Advertising & Affiliate Networks
24/7 Real Media offers publishers standard graphic ad units with CPM and CPC campaigns. Their account managers provide great and helpful support, but their interface is lacking. Using their member area in checking your earnings and sifting through advertisers is a convoluted and very slow process.
Ad Pepper provides users an exclusive or non-exclusive representation for their ad inventories. Ad Pepper offer users many types of CPM ads which include graphic, contextual, and integrated text links.
AdBrite offers members CPC, CPA, and CPM in a variety of formats which include text ads, inline ads, banner ads, video ads, full page ads and ads in photos. Users are free to set their own price and run ads from another ad network if AdBrite can not supply an advertiser at the asking price. AdBrite is undoubtedly one of the top 5 leading advertising providers in the world and a great alternative to Adsense.
AdDynamyx offers members CPM and CPC graphic advertisements featuring Fortune 500 Advertisers. They serve standard ad units as well as various types of pop unders and floating ads.
AdEngage displays targeted text ads. They also offer PhoText Ads which includes a small image with the text. AdEngage sell ads as a weekly sponsorship package with members’ ad space priced by week. Members set their own rates, but advertisers have access to stats, so they can evaluate cost per click in any event. If a members’ inventory is not purchased, CPC ads are displayed.
Adfish is a small affiliate network and only offers CPA ads to its members. Adfish is a small business with not a large number of advertisers, which limit income for publishers.
AdKnowledge offers members targeted CPC graphic and text ads, as well as email and search campaigns. AdKnowledge implements behavioral targeting to serve the most relevant advertisements. AdKnowledge also possess a large number of advertisers totaling more than 50 000 advertisers.
The AdOn Network offers CPM text and graphic advertisements to members. They have no online member registration facility, but require users to send an email after which a consultant will contact the applicant.
ADSDAQ offer members text and graphical CPM advertisements and allows members to set their own CPM rate. ADSDAQ implements performance stats to serve the highest performing ads first, which benefits both the advertiser as well as the publisher. ADSDAQ is yet another high performance network recommended as an Adsense alternative.
Adsmart is a service which only serves the U.S. and U.K. Adsmart require a minimum of either 70% USA traffic or 70% UK traffic, and 100,000 monthly page views per website joining. They offer CPM and CPC campaigns and pays out 55% of net sales revenue to members.
Adsonar offers content-targeted ads to members. Advertisers bid for placement and run if it meets the minimum bid requirement from members.
Adtegrity have strict rules in approving advertisements running on their server. They also do not run PSA’s or default ads that has no revenue potential to members. Adtegrity offer CPM and CPC ads to members and guarantee 100% sellout of a members’ inventory. Adtegrity require 500,000 page views/month and at least 50% USA traffic from joining websites.
AdToll allows members to set their own price and pays 75% commission. AdToll offer CPM and CPC ads in all the standard ad units, including Video Ads as well as a new ad unit called a Peel Away Ad where the ad is hidden under your page and is activated upon a mouseover move by a user.
Advertising.com offer rev-share, CPA, and CPM pricing options that members can set the minimum for. In order to join members need at least two million impressions per month although their affiliate program does not have a minimum traffic requirement.
Amazon Associates is one of the world’s most popular affiliate programs due to the fact that it is easy to sign up and implement on any website. Amazon offers many different types of ad units to fit any webmaster’s needs, which include automated ads or publisher generated links for specific products. Members will receive a percentage revenue share each time a visitor clicks a link and make a purchase.
AzoogleAds is a large affiliate network serving CPA ads from Fortune 1000 and Fortune 500 companies to its members. AzoogleAds offer solutions for search, web and email campaigns to its members.
Bannerconnect is an organization that specializes in both US and EU markets and offer 100% fill rate for worldwide traffic to webmaster’s websites. Bannerconnect offer CPM, CPC and CPA ads.
BannerSpace offers webmasters different levels of representation depending on their traffic and exclusivity. They may offer to take over your entire sales department by putting a team on your site and managing your entire inventory. For small to mid-sized sites they operate like most ad networks, supplying CPM/CPC ads to fill up a webmasters’ inventory.
BardozoMedia offers targeted and optimized graphic ads to publishers at a net share of 70%. BardozoMedia currently only cover the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
BidVertiser offers CPC text ads on webmaster sites as well as for their feeds. Rates are determined by advertisers who bid on website ad space. BidVertiser is yet another large advertising company and another Adsense alternative.
BlogAds specializes in selling advertisements on Blogs from around the world. Their ad unit combines images with mult-linked text. Users can set their own prices and write their own Blog description in order to sell their ad space. BlogAds, however, take 30% of the revenue generated. Members can not join the network, but need to be invited by a current Blog member in order to join.
Blue FN is an advertising network that features mainly financial services advertisers. Blue FN ads are either CPC or CPA and the webmasters’ website site must overall consist of finance-related content.
BlueLithium implements behavioral targeting in order to delivery the best results for both advertisers and publishers alike. BlueLithium offer CPM, CPC, CPL and CPA ads which also include rich media formats.
Bravenet Media offer members on-site advertising programs, email sponsorships, co-registration forms, as well as other specialty media programs. Joining this group is not easy as they only accept websites with a minimum of 1 million ad views per month.
Burst Network focuses on Target Advertising sold on a CPM basis. Non-targeted Advertising campaigns are sold at lower CPMs and include CPC ads to fill up inventory for members. Burst Media keep 50% of all ad revenue but offer better rates for publishers who agree to one year or three years exclusivity.
Burst Direct is another program offered by Burst Media that run performance-driven campaigns. They take 35% of the profit, but the revenue potential is probably more uncertain.
Chitika offers members unique ad products that provide powerful and integrated promotions. They are all CPA ads for products. Chitika offers a wide variety of categories and ad units to choose from, so webmasters have more control over the type of products to feature instead of depending on keywords to be picked up by their ad server.
ClickBank is an affiliate network with more than 10,000 products available. Commissions range from 1% to 75% with a minimum commission for a single sale at $0.25 and the maximum at $100.
Clickbooth is an established affiliate network. They test all their offers to ensure income potential and offer weekly payouts to top publishers. Clickbooth also donate a portion of their revenue to charitable causes.
Clicksor offers inline text ads as well as targeted text and graphic ads in various sizes. Webmasters can choose from CPC, CPM, or CPV ads and earn up to 60% of the ad revenue share. The Clicksor system will evaluate the content on any web page and serve relevant and contextual ads.
clixGalore is an affiliate network offering text and graphic ads to promote their merchants and assist webmasters in earning commission.
Commission Junction is probably one of the most popular affiliate networks in the world. They offer a huge selection of advertisers. All their ads are CPA or CPL and are offered in different ad units. In order to get ad codes, webmasters need to apply for approval from each advertiser separately. This is a tedious process and webmasters may wait a couple of days or even weeks before hearing from advertisers. In very few instances webmasters may get instant approval.
Commission Soup is another affiliate network that offers pay per performance programs exclusively. Similar to Commission Junction, webmasters need to apply to each advertiser’s program separately. Here you can view a list of Commission Soup’s advertisers: View their client list
COPEAC offers affiliates top payouts and quick payments using an optimization system that drives traffic to the strongest performing landing pages, increasing conversion rates. The COPEAC team will also work with affiliates in creating designs that optimize exposure for immediate results.
Copernic Media Solutions supports CPC, CPM, and CPA campaigns and serve targeted ads based on a webmasters’ chosen category. This company also offer search listings and branded services for sites that make use of search tools.
CPA Empire focuses on providing a high level of affiliate support to help your campaigns do well. Their initiatives include banner ads, text ads, search marketing, and email promotions. They have over 700 live campaigns.
CrispAds caters to Blogs and serves contextual graphic and text ads based on the keywords and advertisers a publisher select. The majority of ads are CPC ads unless ads are purchased as a monthly sponsorship at the rate a publisher set. CrispAds have a minimum payout of $5.
CX Digital Media is an affiliate network offering CPA campaigns from Fortune 1000 clients. Some advantages include twice monthly payments and a rewards program where affiliates can claim prizes based on the money they have earned. In order to join their program they require 5,000 impressions per month per website to join.
Direct Media Exchange auctions impressions to the highest-paying ad network. CPM campaigns are served and their marketplace includes many networks such as Adtegrity, BannerConnect, CPX Interactive, Kitara Media, Rydium, Revenue Science, and Vizi Direct. The advantage of this program is that publishers can tap in to all of these ad networks at the same time and get the highest rate among them.
FeedBurner is a popular feed network that offers advertising for webmaster feeds as well as entire websites. FeedBurner site ads include Google Adsense to get the most inventory fill for a webmasters’ space. Although FeedBurner does not have a minimum feed count criteria to serve ads, advertisers are unlikely to purchase feeds with low numbers.
Flux Advertising is an affiliate network offering performance based ads. An account manager will be assigned to every approved webmaster in order to help guide the webmaster to the promotions and offers best suited for their websites. Flux Advertising also offer a bonus rewards program where publishers can claim prizes based on their earnings.
Google Adsense is the most popular and widely used contextual advertising network. Adsense is also the best paying network from around the world. Adsense serve CPC ads, image or text, based on the content on a publishers’ webpage. Advertisers bid on keywords so the CPC rate varies from one ad to another.
HerAgency operate uniquely from other advertising networks. They make buys and create campaigns for sites individually as well as a package of quality women-oriented sites. Their revenue share ranges from 35-50%, depending on a website’s traffic. HerAgency require 200,000 page views per month and female related content before a webmaster can join.
IndustryBrains offer CPC contextual text and graphical ads with rates determined by bids advertisers place for specific categories. Unsold inventory can be used for rich media graphical ads that are paid when users view an ad. These ads are very interactive.
Kitara Media represent quality sites, securing high CPM rates for a webmaster’s ad inventory. They will also provide guidance in implementing traffic strategies and revenue solutions to approved members. They apply stringent approval methods and joining is not very easy.
Kontera serves inline text ads, using a webmaster’s own text as ad units. Keywords are automatically turned into links to relevant ads. One advantage is that Kontera provides more control and better usability than some of the other networks that offer inline text ads. Kontera is one of the world’s leading inline text ad providers.
LeaderMarkets is an affiliate network that offer email and search CPA campaigns to approved members. LeaderMarkets guarantee the highest payouts by matching any offer at a higher rate a webmaster finds elsewhere.
LinkConnector is an affiliate network that offers a variety of programs. They also offer the standard pay per lead or pay per sale campaigns. LinkConnector also offer programs that include pay per call, where a user places a call to the advertiser, as well as pay per go, rewards for specific outbound clicks on merchant’s website.
LinkShare is an affiliate network that makes use of robust tracking technology that is not cookie based. This ensures accurate and complete tracking. LinkShare also provide an array of publisher tools for better usability and earnings analysis.
LinkWorth offers a variety of ways to webmasters in monetizing their website. These include text link ads, inline text ads, hosted content and paid Blog posts.
MaxBounty is an affiliate network promoting an open advertising network, which allows affiliates direct communication with the merchants.
MIVA exclusively offer CPC targeted text and inline text ads. Members can select keywords that trigger ads when their contextual matching technology does not find an ad to serve that matches their content.
Mirago is a leading advertising network in Europe, and they focus on websites with a large number of European traffic. Mirago monetize a webmaster’s inventory with content-targeted links.
OrangeFeed offer ads for webmaster feeds including several ad formats not available on other feed advertising networks. members can – display a text ad at the bottom of their items, as well have inline ads, maximum 1 link per article and also headline ads.
Pepperjam Network provides members with an ad widget which allows customized contextual ads from one or multiple advertisers at the same time. Members are free to mix ads from any merchant partner to make the most out of ad space.
Pheedo delivers ads to webmaster feeds. Even if a webmaster are making use of another feed management service, Pheedo can still serve their ads through it too, allowing better inventory fill for webmaster’s feed ad space.
PrimaryAds is an affiliate network that provides dedicated support and selective offer acceptance. PrimaryAds ensure that each offer is tested before they are made available through the affiliate network. They also offer flexible payment terms where checks can be sent weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly.
RealTechNetwork offers 70% revenue share and guarantees 100% sell-through of a webmaster’s traffic. They offer a wide variety of different ad units and use behavioral and contextual targeting to serve the most relevant ads. In order to join the network, they require 25,000 impressions per month per website to join.
Revenue Science offers innovative solutions to publishers who are interested in delivering targeted ads and having flexibility with their inventory sales. Revenue Science offer several publishing tools that allows different levels of targeting and includes a Targeting Marketplace to sell inventory to other resellers as well.
RevenuePILOT is a pay per click search affiliate network that offers 60% for each click through revenue generated through a search on a website. Members can choose keywords to decide which type of listings to show. RevenuePilot’s CPC rate varies with keywords and members can check current prices on to see what keywords are worth.
Revver makes use of a unique approach and attaches ads to videos uploaded to their site. As the creator of the video, you can then earn revenue from those ads by showing it on your site or sharing it with others. Members can also share other people’s videos too, earning revenue for both you and the creator ensuring multiple streams of income.
Rydium offer content-relevant ads to members. Rydium also offers a wide variety of creative and targeting features. In order to join the network, they require a minimum of 1 million page views per month per website.
Scratch//Back is an innovative approach that allows users to “tip” you and in return you give back links or images. Users who tip are allowed to display a text link or image with a custom message on mouseover. Members can set their own rates and listing preferences and remove any listing with no refund to the tipper.
Text-Link-Ads is a service that sell text links on your web pages. Members allocate space on pages for their links, submit which pages they want to sell on, and the space will be advertised in their marketplace.
Text-Link-Ads take 50% of the revenue and rates are based on a website’s Google PageRank. The more popular the web page based on links, the higher the rate for an advertisement on the page.
Text-Link-Ads also offer paid text links in webmaster feeds via the Feedvertising option. Members can use the space to sell text links through Text-Link-Ads or put their own ads in there. The Feedvertising option is only available to WordPress users.
Trend Revenue is great service which features free, white label websites, weekly payouts, lifetime residuals and much more.
Vizi Direct offers members 100% fill rate, which including international traffic. They have no default or house ads and runs only impression based campaigns.
