Mediavine is the premium network publishers aspire to, with RPMs that dwarf AdSense once you hit traffic thresholds. Journey by Mediavine now accepts sites from 1k sessions, making it accessible to smaller blogs while offering a clear upgrade path.
If you're serious about display ad revenue, Mediavine is the destination. Journey gets you in the door early and automatically graduates you to full Mediavine — no other network offers that kind of built-in growth track.
“Just wait for Journey. The pay is good and you automatically graduate to mediavine when you hit a certain payout threshold. Do not do Adsense. Not worth it.”
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“Mediavine journey accepts sites starting from 1k traffic. The only issue is that the minimum payout is $100 so its gonna take a few months of earning to reach that threshold.”
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“Mediavine used to be 50k sessions but I understand they recently removed this entry requirement and instead changed it to a much harder requirement of £5000 ad revenue has to have been earned over the last 12 months.”
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“With technical blogs and tier 1 traffic, your RPM should be solid once you get on a premium network. Just need more volume.”
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