| AdSense Alternative | Minimum Payout | Ad Type | Payout Method | Sign up link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monetag | $25 | Various | Several Options | Join |
| AdThrive | $100 | Various | Several Options | Join |
| MediaVine | $100 | Various | Several Options | Join |
| Media.net | $100 | Display ad Text ads | PayPal Wire Transfer | Join |
| Setupad | €100 | Display Native Interstitial Sticky Anchor Video Ads | PayPal Bank Transfer | Join |
| Amazon Display ads | CPM Ad (Display ad) | Wire Transfer Amazon Gift cards Payoneer | Join | |
| Sovrn Commerce | $10 | Text ads (Affiliate ads) | PayPal | Join |
| Skimlinks | $10 | Text ads (Affiliate ads) | PayPal | Join |
When it comes to making money from a blog, AdSense is one of the best blog monetization programs available.
I have already shared my AdSense earnings for the last five years, which will give you an idea of how much you can potentially earn from AdSense.
Creating an AdSense account and getting approval is not a particularly easy process, especially for a newbie blogger. The real problem emerges when Google bans your AdSense account!
A good solution is to start looking for some of the best Google AdSense alternatives.
The AdSense alternative ad networks mentioned below are not necessarily better than Google AdSense, but depending on your blog niche and site’s traffic, a few AdSense alternative programs (like Media.net or Monetag) might give you better earnings and results than AdSense.
You should be aware that Google AdSense is a contextual ad networking program while a few of the AdSense alternatives mentioned below are not contextual ad programs.
Also read:
We have already talked about why AdSense is the best advertisement program for bloggers, and we followed up with a post on Google AdSense in the budding blogger’s blog.
Getting Google AdSense approval is a dream for bloggers. But if you fail to get approval or get rejected for some reason, don’t despair, because this article will make you aware of many Google AdSense alternatives for you to use to earn money online.
(Before choosing an alternative to Google AdSense, however, check out what kind of traffic you are generating on your blog.)
7 Best Alternative to Google AdSense for Bloggers: 2025 Edition
Note: I am continually updating this list with all the new monetization methods that I use as an AdSense alternative. So bookmark this page and keep coming back to learn about more new blog monetization programs.
1. Monetag
Monetag is one of the top performing ad networks and something I love because of their technological innovation. Apart from all usual ad types, recently they added web push notifications ad type.
Depending upon the kind of blog that you have, you can pick from various ad types offered by Monetag. Be it for your desktop site, mobile site, or for video content. The minimum payout is $25 and it’s idle for every new and medium size blog with low or high traffic.
This is a good alternative to AdSense which pays really high.
2. AdThrive
For anyone looking for a premium alternative to Google AdSense, AdThrive is an ideal choice. AdThrive is not your regular ad network, as they have a strict application process, and they require publishers to have minimum 100K monthly pageviews.
They also expect your traffic to be mostly from these countries:
- United States
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- New Zealand
If you feel your website is a good fit for AdThrive, you can apply for approval using the link below.
3. MediaVine
Anyone looking for a high quality alternative to Google AdSense in 2025 should not miss Mediavine. Another high quality ad network for publishers who have quality traffic and quality content.
Watch this video to learn more about MediaVine:
To join MediaVine, your website must have:
- 50,000 sessions in the previous 30 days (per Google Analytics)
- Good standing with Google AdSense
- Original content in any niche
- Long-form and engaging content
4. Media.net
Media.net is the best alternative to AdSense in terms of ad types.
Media.net is a contextual ad network by Yahoo! and Bing, and it offers high-paying ads. Moreover, the ad types involved are similar to AdSense, and if you have a quality blog, you are more likely to get Media.net approval in no time.
You can check out the review of Media.net here and create a free account here.
5. Setupad
If your blog gets a monthly traffic of more than 100K+, look no further than Setupad.
Setupad is a monetization platform for publishers to increase their ad revenue to the maximum. Setupad has developed an in-house suite of programmatic monetization solutions–header bidding wrapper, header bidding SaaS solution, and SSP Adapter. Check out Setupad review to learn everything about it.
Setupad vs Google AdSense
The main difference between the Setupad service and Google AdSense is that Setupad uses header bidding technology to connect publishers with more than 15 buyers, including Google. Adding multiple premium buyers creates more competition for the same ad impression. This means that it pushes Google and other buyers to increase their prices. In the end, the publisher receives more ad revenue.
With Setupad header bidding technology, publishers can maximize their ad revenue by a minimum of 30% if previously they have used Google AdSense.
Setupad has a variety of ad formats for desktop and mobile:
- Sticky and Anchor Ads
- Responsive Ads
- Video Ads
- Native Ads
- Interstitial Ads
- App monetization (Q3 2020)
Setupad team of professionals helps publishers to decide and choose the right ad placements for each website.
The main goal is to avoid overcrowding the website with too many ads and make a personalized solution for each client.
By choosing Setupad, publishers can generate more money by having the same amount of traffic.
- Publishers receive their first payment after 60 days. Further payments are made every 30 days if the minimum threshold of €100 is reached. Otherwise, Setupad adds these earnings to the next month.
- It takes two to four weeks to see optimal results, though Setupad strongly suggests publishers to run a four-week test so they can add the majority of the SSPs.
- Setupad reporting tool with real-time data is available for viewing at any time, which helps closely monitor publishers’ ad inventory. Real-time statistics combining all revenue into one report show bids (number of impressions, winning SSPs, average CPMs, etc.) of the website.
- Each Setupaad clients’ have their own account manager, who guides them through the set-up process. Account Managers follow up on each of their clients’ ad revenue and inform regarding the latest updates.
6. Amazon Display Ads
Seeing an Amazon advertisement program listed as an “AdSense alternative” might be a little surprise for many, but in 2019 they are one of the most popular choices among bloggers for site monetization.
Until recently, it was only the Amazon Affiliate program, but with Amazon Native Shopping Ads & CPM based ads, they are a great choice for users who are looking for something other than AdSense.
In my opinion, the Amazon display program is ideal for those who have US & EU traffic. Native Ads, in particular, are a bit like affiliate marketing on steroids.
You can learn all about it here.
7. Sovrn Commerce
Sovrn Commerce is perfect for a blog that is linking out to a business or e-commerce site.
The Sovrn Commerce concept is quite different from all of the alternatives mentioned above because with Sovrn Commerce you earn money by making affiliate sales.
Sovrn Commerce works great when you have outgoing links to business or product pages such as a fashion store or Amazon.
Even if you don’t have outbound links but you are using money-related terms like Apple, iPhone, etc., Sovrn Commerce will automatically add links to these words, and you will end up making pretty decent money.
What’s best about Sovrn Commerce is that it’s incubated by Google and is a very SEO-friendly ad program.
8. Skimlinks
Skimlinks is the best alternative to Viglink and it works in a similar manner. Skimlinks converts your outbound links into affiliate links, and you earn money whenever a sale occurs.
It is possible that you could end up making ten times your existing earnings with Viglink and Skimlinks, as they pay for affiliate sales and not for clicks.
These are just some of the best and most popular alternatives to AdSense.
If your AdSense account is disabled, the best way to cover the lost AdSense earnings potential is by using a combination of two or more ad networks. (For example: using Monetag or Sovrn Commerce along with contextual ads.)
Which one of the above methods have you used and which ad program worked the best? Tell us in the comments!
Thank you sir for sharing these alternatives. I found that Buysell Ads is one of the best alternative but as like Adsense they are also tough with their approval process. But, Adversal is performing well on my site, not as much as adsense but it is satisfying.
Can I use Ayball and Adsense at same site and same page?
@Jinesh
Yes, you can!
To be very honest, Infolinks is not good for small publishers. I am not earning a singly penny from them. But Bidvertisers and Adhexa are paying me more than $0.50 for 1000 views. They are best for small traffic websites or blogs.
@Meher
I would recommend to you & for others to try more network, and figure out which one is working best for their blog type.
Not all blogs are the same!
Hi Harsh Bhai
I am creating new website. In that I am showing latest news(Egs -:Market News, World News, Blogs for commodities ,Expert Advice on buy selling Commodity and Forex,Article on Technology,Health,Food). Is there any changes of getting approved or do I have to add more contents. Can you please specify any other content if the contents I am showing is not worthy.
@Navjot
I believe it’s worthy of Adsense.
Thanks for the awesome list some networks were new for me I will give em a try.
Great alternatives of google adsense. It’s good to see that there are also other ways to make money without adsense due to it’s hard approval and strict TOS which we have to take care of certain things to stop
violating AdSense policies. However Adsense is the best advertising program to monetize any blog but if did’nt get approval or got banned from it then these alternatives are the best way to monetize any blog… of certain things to stop
violating AdSense policies .Thanks a lot for sharing. 🙂
I was using kontera & infolinks but did not work good for me as I am having less traffic. Google does not approve adsense account easily. Anybody has tried vertoz.com? I was also using chitika but it works good with USA & Canada traffic only.
Google AdSense is the best though. Chitika Ads are ugly and I don’t believe anyone clicks on them. I have read of people who say that they immediately bounce on a site using infolinks because they can be annoying if the publisher set max number of links per page.
will try the chitika since i was banned by google adsense
it is very good knowledge based artical. but google adsense has no any alternative for small publishers specially Indian Blogger.
It is very disappointing thing when you lost Adsense Account. and google doesn’t give u another chance. he bans you for lifetime.
small publisher has no other alternative programs.
As a new blogger, it is quite tough to get Adsense and that’s why people go for Infolinks, Chitika and Media.net. Many of them love Buysellads also. But I have never heard of Superlinks. I think it will more helpful for my blog. The reason behind that sometimes BuysellAds, not approves
websites which have the requirements. Thank you for this great article.
Hi Harsh,
Good list of Google Adsense alternatives, I have a bad luck when it comes to Google Adsense.
and i want to know which one is best for “programming blogs”
Thanks for sharing alternatives of Google list.
I agree that Google Adsense is the best revenue advertising program but I really don’t agree that it’s the best of all. Adsense has VERY strictly rules and may ban you even if you didn’t do anything to get that ban and the worst thing is, you cannot appeal (you can but you won’t get your account back).
Infolinks- this is probably the worst advertising media, it has ONLY facebook ads and they are really untargeted that’s why I really don’t recommend this media, really bad.
Adsense wins if you can have your account.
I read many articles about google adsense alternatives and not all were helpful. Most of them just recommended Infolinks, Chitika and Media.net. Some of them were in support of Buysellads also which i really think is useful. But i never heard of Superlinks. This is very helpful article because BuysellAds not always aprroves websites which have the requirements. Now as you mentioned about Superlinks, i will definitely go for it.
Thanks for such an amazing article.
In some cases, many bloggers and marketers want to know some top paying or high-paying adsense alternatives.
It’s easier said than done to pass over Google Adsense’s qualifications, some were banned and it’s like a horror story for them. Since there are alternatives and we know not all knows that there are other ways to make money even without Google Adsense, this article will open their mind and give them hope.
Affiliate marketing is one of the best and I want it to put forward. I also like Chitika, it is painless to use and applying is uncomplicated.
Guys I have one query , I am running just a month old blog which I assume is a Niche Blog,should I go for adsense alternatives.? Harsh have mentioned that there should be lakhs or thousands of visitors per month for adsense alternatives,though I am getting traffic but not that much. Looking forward to get some useful suggestions.
That’s really a time saving Article for adsense alternatives. But Harsh Initially when my Google Adsense is approved then CPC was around 11 INR but now its 4 INR. why it decreases and how to increase CPC. Please Help me Harsh. Thank You
@Sumit
If you have majority of traffic from India, your CPC will usually low. A good solution to overcome low CPC issue is by targeting high CPC keywords. My suggestion would be to target audience from countries like U.S. and U.K. Here is a good article that you should read to learn the technique of getting high AdSense CPC: https://www.shoutmeloud.com/10-ways-to-increase-adsense-cpc.html
Hi Harsh,
I am going to launch a educational website and I want to display AdSence banner in my site. How much CPM rate I can expect for India and for USA. Is google rate is best or any other network pay more than google?
To be quite honest, there is no AdSense alternative. All you can say is that if you can’t use AdSense then there are some other services that can be used but not as an alternative. I’ve tried almost all of them and no other advertising program pays like AdSense does.
I was using chitika since long time and i also made good money from it but since 2 month chitka ads are only visible to US and CA people. for rest all world chitika not showing ads on my blog..
I know its target based advertisement concept but earlier all time ads were there but not now..
is there nay change ?
also suggest program for low but quality traffic publishers
Thanks Harsh for sharing this post. I just wanna know your reviews on amazon affiliate program.I have read many times about people earning a lot from it. But, I have noticed that its just only penny part of your total online income.
After 3 rejections, finally I have an approved Adsense account and seriously having higher CPC than any alternatives.
Hi Sandip,
How much Adsense pay for CPM?
Thanks