The Mediavine Team

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    Advertising

    What Advertisers Want

    Post updated September 2023 Mediavine’s sales and revenue team spends most of its time working externally with ad partners and internally with our Ad Operations team to deliver the most value for every single impression on our publishers’ properties. One question we often hear from publishers, however, is what they can…

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    Influencer Marketing

    Influencer Marketing at Mediavine

    You’re familiar with our mission statement here at Mediavine, right? In case you need a refresher, the thing that we love to do above all else is “build sustainable businesses for content creators.” As a team of content creators ourselves, we know that one of the biggest components of building a…

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    Pagespeed

    Improve Your Site Speed and GPSI Score

    The following post was written by Peter Green, owner and CTO of Agathon, a company that specializes in building and hosting web applications. You can craft the most amazing post ever, but your audience reach will be crippled if your site loads slowly. That’s why we at Agathon offered site “health…

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    General Blogging

    Manage The Blogging Chaos

    There’s no question that working from home has advantages. We wear our pajama pants to virtual meetings, make our own hours and can do a load of laundry in the middle of the work day. But if you’re anything like the Mediavine team, it can also come with a big challenge:…

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    Advertising

    How Many Ads Does Mediavine Run?

    We’ve gotten a lot of questions lately about the new Coalition for Better Ads in-content logic — how it works, why we changed to offer this new logic, and just how many ads Mediavine publishers are running now. Let’s break it down. Coalition for Better Ads Mediavine is a member of…

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    WordPress Plugins

    Selecting a Host

    Choosing a hosting company is an important decision for any website owner. There are tons of options out there, and it can definitely be daunting (even though many hosting companies would like you to think it is easy). WordPress is available to set up in almost any hosting plan, with almost…

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    General Blogging

    Blogging Platforms: Deciding To Make The Move

    Choosing a blogging platform is one of the most fundamental decisions a publisher must make, which means switching platforms is a pretty big deal. So when Mediavine publisher/Computer Scientist Laurence Norah of the gorgeous travel blog Finding The Universe volunteered to document his site migration from Blogger to WordPress for us, we…

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    GDPR For Publishers: What You Need to Know

    We know that publishers everywhere are confused by GDPR and what it means for them, so we asked Jamie Lieberman of Hashtag Legal to break down GDPR in clear, straightforward fashion. NOTE: We’re currently working on a custom solution for Mediavine publishers that will allow for explicit consent (as Jamie discusses…

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    Advertising

    Who Owns Mediavine?

    We get asked a lot who owns Mediavine, whether it is publicly owned, or part of a bigger media group funded by investors. The answer – which is the same today as it has been for the last 19 years – may surprise you! Mediavine was founded as a publishing company…

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    Advertising

    Don’t Rebrand — Redesign! Here’s how to choose an ad-friendly theme

    The design of your site is everything. That’s your logo, your website layout, even your fonts and colors. All of it plays a big part in how your brand comes off to readers and potential sponsors. Your website is your storefront, and how it looks makes all the difference in getting people in…

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    Traffic Growth

    Why Site Speed Is Driving Everyone’s Development Decisions

    Recently, Pinterest soft launched a mode in their mobile app that would allow readers to see the entire recipe from a food site without actually visiting the site. Content creators everywhere went a little bit bananas, and rightly so. After all, that takes away a session, any ad views, and in…

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    Mediavine Conference

    Newsletter Lessons You Can Use: 7 Steps to Grow Your Email Marketing Presence

    Kirsten Oliphant recently spoke at the Mediavine Publisher Conference with Mary Younkin on how to make the most out of your email lists and newsletter audience. Kirsten is sharing more tips with you here, along with our video of the full conference presentation. -Amber  Keeping up with every new social platform…