Have you monetized your community with any advertising networks? If yes, which ad networks have you used to monetize your community? If no, do you prefer to monetize your community in other ways?

Google AdSense used to work brilliantly for me and my forums, and enabled us to earn a small but significant income that we could use to invest in extra features, advertising, graphics & such for the site, but this was many years ago. I've heard many stories of people not having such a good time with AdSense in the last five years or so especially, so I'm unsure if there's another network that people who are running ads on their website are generally using now, or if people are just putting up with a mediocre service from Google.

Google AdSense used to work brilliantly for me and my forums, and enabled us to earn a small but significant income that we could use to invest in extra features, advertising, graphics & such for the site, but this was many years ago. I've heard many stories of people not having such a good time with AdSense in the last five years or so especially, so I'm unsure if there's another network that people who are running ads on their website are generally using now, or if people are just putting up with a mediocre service from Google.

I wonder if it depends on the ad positions that you’re using with Google Adsense as they’re as some positions that don’t perform so well.

 

Google adsense is also blocked by some ad blockers as well, so that might be why it’s not a huge revenue earner like it used to be.

 

In the past, it wasn’t blocked by a lot of ad blockers.

I don't use ad companies. I monetized my forums linking to my affiliate partners.

Ever since I started running self hosted websites, I think I have used over a dozen ad companies. Google Adsense is my most preferred ad network. I have a few blogs monetized with Adsense. I have also used Media.Net. After using t for a few years they terminated my account saying my websites are not getting north American traffic. I have also used Infolinks. They gave me banner ads and I earned well but later that gave me just text link ads and my revenue dropped, so I stopped using it. I have also used Amazon and a couple of affiliate ad networks.

Ever since I started running self hosted websites, I think I have used over a dozen ad companies. Google Adsense is my most preferred ad network. I have a few blogs monetized with Adsense. I have also used Media.Net. After using t for a few years they terminated my account saying my websites are not getting north American traffic. I have also used Infolinks. They gave me banner ads and I earned well but later that gave me just text link ads and my revenue dropped, so I stopped using it. I have also used Amazon and a couple of affiliate ad networks.

How has google adsense been performing for you since they’ve placed more emphasis on CPM than cpc recently?

How has google adsense been performing for you since they’ve placed more emphasis on CPM than cpc recently?

My sites get more traffic from low tier countries (Asia, Africa) than high tier countries (US, Canada, UK). CPM rates for low tier countries are very low, therefore, my adsense earnings are low.