Free List of Google AdSense Alternatives
1. BuySellAds
BuySellAds is an online advertising network where publishers can list their ad inventory. You get access to thousands of advertisers through their market place. The BuySellAds network supports web, mobile web, RSS, Tweets, apps (desktop, iOS, Android) and e-mail. BuySellAds is a good alternative to AdSense and is used by most professional bloggers.
Alexa Rank: #1,778
Minimum Payment Amount: $20 (PayPal); $50 (Check); $500 (Wire Transfer)
Payment Method(s): PayPal, Check, Wire Transfer
Programs Offered: Cost Per Impression, Fixed Rate Banner Ads, Sponsored Tweets
2. Text Link Ads
Text Link Ads are unique because they are static html links that can drive targeted traffic and help your link popularity which is a top factor in organic search engine rankings. You can use Text Link Ads along with Google AdSense or any other ad networks.
Alexa Rank: #4,772
Minimum Payment Amount: No Minimum (PayPal, Payoneer); $25 (Check)
Payment Method(s): PayPal, Payoneer, Check
Programs Offered: Fixed Rate Text Link Ads
3. LinkWorth
LinkWorth is an alternative to Text Link Ads. Their products consist of text link ads, paid blog reviews, in-text ads, in-content pay per click ads, rotating text ads, hosted content pages and many more.
Alexa Rank: #9,035
Minimum Payment Amount: $25 (PayPal); $100 (Check, Wire Transfer, Direct Deposit)
Payment Method(s): PayPal, Check, Wire Transfer, Direct Deposit (US Only)
Programs Offered: Fixed Rate Text Link Ads
4. SponsoredReviews
SponsoredReviews is a blog advertising network that allows you to build backlinks, increase traffic and improve search engine rankings of your website. If you’re a blogger then you can make money by reviewing advertiser’s websites.
Alexa Rank: #2,605
Minimum Payment Amount: No Minimum
Payment Method(s): PayPal
Programs Offered: Fixed Rate Sponsored Reviews
5. ReviewMe
ReviewMe allows you to make money by reviewing products you find interesting. Price is determined by the reach of your blog. Reviews can range from $40 to $500 per review and it will be a one time fee.
Alexa Rank: #10,968
Minimum Payment Amount: No Minimum (PayPal); $25 (Check, Prepaid MasterCard)
Payment Method(s): PayPal, Check, ReviewMe Prepaid MasterCard
Programs Offered: Fixed Rate Sponsored Reviews
6. InfinityAds
InfinityAds (or Paypopup) is popular among Pop Under and Pop Up ads and they pay you for every thousand impressions shown on your website. The average payment rate according to their website is $1.80 per 1,000 impressions. All the websites gets auto approval and the minimum payout is just $5.
Alexa Rank: #17,278
Minimum Payment Amount: $5
Payment Method(s): Check, PayPal, Wire Transfer
Programs Offered: Cost Per View
7. Clicksor
Clicksor is one of the best Google AdSense alternative which allows publishers to display advertisements related to their website content by using their contextual technology. You can place Clicksor ads along with Google AdSense ads and can even set minimum prices for CPV, CPC, CPM and CPI ads. The ad formats include Inline Text Links, Text banners, Graphical banners, Pop-unders and Interstitial ads. You receive up to 85% of the ad income and can earn extra income by referring other publishers. Clicksor pays 10% additional income every time you refer a publisher or advertiser to Clicksor network.
Alexa Rank: #144
Minimum Payment Amount: $50 (PayPal, Check); $1,000 (Wire Transfer)
Payment Method(s): PayPal, Check, Wire Transfer
Programs Offered: Cost Per Click, Cost Per Impression
8. BidVertiser
BidVertiser is another top alternative to Google AdSense which pays you for valid clicks on ads placed on your website as well as for conversions generated from those clicks. You display ads on your website or blog and advertisers bid against each other so that you earn the maximum cost per click.
Alexa Rank: #1,512
Minimum Payment Amount: $10 (PayPal); $100 (Check)
Payment Method(s): PayPal, Check
Programs Offered: Cost Per Click
9. adBrite
adBrite is another Google AdSense alternative that shares 75% of the ad revenue with you and is open to small as well as large publishers. They have text ads, banner ads and full page ads. Text ads are paid out on a Cost Per Click (CPC) basis, banner ads are paid out on a Cost Per Mille (CPM) or CPC basis and full page ads are paid out on a Cost Per View (CPV) basis. All campaign ads (CPM, CPV and CPC ads) are auctioned based so the highest paying ad available is always displayed.
Alexa Rank: #2,089
Minimum Payment Amount: $100
Payment Method(s): Check
Programs Offered: Cost Per Click, Cost Per Impression, Cost Per View
10. Chitika
Chitika is an online advertising network that allows publishers to display ads on their website, blog, app or mobile site. They offers publishers and advertisers user targeted, search targeted, mobile and local ads for websites, blogs, apps and mobile sites. Most publishers consider Chitika and adBrite as a perfect alternative to Google AdSense.
Alexa Rank: #2,714
Minimum Payment Amount: $10 (PayPal); $50 (Check)
Payment Method(s): PayPal, Check
Programs Offered: Cost Per Click
In-Text Advertising Networks
In-Text advertising can’t be considered as an alternative to Google AdSense but you can use it along with AdSense or any other contextual ad networks like BidVertiser or Clicksor.
11. Infolinks
Infolinks is the leader in in-text advertising which offers 70% revenue share even if you’re a newbie blogger. Infolinks follows a pay-per-click advertising model. Whenever a visitor hovers over one of these double-underlined words, an ad related to what they’re reading appears and you get paid every time a reader clicks on one of those ads.
Alexa Rank: #791
Minimum Payment Amount: $50 (PayPal, eCheck, Payoneer); $100 (Wire Transfer, Western Union)
Payment Method(s): PayPal, Wire Transfer, eCheck, Western Union, Payoneer
Programs Offered: Cost Per Click
12. Kontera
Kontera discovers the best editorial content and dynamically delivers brands’ advertising, content and social assets for optimal results. Their In Text ads are a highly effective and profitable online advertising solution for websites and blogs.
Alexa Rank: #7,914
Minimum Payment Amount: $50
Payment Method(s): Check, PayPal, Wire Transfer
Programs Offered: Cost Per Click
In-Image Advertising Networks
13. Luminate
Luminate makes images interactive. They offer an Image App Platform, which enables consumers to conduct their favorite online activities such as shopping, sharing, commenting and navigating directly from a picture. Luminate publishers can offer innovative consumer features that increase audience engagement, website traffic and drive incremental revenue.
Alexa Rank: #15,006
Minimum Payment Amount: $10
Payment Method(s): Check, PayPal
Programs Offered: Cost Per Impression
14. GumGum
GumGum is one of the largest in-image advertising (In-image advertising is a term used to describe targeted ads overlaid on images) platform, reaching over 150 million unique users worldwide. GumGum doesn’t require any minimum number of visitors but they require at least 500,000 monthly page views targeting U.S. based audience.
Alexa Rank: #51,164
Minimum Payment Amount: $50
Payment Method(s): Check, PayPal
Programs Offered: Cost Per Impression
15. Direct Advertising
Direct Advertising is most effective way to monetize your website and it can earn you a lot of money. All you need to do is to create an “Advertise” page on your blog or website with your Google PageRank, Alexa Traffic Rank, Traffic Statistics (by Google Analytics) and the available ad formats with their rates per month.
16. CPX Interactive
CPX Interactive monetizes ad inventory for publishers ranging from the most high profile destinations, to those “best-kept secrets” that quietly deliver the highest ROIs. CPX Interactive supports in-page display, flash, rich media, video pre-roll and text ad units.
Alexa Rank: #5,602
Programs Offered: Cost Per Impression, Cost Per Click, Cost Per Action
CPX Interactive: Sign Up | FAQ
17. ValueClick Media
ValueClick Media is one of the leader in online advertising – across display, mobile and video. They does not accept web sites that generate less than 3,000 page views per month but that seems reasonable when compared to Tribal Fusion’s minimum requirement of 500,000 unique users per month (that’s the reason why I excluded Tribal Fusion from this list).
Alexa Rank: #8,305
Programs Offered: Cost Per Impression
ValueClick Media: Sign Up
18. Burst Media
Burst Media gives you high CPMs, quality campaigns and full control of which ads run on your site.
Alexa Rank: #13,807
Programs Offered: Cost Per Impression
Burst Media: Sign Up
19. ContextWeb
ContextWeb is one of the top CPM (Cost Per Mille) Network that exists today. With ContextWeb you can set your own prices. Set your current eCPM (effective cost per thousand impressions) so that the advertisers compete to beat your current eCPM. If they don’t beat your current eCPM then it will show backup ads from other networks like Google AdSense. So, you’ll always make the maximum money when you work with ContextWeb.
Alexa Rank: #14,643
Minimum Payment Amount: $50
Payment Method(s): PayPal, Check, Electronic Funds Transfer (US Only)
Programs Offered: Cost Per Impression
ContextWeb: Sign Up | FAQ20. Vibrant Media
Vibrant Media have over 6,000 premium publishers, reaching over 250 million unique users per month. Some of the products are Vibrant Image, Vibrant In-Text Ads, Vibrant Display, Vibrant Related Content and Vibrant Lightbox.
Alexa Rank: #17,635
Programs Offered: Cost Per Impression, Cost Per Click
21. Say Media
Say Media sells big brand advertising that runs on your property and pays you when users engage.
Alexa Rank: #18,313
Programs Offered: Cost Per Impression
Say Media: Sign Up
22. Gorilla Nation
Gorilla Nation sells advertisements on a CPM (cost per thousand impressions) model to advertisers and agencies around the globe.
Alexa Rank: #19,477
Programs Offered: Cost Per Impression
23. Technorati Media
Technorati Media is one of largest social media advertising network which accepts sites with great original content and deliver targeted campaigns from top brands at high CPMs.
Alexa Rank: #20,493
Minimum Payment Amount: $50
Payment Method(s): PayPal, Check
Programs Offered: Cost Per Impression
Technorati Media: Sign Up | FAQ24. Casale Media
Casale Media is a CPM Network that maximizes digital media value for the world’s leading publisher and advertiser brands. They pay the publisher 70% of the advertising revenue and retain 30% for its services.
Alexa Rank: #20,904
Minimum Payment Amount: $25
Payment Method(s): Check, PayPal
Programs Offered: Cost Per Impression
Casale Media: Sign Up
