Monetize.com — affiliate network: rating and member reviews

Monetize.com, run by AdMedia, is a monetization platform for publishers and content networks. Its core product converts ordinary retail links inside editorial content into affiliate links pointing at the highest-paying retailer, and around that it offers native, overlay, contextual, social, exit, email, video, in-text, search, in-app, mobile, in-feed and shopping ad units. The company reports more than 50,000 independent sites, over 250 million daily active consumers and more than $1B in annual consumer purchases through the platform.

For a publisher the platform is free to join: an account, a snippet of code on the site, and the commerce links start earning. Reporting runs through the publisher dashboard and open APIs, and the company states IAB, EDAA and USDAA certification. Its Affiliate World entry adds that it carries direct budgets from US retail brands, mainly on CPC but also on CPA, CPS and CPL, and that it is looking for direct publishers and cashback, coupon and buy-now-pay-later sites.

On the merchant side the network sells paid placement, sponsored content and commerce content inside its publishers' pages, together with shopping feeds, contextual formats and XML feeds, and gives merchants their own dashboard and reports. Both sides sign up from the site.