It’s known that one of the best ways of generating passive income for yourself is by
monetizing your blog or website.
All the hard work that you put in to make your website popular, not
only pays off, but also keeps earning you money month after month.
There are several types of website advertisements that you can
experiment with, each having its own set of benefits and limitations.
There are ads which pay you for clicks, and ones that pay you for
actual purchases. There are ads which pay you for number of videos
played, and there are even ads which reward you for successful email
collection from the visitor.
In our experience, unless you have a highly dedicated readership and a
great click-through rate, the best ads to run are ones which pay your
for impressions. Also known as CPM, these ads pay your for every
thousand people that your website serves the ad to.
For websites that attract a lot of visitors, CPM ads can prove to be
very lucrative despite lower payouts when compared to CPC and CPA ads.
Here’s a list of 12 CPM ad networks which offer some of the highest payouts in the industry:
With no minimum traffic requirements, BuySellAds is a great choice for website owners who have just started out.
Now you can make sure that the few hundred visits on your site do not
go to waste and earn you money over the long-term. And as your traffic
grows, so will your earnings.
BuySellAds offers you 75% of the revenue they get from the
advertisers. They also let you get the money you have earned on demand.
Just put in a request and you can get your payment in the next 2-3 days.
The only condition is that you can only request payments twice a month.
Payout thresholds are incredibly generous as well, and you can get a
payment on your PayPal for just $20. Payment options for cheques and
online wire are also offered and entail a minimum payment threshold of
$50 and $500 respectively.
Ads are available in a lot of sizes, can be customized for specific size needs, and are Google AdSense compatible.
While you work on your websites until it is ready to be approved by
AdSense, BuySellAds is the perfect way to generate that little extra
revenue.
An AOL venture, Advertising.com offers you CPM as well as revenue
share ads. Its rates for CPM ads are pretty impressive, but if your
website has a high CTR, then its RevShare ads can be the ideal way to
monetize your blog and rake in a lot of money as well.
The platform represents a whopping 92 of the top 100 Ad Age listed
advertizers. Getting approved is a little tough as AOL only accepts
websites which have a monthly traffic of 500,000 or more.
You can start getting paid as soon as you have earned $25, and
payments can be withdrawn through PayPal, cheque or even wire transfer.
Formerly known as ValueClick Media, Conversant has publishers who are
industry leaders for domains as varied as telecom, automobile,
pharmaceutical, and retail.
Conversant Media does not put forth a lot of requirements, and you
can start using it to serve ads even if you do not get a lot of traffic.
You can start cashing out as soon as you have earned $25, which can
be collected through PayPal, or have a cheque mailed your address.
Although the company follows a NET 60 payment model, most users report that they start getting payments within 25 days.
Criteo has quickly gained traction and become a top earner for
website owners everywhere. With over 740 billion ads served in 2014
alone and an impressive 7800+ advertisers across the globe, Criteo is
placed perfectly to offer website owners ads with high CPM and great
conversions.
Criteo sees an astonishing 96% renewal of service agreements by
advertisers due to its ability to generate greater revenue for its
clients.
This effectively translates into more earnings for publishers who get
regularly benefit from greater revenues than what the competitors are
offering.
RadiumOne pioneered social media as an advertising tool and is a
highly popular CPM ad platform which you can use to monetize a wide
range of content. It works with texts, images as well as video content
and is optimized to target desktop as well as mobile users.
Payments are made every second week, and you must earn $100 to be
eligible for a payout. Once you start generating revenue through
RadiumOne, you can request payment either through, PayPal, wire
transfer, or through a cheque addressed to your name.
Collective Display is a great platform for publishers who are looking
for CPM ads. The company has a number of popular news networks as its
clients and offers publishers a chance to display text, image and video
ads on their websites.
The ability to customize ads for best results, and experiment with
almost a dozen different types of ads makes Collective Display a superb
choice for webmasters who want to display ads on their websites while
also ensuring a high degree of control over the kind of ads that show up
on the website.
Tribal Fusion is an Exponential Interactive subsidiary, and is
well-known for continually improving its advertising services to offer
its clients and publishers even better results.
With a minimum 500,000 monthly views, and 5000 daily unique visitor requirements, Exponential is a hard ad network to get into.
Benefits of joining Exponential include lucrative rates for CPM ads
as well as CPA ads, and a lot of different ad types to choose from,
which help you find the perfect ads for your website.
Payments are made at 45 days interval and can be collected through a cheque or PayPal.
Highly targeted ads translate into higher revenues for your website,
making it a superb choice for niche websites with large readership.
Technorati is preferred by pro bloggers and has a vast network of ad
publishers who use the platform. It also happens to be the largest
social media ad network in the world and is perfect for websites which
get a lot of traction of social network.
They are a reputed ad platform and offer highly targeted ads which are also great for increasing conversion ratios.
When you serve ads through Technorati, you need to maintain
exclusivity, which may be a deal-breaker for some. If you get a lot of
visitors, but AdSense isn’t working for you, then Technorati can be the
perfect alternative.
Niche bloggers will appreciate the superb range of verticals that
Adtegrity caters to. With over 30 verticals to choose from, the ads tend
to be better targeted.
50% of the website’s monthly traffic must originate from the US, and
you also need 50,000 monthly visitors to be eligible for Adtegrity.
Transparent pricing, and access to CPM as well as CPA, CPC, CPI and
CPL ads makes Clove Networks attractive for seasoned webmasters who like
to experiment with a lot of ad types.
The greatest benefit you get with Clove Networks is the expertise of
their team which manually selects ads based on your website for the
perfect match every time.
Prices may vary from one ad to the other, but the transparent model
makes sure that you get a fair share for the ones that your website
displays to your visitors.
Payment options include PayPal and cheques, making it convenient to
cash out when you have earned a substantial amount through the service.
Amobee has been on a buying spree in the last two years and has
acquired popular CPM ad networks like Kontera and AdConion. What this
means is that Amobee is already a better option for you than Kontera,
which we featured on our list last year.
If you are a popular publisher with thousands of impression per
month, then you will love the potential for revenue generation that
Amobee brings to the table.
As with all the leading ad networks, Amobee also lets you get paid using PayPal or cheque.
AdBlade lets you publish ads on your website for paid content for
some of the top brands out there. The niche of the product makes it a
lucrative market to tap into, and you get a high CPM rate for your
efforts.
AdBlade also caters to the needs of a number of verticals, so finding
ads which your audience will like and therefore click on, is easier.
Your website should generate a minimum of 500,000 visitors per month
to be accepted by AdBlade. Such a high number means that most rising
bloggers and newly created websites will find the ad network too
exclusive.
For those who do qualify, they will be displaying ads to websites like Fox News, and Yahoo! and getting paid very well for it.
Payments get credited to your PayPal after 30 days if they are over
$100, and you can run AdBlade ads alongside AdSense without any
problems.
If you create quality content, there are more than one ways to
monetize it. Google AdSense may be the most reliable tool out there, but
if you just can’t get your website approved by Google, or want to earn a
little extra cash, then these 13 CPM Ad networks help you do just that.
