Hi Matt.
Following up on what Bjork said… We have Adsense and I tried to get the bottom overlay also. I figured out that if I turn on AutoAds it will put one at the top of the page on mobile. But AutoAds created way too many ads on our website and I turned it off. If you figure out how to do it separately, I’d love to know.
Thanks
Geoffrey

Hey there, Geoffrey. AdSense is probably the best bet for starting out.

If it was me and we were just starting out I’d consider holding off on running any ads until I got to a certain traffic level (maybe 50,000?), just so I wouldn’t have to deal with the reality of page speed issues that ads introduce.

You’d obviously miss out on some early income by not running ads, but it’s possible you’d grow a bit fast and in turn be able to work with one of the higher earning ad management companies a bit soon.

My $.02s. 🙂

Great podcast Bjork, as usual. Lots of ideas for where to tweak what I’m doing now.

Is there an ad network you recommend for a site with under 10k/month page views? Am using Adsense now.

Hey there, Matt. Great question. We actually run all our ads through AdThrive, so they implement this for us. I’ve never actually used an overlay ad directly with AdSense, so I’m not positive on the process, but this post leads me to believe that overlay (or sticky, as they call them) ads are invite-only on AdSense.

To ensure a safe and positive user experience, we restrict the use of ad implementations on desktop which cause the ad to appear in a “sticky” or “floating” position on the page as the user scrolls or navigates through the page. While we allow Google anchor ads on mobile web, please note that publisher-created mobile implementations are not permitted as we cannot ensure they have the same quality protections we’ve built into our product.