CPM (Cost per Thousand Impressions) based advertisements are a great way to earn income with your blog. CPM advertising pays you according to the amount of impressions received on an advertisment.An “impression” means a single instance of an advertisement appearing on your website. This means that even if your readers are not clicking on your blog’s ads, with CPM ads, you can still be paid.
You might find CPM ads very appealing, but they work best for bloggers who get a high volume of traffic. If you are driving traffic in the area of thousands of visitors per day, then you can get a good amount of money from CPM Ads.
Most CPM networks pay $1 to $10 per one thousand impressions (depending upon various factors).
1. AdsOptimal
AdsOptimal is a popular advertising network for all website types, including new blogs.
They offer CPM ads, CPC ads & conversion based ads. Based out of San Francisco & started in 2012, this company has become a popular choice among webmasters. Many of you might not have heard of this network, but it’s good to know that they are a partner with Google AdSense, DoubleClick, and Criteo (to name a few).
2. Google Adsense
The easiest way to make money online is to create a blog or website and start displaying Google ads, the more visitors you have on your website, the more will be earning. Through Google adsense, you’ll earn money via clicks and impressions. This is a quick and easy way to make handsome income online.
3. Media.Net
Media. Net serves ads from the Yahoo! Bing contextual ad network, which comprises of a large pool of national and local advertisers, ensuring a 100% fill rate across all verticals and ad formats.
Some of Media.net’s publishers include Forbes, Elle, Reuters, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and more. The network supports standard IAB sizes and has access to high quality ads from all major DSPs.
In addition to display units, Media.net also supports desktop interstitial, in-content native, and mobile docked ads.
Model: CPM, CPC, CPA
Minimum traffic: None
Minimum traffic: None
4. Chitika
A popular alternative to AdSense, Chitika has over 350,000 publishers on its network and serves over four billion ads per month, making it one of the largest ad networks in the world if you were to go by those metrics.
Its proprietary targeting and optimization technology uses programmatic buying to serve precisely the right ad, at the right time. The approval process for new publishers is usually pretty straightforward and takes little time.
Model: CPC
Minimum traffic: None
Minimum traffic: None
5. BuySellAds
BuySellads is a marketplace to sell direct ads. Few days back I have added my review about BuySellAds, and I think it’s better to add another post in the series for the blogger who wants to start with Buysellads.
For those who are new to Buysellads, Buysellads sell your advertisement spot to an advertiser in the niche. Though there is few catch, you need to know before you apply for Buysellads.
6 . AdRoll.com
As name suggests, it’s a great network for display advertisement, you can make money with this network as well if any of the above don’t work for you.
7. Kontera
Another contextual ad network which you can use to monetize your content, this network only provides text-based ads, but it’s worth a try.
8. Taboola.com
New but great, Taboola is now a days very popular among publishers, it gives you opportunity to display advertisements next to the comment section of your blog, and you’ll be amazed to see the earnings.
9. InfoLinks
Traditional banner ads have one big problem that results in big revenue losses: many users either consciously or subconsciously ignore them because ads are usually viewed as an intrusion.
Infolinks is a great ad network that get
Infolinks generate high monthly revenue for over 200,000 publishers in more than 130 countries today, and they work with the biggest advertisers in the world such as Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Ebay. Their platform is very simple to integrate into your site and is open to any publisher, with no setup fees and no minimum requirements for page views or visitors.
Model: CPM, CPC, CPA, CPV, CPI, Auction
Minimum traffic: None
Minimum traffic: None
10. Tribal Fusion
The CPM rates of Tribal Fusion is amongst the highest in the industry and they offer reliable payments, dedicated account manager, real-time reporting, and free ad-serving technology.
You can control the content of ads by blocking ad categories (i.e. gambling, religious, political, alcohol, flashing, warning, etc.) or by specific advertiser domain names.
Based on content of the website, Tribal Fusion’s server finds the best advertiser-audience fit in real-time, benefitting both the advertiser and the publisher.
Model: CPM, CPC, CPA, CPV
Minimum traffic: 500,000
Minimum traffic: 500,000