Promotion Terms

Last updated: 24 October 2026

These terms apply when a publisher buys promotion on AGMAN. They form part of the Terms of Service. The public explanation on How discovery works describes the same ranking model in simpler language.

1. One global promotion ladder

A promotion payment is added to the active promotion total for the listing you own. Each payment has its own 30-day life. While it remains active, it contributes to one global promotion ladder. Higher active totals rank above lower totals. If totals are equal, the listing that reached that total earlier remains above the later one, subject to the published anti-domination rule for Spotlight.

You do not buy a separate category rank. Relevant category and search visibility is derived from the same global promotion position and the listing's actual category and content.

2. What each global rank can receive

  • Ranks 1–3: Spotlight on the homepage.
  • Ranks 4–15: Homepage Boosted.
  • Rank 16 and below: the promotion remains active and can qualify for relevant contextual category and search distribution.

Rank is recalculated as active promotion totals change or expire. A position shown before checkout is therefore an estimate, not a reservation. Another listing can move above you before or after your payment is confirmed.

3. Category and search distribution

Contextual paid distribution is relevance-limited. A page using paid promotion may appear in its relevant category or beside a relevant search, but payment does not make an unrelated page eligible.

Discover and category views render at most three contextual paid placements at a time. The highest-ranked relevant active promotion receives the priority position. Remaining contextual slots rotate deterministically among other relevant active promotions, and one publisher may occupy at most one contextual paid slot in the same view. Rotation changes exposure opportunity, not the underlying global ladder.

On homepage category sections, paid placements are considered first, then remaining Pulse activity, then Support-led organic discovery. Within those remaining organic positions, lasting Support count is considered before the normal organic discovery tie-breakers. Payment does not rewrite the Support-led organic order.

4. Homepage deduplication

A listing normally receives one primary homepage appearance at the highest-priority surface it qualifies for. For example, a listing already shown in Spotlight or Homepage Boosted is not repeated in Trending or a category block merely to occupy another position. This presentation rule does not remove its underlying Pulse, support, promotion or organic data.

5. Pulses and Trending

Community Pulses and purchased Pulses are daily activity signals. Purchased Pulses are priced at 10 Pulses per US$1, with a minimum Pulse purchase of US$5 (50 Pulses). They reset at 00:00 UTC. The homepage displays at most 20 Trending listings at a time; listings outside that displayed top 20 may still contribute to category activity and appear in relevant category sections. If purchased Pulses contribute to a visible Trending or category placement, that appearance carries the AGMAN paid-placement mark.

6. Grow Pass and the Launch Pack

Grow Pass prices are set in US dollars. Dodo Payments may let you pay in your local currency, converting the price at its exchange rate (which can include a conversion fee) and adding any applicable tax; your benefits are the same whichever currency you pay in. The Grow Pass is sold for a one-time US$20 payment. Earlier US$10 Grow Pass purchases retain their original benefits and refund rights. The current Grow Pass applies to one approved, claimed listing. After Dodo confirms payment, it adds a US$10 stake tranche for 30 days (US$5 for orders placed before 5 November 2026) and a wallet of 100 prepaid purchased Pulse credits. The credits are not applied on purchase. You may apply them manually, or set one daily or weekly UTC schedule. A schedule uses the same wallet, can be paused or changed, and runs during AGMAN's existing daily job, normally around 03:30 UTC. Runs may be delayed; credits left after the exact 30-day expiry do not roll over. A manual use can apply any number of credits up to the remaining balance. Separate stake top-ups keep their own expiry.

The Launch Pack is sold on its own, as one payment, and includes everything in the Grow Pass (the US$10 stake for 30 days and the prepaid wallet) with a wallet of 200 prepaid credits instead of 100, used in the same way. A listing can hold one active package at a time. While a Grow Pass is active you can upgrade it to the Launch Pack for the package price minus the amount you originally paid for your Grow Pass (US$29 for the US$49 Launch Pack after a US$20 pass, or US$39 after an earlier US$10 pass). The upgrade replaces the Grow Pass: its wallet becomes 200 prepaid credits in total, with credits you already used counted toward them; a new 30-day period and a new US$10 stake tranche start when payment is confirmed, and the Grow Pass's own stake tranche keeps its original expiry. The upgrade is charged through Dodo Payments as a single amount. Orders placed before 18 October 2026 as a Grow Pass with an add-on keep the benefits they were sold.

On top of the Grow Pass contents, the one-time US$49 Launch Pack includes: (a) your launch, marked as a paid placement, in a shared AGMAN Dispatch issue that also features other listings; (b) shares of your launch on one or more of AGMAN's own social accounts, chosen by AGMAN; (c) 50 additional purchased Pulses applied automatically on the agreed UTC launch date, separate from the 200 prepaid credits; and (d) a launch report in your dashboard that lists the Dispatch issue and each share with its link.

You launch on a platform or website of your choice; AGMAN does not host your launch, it promotes it and links people to it. Before checkout, choose your launch date 7–30 days ahead (subject to available launch slots), tell us where you are launching, and give us the link and a short description. AGMAN sends the Dispatch issue and social shares around that date, in the Dispatch issue nearest to it for a Launch Pack, and on AGMAN's usual posting schedule for social shares. We use the details you supply and may shorten or format them to fit each channel. We do not research, verify or rewrite your claims and there is no draft-approval step; you are responsible for the accuracy of what you submit and for having the right to share it. The Launch Pack can be bought only while launch slots are open.

AGMAN may decline a launch that breaks the Listing Guidelines or the law, or that we reasonably consider misleading or unsafe; in that case, or if we cannot send it, the launch part is refunded under the Refund Policy. Paid entries always carry AGMAN's paid-placement mark. The Launch Pack does not buy an independent endorsement, a particular number of readers, opens or clicks, a followed (dofollow) link, search ranking, or posting on third-party sites such as Product Hunt.

7. No guaranteed outcome

  • No payment guarantees a fixed rank for 30 days; other active totals can move above yours.
  • No payment guarantees a particular number of impressions, clicks, inquiries, leads, sales or off-platform features.
  • Contextual paid-placement eligibility does not guarantee that the listing appears on every page view or for every query.
  • Promotion does not exempt a listing from AGMAN's listing, ownership, safety or moderation rules.

8. Payment duration and top-ups

Each promotion payment starts when confirmed and counts for 30 days. Adding more creates another 30-day amount; it does not extend the expiry of an older amount. When an amount expires or is refunded, it stops contributing to the active total and the ladder is recalculated.

9. Eligibility and removal

Only an approved, claimed, real listing owned by the buyer can be promoted. Example/demo listings cannot buy promotion. If a listing is removed or suspended for breaking the Listing Guidelines, its promotion can stop. Refund treatment is governed by the Refund & Cancellation Policy and applicable law.

10. Payments

Dodo Payments processes eligible purchases as merchant of record/reseller, collects the applicable transaction taxes and issues the payment invoice. AGMAN does not receive or store your full card details.

11. Contact

Use the support form.