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Mediavine Resources & Tools
Uplift by Mediavine: Advertising That Creates Opportunity
Uplift by Mediavine connects diverse-owned sites with advertisers who prioritize inclusion
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Mediavine
Where Unfilled Inventory Creates Real Impact
Turn every ad impression into an opportunity with Shine PSAs.
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Mediavine
The RPM Metric That Actually Reflects How You Earn
Your RPM data just got more accurate. Here's what Monetized RPM measures and why it matters.
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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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Analytics
Google Analytics and GDPR Compliance: What You Need to Do
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…
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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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Advertising
GDPR Compliance For Advertisements
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…
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Advertising
Mediavine: The Force That Awakens Ad Ops Success
Greetings, readers, on this fourth day of May, also known for the past few decades as Star Wars Day. (If you don’t get it, we apologize for the many quotes and references to come.) A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, an evil empire of corporations ruled the…
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Advertising
Mediavine is For Big Publishers (and Smaller Blogs, Too)
Mediavine has always prided itself on inclusivity. If you’re a publisher with great, original content who’s looking to grow your site with a holistic approach to advertising, we welcome you. Whether you have our minimum traffic requirement of just 50,000 sessions per month, or 10-20 times that, you can expect the…
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Advertising
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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Go for Teal
No More Excuses: It’s Time to Go Secure with SSL!
Let’s cut right to the chase: It’s time for every Mediavine publisher to go SSL. This July, with Chrome Version 68, Google will begin marking non-SSL sites – or sites beginning with http:// instead of https:// – as “Not Secure” at the top of the address bar. As of right now,…
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Advertising
Mobile Ads 101
It’s no secret that mobile technology has changed the world in which we live, and advances in communications continue to alter the landscape every day. A study by the Pew Research Center revealed that 95% of Americans own a mobile phone, and 77% of them smartphones, a figure that has doubled…