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About our adult ad network research

Last updated: 31 July 2026

This site compares the advertising platforms that carry adult inventory: what they charge to let you in, who owns the traffic behind the auction, and which markets they can still deliver. We are an independent information resource. We do not sell traffic, we do not operate an ad network, and we do not host adult content. What we do is read funding pages, platform documentation and primary legal sources, then publish what they actually say.

Why this site exists

Search for an adult ad network and you get a wall of ranked lists. Almost all of them print one minimum deposit per platform, award a score out of five, and move on. The problem is that the single number is usually wrong. Deposit floors move with the payment method you choose, and on the five platforms we cover the spread between the cheapest and the most expensive way to fund the same account runs from $25 to $1,000.

The same lists also copy each other. When a network changed its advertiser floor in mid-2025, roundups published a year later still carried the old figure. Nobody re-checked, because re-checking takes an account and twenty minutes and republishing a competitor's table takes neither.

That gap is the whole reason for this site. A media buyer about to move a budget needs the number next to their own payment method, not an average. A publisher choosing where to place tags needs the withdrawal threshold and the payment terms, not a star rating. Those are the things we check and the things we publish.

What we cover, and what we deliberately do not

We cover five platforms in depth: AdsCompass, TrafficJunky, ExoClick, TrafficStars and JuicyAds. For each we record the entry cost by payment method, the buying models on offer, the ad formats available to advertisers and to publishers, the type of inventory behind the auction, and the payout terms on the publisher side.

We do not publish scores, rankings or "best of" verdicts. A score compresses a decision that depends on your offer, your GEO list and how much manual optimization work you are prepared to do. Compressing that into 4.2 out of 5 hides the reasoning instead of showing it. Our comparison tables carry only factual columns, and the reader draws the conclusion.

We also do not review the adult content itself, the publishers whose sites carry the ads, or any product advertised through these networks. Our subject is the advertising infrastructure, and nothing else.

How we work

Every figure on this site goes through the same six steps, and we apply them in the same order every time.

  1. Selection. We include a platform when it carries meaningful adult inventory and publishes enough documentation to be checked. Platforms that will not disclose a deposit floor, formats or payout terms anywhere outside a sales call do not make the table, because there would be nothing verifiable to print.
  2. Primary reading. We open an advertiser account where registration is free and read the funding page with the intended payment method selected. Format counts come from the campaign creation flow, not from a marketing page. Payout thresholds come from the publisher side of the platform.
  3. Legal and policy sourcing. Claims about regulation come from the source document. Court decisions come from the court, statutes from the legislature, platform policies from the platform's own help centre. We do not source legal claims from industry blogs.
  4. Writing. The person who checked the figures writes the section that uses them. This keeps the reasoning attached to the evidence instead of arriving second-hand.
  5. Fact-check. Every number is matched back to where it came from. Anything we could only find in a third-party directory is marked in the text as directory-sourced, so the reader knows which figures to confirm before spending money. See our editorial policy for how that check runs.
  6. Review cycle. Deposit floors, formats and payout thresholds are re-checked on a fixed cadence and immediately when a platform announces a change. The date of the last check appears on the page itself, not buried in a footer.

What we get wrong, and what we do about it

The legal terms covering all of this are on the terms and conditions page, and what we store in your browser is listed on the cookie policy page. Three things break our figures between review cycles. Platforms change deposit floors without announcement. Payment methods get added or dropped, which silently changes the cheapest way in. And legal conditions shift: an age-verification statute takes effect, a platform geo-blocks a market, and a GEO that delivered last month stops delivering.

When we find an error, we correct the page and say what changed. We do not quietly overwrite a wrong number and leave the old publication date in place. If you spot something stale or wrong, tell us at [email protected] and include the page and the specific figure, and we will check it against the source.

Who writes this

Editorial work is led by Smith Jones, Programmatic Media Buying Lead. He buys pop, push and native inventory in 18+ and dating verticals, and his focus is auction mechanics on OpenRTB exchanges, source-level bid optimization and compliance screening for advertisers in regulated categories. His full background is on the author page.

We name the author on every page and date every material. If you cannot see who wrote something and when it was last checked, you have no way to judge whether to trust it.

How we pay for this

This site carries affiliate links. When a reader opens an account with a platform we link to, we may receive a commission from that platform. It costs the reader nothing and does not change the price of anything. One of the networks we compare is a commercial partner, and we say so on the page where the comparison appears rather than burying it here.

Commercial relationships do not decide what goes in a table or how a network is described. Our partner appears alongside four competitors with the same factual columns, and its documented limitations are printed next to its strengths. The rules that keep those two things apart are set out in our editorial policy.

Getting in touch

The research itself lives on Adult Ad Network, which is where every figure described above ends up. Corrections, questions about a figure, partnership enquiries and data requests each have their own address. The full list is on the contact page, and we aim to answer within two business days.