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We’re absolutely thrilled and honored that you’re considering entrusting your site’s monetization to Mediavine. However, we understand this is not a decision to take lightly. This is your income, after all. We’re absolutely thrilled and honored that you’re considering entrusting your site’s monetization to Mediavine. However, we understand this is not…

We’re big fans of motivation around these parts. It takes a motivated individual to start their own business and work from home. It also takes commitment to see that business venture through the lean days and build it to success. Mediavine publishers have these 2 qualities in spades, and our interviewee…

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…

In our publisher interview series we’ve had the opportunity to speak with bloggers in every niche across the lifestyle spectrum. From world travelers like Dave and Deb of The Planet D and Kristin of Be My Travel Muse to expert budget balancers like Latasha of Arts and Budgets and Alexis of Fitnancials, we’ve…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock or on a deserted tropical island, you’ve heard about GDPR. (Also, why haven’t you invited us to your island? Share your blissful GDPR-free real estate. Don’t be rude.) The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation is a law that impacts the way business is done…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

With the May 25 compliance date fast approaching, you’ve likely received several confusing emails from Google regarding how to ensure that Google Analytics is compliant with Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for your users in the EU. Before we break this down for you, make sure you’ve read this helpful GDPR guide for…

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…

The enforcement date of the European Union’s GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, is coming up in just a few short weeks on May 25, 2018. Many of you may be wondering why the digital advertising industry has been scrambling in recent months, and you’re only hearing about this now. The…