Monetization Planner: Which Methods, Networks & Platforms Fit Your Property, Traffic and Niche
Tell the planner what you have (blog, newsletter, podcast, app...), how much traffic it gets and what niche it is in, and get a ranked mix of monetization methods with the networks and platforms that will actually accept you.
Your plan: 6 methods for a blog / content site
Start with the first two; add the rest as the audience grows. Only providers that would accept a property of this size are shown.
Display Advertising Easy
Banner and responsive ad units sold by the thousand impressions: the default first dollar for any content site.
Display advertising is the sale of space on your pages to advertisers, priced per thousand impressions (CPM) and paid to you as a share of what the advertiser spent. You place a script, the network runs an auction for every impression, and the winning ad… Read the guide →
Affiliate Marketing Medium
Recommend products with tracked links and earn a commission on every sale: the highest-earning method for review and comparison content.
Affiliate marketing is recommending someone else's product with a link that identifies you, and receiving a commission when a reader buys. A network or the merchant's own program provides the tracking link, records the sale through a cookie or a code, and pays you after… Read the guide →
Sponsored Content & Brand Deals Medium
Brands pay for a post, video, integration or review featuring their product, sold directly or through a creator marketplace.
Sponsored content is a piece you make about a brand for money: a review post, a YouTube integration, a sponsored newsletter issue, a series of Instagram posts, a dedicated podcast episode. Unlike an ad unit, it carries your voice and your recommendation, which is exactly… Read the guide →
Digital Products Medium
Sell ebooks, templates, presets, printables, swipe files and toolkits: near-zero marginal cost and 90%+ margins.
A digital product is a file or a licence sold and delivered automatically: an ebook or guide, a Notion or spreadsheet template, a Lightroom preset pack, a font, a set of icons, a printable planner, a swipe file of proven emails, a code snippet library,… Read the guide →
Selling Guest Posts & Link Inserts Easy
SEO buyers pay $50-1,000 to publish an article or add a link on an authoritative site. Easy money that can end your search traffic.
SEO agencies and site owners pay to place links on sites with authority, either as a new article they supply (a guest post or sponsored post) or as a sentence added to an existing article (a link insert or niche edit). Publishers list on marketplaces… Read the guide →
Native Advertising & Content Recommendation Easy
Sponsored article widgets and in-feed units that look like your own content and fill where display will not.
Native advertising is paid content designed to look like the surrounding page: the "recommended for you" widget under an article, the promoted story in a feed, the sponsored listing among organic ones. Content recommendation networks (Taboola, Outbrain, MGID, Revcontent) supply the widget and the advertisers;… Read the guide →
How the planner works
Each method in the directory carries the property types it suits, the traffic it needs to be worth doing and how passive it is; each network carries the minimum traffic it accepts and the niches it allows. The planner scores every method against your answers, drops anything your traffic cannot support yet, and shows the providers of each kind that would take you today. It is a starting point, not a strategy: read the guides, run the calculator for numbers, then check the deals before you sign up.