Yeah, they still are fluctuating. I actually was complaining to them today though, saying BAT been steadily dropping and holding for a year. Went from like $0.75 per BAT to now around $0.25. From what was explained before, it’s sticky so they don’t lose money, but it’s also supposed to fluctuate a bit based on the market. So as BAT been dropping, ads should have been paying more BAT to equate what had been paid for at the time.
And with how Brave’s buybacks have been increasing, going from like 300k to up to about 1.5 million, it shows that they have been collecting BAT based on USD values. It just hasn’t been passed on to us yet.
In fact, seems we’ve gone from average 0.05 per ad to about 0.002 or so per ad. Though still can hold a bit better in the USA. Below is an example of what current ads are like here in the USA.
All of that said though, they are saying it’s just a temporary slump. A big slowdown kind of happened as we had our crypto winter and FTX go back-to-back. Even Google, Facebook, and others saw a drop in income from advertising in the whole process. Brave is pushing for an upswing and saying that Self Serve ads are soon to come, which will give more options to people to place their own ads. The hope is this will drive up BAT for everyone on Brave when it hits.