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    Advertising

    Chrome Ad Filtering: Going Live Globally July 9, 2019

    Mediavine has always been a vocal advocate for, and ardent proponent of ad quality and balancing user experience with ad revenue. Mediavine has always been a vocal advocate for, and ardent proponent of ad quality and balancing user experience with ad revenue. Back to Blog • Back to Blog • Mediavine…

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    Fill Rate: Not the End Goal, But a Tool That Can Help You Get There

    It’s no secret that Mediavine doesn’t fill ads at a 100% rate. We’ve even been so bold as to say that 100% fill rate is actually a bad thing. It’s no secret that Mediavine doesn’t fill ads at a 100% rate. We’ve even been so bold as to say that 100%…

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    An Introduction to Ads

    Fine, we admit it: Talking about ads can be boring. The functioning and monetization of our modern system of digital advertising is complex and explaining it can cause the eyes to glaze over of even the most interested people. Fine, we admit it: Talking about ads can be boring. The functioning…

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    Understanding Seasonal Ad Revenue

    Updated August 4, 2025: This post has been refreshed with the latest data, seasonal strategies, and revenue insights to help you prep for Q4 and beyond. Wondering why your ad revenue ebbs and flows throughout the year? That’s because ad revenue is deeply affected by seasonality. Advertisers adjust their spending based…

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    Advertising

    Mediavine Ad Reporter: Our Next-Level Commitment to Ad Quality

    Since the very early days of Mediavine offering ad management solutions to publishers, ad quality has been a core focus and a top priority. From sandboxed SafeFrames preventing intrusive mobile redirects to our exclusive custom opt out settings, we’ve built many aspects of our technology specifically with ad quality in mind….

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    Create

    Multiple Create Cards in One Post: Best Practices For Recipes, How-To Cards & Lists

    Update: The Create WordPress plugin has been acquired by one of its original engineers, John-Michael (JM) L’Allier. Now independently managed, Create remains in active development and continues to serve publishers under JM’s leadership. If you have any questions, please visit https://create.studio or email support@create.studio. As you’ve heard us mention before, Create offers amazing…

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    Publisher Interview

    Publisher Interview: Tiffany Griffin of Beautiful Dawn

    The mission of all bloggers is to help people live their lives to the fullest by sharing their expertise and this definitely extends to the business of blogging. The mission of all bloggers is to help people live their lives to the fullest by sharing their expertise and this definitely extends…

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    General Blogging

    How to Make Your Sponsored Content Authentic

    Sponsored content is an important piece of the revenue puzzle for so many of our publishers. Some truly enjoy creating branded content, some see it more as a necessary evil. Sponsored content is an important piece of the revenue puzzle for so many of our publishers. Some truly enjoy creating branded…

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    SEO

    Mediavine Video Player + SEO: How to Boost Rankings

    We’ve talked a lot about how the Mediavine Video Player helps monetize videos, but did you know that if used correctly, it can also be a SEO tool that boosts your search engine results? So how does that work? How can you optimize the player for SEO? Glad you asked! We’ve…

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    Advertising

    Comscore: Why it Matters to Mediavine

    Updated April 2024 Internally, Mediavine focuses first and foremost on how many publishers we have under our exclusive umbrella (currently more than 10,000) and how to serve them best. From an advertising standpoint, however, the question is how many unique users do these publishers reach, on the aggregate? How many visit…

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    Create

    How-To Rich Results and Rich Snippet Preview

    Update: The Create WordPress plugin has been acquired by one of its original engineers, John-Michael (JM) L’Allier. Now independently managed, Create remains in active development and continues to serve publishers under JM’s leadership. If you have any questions, please visit https://create.studio or email support@create.studio. Create was one of the first plugins to…

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    Publisher Interview

    Publisher Interview: Yaya & Lloyd of Hand Luggage Only

    As we approach 5,000 publishers (holy cow!?), one of the coolest things for us is seeing how Mediavine has expanded across the globe. As we approach 5,000 publishers (holy cow!?), one of the coolest things for us is seeing how Mediavine has expanded across the globe. Back to Blog • Back…