Ad Network

July 31, 2023

Module 6 — Lesson 34

Monetizing your newsletter with ad placements is one of the best (and most popular) ways to monetize your newsletter.

But they’re also extremely difficult to manage by yourself.

You have to find willing advertisers
Negotiate a fair price for both parties
Write the ad copy and send it to them for review
Write the actual newsletter
Report back on how their ad performed
And that’s just for ONE ad slot!

Luckily, we solved this problem. Introducing the beehiiv Ad Network.

What’s the beehiiv Ad Network?

The beehiiv Ad Network allows beehiiv creators to connect with top sponsors and earn revenue by featuring ads in their newsletter.

The best part?

beehiiv does everything, from finding advertisers, to sending opportunities to publishers, providing all the ad creative (images, copy, links), reporting back on performance, and managing payments.

That means that as a content creator, you can focus on creating great newsletters while we provide you with premium sponsors and a new revenue stream.

It’s like having your very own ad sales team!

So how does it work?

Step 1: Apply for Access

Take two minutes to apply for access to our Ad Network.

Step 2: Accept Ad Placements

You’ll get inbound ad opportunities from the beehiiv team. We use target audience guidance from advertisers to ensure you only receive relevant opportunities that are a good match.

You have full control over which ads you want to run as we understand that not all brands are a good fit for your newsletter.

Step 3: Get Paid 🤑

It’s easy as 1-2-3!!

We’ll let you know the payout structure for every ad opportunity we send your way
Tell you how much you earned after the sponsored send goes out
And you’ll receive your payment a few weeks after the send

How much can you earn?

We built an Ad Calculator to help approximate for you.

Who’s using the Ad Network well?

We launched the Ad Network just a few months ago and have already run several successful ad campaigns. We’ve had nearly 50 publishers participate in our early campaigns. Here are a few success stories.

The Flag

The Flag is an organization dedicated to nonpartisan news. Their signature morning newsletter aims to provide their readers with “every view of the Red, White, and Blue.”

They’ve already run 10 ads through the beehiiv Ad Network across several different campaigns. They will make over $2K from that, and we are continuing to send them more ad opportunities.

Market Madness

This newsletter by @WOLF_Financial provides investing insights and analysis on a weekly basis.

Even with a relatively smaller audience of 5K subscribers, they have already received eight ad opportunities. Their sponsored sends see strong engagement, and their newsletter is a great fit for our advertising campaigns.

Not A Bot

The most subscribed daily AI newsletter (not written by AI) just moved to beehiiv, and we sent them three ad opportunities within their first week of sending.

Since their audience is already above 40k subscribers, we know that this is just the beginning and that they will reach higher goals fast.

As you can see, it’s pretty simple to go from launch to monetization by leveraging the beehiiv ad network.

If you want to see more comments from early users, you can read this case study from our first campaign where we delivered great results for Morning Brew, while the beehiiv newsletters that got sponsored made some good money.