Best 21 Advertising Networks For Publishers

I’ve kept this list of advertising networks for publishers current since the day I first published it, and I go through it line by line every year to kill off dead networks and fix any numbers that have drifted. What follows are the ones I actually trust in 2026. I’ll also walk you through getting approved, picking the right one for your traffic, and getting paid.

Short version: if you’re small or just starting out, Mondiad and Ezoic let you in with no traffic minimum, so start there. Once you’re past 25,000 pageviews a month with solid US/UK traffic, apply to Raptive (the old AdThrive) or Mediavine for the higher RPMs. If you run global, adult, or mixed traffic, Mondiad, ExoClick, and Adsterra will fill it and pay you fast.

The Best Ad Networks for Publishers: Comparison

Ad Network	Best For	Pricing Model	Minimum Traffic	Minimum Payout
Mondiad	Push, native & global traffic	CPM, CPC	None	$10
AdStyle	Native ads	CPM, CPC	None	$50
Media.net	Contextual ads	CPM, CPC, CPA	10,000 PV/month	$100
Ezoic	Small publishers	CPM, CPC	None	$20
Mediavine	Lifestyle & content sites	CPM, CPC	$5,000/yr ad revenue (Journey: 1,000 sessions/month)	$25
Raptive (ex-AdThrive)	Premium US-traffic blogs	CPM, CPC	25,000 PV/month	$100
Monumetric	Mid-sized blogs	CPM	10,000 PV/month	$10
ExoClick	Adult & entertainment	CPM, CPC	None	$20
PropellerAds (Monetag)	Global pop & push traffic	CPM, CPC, CPA	None	$5
Adsterra	High-CPM global traffic	CPM, CPL, CPA	5,000 impressions/month	$5
Infolinks	In-text ads	CPM, CPC, CPA	None	$50
ClickAdu	Pop & video ads	CPM	None	$10
Adcash	Anti-adblock monetization	CPM, CPC, CPA	None	$25
BidVertiser	PPC + conversion revenue	CPM, CPC	None	$10
Coinzilla	Crypto & finance sites	CPM, CPC	None	€50
AdMaven	Popunder monetization	CPM, CPC, CPA	None	$50
PopAds	Popunder specialists	CPV, CPM	None	$5
TrafficForce	Programmatic SSP	CPM	None	$100
Google AdSense	Beginners	CPM, CPC	None	$100

Ad tech moves fast, and it doesn’t wait for anyone. Expect to test several networks, or a combination of them, before you find the setup that pays you the most.

It’s worth the effort once you land on the right mix.

Whenever the conversation turns to monetizing a blog or a community, the first name everyone reaches for is Google AdSense.

Nothing wrong with that. It’s the biggest ad network on the planet. But assuming nobody can beat AdSense on revenue is just wrong.

This is a crowded market with many players competing for the same publishers, and it quickly clears out the weak. Since I first put this guide together, networks like Adblade, Vibrant Media, Propel Media, and RevenueHits have shut down or gone quiet. That’s the whole reason I re-check this list every year instead of letting it rot.

The networks that survive do it by getting smarter about ad delivery, matching the right ad to the right page, which is what turns into more money for you and better numbers for the advertiser.

Here are the networks I’d put in front of any publisher trying to squeeze more out of the same traffic:

Mondiad

Mondiad review:

Mondiad is a self-serve network from the people who built PopCash, so it comes with a long track record in ad tech. It does classic push and in-page push really well, and it also runs native, banner, popunder, interstitial, and in-app SDK formats. It takes both mainstream and adult traffic, and the fill rate sits close to 100% worldwide.

The reason I keep pointing publishers at it is the payouts. The minimum cashout is just $10. You can request a withdrawal any day you like (it usually lands in 24 to 48 hours), or set automatic weekly or monthly payments and forget about it. No traffic minimum, quick approvals, ad zones you can shape to your layout, and real-time reporting. For most people, it earns its place as a higher-yield layer on top of a primary display network rather than a full replacement.

Mondiad referral program:

There’s a referral system too. Drop your referral link, and you earn 5% (up to $1,000) on whatever a referred publisher makes, or a referred advertiser spends.

AdStyle

AdStyle is a native advertising platform pushing 65B impressions to 210M unique visitors a month. Its partners include Estee Lauder, Booking.com, and Nestle, among others. The point of native ads, compared with display ads or pop-ups, is that they blend into your content. Less friction for the reader, better conversion for you.

AdStyle has a lot going for it: 24/7 support, strong payouts, a dedicated account manager, and a dashboard with every metric you’d want.

AdStyle Review

AdStyle is one of the stronger native advertising networks out there for both sides of the market. Once you’re approved, you get access to quality native ads, and you’re up and running in very little time. You also get 24/7 technical support, and the $50 payout threshold means you can ship ads and actually get paid without waiting forever.

Their quality controls are tight, so you don’t have to worry about your content sitting next to junk ads.

If you don’t already run native, AdStyle is a solid first one to try, or a good alternative to whatever you’re running now.

Media.net

Media.net supports the standard IAB ad sizes and pulls quality demand from every major DSP. You get display units, desktop interstitials, native in-content, and mobile-docked ads.

Media.net affiliate program:

The affiliate program pays you 10% of your referrals’ earnings for 12 months from the day they go live. The publisher you refer also gets a 10% bonus on their own earnings for the first 3 months. Win for both of you. The dashboard gives you links, banners, and detailed performance reports.

Media.net review:

Media.net is one of the biggest contextual ad networks in the world. It started as the exclusive partner for the Yahoo! Bing marketplace and now runs on its own programmatic and contextual demand from national and local advertisers, which keeps the fill rate near 100% across verticals and formats. Forbes, Elle, Reuters, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire are among the publishers using it.

Ezoic

Ezoic review:

Ezoic says it makes you more money on the same traffic, and the way it does that comes down to three things. First, it tests ad placements on your site with machine learning until it finds what pays. Second, its optimization software can speed up your pages if you route your site through its servers. Third, it gives you access to Google’s Ad Exchange. It sits a tier above plain AdSense, and now that there’s no traffic minimum, it’s the most accessible premium option for a new publisher.

Ezoic has worked with tens of thousands of sites and lifted revenue by an average of 115%. There’s also an affiliate program paying you 3% of the earnings of anyone you bring in. Sign up with our affiliate link below:

Mediavine

Mediavine review

Mediavine is a fully managed ad company. They deal directly with the big ad exchanges and advertisers to wring the most out of your inventory, and the upshot for you is faster load times, a cleaner experience, and traffic that tends to grow.

They changed the gate in 2026. The main network used to want 50,000 monthly sessions; now it wants $5,000 in annual ad revenue instead. For smaller sites, the better news is Journey by Mediavine, which takes you in at as little as 1,000 monthly sessions on a 70% revenue share. Once a Journey site reaches $5,000 in ad revenue within 12 months, it automatically bumps up to the main network.

Cooking, fashion, lifestyle, and DIY are their sweet spots. Like Ezoic, they actually put money back into the platform: lazy-loaded ads, a recipe plugin for food bloggers, the Grow engagement framework, a social sharing plugin, and so on. If you can meet the threshold, it’s one of the better networks to move up to.

With direct lines to the major exchanges and premium advertisers, Mediavine sits on a valuable pool of ad inventory. Main-network publishers keep a 75% revenue share (70% on Journey).

Raptive (formerly AdThrive)

Raptive review:

Raptive, called AdThrive until 2023 when CafeMedia folded all its brands under one name, is the network I’d hand to any blogger sitting on premium English-speaking traffic. It’s the best CPM network for that profile, period. In late 2025, they merged the old Rise and Insider programs into a single tier and lowered the entry bar from 100,000 to 25,000 monthly pageviews, which let many more people in.

They look after their publishers. The staff knows publisher advertising inside and out, and every time I’ve had a question, they’ve taken the time to answer it properly. You also get courses, revenue guarantees, and creator tools (including AI crawler blocking) that help boost your RPM.

Raptive gives publishers 75% of earnings and runs a deep bench of premium advertisers. Just remember, traffic quality counts as much as volume here.

Monumetric

Monumetric review

Monumetric plays it a little differently from the display networks above. It serves dynamic ads based on your content and your visitors’ interests.

Most networks, AdSense included, show static ads. Monumetric keeps refreshing the units with new ads even while the reader stays on the same page, so you get more clicks, more impressions, and more revenue from the same session.

Some bloggers say moving from AdSense to Monumetric grew their ad income tenfold.

ExoClick

Exoclick review:

Founded in 2006 and based in Barcelona, ExoClick runs two channels for both sides of the market: an ad exchange and an ad network. Between them, they push billions of geotargeted ads a day.

If your site lives in the adult, lifestyle, or entertainment niche, ExoClick is the one. You get more than 20 ad formats with optimized, behavioral targeting, and the performance holds up against your competitors. As a big adult publisher, you want to be here.

ExoClick pays you 5% of revenue from referred publishers for as long as their sites stay online.

PropellerAds (Monetag)

PropellerAds (Monetag) review

Quick note before anything else: PropellerAds moved its publisher side to a separate brand called Monetag. PropellerAds now handles advertisers and media buyers; if you’re a publisher, you monetize through Monetag. Same infrastructure and demand behind it, just a dedicated platform for your side.

Monetag runs popunders, push notifications, in-page push, interstitials, SmartLinks, and banners across web, mobile, in-app, and even Telegram Mini Apps. Position the ads well, and your US and UK inventory can pull competitive CPMs. You also get 100% monetized inventory, on-time payouts, and real-time reporting with built-in anti-fraud and malware detection.

The minimum is $5 ($20 via Payoneer) on a weekly NET-7 cycle, so you’re not stuck waiting to hit some high threshold. Monetag pays via PayPal, Skrill, Payoneer, wire, and crypto.

Adsterra

Adsterra review:

Adsterra is a smart-tech publisher and ad network. They claim 100% fill rates and lean on their custom solutions, and the network pushes high CPMs while keeping bad or malware-laced ads out through its fraud systems.

It covers the formats that actually work on web and mobile inventory: interstitials, display, direct links, and more. Across roughly 50K campaigns, Adsterra serves tens of billions of impressions a month in 190+ countries.

The referral program pays you 5% of the revenue from publishers you bring in, for life.

Infolinks

Infolinks review:

Banner ads have a built-in problem that quietly costs you money: banner blindness. People tune out ads half the time, without realizing it, because they break the reading experience. Infolinks gets around that with ad units you don’t see anywhere else: InFold (overlay), InText (text-link), InTag (tag cloud), InFrame (banners in the margins), and InScreen (smart interstitials).

Infolinks brings in steady monthly revenue for more than 100,000 publishers and works with companies such as Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and eBay. It’s simple to drop onto a site, with no setup fees and no minimum on pageviews or visitors.

Heads up: it can take a few days for all of Infolinks’ partners to review your site, after which they’ll match the best ads to your pages to boost your earnings.

ClickAdu

ClickAdu review:

ClickAdu is built to squeeze revenue out of publisher traffic, and it serves billions of impressions a day across mainstream and adult. CPMs run high in close to 240 countries, with a 100% fill rate.

The formats you’ll use most are popunders, push notifications, in-page push, video pre-roll, and banners, all on a straightforward CPM model.

Adcash

Adcash review:

Adcash DSP+ is an ad platform for both advertisers and publishers, with over 10,000 active campaigns running worldwide.

It supports formats that perform well on web and mobile: popunders, native ads, push notifications, banners, and interstitials. There’s a good set of tools for monetizing your traffic, and the tech gets past ad blockers.

Expect high eCPMs, flexible payment terms, real-time stats, and support that knows what it’s doing. Their account managers speak multiple languages and will help you tighten your monetization setup.

AdCash Affiliate Program:

There’s an affiliate program too. Bring in new publishers and earn 5% of their lifetime earnings.

BidVertiser

Your results will vary, but BidVertiser has a monetization model worth a look. On top of earning per ad click, you make extra when that click turns into a conversion, meaning a sale for the advertiser.

It supports the usual formats, banners, skyscrapers, rectangles, and so on, and a point-and-click tool lets you fit the units to your site’s look.

The bidding system is designed to wring the most revenue from every unit, and the reporting lets you track clicks, CTR, and total earnings without guesswork.

Bidvertiser Affiliate program:

There’s an affiliate program for bringing in new publishers. When someone you refer signs up and earns their first $10, you get $10. When that same publisher hits $50, you get another $40.

Minimums are low on most methods: PayPal ($10), BTC ($100), Check ($100), Bank ($500).

Coinzilla

Coinzilla launched in 2016 to help crypto and finance projects reach the right audience. For publishers, it serves a handful of formats: native, banners, header banners, sticky banners, and popunders.

Coinzilla Affiliate program:

There’s an affiliate program for both advertisers and publishers. Earn €50 once your referral spends their first €500.

AdMaven

AdMaven is often called the best popunder network for publishers, but it also runs mainstream display ads: banners, lightboxes, interstitials, push notifications, and sliders. They serve hundreds of millions of impressions across about 200 countries.

That reach gives advertisers plenty of room for geotargeting, and their real-time bidding system targets tightly. Around 25,000 publishers monetize with them.

PopAds

PopAds is a fast, secure popunder network that lets you monetize your traffic with high-quality popunders.

One thing publishers like is on-demand payments, plus advertisers in about 50 countries, which gives you a lot of room to pick keywords and targeting and monetize your niche traffic properly.

TrafficForce

TrafficForce gives publishers and advertisers a range of options to maximize ad revenue by selling targeted web and mobile traffic on an impression basis.

It’s a supply-side platform that exposes you to more than 100 demand partners, handling traffic via header bidding or open RTB. Formats include display banners, pop-ups, push notifications, in-video banners, and in-stream video.

Google Adsense

Google AdSense is probably the first ad network you ever heard of, and it hasn’t stopped moving. In 2024, it switched to a per-impression payment model in line with the rest of the industry, with publishers keeping roughly 80% of revenue after fees. Auto Ads will also save you a pile of time by placing ads for you instead of you setting each spot by hand, and if there’s an ad type or location you don’t like, you can switch it off in the auto-ad settings.

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That’s the list. A complete, fact-checked rundown of the best advertising networks for publishers, from beginner-friendly options through the premium players.

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Conclusion

Pick the networks that fit your traffic level and your niche, test a couple of combinations, watch your RPM, and then put your weight behind whatever’s actually paying. Start today and see what your site can pull in.

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