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  • Rethinking Revenue Metrics

    Your RPM Isn’t Lying to You. But It Might Not Be Telling the Whole Truth.

    Your RPM includes traffic that can never generate revenue. Here's what a cleaner signal looks like.

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    Mediavine

    How Top Mediavine Publishers Are Getting Ready for What’s Coming Next

    Insights Straight from Mediavine’s Premiere Retreat 2026 At Mediavine, we design scalable programs that evolve with your growth. From Journey, built for publishers establishing their foundation, to our highest tiers, Premiere and Premiere Plus, our ecosystem supports you at every stage of your publishing lifecycle. Publishers at…

  • Advertising

    The Q2 eCPM Pattern Most Publishers Miss

    If you’ve been in the content creation business long enough, you’ve probably noticed a familiar shift around the start of spring. After the budget reset in the first quarter (outlined in our previous post), RPMs often start trending upward, advertiser activity becomes more consistent, and dashboards begin…

  • Mediavine

    Turning TikToks to Site Revenue: Monetize Your Vertical Videos

    Many publishers are already creating vertical 9:16 videos for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Until now, that content has mostly lived on social platforms. With Mediavine’s Universal Player Plus, those same videos can now generate revenue directly on your site. Why Vertical Video Drives Revenue on…

  • Vertical Video Ads Capture New Revenue Streams at Mediavine

    Mediavine

    Monetize the Vertical Video Content You Already Have

    From Social to Site: Mediavine’s Vertical Video Ads Are Live Publisher-produced video content is where the market is moving, and with this release, the videos you’ve produced for social media can have additional value on your website.   While others are still testing the waters, Mediavine already supports…

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    Mediavine

    How Publishers Win in the Next Era of the Internet

    Search is changing. Traffic is less predictable. Advertisers are getting more selective. Platforms are pulling value inward. None of this is new. What’s new is the speed at which it’s happening. The publishers who win next are not chasing loopholes or waiting for the next algorithm update…

  • Photograph of Mediavine's Amanda Martin and Butler/Till's Scott Ensign on stage at MVCon 2025

    Mediavine

    How to Create Content Advertisers Will Pay More For

    If your goal is higher CPMs, steadier demand, and stronger long-term revenue, here’s the uncomfortable truth: Advertisers are not paying more for more content; they’re paying more for better environments, better audiences, and better experiences. That shift is already happening. Quietly. Algorithmically. And at scale. At MVCon,…

  • Mediavine

    How Publishers Can Pivot and Adapt Without Waiting for a Crisis

    The publishing industry did not gradually change. It recalibrated fast. Search is more volatile. Platforms shift priorities without warning. AI has made content saturation a new hard reality. And the strategies that drove yesterday’s growth are no longer guaranteed to protect tomorrow’s revenue. But the publishers who…

  • Mediavine

    How to Scale Your Publishing Business Without Breaking What Works

    Scaling is one of the most misunderstood concepts in digital publishing. It’s often framed as a race toward more traffic, more platforms, and more revenue streams. But the publishers who last, the ones who grow stronger through algorithm shifts, platform changes, and economic pressure, scale differently. They…

  • Mediavine

    The GEO Playbook for Publishers

    What to Do Now to Win Visibility and Authority in the AI Search Era AI search isn’t a trend to watch. It’s the operating system publishers are building on now. Discovery no longer starts with ten blue links. It starts with an answer synthesized, summarized, and shaped…

  • Advertising

    Why eCPMs Rise and Fall Throughout the Year (And How to Work With It)

    This article was updated on January 21, 2026, to reflect the 2026 eCPM calendar. If you’ve ever looked at your dashboard and thought, “What just happened?” You’re not alone. eCPMs move seasonally. Sometimes dramatically. And while it can feel random in the moment, those swings usually have very little to do…

  • Advertising

    What to Expect From eCPMs in Q1 (And How to Plan for It)

    Q1 has a reputation. For many publishers, it’s the quarter where eCPMs cool off, dashboards look less exciting, and questions start popping up fast. Is something wrong? Did I miss something? Should I be worried? Short answer: probably not. Q1 behaves the way it does for reasons…