Yes, tipping is account based and not series based. So it will be applied to all of your series.
We hope to include a more detailed overview of tippers on the revenue dashboard in the future.
Yes, if you e-mail me at michaelson@tapasmedia.co with a request to activate tipping, you will receive a response when tipping has been activated.
Because it has to do with money being exchanged between readers and creators, we need to have at least one person verify that the accounts activating tipping are legit. With ad revenue it's a little bit more lenient since the money being exchanged is just between the advertisers and the creators with us, Tapastic as an intermediary to watch out for fraud.
The number of video ads we have available is dependent largely on the video ad providers and networks that we're currently using. The good news is that the more readers and creators watch video ads, the better we're able to partner with more ad networks to provide better paying and more frequent ads.
Unfortunately, since we're JUST starting out the video ad program, we're not always able to fill inventory. We hope to improve upon this as time goes on.
Yes, those are referred to as bonus coins and aren't eligible to be used for tipping.
I'm still working on adding as many creators per day as possible and am trying to set aside more time daily. We're seeing continued growth in the number of readers and creators tipping, as well as frequency of tips.
Once we've wrapped up this initial batch of requests, I'll be moving on to the second phase of the program which will be collecting feedback from both readers and creators to see how we can improve the feature as well as starting to share details about what's been working for some creators.
Also, if you have questions, please feel free to tag me so I'll be notified!