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Impressions To Build a More Inclusive Future

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As we celebrate Pride Month, we’re proud to highlight our partnership with PFLAG, the nation’s largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQIA+ people, their families, and allies.

Founded in 1973, PFLAG has spent more than five decades helping create a world where diversity is celebrated, every person is respected, valued, and affirmed, and LGBTQIA+ people have the support they need to thrive. Through a network of hundreds of chapters across the United States, PFLAG provides peer support, educational resources, advocacy tools, and community connections that help individuals and families navigate their journeys with confidence and understanding.

While Pride Month shines an important spotlight on LGBTQ+ communities, PFLAG’s work continues every day of the year. From supporting parents seeking resources for a newly out child to advocating for safer, more inclusive communities, PFLAG serves as a trusted source of education, acceptance, and empowerment for millions of people nationwide.

By selecting PFLAG as a Shine PSA partner, your unsold inventory can help raise awareness of these resources, amplify messages of inclusion, and connect more people with the support networks they need.

Impressions To Build a More Inclusive Future

At Mediavine, we prioritize premium, high-quality advertising demand over filling every available ad space at any cost.

In programmatic advertising, not every ad request results in a paid ad being served. While some platforms chase a 100% fill rate by accepting lower-quality ads, Mediavine intentionally takes a different approach. By maintaining high standards for ad quality and advertiser demand, we protect your revenue, preserve user experience, and maximize the long-term value of your inventory.

Occasionally, ad space will go unfilled. Rather than letting those impressions sit empty, Shine PSAs turn them into opportunities to support organizations making a meaningful impact in communities around the world.

What Are Shine PSAs?

Shine PSAs automatically fill unsold ad inventory with campaigns from nonprofit organizations selected by Mediavine publishers. Instead of serving low-value fallback ads or leaving space blank, your site helps amplify causes that matter.

Best of all:

  • Shine PSAs only serve when paid ads aren’t available
  • Shine PSAs do not impact your revenue opportunities
  • Easy to enable directly from your Mediavine Dashboard
  • Once activated, everything runs automatically behind the scenes

It’s a simple way to ensure every impression on your site contributes to something positive.

Support Beyond Pride Month

Pride Month brings important visibility to LGBTQIA+ communities, but meaningful representation shouldn’t be limited to a single month on the calendar.

Through Shine PSAs, publishers can amplify messages of inclusion, acceptance, and belonging visible throughout the year. When unsold inventory serves PFLAG campaigns, those impressions meaningfully support the work of an organization dedicated to creating a more affirming world for LGBTQIA+ people and the individuals in their lives.

By choosing PFLAG as a Shine PSA partner, you’re helping ensure that every impression has the potential to foster understanding, spark connection, and reinforce the belief that LGBTQIA+ communities deserve support and visibility year-round.

Why Publishers Choose Shine PSAs

Make Unfilled Inventory Meaningful

Unsold impressions are a natural part of a healthy advertising strategy. Shine PSAs ensure those opportunities continue creating value instead of going unused.

Support Causes That Reflect Your Values

The messages that appear on your site help shape your brand. By choosing Shine PSAs, you can align your inventory with organizations working to create positive change and support communities that matter to you.

Maintain a High-Quality User Experience

Ads that aren’t worth serving shouldn’t be served. Shine PSAs replace the fallback ads and low-quality fill that degrade page performance and reader trust. They’re brand-safe, thoughtfully designed, and built to the same quality standards as the premium demand Mediavine prioritizes. Your readers get a cleaner, more intentional experience, and your site’s performance stays protected.

Set It Up Once and Forget About It

Enabling Shine PSAs takes less than a minute, and Mediavine handles everything else automatically.

How to Get Started

Opting into Shine PSAs is simple:

  1. Go to Settings in your Mediavine Dashboard
  2. Open the Shine section
  3. Select PFLAG and any additional nonprofit partners you’d like to support
  4. Save your preferences

Your unsold inventory will automatically begin supporting the causes you’ve chosen. Every impression on your site has the potential to do more. With Shine PSAs, those moments can raise awareness, inspire action, and support organizations creating meaningful change all year long.

👉 Learn more about Shine PSAs: help.mediavine.com/fill-your-unused-ad-inventory-with-a-psa

👉 Explore PFLAG’s mission: https://pflag.org/

👉 Interested in other nonprofit partners? Read more about our partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation and World Central Kitchen.

At Mediavine, smarter inventory means a stronger, more inclusive future.


Frequently Asked Questions

Do Shine PSAs affect my revenue?

No. Shine PSAs only serve when paid ads are not available. They never compete with or replace revenue-generating demand.

How do I enable Shine PSAs?

Go to Settings in your Mediavine Dashboard, open the Shine section, select your nonprofit partners, and save your preferences. It takes less than a minute and runs automatically from there.

What is PFLAG?

PFLAG is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQIA+ people, their families, and allies. Founded in 1973, PFLAG operates hundreds of chapters across the United States providing peer support, educational resources, and advocacy tools.

Can I support multiple nonprofits through Shine PSAs?

Yes. Publishers can select PFLAG and/or any additional nonprofit partners available in the Shine section of their dashboard.

Are Shine PSAs brand-safe?

Yes. Shine PSAs are thoughtfully designed and held to the same quality standards as the premium advertising demand Mediavine prioritizes.

Do Shine PSAs run year-round?

Yes. While we are featuring PFLAG during Pride Month, Shine PSAs run year-round whenever unsold inventory is available, keeping messages of inclusion and support visible beyond a single month on the calendar.

Can I change which nonprofits I support?

Yes. You can update your Shine PSA partners at any time through the Shine section in your Mediavine Dashboard. Add new organizations, swap them out, or adjust your selections whenever you’d like. Your preferences are fully in your control.

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