GotPrinter · ad simulator one college print outlet

1Pick the week

A week runs Monday to Sunday and follows the college calendar. Student prices are from our Sept 2026 survey; all traffic figures are assumptions.

2Pick how the shop chooses ads

Divide every pile. Whenever a job finishes and another student's job is waiting to print (so it would land on top of an uncollected pile), the boundary gets a divider: the ad the algorithm chose, else the next campaign in turn, else a plain token slip.

3Press Play

Speed Pause on each ad and pickup Seed

Students served

People who got their documents and left.

Ad pages printed

Extra sheets slipped onto students' piles.

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Shop kept (after paper)

Its share of ad income minus the paper used.

Coupons redeemed

Students who used the code on the ad sheet.

Student names are simulated; they stand for no real person.

Advertiser board striped red = printed after the cap, so not billed

Money

Student experience

What one customer costs the advertiser

Cost per redeemed coupon

Cost per printed sheet, next to a flyer

Grey bands: agency benchmarks, 2024-26, weak sources. Dots are our campaigns in this run.

Log: what just happened

Race all algorithms

Same outlet, same students, same days and campaigns for every algorithm. Uses each algorithm's current slider settings.

Campaigns (the advertisers) click to edit

Caps and budgets are written for a College-gate-sized outlet and scale with the chosen outlet's traffic. A campaign's cap and budget cover its whole active window; a shorter week gets its proportional share. Editing anything restarts the run.

Assumptions every number below is a guess, edit freely