Websites Using Gourmet Ads

Gourmet Ads is a vertical ad network for food: recipe sites, food blogs and food-adjacent lifestyle publishers, sold to food and grocery brands. It takes sites from 10,000 pageviews a month and does not ask for exclusivity. The publishers below are verified from public advertising records.

What Gourmet Ads is

Most networks in this directory sell every topic. Gourmet Ads sells one. It describes itself as a global food ad network, has staff in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and works with large brands in food, recipes and lifestyle. Publishers are paid on a CPM basis, it is free to join with no setup cost, and approval usually takes no more than a week.

The defining term is that Gourmet Ads does not require exclusivity. That makes it a network a food blog can add rather than switch to, which is why so many of its sites appear elsewhere in this directory.

Requirements

From Gourmet Ads' own eligibility page:

• A food-focused, recipe or lifestyle site or blog, actively publishing
• Strong US, UK, Canadian, Australian or New Zealand audiences
• At least 10,000 pageviews a month
• At least one ad above the fold for Gourmet Ads, two preferred, and no stacked ads on any page
• A top-level domain of your own: blogspot.com and wordpress.com addresses are not accepted
• A privacy policy

Sites that can hard-code ad tags get preference. The minimum payout is $100, paid at the start of each month roughly 60 days after the month the ads ran.

Who actually uses it

Exactly what the name promises. Food and recipes is by far the largest category, followed by health and fitness, education and home, and nearly nine in ten domains are plain .com. Every domain in its records carries a publisher name, so the publisher column here is complete. Around 120 of its sites also appear under another network here, including Raptive, Freestar and AdPushup.

What publishers typically earn

Gourmet Ads publishes no rates. The case for a vertical network is that food advertisers pay for a food audience specifically, but a single network filling one or two slots will rarely match a managed network running the whole page. For most food blogs it is a complement or a starting point rather than the destination.

How this list is built

Membership is established from public advertising records: the standardised files and tags that networks and publishers maintain so advertisers can confirm who is authorised to sell a site's inventory. Nothing here is self-reported by the site, and nothing is inferred from how a page looks.

Records are cleaned before they reach this list: duplicate entries for the same site are collapsed, confidential and malformed entries are discarded, and a site is listed once no matter how many times it appears upstream. See our methodology for what we check and what we deliberately leave out.

The honest caveat: authorisation records can lag reality slightly when a publisher leaves a network, which is why entries are re-checked over time and carry the date they were last confirmed.

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