Top 21 Most Promising Ad Networks For Bloggers In 2021

After hundreds of hours of writing, editing, and publishing your blog has finally started to gain some traction, and now you quickly want to get your hands in the money business.

Before getting started, you should ask yourself “On what basis do I choose ad networks?”

With so many ad networks out there how do you decide which one’s the best?

To be honest, there really isn’t any clear answer for that. There’s a variety of factors that come into play.

I’ve listed out a few factors that you can use to filter out the best ad networks for your blog:

Niche-Specific Ad Network

The big ad networks out there are usually working with thousands of publishers. You should try to find out how many publishers on the ad network are relevant to your target audience in their inventory and see if they are in your niche. Because running ads on a website that your target audience isn’t viewing is of no value.

What devices your audience use?

Did you know that there are 3 billion smartphone users in the world? And that more than 62% of people made a purchase on a mobile device?

People use laptops and desktop during the workday but chances are that majority of your audience use smartphones. There are ad networks out there that offer exclusive mobile marketing features.

Target Options

Targeting options like demographic data, geographic location, device, and income are provided by the ad networks of a good standard.

They also include features like retargeting which lets you put ads in front of customers who have already visited your website once.

These features matter a lot as conversion rates on retargeted traffic can be double that of standard advertising.

The RON(Run-of-Network) Feature

There are a lot of ad networks out there that allow you to have your ads placed on other websites that are on their inventory list.

This feature is called RON.

RON-enabled ad networks can prove very potent in the long run by generating a lot of traffic.

As you would’ve expected, there are thousands of ad networks out there. But you only want the best, and so here I am with the list of 15 best ad networks for bloggers out there:

1. Ezoic

Ezoic is the only proven ad network out there that has a working Artificial Intelligence model for ad testing, placement, and multiple other configurations.

It gives you the feature to drag-drop to set up testing locations. Then you can run your tests or choose your next goals.

The requirement for joining Ezoic is 10,000 sessions per month and is proven to work with any type of content vector. The minimum payout stands at only $20.

2. AdThrive

Focusing primarily on lifestyle areas like parenting, home, travel, and food it’s one of the most customer-friendly ad networks out there.

Although you don’t exactly have to be those niches to be able to join. But it looks for US-based traffic very strictly.

Having a huge number of global visitors to your blog will ensure that you won’t get into trouble. But AdThrive has a “creator-first” mission that says that even if they don’t get paid they’ll still pay you.

You’re gonna need Google Analytics installed and functioning with a minimum of 100,000 monthly page viewers. And make sure you’re not blacklisted by Google AdSense or any other ad network.

3. Taboola

Using those content suggestions that appear at the bottom of your website, Taboola helps you monetize your website. Many magazines and big publishers use this type of monetization.

But Taboola can be a hard nut to crack. It requires at least 500,000 visitors per month for a subscription.

4. Media.net

Media.net is the Google AdSense of premium ad networks.

As one of the largest contextual advertising networks on the internet, it is considered a very quality ad network among bloggers and publishers.

Automation is one of the key features of Media.net that sets it apart from others. It automatically figures out text and display sizes of ads on your website.

Requirements are to have at least 5,000 page views in a day and the majority of the traffic should be from the US, UK, or Canada.

5. Monumetric

Monumetric famously holds the reputation of being a very publisher-friendly ad network.

The sign-up process is very simple and straight forward with plenty of CPM offers to choose from upon completion. You can even choose if you want to display the ads of a certain company or not.

To get started you’ll be needing around 10,000 page views per month. Also, a one-time $99 setup fee will be charged.

6. Mediavine

Yet another well regarder ad network. Lifestyle content creators in niches like travel, parenting, food, home love Mediavine. Well, that doesn’t mean that bloggers with other niches can’t join.

They’re trying to build their brand around the “creator first” approach. As a matter of fact, the team behind Mediavine is a popular publisher.

To get started with Mediavine you’ll need a minimum of 50,000 visitors per month.

7. Outbrain

Pretty much similar to Taboo, it helps you add sponsored links and “stories from the web” that news houses and big publishers very frequently use.

Outbrain is known to only accept large publishers so it’s not the best option if you’re not that big yet. It requires a whopping 10 million minimum visitors per month.

8. Infolinks

Infolinks primarily uses contextual ads at specific keywords in your content. It doesn’t add any new content, rather, it matches ads with existing keywords in your content.

It’s won’t be any normal link either. Whenever a visitor hovers over a highlighted keyword the ad will reveal itself.

Infolinks also offers notification bar ads, interstitials, standard contextual ads, and vertical ads.

9. PropellerAds

Propeller is a popular ad network that gives you smart links, traditional display ads, Onclick ads, interstitials, and browser push notifications.

With that many options, you get a great amount of control over your monetization goals.

Another amazing offer of PropellerAds is that the minimum payment is just $5 and you also get weekly payouts at that.

10. Revcontent

Revcontent works with high-quality websites and has been known to reject a lot of websites due to this focus on quality. It’s more like a content recommendation network.

Although it has been seen that they work with smaller publishers as well — but it is rare. The minimum number of target visitors per month is 50,000 and the minimum payout is $50.

11. Adversal

Pretty much similar to Outbrain and Taboola lets you monetize your website using content recommendation. It also lets you use native ads, video content, and display ads.

To get a subscription you’re gonna need to have at least 50,000-page visitors per month.

12. Sovrn //Commerce

With a similar functioning like Infolinks, Sovrn supports automatic contextual advertising link insertion into your pre-existing content on your website.

Affiliate links can also be automatically inserted into the content using Sovrn.

Overall, Sovrn is a nice alternative for ad display. The minimum payout is only $5.

13. BuySellAds

You can list your ad inventory in BuySell’s marketplace which is exclusively for advertisers to directly purchase ad space for your website.

Like you can add more than one spot in your sidebar and then advertisers can purchase that inventory right through BuySellAds all without any direct interaction.

Never miss out on revenue by displaying an inventory spot that hasn’t been filled yet using the “specify fallback ads” option.

You need to have monthly page visitors of around 100,000 to be eligible for a subscription.

14. RevenueHits

RevenueHits pays its publishers for every completed action on the website they own. The pay can vary from around $10 to $50 per completed action.

It is mostly a CPA-based ad network. It does not pay for any clicks or impressions but offers very high CPA rates.

It also gives you instant approval. The minimum payout is $50.

15. PopAds

One of the best ad networks for small publishers. It offers better CPM rates than most other ad networks and there are no minimum traffic requirements either.

It is a premium ad network.

The minimum payout is $5 and you can also enable auto-payment withdrawal.

16. HilltopAds

Hilltop Ads is one of the ad networks with anti-adblocker technology. It also offers real-time statistics tracking for medium and big publishers.

Although for low traffic websites Hilltop is not so feasible.

The minimum payout is $50 they pay via Payoneer and Bitcoin.

17. Ad Recover

Ad Recover comes at the very top on the list of best Adsense alternatives. It is highly recommended for publishers with a high volume of search traffic as it monetizes it.

Surprisingly, it has no minimum traffic requirements.

It also has a very low payment threshold of only $10 for Paypal and $50 for a cheque. Try to stay away from invalid clicking as Ad Recover is very strict when it comes to invalid activity and will ban your account immediately.

18. Bidvertiser

Bidvertiser has been in the market for a very long time. It is a trusted ad network that provides a huge variety of ad formats.

The ads offered aren’t very high-quality but the timely payment, ease of use, and a low payment threshold of $10 making it a good choice overall.

Bidvertiser is also known for a 100% fill rate.

It also has a referral program in which you can make money by referring Bidvertiser to other bloggers like you.

19. Conversant Media

Conversant Media works for both advertisers and publishers. It is also famously recognized for running campaigns all around the world with more than 10,000 campaigns so far.

It is a promising choice for publishers with a lot of different ad formats like native ads, push notifications, banners, and interstitials.

20. Google AdSense

This one probably doesn’t need any introduction. Adsense is the most popular and easy-to-use ad network out there.

Despite being the most popular ad network out there it isn’t really the best choice when it comes to money-making. It has one of the lowest cost per click(CPC) among ad networks.

Still, it can be a great choice if you’re from the US or Western Europe.

21. Amazon Associates

If you’re into making money with affiliate marketing then Amazon Associates is your go-to place for that.

While you can manually place product links in your blog, Amazon Associates offers an amazing feature called Native Shopping Ads, its own contextual advertising feature.

It lets you automatically display contextual products from Amazon on your site. If visitors click and complete the purchase you’ll get a commission.

So which one should you go for?

All the ad networks on this list do the exact same thing. They have slightly different flavors and requirements that’s all.

Maximizing your CPMs without negatively affecting your visitors should be your top priority overall. You can try and experiment with the different ad networks on this list and see what’s best for you.

Never forget that you are in control. With the tons of effort that you’ve put into your blog and the space that you’re giving you deserve what’s best out there.

With all that said I’d love to hear what you have to share about ad networks! Feel free to post a comment down below and tell me which ad network you’ve decided to for.