Who is behind listofwebsitesusing.com

Why this site exists

If you work in publishing or advertising, one question comes up constantly and has no good answer. Who actually runs this ad network? Not a case study or three logos on a homepage. The list. Which sites, in which niches, at what scale.

That question matters commercially. An agency wants to know who to approach. A publisher weighing up a network wants to see the company it would be keeping, and judge whether sites like theirs get accepted. A media buyer wants inventory in a particular subject area. An analyst wants to know whether a network is growing or quietly losing publishers. Everyone is asking the same thing, and everyone was reduced to guessing from anecdotes.

The information to answer it is already public. Advertising runs on openly published authorisation records, because buyers need to verify who is entitled to sell a site's inventory. It is simply scattered across hundreds of thousands of individual domains, which makes it useless until someone gathers it into one place. That is the whole job of this site.

What we do, and how

We compile advertising configuration that websites publish about themselves, match it to the networks that operate those signals, sort the results by subject area, and re-check them on a rolling basis. Every row carries the date it was last confirmed, so you can weigh its age yourself.

The full method is written out on our methodology page: every signal we use, how they are weighted, and where the method falls short. That page includes a section of plain limitations, which is unusual for a data product and entirely deliberate. A dataset you cannot interrogate is one you should not trust, ours included.

What we will not do

A directory of other people's businesses only has value if it cannot be bought. So, permanently:

• No paid placements, ever. No listing can be purchased, promoted, reordered or protected with money. A site is here because it was detected.
• No pay-to-be-removed. Removal is free, unconditional, and requires no reason. See removals. A directory that charges to delist is running a shakedown, not a business.
• No affiliation with the networks we list. We have no commercial relationship with Mediavine, Raptive, Ezoic, AdSense or anyone else here, and no influence over who they accept.
• No harvested personal data. We index websites, not people. No scraped emails, no phone numbers, no staff names.
• No guest posts and no paid links. Nothing on this site was written in exchange for anything.

How this is funded

Worth stating plainly, because how a site makes money tells you what it is likely to shade.

The top of every list is free and always will be, because that is how people find us. A free account extends it. Pro is a subscription for people who need the complete dataset and export it for their own research. That subscription is the entire business model. We may add advertising to the free tier later, and if we do, it will be disclosed here and in our cookie notice before it appears.

Notice what is absent. We do not sell your data to anyone, we do not harvest contact details from the sites we list, and we take no money from any network we cover. Nobody in this industry pays us, which is precisely what lets the lists say whatever the data says.

Who runs it

listofwebsitesusing.com is published by Shared Authority, a business run by Syed Kashif and Bilal Javed in Pakistan. Shared Authority builds tools and courses for publishers and digital marketers, alongside content writing, website management and Pinterest management services.

We built this because the data did not exist anywhere we could buy it. We wanted to know which sites ran which ad network. Not a handful of examples, the actual list. Every route to it was either a scraper we would have to maintain ourselves or an enterprise contract priced for an agency.

So we assembled it, then kept going: verifying rows against live sites, sorting publishers into subject categories, and writing the method down in public so anyone can judge the data by how it was gathered instead of taking our word for it.

Two people run this. That is a limitation and we would rather say so than invent a team, but it also means nothing sits between you and the person who can change your listing.

Why an ad-network directory, from us

The same two people run Pin Power Pinterest Course, a Pinterest course we teach to bloggers and site owners who are trying to grow traffic to content sites. That is the other half of the same problem. Publishers spend months building traffic and then have to decide who should monetise it, usually with nothing better to go on than a forum thread and a screenshot of somebody's RPM.

We have sat on the publisher side of that decision, and we have watched a lot of people make it badly for want of data that turned out to be sitting in public the whole time. This directory is the thing we wanted while doing that work.

Corrections and accountability

We get things wrong sometimes. Detection is inference from public records, and the methodology page is candid about the ways it can mislead. What we can promise is that a correction is easy to make and gets acted on rather than argued with.

If a listing is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Use the corrections page or email hello@listofwebsitesusing.com. We aim to reply within two working days and to act within 30 days at the outside. When a site stops matching a network, we mark the record instead of silently deleting it, because a list that quietly rewrites its own history cannot be audited.

Get in touch

Questions, corrections, data requests, press. All of it goes to the same place and reaches a person, not a queue. Contact us, or email hello@listofwebsitesusing.com.

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