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Media.net
Ad tech company behind contextual Yahoo ads on publisher sites, now a sell-side platform owned again by founder Div Turakhia. Sites are approved one by one and paid monthly on net-30 from click revenue; contextual.media.net is the address its ad script loads from.
| Ad formats | Display / banners, Native, Video |
|---|---|
| Pricing models | CPC, CPM |
| Publisher program | Yes — program page |
| Payout frequency | Monthly |
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| Website | media.net |
|---|---|
| pubsupport@media.net | |
| Socials | |
| In our catalog since | Nov 13, 2026 |
About Media.net
Media.net is an ad tech company that grew out of India's Directi group and built its business on contextual advertising: its publisher terms name Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo! srl as advertising partners, and its units show their ads matched to the content of the page. In 2016 a Chinese consortium led by Zhiyong Zhang of Beijing Miteno agreed to buy it for about $900 million; the company's About page says founder Div Turakhia bought it back in 2023. It now calls itself a sell-side platform (SSP) with 500+ engineers, and its privacy policy names Media.Net Advertising FZ-LLC of Dubai Media City.
Publishers apply site by site: each site must be approved before ads go live and must follow the Publisher Guidelines. Contextual earnings are "Click Through Revenue", calculated by Media.net from valid clicks and traffic quality minus its own and its partners' commissions, and paid monthly on net-30; the terms let it withhold or claw back payments for fraud or a breach. Neither the terms nor the site publish a traffic minimum, a payout threshold or payment methods. Beyond contextual ads, the publisher page sells display, native and video demand, a managed Prebid header bidding service and a vertical video player. Advertisers and DSPs buy through deal IDs and integrations with The Trade Desk, Criteo, DV360, Yahoo Advertising and others, not through a self-serve account.
contextual.media.net is the domain Media.net's ad script (dmedianet.js) loads from on publisher pages, which is why it shows up in ad-blocker logs and browser network tabs; it isn't a separate service. On Trustpilot Media.net has 2.3/5 from 7 reviews (November 12, 2026), all 1-star and none from the last 12 months: publishers in 2022 described sites left unreviewed for over 4 months and leftover earnings still unpaid after they moved to another network and lost access to the account. Existing publishers write to pubsupport@media.net, new ones to pubsales@media.net.
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Xtra BaSe HitZThis is the absolute worst ad network on the face of the earth. Bar. none. It took me roughly 6+ months to make $100 and I made that in a single day w/ the incredible Mediavine. Not only that, but their support team is abysmal and they couldn't care less whether they pay you or not. Really. They don't give a crap. At all. Case and point: I have some leftover earnings and they still haven't paid me yet even after dozens of emails and months of headaches. I got one back saying basically "We're looking into it. Don't reply." (I have the email saved) Huh? HORRIBLE. DEPLORABLE. The most awful experience I've ever had business-wise. The dashboard? Even worse. It's clunky and the navigation is horrific. I can't say enough bad things. If all that wasn't enough, once you move on to another ad network they lock you from being able to log in. So there's no proof they even owe you money. By contrast, Monumetric has been nothing but gracious after I made the switch to Mediavine and even said I could come back if things didn't work out. Media.net? They suck. Big time. Do yourself a favor and STAY. THE. F. AWAY. At all costs. You're better off with Adsense. At least ad sense pays you on time and there's no BS.
- Carl Heyes
Terrible response time/service Terrible response time. Signed up quite a while ago now with no indication of acceptance onto their platform. No responses to any messages either. I'd probably avoid and look at Google Adsense or other platforms as you'll be waiting a long time whilst your website traffic is just wasted.
- Ethan Reimann
I signed my website up over 4 months ago and despite them saying a review only takes 30 days, my site is still not reviewed. Then I tried to contact them via email and a form. Both times I got no response at all. Overall I have had a really bad experience with Media.net. I do not recommend using them for ads on your website.
- Guy Jones
Low quality team behind this business I tried to join this service I guess to make money but when the staff is to stupid to make Captcha service work right does not say a lot about this team if Forbes.com do really use this business I would recommend you ditch this inconfident team. When I tried there website one of my software basically told me it's virus or hacked site which again proves it's designed wrong or poorly programmed or designed.
- Jerry Pank
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam... Remember the Monty Python song? It must have been written for these guys! Five times I have replied to their emails saying I'm not the least bit interested in their shabby offerings. I have a spam-bin overflowing with "Since I haven't heard back from you,..." Just stick with Google, mark these jokers as spammers!
- Thantawan
We signed up with Media.net as an alternative to Google. The only reason why we signed up with them was because they offered Paypal as an option. Everything worked fine and we had almost made our $100 for our first payout when they decided they no longer offer Paypal and now only offer payment via Payoneer. This is not what we signed up on as we did not have a Payoneer account and since this started we have tried on 4 occasions to get a Payoneer account. They should have allowed those who had signed up with Paypal an option to take the last payment via Paypal and then allow them to close the account or take Payoneer. Instead they just ignored us and kept the $100. Not what I would call a business to work with!
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