Websites Using Infolinks

Infolinks sells ad formats that use the space banner ads leave alone: highlighted keywords inside the text, a bar at the foot of the screen, and full-screen units between pages. It is open to publishers of any size. The publishers below are verified from public advertising records.

What Infolinks is

Infolinks has been running since 2007, and its formats are its identity:

• InText double-underlines keywords in existing copy and opens an ad when a reader hovers
• InFold places a footer ad above the fold, 728×90 on desktop and 320×50 on mobile
• InScreen is an interstitial shown as a reader enters the site, moves between pages or leaves
• InArticle and InFrame use space inside the article and the empty margins of wide screens

The pitch is that none of these compete with the standard banner slots, so Infolinks positions itself as an addition to AdSense rather than a replacement. Infolinks says running both does not break AdSense's terms; check Google's current policy yourself before relying on that.

Infolinks says more than 350,000 publishers have joined. The list below holds under a thousand domains. Both can be true: a sign-up count built up since 2007 includes accounts that are no longer active, and this list holds only domains in Infolinks' current advertising records.

Requirements

Infolinks publishes no traffic number. One of its pages mentions "modest minimum requirements" for pageviews or visitors without giving a figure, and newer pages say there are none. What it does state:

• Every site is reviewed, and Infolinks can decline any application
• No violent, discriminatory, illegal or infringing content, and restrictions on gambling promotion
• A privacy policy, and Infolinks' lines added to the site's ads.txt

Payment arrives within 45 days of the end of the month once earnings reach the threshold: $50 for PayPal and similar methods, $100 for a bank wire. Smaller balances roll over.

Who actually uses it

The roster is mostly English-language and four in five domains are plain .com. Among the sites that can be categorised, entertainment, sports and technology lead, followed by business, with a long tail of food, travel and hobby sites. Because Infolinks is meant to sit beside other ads, it overlaps a spread of networks rather than one, with MGID the largest.

What publishers typically earn

In-text and footer units earn less per thousand pageviews than a managed display network, and Infolinks does not publish rates. The case for it is additive: revenue from space that was earning nothing. Infolinks also notes that earnings tend to rise as more advertisers approve a site over time, and that removing the code interrupts that.

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, resold inventory and app store listings 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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