SpotPixels is the opposite trade: 3,120,000 pixels on one shared canvas, bought once and yours from then on.
One canvas, and it only gets smaller
There is exactly one board. Not one per user, not one per month — one. Every pixel someone else takes is a pixel you can never have, and nothing expires back onto the market. That is the whole design: a place where supply genuinely runs out is a place where being early is worth something.
Space sells in 10×10 blocks, 100 pixels each, from $12.66 at the rim to $50.64 against the centre. Nothing renews, nothing lapses, and there is no monthly anything.
The price is a fact, not a negotiation
Every quote is computed from two things you can see: how close to the centre you are, and how much of the board is already gone. As it fills, the multiplier steps up — 1×, 1.25×, 1.5×, 2×, 3× — for everyone at the same time. No sales calls, no tiers, no ad auction you cannot inspect. The person who buys after you pays more than you did, and that is the point.
Fully claimed, the board is worth roughly $1.1M — a figure derived from the same pricing code that quotes you, not a number we picked.
The Spot never stops being contested
The circle in the middle is not for sale. It belongs to whoever bid highest, and it keeps belonging to them until somebody bids $2 more — or 0.3% more, whichever is larger. It opened at $10. It has changed hands however many times it has changed hands, and that number is public.
It is the only thing here that can be taken from you, which is exactly why it is the most valuable spot on the page.
Taking it never leaves you with nothing. If you do not already own pixels, you choose a permanent space on the board as part of the same payment — you pick the position, you see the price before you commit, and it stays yours for good. Being outbid returns you to being an ordinary sponsor rather than erasing you.
You can sell it, and grow it
A space you own is an asset, not a receipt. List it at your own price and the buyer pays you directly through Stripe — SpotPixels takes 5% and never touches the rest. Proceeds are held 14 days before payout so a stolen-card purchase can be caught before the money is gone, which is what keeps the market worth trading in.
You can also grow. If the board is still open next to you, push an edge outward and pay only for the new blocks. Being early beside a gap compounds — the neighbours you do not have yet are the ones you can still become.
Launch boost: every ad is drawn larger than it is
An honest 30×30px block on an empty 3,120,000-pixel canvas is a speck. So while the board fills, every sold space is drawn up to 6× its real width and height — around 36× the area — and eases back to true size as sponsors arrive. At 35% claimed it reaches 1× and the board is showing exactly what everyone bought.
Two rules bound it, and both cost the boost rather than a sponsor. No ad is ever drawn over another, and none is drawn over the clean plaza around The Spot — a boosted space beside it grows outward instead. So a space with close neighbours is drawn at a smaller multiple than the badge quotes, and crowded neighbours give up the room together rather than the first one drawn taking it. The badge names the largest multiple any ad on the board is currently getting.
This affects the drawing and nothing else. What you pay, what you own, the region you picked and every figure on this site are the real rectangle. Your space is exactly the size the checkout said it was; it is simply being shown at launch scale, and the badge on the board states the current multiple at all times.
It shrinks because the board is succeeding. Every ad drops toward true size together, at the same moment, for the same reason — and the sponsors who were early are the ones who got the loudest board in return for the cheapest prices it will ever have. Buying now is the only way to have been early.
Built to be found, not just seen
The board is a canvas, which search engines cannot read — so every sponsor also gets a real, crawlable listing underneath it, with the title and description pulled from their own site. Clicks and impressions are counted honestly, deduplicated per visitor per day, and shown to you whether the number flatters us or not.
Your link goes to your site. Not to a profile of you on ours.
What this is not
It is not an ad network, and it will not pretend to be. There is no targeting, no retargeting, no pixel following anyone around the internet, and no algorithm deciding who deserves to see you. One page, one canvas, everybody on it, ordered by what they paid. If that sounds primitive, it is — deliberately. It is also the last format on the internet where buying a spot means you still have it next year.
The board is emptier today than it will ever be again.
Every block is first-come. The good ones go first, and they do not come back.
Claim your pixels