About this comparison
This site exists to answer one question properly: where do you buy adult advertising inventory, and what does each option cost to open. Mainstream platforms reject 18+ creatives, which pushes every adult advertiser toward a short list of specialist networks, and the public information about those networks is mostly written by people selling something. I compare six of them on entry cost, pricing model, ad formats and inventory type, and I keep the figures dated so you can see how stale they are.
Who is behind it
One person, not an agency content desk. I am Smith Jones, a performance media buyer who has spent eleven years on performance networks and the last six of them on 18+ and dating inventory. I write the pages, I read the operator documentation, and my name sits on every figure. If a number here is wrong, there is exactly one person to blame and one inbox to write to.
There is no editorial team, no rotating cast of freelancers and no ghostwritten filler. That is a limitation as much as a selling point: this site covers six networks well rather than thirty badly, and it updates in batches rather than continuously. I would rather publish a narrow comparison you can trust than a directory nobody has checked.
What this site is not
It is not an ad network. It does not sell traffic, impressions, clicks or visitor packages, and it has no inventory of its own. It does not host adult content of any kind, and the categories that will never receive a link from here whatever the commission are listed on the advertising standards page. It is not affiliated with any of the six platforms compared here, it does not resell their accounts, and it cannot intervene if one of them rejects your creative or freezes your balance.
It is also not a ranking. The comparison itself, Buy Adult Traffic, lives on the home page, and a full index of everything published here is on the sitemap. You will not find scores out of ten, medals or a "best network" label anywhere on the comparison, because the right pick depends on your offer, your GEO and your budget. The tables carry facts with dates attached, and the surrounding text explains which fact matters in which situation. Drawing the conclusion is your job.
How it is funded
Some outbound links to advertising platforms are commercial, which means this site can earn a commission when a reader opens an account through one. That arrangement pays for hosting and for the time spent reading terms pages, and it changes nothing in a table. No network has ever been shown a draft, approved a wording or paid for a position. The full arrangement, including what a commercial partner can and cannot ask for, is set out on the affiliate disclosure page.
The safeguard is procedural rather than promised: figures come from operator documentation with a verification date, and every named limitation stays in the text regardless of who links to whom. Two of the six networks covered here have visible weaknesses documented on the home page, and both remain documented.
How the pages get written
Every comparison page follows the same route. I read each operator's own funding, formats, help and terms pages and record what they actually say, including the cases where they say nothing. Regulatory claims come from primary documents, which for the age-verification section means the Supreme Court opinion and the Free Speech Coalition tracker rather than a summary of a summary. Anything that cannot be tied to a dated source is dropped instead of estimated, and where two sources disagree the page publishes the range and names the disagreement.
The full step-by-step is on how I check networks, and the rules governing sources, corrections and what never gets published are on the editorial policy page. Both exist so you can audit the method rather than take the output on faith.
Reach me
Corrections with a primary source attached get applied quickly and the verification date on the page gets updated. Questions about formats, GEOs or a first campaign structure are welcome. Requests for guaranteed placement are not. Everything routes through the contact page, which lists four inboxes by topic and the response time to expect from each. The conditions attached to using this site are in the terms and conditions, what gets logged while you read it is described in the privacy policy, and every cookie involved is named individually in the cookie policy.