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Rewarded ads reshaped mobile app monetization. The open web hasn't caught up, and that gap is now a serious and profitable business opportunity.

EPMV tells you what a visit earned. User Value shows what a reader is worth over their whole relationship with your site, live now in BDA.

You can now set the size and allowed mobile positions of Ezoic’s Floating Video Player. Ezoic optimizes among the options you allow — with a reported 7.9% increase in video revenue plus better bounce rate and time on site.

A new Schedule Email button in Big Data Analytics pre-fills a scheduled report from the view you’re already looking at. Add frequency, recipients, and subject to get that BDA report in your inbox on a cadence.

Ezoic Direct is live for all publishers — manage and serve your own direct-sold campaigns in one place from the Ezoic Dashboard.

Wide portal distribution should grow ad revenue, but you don't control the portal's ads.txt. Here's how the Ezoic Web Games SDK bridges monetization to every embed.

EA rebuilt in-game advertising around value exchange, not interruption. The same principle already powers rewarded ads, a key monetization strategy offered by Ezoic.

A new Niche Peer Index widget on the Ezoic Dashboard shows whether a revenue dip or spike is niche-wide or specific to your site, using a privacy-safe comparison over the last 90 days.

Ask your AI assistant about pageviews, revenue, and ad performance in plain English — Ezoic's new Analytics MCP connects Cursor, Claude, VS Code, and Codex to your Ezoic analytics.

Global app revenue is projected to hit $673.79 billion by 2027, and nearly 90% of mobile screen time already happens inside apps. Most web publishers haven't captured any of it.

Ezoic's AI Ad Optimization keeps compounding where EPMV uplift grew from +5.6% to +11.3% in six months, and placement IDs are no longer required to get started.

Open.Video adds a Vertical Reels Player for full-screen short-form video on your own site, plus clickable Product Stickers for affiliate links on top of videos.

Sellers ask what multiple they can get. Buyers are asking something else: how likely is this business to keep producing cash after they take over? Based on real Flippa deal activity, these are the six hidden value drivers that move price more than the multiple ever does.

Ezoic Subscription Manager is now available in the Ezoic Dashboard, letting you build subscriptions, gated access, one-time payments, and donations while Ezoic handles the payment and access infrastructure.

Ezoic's new Predictive Conversion Pixel fires the real dollar value the instant a visitor lands, giving paid platforms the signal they've never had.

Ezoic has open-sourced official, MIT-licensed SDKs for React, Vue, and Angular — install a package, wrap your app in an EzoicProvider, and get display, rewarded, and video ads plus SPA routing and CMP consent handling built in.

Recent July 2026 additions across integration, monetization, identity, and analytics — and three early-access features for testing new revenue models.

Ezoic's new Revenue Dashboards let publishers build custom, branded reports from their BDA data — perfect for sharing performance with internal stakeholders, on a monitor, or via a custom domain.

For Nerds is Ezoic's publisher-facing dashboard that surfaces what the AI is doing on your site across eight data windows: floor pricing, identity, contextual signals, viewability, and demand.

"Agentic" has dominated Cannes Lions and throughout 2026 so far. Here's what it actually means in ad tech and why Ezoic has been running agentic infrastructure for quite some time.

Roughly 6% of U.S. visitors generate nearly 20% of total revenue—because they're deterministically identified. Here's why certainty beats coverage every time.

Website valuations in 2026 aren't just about revenue — buyers are scrutinizing traffic defensibility, audience ownership, and operational transferability. Flippa breaks down the practical steps publishers can take right now to build a more resilient, buyer-ready digital business.

Most publishers leave money on the table with static floor pricing. Here's how AI-powered dynamic floors capture every impression's true value.

A recap of Ezoic Chief Customer Officer John Cole's conversation with Justin Pearse on New Digital Age where they cover auction opacity, the decline of SEO traffic, rewarded advertising, and where publisher optimism comes from in 2026.

For the first time ever, Meta is projected to surpass Google in global ad revenue in 2026. Here's what it means for open-web publishers and how to build a more resilient demand stack.

Google’s integration of Gemini into DV360 is a structural shift in how programmatic inventory gets priced and prioritized. Publishers with authenticated, matchable audiences are about to become a different product class entirely.

New Chartbeat data quantifies two years of search traffic decline across all publisher tiers, seeing large publishers down 22%, medium 47%, and small 60%. The numbers are worse than the headlines suggest, and the right response is all about monetization resilience.

The New Media Summit brought together 500+ publishers, newsletter operators, and media founders and Ezoic was there as a premier sponsor. MarketBeat CEO Matt Paulson shared how his team turns newsletter subscribers into $300K+ per month in display ad revenue, while Ezoic's Gavin Bechtold unpacked how first-party data is giving publishers a meaningful edge in today's ad market. Their panel was one of many highlights of the event. Ultimately, publishers winning in 2026 are heavily investing in newsletters and their websites to build revenue that compounds.

In 2026, app value is driven by more than installs—buyers are paying premiums for durability. Top apps combine high retention, AI-driven efficiency, and hybrid monetization to secure higher multiples. Publishers who focus on sticky users, streamlined operations, and diversified revenue can maximize exit value. Use Flippa’s free valuation tool to see where your app stands and how these trends can boost its worth.

How to set up rewarded ads from scratch in a web app, game, or website. Give users a choice, and earn premium CPMs in the process.

The programmatic advertising ecosystem is undergoing an update. As buyers shift spend away from broad open exchange environments and toward curated, deal-based transactions, publishers are being rewarded for clarity, signal quality, and predictable performance. In this post, we explore how buyer spending habits are changing, why curated demand is accelerating, and how Ezoic’s position in the supply chain helps businesses capture high-quality demand.

The way people discover and generate value on the web has fundamentally changed. As clicks decline and experiences behave more like products, monetization now depends on engagement, identity, and long-term value. This reflection explores how Ezoic has already built for that reality in 2025 and why it will continue to pave the way in 2026 and beyond.