Bitmedia pricing in 2026: a $300 deposit, bids from $0.25 and $0.30, a 10–20% cut, and four daily floors that appear as you add features

Bitmedia publishes more of its prices than most crypto ad networks, and spreads them across more pages than anyone should have to read: a FAQ, an advertiser agreement, a publisher agreement, a publisher FAQ, three dashboard guides and a 2021 blog post that still governs which currency the numbers are counted in. We read all of them on 11 October 2026 and put every figure in one place. The short version is that Bitmedia costs $300 to enter, bids start at a quarter per click and thirty cents per thousand impressions, the network keeps a cut it describes as commonly 10 to 20 percent, and four separate daily minimums switch on as you reach for the features that make the network worth using. The contract returns none of it. Our Bitmedia review scores the network 6.5/10; this page is the price list that review did not have room for.

The $300 door, and the bitcoin side entrance

Bitmedia states its entry price in two documents that agree with each other, which is rarer in this industry than it should be. The FAQ answer to “What is the minimum starting budget?” reads: “The min deposit for payments with card is 300$. The minimum deposit amount in cryptocurrency is equivalent to 300 USD. Payments less than 300 USD are not processed and will not be credited to your balance. Please ensure that your payment meets this requirement, as funds sent in smaller amounts are non-refundable. The minimum deposit amount requirement shall not apply to BTC transactions.” Clause 6.1 of the advertiser agreement repeats the figure, the “not processed” and the “non-refundable”, and adds that Bitmedia “will issue relevant invoices” for the money paid in advance.

The bitcoin exemption is the detail worth acting on. A $300 floor by card or in USDT becomes no stated floor at all if the deposit arrives in BTC, which makes bitcoin the cheap way in, at the one network we track where a single coin removes the floor altogether. The FAQ lists the accepted currencies as “BTC, USD, USDT, BNB, TRX and ETH”; USDT arrived in September 2024 on the Tron, Ethereum and BNB chains, and USDC in March 2026, when the announcement added that “minimum top-up amounts and any deposit bonuses are displayed in the dashboard”. Bank transfer is possible but not self-serve: the FAQ says to contact the account manager or support for an invoice. Crypto deposits credit after “at least 3 network confirmations”, and the money lands in a main balance from which you fund each campaign, or you can pay a campaign directly from an external wallet.

Everything you see after that is in dollars. Since an update announced on 26 February 2021, “all stats, bids and earnings” have been pegged to USD, including daily limits, which is why a network that takes bitcoin, ether and Tron quotes none of its prices in any of them. Clause 6.2 of the agreement allows “discounts, rebates, or other promotions” that “will be displayed on the Website”; we found none on the public pages we read on 11 October, so any deposit bonus is a dashboard matter between you and your account manager. For how the $300 compares with the nine other doors in the niche, our payouts and minimums table has every one on a single page.

What a click and a thousand impressions cost

The FAQ answer to “How much do the ads cost?” is one sentence: “The minimum bid starts from 0.25$ (CPC campaign) and 0.30$ (CPM campaign). The higher the bid is the better visibility your ad has.” Those are floors on your bid, not prices for traffic, and Bitmedia’s own bidding guide is unusually frank about the difference. Set “say, $0.30 CPM” and, in its words, “you start buying the cheapest traffic available in the network, only from publishers whose floor prices are at or below your bid. Publishers charging $3, $10, or higher CPM won’t even be accessible.” The same page describes Smart Bid as a way to buy “cheaper traffic (e.g. at $0.35 CPM)” while still reaching “premium traffic valued at $8 CPM”, with a worked example of a $1.51 target. Those three numbers, $0.35, $1.51 and $8, are the only description Bitmedia gives of the shape of its auction, and they say that the $0.30 floor is where the inventory starts rather than where campaigns run.

Bitmedia also published, in a June 2025 blog post on banner sizes, a table of “CPM / CPC bids” by country drawn from what it calls internal data. It is the closest thing to a rate card the network has ever put in public, and it is reproduced below for the largest markets. The figures are a year old and were never updated, so treat them as the order of magnitude rather than today’s price; the dashboard shows a “Recommended Bid” for your exact targeting, and the campaign guide says to ask your account manager for “the respective current average market bids”.

Country	CPM bid	CPC bid	Formats Bitmedia names
Hong Kong	$1.60	$0.39	728×90, 160×600, 300×250
United States	$1.45	$0.21	300×250, 160×600, 728×90
Spain	$1.02	$0.36	300×250, 160×600, 728×90
France	$0.96	$0.39	728×90, 300×250, 160×600
India	$0.85	$0.48	300×250, 468×60, 728×90
Germany	$0.82	$0.59	468×60, 300×250, 300×100
Netherlands	$0.75	$0.30	300×100, 300×250, 160×600
Italy	$0.72	$0.27	300×250, 160×600, 728×90
Vietnam	$0.60	$0.29	300×250, 160×600, 728×90
Indonesia	$0.38	$0.50	300×250, 468×60, 728×90

Two things in that table matter more than any single row. The spread between the cheapest and dearest geo is about four to one on CPM, which is narrow for an open auction and consistent with a network whose inventory is mostly mid-sized crypto sites rather than a few expensive front pages. And the CPC column barely moves with the CPM column: Germany is cheap per thousand and dear per click, Indonesia the reverse. If your campaign is judged on clicks, the geo you would pick from the CPM column is not the one you would pick from the CPC column, and Bitmedia lets you choose either model per ad group. Where Bitmedia’s auction sits against Coinzilla’s published €0.20 to €3 menu is the subject of our Coinzilla vs Bitmedia head-to-head.

Three ways to bid, and what each one costs to switch on

Since 2 October 2025, when Bitmedia announced its Smart Bidding tool, every ad group is bought one of three ways, and the price of admission differs for each.

Fixed Bid is the auction described above: you choose CPM or CPC, type a bid at or above the floor, and buy from every publisher whose floor you clear. There is no daily minimum. You may set a daily limit, and if you want that limit spread across the day rather than spent “ASAP”, the campaign guide adds the first floor: “if you want your daily budget to disseminate within 24h, please choose ‘Evenly’. Your daily budget should be at least $50. If not, ASAP is applied by default.” The FAQ phrases the same rule as pacing being “available for a budget over 50$”.

Smart Bid hands the bid to an algorithm that, in the guide’s words, will “automatically adjust bids to match publisher floor prices while keeping your average bid close to your preference”. It is the only strategy that reaches the $8 publishers without paying $8 for everything, and it is the dearest to start: “Important: To activate this bidding strategy, a minimum daily budget of $300 is required.” Settings are locked while the campaign delivers; to change the bid or the limit you must stop the campaign first.

Exact Bid buys a package: “a predefined package of websites targeting the same audience”, such as a gaming package or an exchanges package, at “set CPM rates, with no bid adjustments”. The dashboard shows the publisher IDs in each package and the CPM at which each will be bought; you can drop a site that underperforms but cannot change package inside the same ad group. The FAQ gives the floor: “The package price starts from $100 daily”, with the note that “each source ID/website has its own custom bid”.

Web3 Audiences sit inside Fixed Bid as a fourth ad-group type and carry their own economics. They are the product that distinguishes Bitmedia from an open-web network: segments of wallet-connected users sorted, in the guide’s words, “by balances… by types of investments (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, Memecoins, or even DeFi), or by interests (Gaming, Gambling, Trading, NFT)”, launched on 22 October 2024. They are sold on CPM only, “each audience segment comes with a predefined CPM price”, and the daily limit has a floor: “Set a daily limit ($200 is the minimum requirement).” Bitmedia publishes no segment prices on the public site; what the feature is and what rivals charge for it is in our guide to wallet-level targeting.

What you switch on	Daily floor	Thirty days at the floor	Where it is written
Fixed Bid, CPM or CPC, spent as fast as it goes	None	The $300 deposit, however long it lasts	Campaign guide (daily limit optional)
“Evenly” budget pacing	$50	$1,500	Campaign guide; FAQ “What is Budget pacing”
Exact Bid website package	$100	$3,000	FAQ “What are the Packages?”
Web3 Audience ad group	$200	$6,000	Guide “How to Target Web3 Audiences”
Smart Bid strategy	$300	$9,000	Guide “How to choose a Bidding Strategy”

The arithmetic in the third column is the part the $300 headline hides. A month of the strategy Bitmedia recommends for “scaling and premium access” costs thirty times the deposit at the floor; a month of the wallet product costs twenty times. None of this is unusual for the category, and Bitmedia is one of only a handful of networks to put the daily figures in writing at all, but it does mean that the advertiser who deposits $300 to test the network is testing the plain auction, not the features in the brochure. We set these floors against the rest of the field in our minimum daily budgets comparison.

The cut, the fees and the exchange rates

Ad networks do not publish their take rate, as a rule. Bitmedia does, in the one place an advertiser never looks. The publisher FAQ, under “How much am I paid from an initial bid?”, says: “Your profit depends on a bid the client chooses for his targeting setups and for the ad itself. Bitmedia also charges its commission, calculated for each separate click. Commonly it constitutes 10-20%, however, in some, cases it may reach up to 30% or 0%, depending on the account level, website credibility, and many other factors.” Read from the buying side, that sentence says that of a $0.59 German click, somewhere between $0.47 and $0.53 reaches the site, and in some cases as little as $0.41. It is a competitive figure for the niche and a commendably specific one; it is also, by its own wording, variable per publisher, so the share of your bid that buys attention changes with the site it lands on.

On the advertiser side there is no separate platform fee anywhere in the agreement. Clause 6.3 says the price “is calculated based on the price model of the advertising Campaign type chosen by the Advertiser and statistics gathered by the Company”, and clause 6.1 promises invoices. The agreement is silent on VAT, which for a company registered in England is worth a question to the account manager before a card payment. What the agreement is not silent on is currency. Clause 9.4 reveals that crypto deposits are collected “in Euro through the payment processor”, and that any refund due under the agreement is converted back “using the exchange rate used by the processor”; clause 7.5 accounts restored balances “in USD using the exchange rate applicable on the original funding date”. A bitcoin deposit therefore passes through at least two conversions on the way in, and the dollar figure in your dashboard is fixed on the day you fund, whatever bitcoin does afterwards.

The affiliate programme is the one price Bitmedia’s pages state in percentages. For individuals it pays 7% on a referred user’s initial payments and 5% thereafter for the first ten referrals, rising to 10% and 7% beyond ten; corporate affiliates earn “from 15%” initially and “from 7%” after, paid monthly. The advertiser agreement adds, in clause 6.12, that the money comes “either from the earnings of the publishers or from the deposits of the advertisers” you referred, and in clause 6.15 that Bitmedia may change the conditions “unilaterally without informing the user”. Our review had summarised the scheme as “up to 10%”; the corporate tier makes that wrong, and we have corrected it.

Refunds: what the $300 buys back

Nothing, by contract. Clause 7.1 of the advertiser agreement is a single sentence in capitals: “ALL AMOUNTS PAID BY ADVERTISERS AND REFLECTED IN USERS’ ACCOUNTS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.” Clause 7.4 adds that an account whose landing pages carry malware is blocked with no refund, clause 9.2 that campaigns already invoiced are not refunded if you terminate, and clause 5.8 that a marketplace article the publisher later deletes is not refunded either. The FAQ confirms the spirit: “there is no refund for low conversion rates”, and money recovered from a fraudulent publisher is returned “to your account”, as balance to spend, not as cash. The one route to money back is clause 9.3: if Bitmedia itself ends the agreement “for reasons not attributable to the User”, the unused prepayment is refunded, by the same rail it arrived on.

The inactivity clauses finish the job. Clause 4.14 lets Bitmedia deem an account inactive after “six (6) consecutive months” without a sign-in, suspend it with fourteen days’ email notice, and delete it after a further three-month grace period; clause 6.4 says funded accounts inactive for six months “will lose access to their funds” and that the balance is then “written off with no refunds”; clause 7.5 offers the only way back, a restoration inside the grace period that re-credits “sixty percent (60%) of the then-outstanding deposited amount… exclusively for the placement of advertisements”, with “no withdrawals or cash redemptions”. The FAQ states the trigger plainly: “Accounts that remained inactive for 6 months are automatically deactivated.” Among the networks whose refund clauses we compared, only Cointraffic refunds by written procedure; Bitmedia sits with Coinzilla and HypeLab in the non-refundable group, and the whole table is in our refund policies comparison.

Trustpilot shows what that clause looks like in practice. The profile stood at 3.7 from 146 reviews on 11 October 2026, 83 of them five-star and 51 one-star. On 26 March 2026 an advertiser wrote that they had deposited $3,000, spent about $1,000 and been refused the remaining $2,000 under clause 7.1; Bitmedia had not replied at the time of writing. On 26 May 2026 another said a $300 deposit was lost when the campaign failed moderation and no refund followed; Bitmedia replied the same day that the destination site had been blocking visitors from certain countries, that “no refund was refused” and that the “full balance remains untouched”. Both stories are consistent with the contract. The balance stays spendable; it does not come back as money.

What publishers are paid, and the three numbers for one minimum

The publisher side of the price list is the mirror image of the advertiser side: the same dollars, minus the commission above, paid out in bitcoin. The publisher agreement, “last updated on March 13, 2023”, sets the floor in clause 6.1 at “equivalent USD 20” and requires “your real personal information (first and last name, email address, country of residence, and full address)” before any payment is made. Clause 6.2 says payment is “mostly” in bitcoin, that fiat requests are converted by a third-party processor, and that “Bitmedia will not cover the fees and commissions related to any transaction (including conversion costs)”. Clause 6.3 lets you choose a weekly or monthly interval, and clause 5.4 holds earnings in a pending balance for “not less than seven days” first. The publisher FAQ, re-read the same day, agrees on the $20, says “only BTC is available”, promises “no withdrawal fees” and gives “maximum 7 days” from request to payment.

Then there is the become-a-publisher landing page, which on 11 October still said “the minimum withdrawal amount is 0,01 BTC” and promised “instant payouts”, and a February 2019 blog post that announced the minimum had been cut “to only 0.001 BTC”. Three documents, three minimums: $20, 0.01 BTC and 0.001 BTC, the second of which was worth about forty times the first at the bitcoin price on the day we read it. The agreement is the one that binds, and the agreement says $20 in bitcoin, after seven days, to a named person at a stated address. The “no withdrawal fees” of the FAQ and the “will not cover the fees” of the terms are reconcilable only if Bitmedia pays the network fee on an ordinary bitcoin payout and passes on everything else; ask before you choose a rail. Clause 5.12 reserves the right to deduct “payment and/or transaction fees” and to adjust earnings for fraud, advertiser complaints or refunds, and “technical reasons”. If you leave, clause 5.10 pays what you are owed within 30 days, but only above “the minimum threshold of USD 100”.

Publishers also have a price lever of their own, and it has been there since September 2019: a CPM floor per ad unit, requested through the “Apply to set CPM floor” button, below which no advertiser’s bid is served. It is the publisher’s half of the auction described in the bidding guide, and the reason a $0.30 bidder never sees the better sites. Stablecoin payouts, which Bitmedia told a reviewer on 2 March 2026 it was “actively working on introducing” and announced three days later as “coming soon”, had not arrived at the time of writing, so a publisher who wants USDC is still in the wrong network; the networks that pay in stablecoins are ranked in our publisher ranking.

Bitmedia’s prices against the field

Every figure below was read on the network’s own pages on 11 October 2026, except Cointraffic’s, read on 10 October; Cointraffic’s full price list is in our Cointraffic pricing guide.

Network	Our rating	Minimum to start	Published rates	Daily floor	Unspent money	Publisher payout
Bitmedia	6.5/10	$300 by card or crypto, waived for bitcoin	Bids from $0.25 CPC, $0.30 CPM; commission “commonly 10-20%”	None; $50 / $100 / $200 / $300 by feature	Non-refundable in capitals; 60% ad credit if revived within the grace period	$20 in bitcoin, seven-day hold
Coinzilla	9/10	EUR 100, paid in advance	€0.20 to €3+ CPM by placement tier	EUR 50 per campaign	Non-refundable	EUR 50 in BTC, ETH, USDC or bank wire
Cointraffic	7.5/10	€3,000 managed; €500 marketplace	€2–8 CPM display; fixed placements from €670	€50 per format	First deposit spent in full; rest refunded less 15%	€25 in bitcoin, €300 by bank
A-ADS	7/10	$100	Cost per day; $0.04 average CPM per its help centre	None; $200 a day recommended	Discretionary; 20% of spend kept	0.001 BTC, or any amount over Lightning, daily
HypeLab	7/10	100 USD in its terms	Not published	None	Non-refundable; forfeited after 12 idle months	50 USD, monthly
Mintfunnel	5.5/10	$10 per campaign	CPC from $0.25	None	Refunded on request, per its own page	Not applicable

Three positions fall out of that table. On the deposit, Bitmedia is the dearest of the self-serve networks and a tenth of Cointraffic’s managed desk, unless you pay in bitcoin, in which case it is the cheapest door in the row. On rates, it is the only one of the six to publish both a bid floor and its own commission, which makes it the easiest to model and the hardest to be surprised by. On refunds, it is in the majority, and the majority is not kind. The two networks it is most often weighed against are covered clause by clause in our Cointraffic vs Bitmedia and A-ADS vs Bitmedia head-to-heads, and the wallet product against its direct rival in HypeLab vs Bitmedia.

What $300 actually buys

At the floors, a $300 deposit is a million impressions at $0.30 or 1,200 clicks at $0.25, on whichever sites have set no floor above yours. At Bitmedia’s own 2025 bids it is roughly 200,000 impressions in the United States, or about 500 German clicks. Spread evenly it lasts six days; aimed at a Web3 audience it lasts a day and a half, because that product cannot be bought for less than $200 a day; handed to Smart Bid it is exactly one day’s minimum. Those are the honest sizes of a Bitmedia test, and the honest advice is to fund the plain auction first, in bitcoin if you hold any, use the Recommended Bid rather than the floor, read the per-source report after a week and ban what did not convert, and only then decide whether a month of the wallet product is worth $6,000 of money the contract will not give back. A network that publishes its floors, its commission and its exchange-rate rules has told you almost everything you need to price it. What it has not told you, anywhere, is what a segment of “Memecoin investors” costs per thousand; that number lives in the dashboard, behind the $300.

Bitmedia pricing FAQ

What is Bitmedia’s minimum deposit?

$300 by card, or the equivalent of 300 USD in cryptocurrency, per the FAQ and clause 6.1 of the advertiser agreement read on 11 October 2026. Payments under $300 are “not processed” and “non-refundable”. The minimum “shall not apply to BTC transactions”, so a bitcoin deposit has no stated floor.

How much does Bitmedia charge per click or per thousand impressions?

Bids start at $0.25 per click and $0.30 per thousand impressions, and prices are set by auction against publisher floors above that. Bitmedia’s own June 2025 table of bids put the United States at $1.45 CPM and $0.21 CPC, Hong Kong at $1.60 and $0.39, and Germany at $0.82 and $0.59; its bidding guide describes premium inventory “valued at $8 CPM”.

Does Bitmedia have a minimum daily budget?

Not for a plain fixed-bid campaign. Floors apply to features: $50 a day for “Evenly” budget pacing, $100 a day for Exact Bid website packages, $200 a day for Web3 Audience ad groups and $300 a day for the Smart Bid strategy, each stated in Bitmedia’s FAQ or dashboard guides.

What commission does Bitmedia take?

The publisher FAQ says Bitmedia’s commission is “calculated for each separate click” and that “commonly it constitutes 10-20%”, though in some cases it may reach up to 30%, or fall to 0%, “depending on the account level, website credibility, and many other factors”. The advertiser agreement lists no separate platform fee.

Does Bitmedia refund unspent advertiser balances?

No. Clause 7.1 states in capitals that all amounts paid are non-refundable, and the FAQ says there is “no refund for low conversion rates”. The exceptions are a refund if Bitmedia itself terminates for reasons not attributable to you (clause 9.3), and the return of money recovered from fraudulent publishers to your account balance. An account idle for six months loses access to its funds; reviving it within the following three months re-credits 60% as ad credit only.

What is Bitmedia’s minimum payout for publishers?

USD 20 equivalent, paid in bitcoin, under clause 6.1 of the publisher agreement and the publisher FAQ, after earnings have sat in a pending balance for seven days. The become-a-publisher page still states 0.01 BTC and “instant payouts”; the agreement is the document that applies. Stablecoin payouts were “coming soon” from March 2026 and had not launched at the time of writing.

Disclosure: every figure above was read on bitmedia.io, its guides and its blog on 11 October 2026, and on Trustpilot the same day; rival figures were read on the rivals’ own pages on 10 and 11 October. Prices and terms change, and the dashboard shows figures the public pages do not. Confirm the current numbers with Bitmedia before you fund an account.

Reviewed in full

• Bitmedia 6.5/10

  The Web3 ad veteran with deep targeting — and a thinning footprint on premium crypto media.

• Cointraffic 7.5/10

  Premium crypto inventory and the friendliest payouts in the niche — three doors in, from €500 marketplace to €3,000 managed.

• Coinzilla 9/10

  The default choice in crypto advertising — quietly displacing older rivals.

• HypeLab 7/10

  Ads where the wallets already are — the most engineering-dense young network in the niche.

• A-ADS 7/10

  The 2011 original — still anonymous, still cookie-less, still paying in BTC every day.