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    Empowering Creators in the Age of AI

    Empowering Creators in the Age of AI Read Our Letter to the US Copyright Office Sign Our Change.org Petition AI is triggering a power shift in digital publishing. It brings speed, scale, and new tools—but it also risks devaluing the creators who power the internet. We Stand With Creators Original content is the heart of…

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    Recipe Quick View Pilot Shelved: A Win for Publishers

    Back to Blog • For the past year, Google has been experimenting with a feature called Recipe Quick View – a feature allowing users to click an icon inside search results to view an entire recipe without leaving Google Search. To say this pilot program was controversial among food content creators would be an understatement,…

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    Creators Are Here to Stay. We Support Pay Per Crawl in Shaping the Web’s Future.

    Back to Blog • By now, we’re all aware that generative AI is dramatically changing the web, leaving content creators — whose work is used to train powerful AI models — under duress. But just because AI is here to stay doesn’t mean we have no agency in shaping the future.  Content creators power the…

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    Building an Instagram Account that Your Audience LOVES to Follow

    Back to Blog • Instagram, love it or hate it, is a key player in the social media game. With the ever-changing algorithms and fickle fans, I completely get that Instagram can seem like a fruitless way to spend your time. Why Instagram is still important To play devil’s advocate, Instagram is a great place…

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    Best eCPM Days of 2025 (With Printable) – Behind the Numbers with Brad

    Back to Blog • Welcome to the much-anticipated release of the fifth-annual edition of “The Best eCPM Days of the Year” calendar. Each year, we analyze historical trends to provide publishers with a graphical representation of what to expect in terms of ad spend based on every day of the year. We focus on the…

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    A New Home for Trellis

    Back to Blog • Since the advent of Trellis, Mediavine’s goal was to provide a WordPress framework to meet the needs and pain points of independent publishers. We’ve had the pleasure of working with thousands of creators since its 2020 release and in the years that followed. Today, we’re excited to announce the next iteration…

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    What Does Mediavine Cost?

    Back to Blog • One of the common questions our amazing support and marketing teams encounter when speaking with prospective publishing partners is “what does Mediavine cost?” In a word, nothing! But in the interest of optimizing word count for SEO and user experience… The mere thought process behind asking that question implies an assumption on…

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    Mobile-First Indexing Emails From Google: What Do They Mean?

    Back to Blog • If you’re signed up for Google Search Console, you may have recently received an email from Google pertaining to mobile-first indexing. First, if you haven’t signed up for Google Search Console, do so IMMEDIATELY. Previously known as Webmaster Tools, Google Search Console allows Google to communicate with you directly and offer…

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    Why All Traffic Doesn’t Monetize the Same

    Back to Blog • “What good is a page view if you can’t monetize it?” A wise man once said this when we started out in the web publishing world, and I’ve never forgotten it. An even wiser man told me years later that if we wanted our website to be successful, it would require…

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    How Do I Improve My RPM?

    Back to Blog • Post updated October 2023 If you’re reading this, you probably know what RPM is and how it’s calculated. What you may not know, given the complexity of the subject and sheer amount of noise surrounding it online, is how to improve it. Short answer: There is no short answer. In programmatic…

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    Mediavine: Ads Are Just The Beginning

    Back to Blog • You may have noticed that Mediavine stopped referring to itself as the Mediavine Publisher Network earlier this year, a subtle but significant change that better reflects our core mission. We made this decision by asking ourselves, “What is Mediavine?” The answer to that question began, interestingly, by deciding what we’re not:…

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    Introducing Journey, A New Mediavine Ad Management Solution for Growing Sites

    Back to Blog • We are thrilled to announce the launch of Journey by Mediavine, a new ad management solution for growing websites and the publishers behind them. What is Journey? Journey is an entirely new ad offering designed and built from the ground up as a solution for smaller publishers. Powered by Mediavine’s first-in-class ad…