Cointraffic vs A-ADS: a €3,000 desk on the crypto press against a $100 share of a day’s traffic, and which contract keeps more of your money

Cointraffic and A-ADS are two of the oldest crypto ad networks still taking money, and they could hardly sell more different things. Cointraffic, Cointraffic OÜ of Tallinn, founded in 2014, sells thousand-impression blocks on Cointelegraph, Etherscan, Solscan and some seven hundred other crypto sites, either through an account manager from €3,000 or through a public marketplace from €500. A-ADS, Alpha Communication Services Limited of Hong Kong, running since 2011, sells a share of a day’s traffic across about two thousand sites for a daily budget, asks a $100 minimum deposit, and will open an account for an access code and no name. We reviewed each on its own, Cointraffic at 7.5/10 and A-ADS at 7/10, and this is the head-to-head: both advertiser contracts, both publisher contracts, every price page and help-centre article that carries a number, the public rate card on one side and the public traffic statistics on the other, and the two Trustpilot profiles. Everything was read again on 28 October 2026.

The short answer

Buy Cointraffic when the placement is the point: a 300×250 on Cointelegraph, a leaderboard on Etherscan, a native slot on BeInCrypto, a press release across its outlets, priced per thousand impressions and bought from a manager or from a rate card you can read before you sign up. Buy A-ADS when the point is cheap, anonymous reach and you accept that most of what you pay for will be repeat loads from the same addresses: it is the only network of the two that takes no name, no document and no minimum traffic from anyone, and the only one whose traffic you can audit in public before you spend a cent. The money rules decide the rest. Cointraffic refunds, by a written procedure and minus 15%; A-ADS says refunds are at its discretion. Cointraffic charges an idle account €50 a month after five months of silence; A-ADS deletes an idle account and its balance after six.

What each network actually sells

Cointraffic sells impressions on named sites. Its marketplace lists the publishers by name with monthly traffic, top countries, price type and a starting price: Cointelegraph (7.1M, CPM or fixed, from €500), Etherscan (5.5M, from €2,625), Solscan (7M, from €1,875), BeInCrypto (2.5M, fixed, from €1,500), CoinMarketCap (65M, fixed, CPC or CPM, from €20,000), Investing.com (125M, from €450), Forbes, CNBC and Nasdaq (CPM, from €2,000), Blockchair (fixed, from €7,400). Around that marketplace sits the older managed desk: an account manager builds a media plan across banner, native and pop-under inventory, CPM-bid, and a press-release product that places a release across “300+” outlets from €1,500. The home page says every advertiser gets a dedicated account manager; the 2026 “Cointraffic 6.0” announcement on its blog says the self-service dashboard lets you set CPM bids and toggle campaigns “without needing a manager”. Both are true at once: the desk is still there, the dashboard now exists beside it.

A-ADS sells something else. Its help centre explains the model in one paragraph: “the default payment model is Cost Per Day (CPD). Unlike traditional advertising networks, you don’t buy impressions or clicks directly. Instead, you set a daily budget, and AADS distributes your ads according to your share of the total advertiser spend for the traffic you’ve selected.” The worked example on the same page is the whole product: alone on units that serve 10,000 unique impressions a day with a $10 budget, you get them all at a $1 CPM; a second advertiser with $10 halves your impressions and doubles your effective CPM to $2. You choose all traffic, a category or individual ad units from a catalogue, set a daily budget and, optionally, a maximum CPM, and the network divides the day. The advertiser page prints the network totals beside the pitch: 6.5B impressions, $0.04 average CPM, 1,989 publishers worldwide. CPA and revenue-share deals exist by arrangement; the help centre lists the formats as text and image banners only, “we do not serve popunders or popups”, no JavaScript and no cookies until a click.

Getting in: €3,000 with a manager, €500 on the marketplace, or $100 and an access code

Cointraffic’s deposit FAQ is unusually plain: “€3,000 – minimum per managed advertising campaign (banner, native, pop-under)”, “€5,000+ – recommended for a meaningful test”, “€1,500 – minimum for press-release-only campaigns”, and then “There are no lower deposit tiers.” Its marketplace page, read the same morning, says “The minimum budget to start advertising is €500 for CPM campaigns” and “Fixed placements start from €670, depending on the publisher and placement duration.” Whichever door you take, the daily floor is €50 per campaign per format, so a banner-plus-native test burns at least €100 a day. Payment is by bank wire (one to four business days), Visa or Mastercard (instant) or crypto through CoinGate (up to a day), and everything is billed in euros with conversion at the time of payment. Approval is “a couple of minutes during the working hours” for a managed campaign and 24 to 48 hours for a marketplace placement, which waits on the publisher.

A-ADS’s door is a help-centre article called Minimum Deposit Amount: “The minimum deposit is 100 USD, or higher depending on the selected coin and network (e.g., 250 USD for USDT ERC20).” The terms add the clause that bites: the minimum “is displayed when the advertiser initiates the deposit process”, it “is subject to change”, and “any deposit made below the minimum deposit value will be used to cover fees incurred by AADS and will not be credited”. Deposits are taken in bitcoin and a list of other coins and tokens, or by bank card in fiat through Changelly; everything that is not bitcoin is converted to bitcoin at a 3% conversion fee plus 0.5% for most altcoins and 1% for ERC-20 and BEP-20 tokens. There is no form to fill: the account article offers registration by email, by social login, or by “Anonymous sign up” with an access code the platform generates, and the help centre’s list of “unique advantages” says it directly: “No KYC required unless you target specific websites like poocoin.app.” Campaigns are moderated by hand, usually within about an hour. The daily-budget article recommends at least $200 a day for all categories and $300 for premium sites; nothing enforces it, and the help centre’s own worked example runs on $10 a day.

What a thousand impressions cost, by each network’s own pages

Cointraffic prints bands. Its cost FAQ: “Display / banner ads: from ~€6 CPM, typically €8–€9, up to ~€11 on premium Tier-1 placements. Native ads: from ~€6 CPM, typically €6–€8. Pop-under: from €1 CPM, typically €1–€3.” Its display-ads page, a sales page rather than a FAQ, says “Typical rates: €2-8 CPM depending on targeting precision and publisher quality”, and its pop-under page says “€1-5 CPM”. The marketplace is the only place where a price is attached to a named site, and there the spread is the story: €450 buys the floor on Investing.com, €500 on Cointelegraph, €20,000 on CoinMarketCap. We walk through every one of these numbers, and the discount ladder above €50,000 a month, in our Cointraffic pricing guide.

A-ADS prints one number, $0.04, and a series that explains it. The statistics page publishes, day by day, the network’s impressions, globally unique impressions, clicks, unique clicks and publisher earnings in bitcoin. Over the 31 days from 28 September to 28 October 2026 that series sums to 6,705,051,834 impressions, 221,331,765 globally unique impressions, 3,140,928 clicks, 1,687,531 unique clicks and 1.5256 BTC paid to publishers. The publisher terms define a unique impression as “a valid ad view counted only once per IP address within a twenty-four (24) hour period”, and on those definitions 3.30% of loads were unique this month and 53.7% of clicks were. The $0.04 is a CPM on all loads; on unique loads alone it is about $1.21 per thousand, our arithmetic, not A-ADS’s. The raw click-through rate is 0.047%; on unique impressions and unique clicks it is 0.76%. None of this says what the loads are. The terms say what they must not be: the publisher contract defines “Fraudulent Activity” to include bots, click farms and traffic exchanges, pays on “Net Revenue” after invalid-traffic filters, and gives a section 5, Fraud Prevention and Auditing, to the controls. What the series does say is that an advertiser buying “all traffic” at the average price is buying about thirty loads for every address reached once a day. Cointraffic publishes nothing comparable, only the round totals: “700 million impressions monthly” on the pop-under page, “1B+ monthly impressions” on the about page. The two networks sit at opposite ends of our CPM and CPC rate comparison for that reason: one sells the most expensive named placements in the market, the other the cheapest unnamed ones.

What the contracts do with money you do not spend

Cointraffic has a refund procedure and two clocks for it. The refund FAQ says the first minimum deposit “is considered non-refundable and subject to being spent in full on the Platform”, that anything above it is refundable “minus a 15% administrative fee”, that the money goes back to the payment method last used, and that once you have signed and returned a Refund Request Form the refund is processed “within 1-7 business days”. The advertiser terms, effective 7 June 2019 and unchanged since, say in 6.3 that you may ask for a refund “within 30 days after the termination of the Agreement, provided that the amount of your unused Account balance is at least EUR 50”, and that the first minimum deposit is non-refundable. The display-ads sales page, meanwhile, says “Unused budget rolls forward or refunds on request” with no mention of the fee. Then there is 3.2, Inactive account: after 150 consecutive days without using the balance the account is flagged, “an inactive account fee in the amount of EUR 50 will be deducted” at the start of the next month, the fee is multiplied by 1.5 after each further three months, and once the balance falls below the fee a 30-day deactivation warning goes out and the account is deleted “without the option to restore it”. A €3,000 deposit that sits untouched is not refunded by that clause; it is eaten.

A-ADS has no procedure. Its terms say: “Any refunds are at the entire discretion of AADS. No refunds are possible once funds have been paid to Publishers. Idle accounts, including the remaining balances, shall be automatically deleted after 6 months of inactivity. By using AADS you agree to waive any rights to claim these funds.” Above that sits the fee clause: “Twenty percent of all monies paid for the advertising service, but not less than ten percent of the deposited funds, shall be retained by AADS as fees”, on top of the conversion and processor fees for anything that is not bitcoin. A banned advert “may be refunded to the advertiser after deduction of any costs”, and an account locked on suspicion of fraud is recovered only after “verifiable information about one’s identity”, which is the one place the anonymous network asks for a name. Set side by side: Cointraffic gives you a route to most of your money and charges you for not using it; A-ADS gives you no route and deletes it. Both are typical rather than exceptional in this market, as our refund-policy comparison across fourteen networks shows.

Targeting, formats and the speed of a “yes”

Cointraffic targets the way a media buyer expects: by site, by country (the pop-under page says 150 countries), by format, with frequency capping and day-parting described on the display page, and with the manager setting up anything the dashboard does not expose. Creatives are JPG, PNG, GIF and HTML5 at 150KB for static and 500KB for HTML5 on the marketplace, 300KB on the banner page; HTML5 banners are designed free for campaigns of €5,000 or more. The premium sites carry their own rules: CoinMarketCap and the Etherscan suite need pre-approval, gambling needs a current licence of any jurisdiction, and token pre-sales are refused on CoinGecko, GeckoTerminal and several explorers. The “yes” for a managed campaign comes in minutes on a working day; the publisher’s “yes” for a marketplace placement in 24 to 48 hours.

A-ADS targets by catalogue. The advertiser FAQ lists the options as “all available traffic, chosen publishers’ categories, or specific websites”, plus browser language, and answers the geography question plainly: “Geographic targeting is achieved by combining language and category filters.” The GEO article points you to the statistics page, where the United States was 12.8% of the month’s impressions, India 6.6%, Thailand 6.1% and France 5.3%, and where 300×250 was half of everything served. There is no country toggle, no device toggle, no frequency cap. Sixteen banner sizes from 120×60 to 970×250 and a responsive text unit are accepted, files under 700 kB, no pop-unders, no JavaScript. Reporting is per site and real-time (impressions, clicks, CTR, spend in BTC and USD), with a {{partner}} macro for your own analytics and a goal-tracking API. Moderation is manual, about an hour. The trade is simple: Cointraffic can put you on a named page in a named country; A-ADS can put you in front of a language and a category and tell you afterwards which sites served you.

The publisher side: euros three times a week against bitcoin every day

Cointraffic is selective and pays in euros. A site needs “a minimum unique visitor per month rate of 5,000 and above”, brand-safe original content and a manual review, and the home page says “Many of them get rejected.” Earnings accrue in euros on a CPM the network sets from “quality of website traffic” and “GEO settings”, revisable on request; the FAQ is explicit that “Cointraffic works exclusively with CPM only” and offers no CPC or affiliate deal. Payouts go to a bitcoin wallet from €25 or a bank account from €300, requested at any time and sent on the next Monday, Wednesday or Friday; the KYC FAQ asks for “the street name, house number, and postal code” before the first one. The publisher terms (effective 26 November 2018) allow up to ten calendar days to validate a request and five more to pay it, make the publisher bear transaction and exchange fees, give sixty days to dispute a payment, and reserve the right to withhold earnings from “Artificial Traffic”, defined down to “bots, robots, requests emanating from electronic mail and chat rooms, script generators”. The pop-under page tells publishers something else again: “Net-7 payment terms and a low €100 minimum withdrawal threshold”. The network says it pays “€120,000+ to publishers every month” across “over 700 crypto publishers”.

A-ADS is open and pays in bitcoin. The earn FAQ says there is “no strict minimum traffic requirement” for ordinary ad units; the publisher terms require a domain registered for at least three months, refuse “free domains or subdomains (e.g., Wix, Blogspot)”, refuse bot-fed and mirror sites, and only start counting earnings once the ad code is detected on the page. Non-crypto and adult sites are welcome. The withdrawal article: “The minimum withdrawal to a Bitcoin wallet is BTC 0.001, and you can withdraw absolutely any sum through the Lightning network”, processed “once every 24 hours”. Marketplace listings, the fixed-price side where publishers sell articles and placements, carry a 5,000-unique-visits bar and a 20% commission, “so the Publisher receives 80% of the offer price”. The statistics page’s publishers’ earnings counter read $94,920 against 1,989 active publishers, so the average site is earning tens of dollars a month; the series shows 1.53 BTC paid out in 31 days across the whole network. That is the same order of magnitude as Cointraffic’s €120,000 claim, spread over nearly three times as many sites. Our A-ADS publisher guide walks through the estimator and the unit statistics; the gap between a 5,000-visitor crypto site’s options at both networks is the subject of our Cointraffic alternatives guide.

Where each network contradicts itself

Cointraffic’s FAQ and its sales pages were written by different hands. The publisher FAQ pays €25 to bitcoin and €300 to a bank three times a week; the pop-under page promises “Net-7” and a €100 threshold. The cost FAQ starts display at about €6; the display page says €2 to €8. The refund FAQ processes a signed form in one to seven business days; the terms give thirty days after termination. The display page says unused budget “refunds on request”; the FAQ takes 15% and keeps the first deposit. The banner page gives free HTML5 design at €5,000 in one paragraph and “free for campaigns €2,500+” in another. The about page says 1B+ monthly impressions; the pop-under page says 700 million. None of these is a scandal, and the FAQ is the better source every time, but a buyer who reads only the sales page will be surprised by the contract.

A-ADS’s contradictions are between what it advertises and what it measures. The advertiser page says you “pay just for real targeted traffic and useful visitors, not for fake clicks and impressions”; the model you actually buy is a share of advertiser spend, and the network’s own statistics count 3.3% of its loads as unique. The $100 minimum is $250 for the most common stablecoin and “subject to change” at every deposit. “No KYC required” is true until a Poocoin campaign (Sumsub) or a locked account. The help-centre fee article says the platform takes 20% “of the order value” on marketplace orders; the terms take 20% of all advertising money and never less than 10% of a deposit, which is how a sub-minimum deposit is consumed. What rivals say about A-ADS is a separate matter: HypeLab’s comparison page about it is checked line by line against these same documents in our HypeLab vs A-ADS head-to-head.

Trustpilot, read properly

Cointraffic’s profile (cointraffic.io) stood at 4.1 across 22 reviews on 28 October 2026: 17 five-star, one three-star, one two-star and three one-star, with the company replying to each of the twenty reviews on its first page. Three of the 22 date from the last twelve months, all from December 2025. The one-star reviews are the informative ones: a publisher banned after eighteen months with an accumulated balance, answered with a reply saying the earnings came from fraudulent traffic and that reports listing the browser identifiers, IP addresses, impression counts and dates had been provided; a publisher whose income was “cut dozens of times”, answered with “eCPM was stable for the entire period”; an advertiser who says “you will lose your money”, answered that no account under that name was found. Twenty-two reviews for a network claiming 700 publishers is a small sample, and the five-star reviews are heavy on named account managers.

A-ADS’s profile (aads.com) stood at 3.9 across 186: 135 five-star, 12 four-star, three three-star, one two-star and 35 one-star, a 19% one-star share against Cointraffic’s 14%. Five reviews date from 2026, the newest a four-star in September from an advertiser whose sub-minimum deposit was credited by support after an escalation. The 2026 one-star is an advertiser whose campaign sat on “starting”; the 2025 one-stars are about site quality and response times. Trustpilot’s profile summary says A-ADS has replied to all of its negative reviews. On both profiles the complaints that matter concern money held: frozen balances at A-ADS, withheld publisher earnings at Cointraffic. Neither profile is large enough to move a decision on its own, and neither should be read without the contracts above.

Side by side

	Cointraffic	A-ADS
Company	Cointraffic OÜ, registry 14112292, Tallinn; founded 2014; advertiser terms effective 7 June 2019, publisher terms 26 November 2018	Alpha Communication Services Limited, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong; running since 2011; Hong Kong law, HKIAC arbitration
Entry	€3,000 per managed campaign, €1,500 press-release-only, “no lower deposit tiers”; marketplace CPM from €500, fixed placements from €670; €50 a day per format	$100 minimum deposit ($250 USDT ERC-20), shown at deposit and “subject to change”; sub-minimum deposits kept as fees; $200 a day recommended, not enforced
Pay in	Bank wire (1–4 business days), Visa/Mastercard (instant), crypto via CoinGate (up to 1 day); billed in EUR	Bitcoin, other coins and tokens, bank card via Changelly; all converted to BTC at 3% plus 0.5% or 1%
Pricing model	CPM bidding; fixed-price and some CPC placements on the marketplace	Cost per day: a share of advertiser spend on the selected traffic; CPA and revenue share by arrangement
Published price	Display ~€6 / €8–€9 / ~€11 Tier-1, native €6–€8, pop-under €1–€3 (FAQ); “€2-8” (display page); rate card from €450 (Investing.com) to €20,000 (CoinMarketCap)	$0.04 network-average CPM on all loads; 3.30% of loads unique in the 31 days to 28 Oct 2026, so ~$1.21 per thousand unique (our arithmetic); 20% retained as fees
Targeting	Site, country (150 claimed), format, frequency cap, day-parting; manager for the rest	All traffic, categories or individual units; browser language; “geographic targeting is achieved by combining language and category filters”
Formats	Banner (300×250, 728×90, vertical sidebar units, mobile), native, pop-under, press release; 150KB static / 500KB HTML5 (marketplace), 300KB (banner page)	Sixteen banner sizes 120×60 to 970×250, responsive text unit; under 700 kB; no pop-unders, no JavaScript, no cookies before a click
Approval	Managed: minutes in working hours; marketplace: 24–48 h	Manual moderation, about an hour
Refunds	First minimum deposit non-refundable; rest minus 15% after a signed form (1–7 business days per FAQ; 30 days after termination, ≥€50, per terms 6.3)	“At the entire discretion of AADS”; none once paid to publishers
Idle money	150 days → €50 monthly fee, ×1.5 every three months, then deletion after a 30-day warning (terms 3.2)	Account and balance deleted after 6 months
KYC	Advertisers: identity documents on a refund; publishers: street, house number, postal code before payout	None, except Poocoin campaigns (Sumsub) and locked accounts
Publishers	5,000 monthly uniques, manual review, crypto/finance content; CPM only	No traffic minimum; domain 3+ months, no free subdomains; any genuine site incl. non-crypto; marketplace listings need 5,000 unique visits
Payouts	EUR earnings; BTC from €25 or bank from €300; Mon/Wed/Fri; up to 10 + 5 calendar days per terms; “Net-7, €100” on the pop-under page	BTC from 0.001, any amount via Lightning; every 24 hours
Published scale	“700+” publishers, “700 million” (pop-under page) or “1B+” (about page) monthly impressions, “€120,000+” to publishers monthly	1,989 publishers, 5,218 ad units, 441 campaigns, $94,920 publishers’ earnings; 6.71B impressions / 221M unique in 31 days (statistics page, 28 Oct 2026)
Trustpilot	4.1 across 22 (17 five-star, 3 one-star); 3 reviews in the last twelve months	3.9 across 186 (135 five-star, 35 one-star); 5 reviews in 2026
Our score	7.5/10	7/10

Which door for which campaign

A token launch or an exchange with a €3,000 budget and a named-site wish list: Cointraffic, through the manager if the list includes CoinMarketCap or the Etherscan suite (pre-approval, licences), through the marketplace if it is Cointelegraph or Investing.com at the published floor. Read the refund FAQ first and treat the first deposit as spent. A wallet, a tool or a casino affiliate with $100 to $500 and no appetite for paperwork: A-ADS, with a daily budget you can afford to lose, individual units chosen from the catalogue rather than “all traffic”, a maximum CPM set, and the statistics page open beside the dashboard so the unique counts are in view. A gambling brand: both take it, Cointraffic with a licence on its premium sites and a casino page that quotes average CPMs of €3.56 and €7.62, A-ADS with an acceptance policy that rejects unlicensed gambling and flags low-liquidity tokens. A buyer with €500 who wants a named site: Cointraffic’s marketplace, because A-ADS cannot sell a named site at any price, only a share of its day. A buyer who wants to test for a week and leave without a form: A-ADS, because at Cointraffic leaving is a signed form, a 15% fee and a first deposit that stays behind.

For publishers the line is at 5,000 monthly uniques and a postal address. Above it, with crypto or finance content, Cointraffic pays more per thousand and pays in euros three times a week; below it, or without a name to give, A-ADS is the door that opens, pays bitcoin daily and takes 20% off the top. A site that qualifies for both can run both, since A-ADS units carry no JavaScript and Cointraffic’s terms govern placement of its own banners rather than exclusivity. The nearest alternatives to each, priced from their own pages, are in our Cointraffic alternatives guide and our A-ADS alternatives guide; Cointraffic against a self-serve rival at a similar price class is our Cointraffic vs Bitmedia head-to-head, and A-ADS against the self-serve crypto-press network is our A-ADS vs Coinzilla head-to-head.

The bottom line

Cointraffic is the more serious media buy and the more expensive mistake: named placements, published bands, a manager, a rate card, and a contract that keeps your first deposit, charges 15% on the rest and bills an idle account by the month. A-ADS is the cheaper experiment and the more honest about what it is: it publishes the traffic series that shows thirty loads for every address reached, it takes no name, and it tells you in its terms that refunds are its decision and idle balances are gone in six months. We rate Cointraffic 7.5/10 and A-ADS 7/10, half a point apart for opposite reasons. Both networks were alive, answering and selling on 28 October 2026, which, in this market, is the first test and one that our 2026 ranking applies before any other.

Cointraffic vs A-ADS FAQ

Is Cointraffic or A-ADS better for crypto advertising?

Cointraffic is better when you need a named placement on Cointelegraph, Etherscan, Solscan or CoinMarketCap, a country target and a manager, and can commit €3,000 (or €500 on its marketplace) that is largely non-refundable. A-ADS is better for a small anonymous test: $100 in, a daily budget, a share of a catalogue of about two thousand sites, and public statistics showing that about 3.3% of its loads are unique. We score Cointraffic 7.5/10 and A-ADS 7/10.

What is the minimum deposit at Cointraffic vs A-ADS?

Cointraffic: €3,000 per managed campaign, €1,500 for press-release-only campaigns, and €500 for a CPM campaign bought on its public marketplace, with a €50 daily minimum per format. A-ADS: $100, or more depending on the coin and network ($250 for USDT on Ethereum), shown at the moment of deposit; anything paid below the minimum is kept as fees.

Do Cointraffic and A-ADS refund unused balances?

Cointraffic refunds by a written procedure: the first minimum deposit is non-refundable, the remainder comes back to the same payment method minus a 15% administrative fee after a signed Refund Request Form, within one to seven business days according to the FAQ and within 30 days of termination according to the terms. A-ADS’s terms say refunds are “at the entire discretion of AADS”, none are possible once funds have been paid to publishers, and idle accounts with their balances are deleted after six months.

How much does A-ADS cost compared to Cointraffic?

Cointraffic’s FAQ prices display at about €6 to €11 per thousand impressions, native at €6 to €8 and pop-unders at €1 to €3, and its marketplace starts Cointelegraph at €500 and CoinMarketCap at €20,000. A-ADS does not sell per thousand: you set a daily budget and receive a share of the selected traffic. Its network-average CPM is $0.04 on all loads; on the 3.30% of loads its statistics count as unique in the 31 days to 28 October 2026, that is about $1.21 per thousand by our arithmetic. Twenty percent of A-ADS spend is retained as fees.

Does A-ADS or Cointraffic require KYC?

A-ADS opens advertiser accounts by email, social login or an anonymous access code and says no KYC is required unless you target Poocoin, where Sumsub verification applies; a locked account is recovered only with identity information. Cointraffic asks publishers for a street address, house number and postal code before paying, and its refund procedure asks advertisers for identity documents. The full picture across fourteen networks is in our KYC comparison.

How do Cointraffic and A-ADS pay publishers?

Cointraffic accrues earnings in euros and pays to a bitcoin wallet from €25 or a bank account from €300, on request, on the next Monday, Wednesday or Friday; its terms allow up to ten calendar days to validate and five to pay. A-ADS pays bitcoin every 24 hours from 0.001 BTC on-chain, or any amount over the Lightning network, with no traffic minimum for ordinary ad units but a domain older than three months.

Reviewed in full

• Cointraffic 7.5/10

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

• A-ADS 7/10

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

• HypeLab 7/10

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

• Coinzilla 9/10

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

• Bitmedia 6.5/10

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

Sources

The figures above come from these pages, published by the companies themselves unless noted. "Checked" is the date we last read each page.

1. Cointraffic deposit FAQ: €3,000 per managed campaign (banner, native, pop-under), €5,000+ recommended, €1,500 press-release-only, “There are no lower deposit tiers”; bank wire, card or crypto via CoinGate, billed in EUR checked 3 Nov 2026
2. Cointraffic marketplace: rate card (Cointelegraph from €500, Etherscan €2,625, Solscan €1,875, BeInCrypto €1,500, CoinMarketCap €20,000, Investing.com €450, Forbes/CNBC/Nasdaq €2,000, Blockchair €7,400); “The minimum budget to start advertising is €500 for CPM campaigns”, fixed placements from €670; approval 24–48 hours; creatives 150KB static / 500KB HTML5 checked 3 Nov 2026
3. Cointraffic daily budget FAQ: €50 per campaign per format, €100 a day for two formats checked 28 Oct 2026
4. Cointraffic cost FAQ: CPM bidding; display from ~€6, typically €8–€9, up to ~€11 Tier-1; native ~€6, €6–€8; pop-under from €1, €1–€3; free HTML5 banners at €5,000+ checked 3 Nov 2026
5. Cointraffic display-ads page: “Typical rates: €2-8 CPM”, “Unused budget rolls forward or refunds on request”, no setup or management fees, frequency capping and day-parting, free HTML5 design at €5,000+ checked 3 Nov 2026
6. Cointraffic banner page: 300KB per banner, free HTML5 design at €5,000+ and “free for campaigns €2,500+” checked 28 Oct 2026
7. Cointraffic pop-under page: €3,000 minimum, “€1-5 CPM”, 150 countries, “700 million impressions monthly since 2014”, “over 700 crypto publishers”, “€120,000+ to publishers every month”, publishers “Net-7 payment terms and a low €100 minimum withdrawal threshold” checked 28 Oct 2026
8. Cointraffic about page: founded 2014, Tallinn, 700+ vetted sites, “1B+ monthly impressions” checked 28 Oct 2026
9. Cointraffic home page: “700+ manually vetted blockchain publishers”, “Every advertiser gets a dedicated account manager”, “Every publisher applies… Many of them get rejected” checked 28 Oct 2026
10. Cointraffic press-release page: distribution across “300+ verified outlets”, from €1,500 checked 28 Oct 2026
11. Cointraffic casino page: €3,000 deposit; recent casino campaigns averaged €3.56 CPM (crypto-native mobile) and €7.62 CPM (premium Tier-1) checked 28 Oct 2026
12. Cointraffic 6.0 self-service announcement: set CPM bids and toggle campaigns “without needing a manager” checked 28 Oct 2026
13. Cointraffic refund FAQ: first Minimum Deposit non-refundable and “subject to being spent in full”, 15% administrative fee on the rest, same payment method, signed Refund Request Form, processed within 1–7 business days checked 28 Oct 2026
14. Cointraffic advertiser terms (Cointraffic OÜ, registry 14112292, Liivalaia 13, Tallinn; effective 07.06.2019): 3.2 inactive after 150 days → EUR 50 monthly fee ×1.5 every three months → 30-day deactivation warning and deletion; 6.3 refunds within 30 days of termination, unused balance ≥ EUR 50, first Minimum Deposit non-refundable; support within 48 working hours checked 28 Oct 2026
15. Cointraffic payment methods FAQ: bank wire 1–4 business days, Visa/Mastercard instant, crypto via CoinGate up to 1 day, billed in EUR checked 28 Oct 2026
16. Cointraffic approval FAQ: “a couple of minutes during the working hours”, longer at weekends checked 28 Oct 2026
17. Cointraffic manager FAQ: managers via live chat and email checked 28 Oct 2026
18. Cointraffic premium-site requirements: pre-approval for CoinMarketCap and the Etherscan suite, any current gambling licence, pre-sales refused on Coinphoton, Ethplorer, Binplorer, CoinGecko and GeckoTerminal checked 28 Oct 2026
19. Cointraffic publisher acceptance FAQ: brand-safe original content, “a minimum unique visitor per month rate of 5,000 and above” checked 28 Oct 2026
20. Cointraffic publisher payment terms FAQ: earnings in EUR; BTC wallet from €25, bank account from €300; requested any time, paid Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays checked 28 Oct 2026
21. Cointraffic publisher KYC FAQ: “Yes, a KYC check is indeed required”; street name, house number and postal code checked 28 Oct 2026
22. Cointraffic publisher FAQ: “Cointraffic works exclusively with CPM only” checked 28 Oct 2026
23. Cointraffic publisher CPM FAQ: rate set from quality of traffic and GEO settings, revisable on request checked 28 Oct 2026
24. Cointraffic publisher terms (effective 26.11.2018): EUR 25 threshold before tax; up to 10 calendar days to validate and 5 to pay; publisher bears transaction and exchange fees; 60-day dispute window; Artificial Traffic definition (bots, robots, script generators); withholding and recovery on fraud; inactive-account clause checked 28 Oct 2026
25. Trustpilot cointraffic.io: 4.1 across 22 reviews (17 five-star, 0 four, 1 three, 1 two, 3 one-star), claimed, company replies; three reviews in the twelve months to 28 October 2026 (December 2025), unchanged on 3 November 2026 checked 3 Nov 2026
26. A-ADS public statistics: 1,989 active publishers, 5,218 ad units, 441 campaigns, $94,920 publishers’ earnings; 31-day series 28 Sep–28 Oct 2026: 6,705,051,834 impressions, 221,331,765 globally unique (3.30%), 3,140,928 clicks, 1,687,531 unique clicks, 1.5256 BTC publisher earnings; USA 12.8%, India 6.6%, Thailand 6.1%, France 5.3%; 300×250 = 50.9% of impressions checked 28 Oct 2026
27. A-ADS advertiser page: 6.5B impressions, $0.04 average CPM, 1,989 publishers; CPD and CPA; “Quick manual campaign moderation within 1 hour”; targeting by all traffic, categories or specific sites and language; “Geographic targeting is achieved by combining language and category filters”; “Pay just for real targeted traffic and useful visitors, not for fake clicks and impressions” checked 28 Oct 2026
28. A-ADS publisher page: “There is no strict minimum traffic requirement”; crypto, forums, entertainment and NSFW sites welcome; category blocking in the ad-unit settings; manual review of every ad checked 3 Nov 2026
29. A-ADS terms (Alpha Communication Services Limited, Room 1404 Blissful Building, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong; Hong Kong law, HKIAC arbitration): refunds “at the entire discretion of AADS”, none once paid to publishers, idle accounts and balances deleted after 6 months; fees “twenty percent of all monies… not less than ten percent of the deposited funds”, 3% conversion + 0.5%/1% processor fee; sub-minimum deposits used to cover fees; locked accounts recovered only with identity information, 50% recovery fee for multi-accounts; publisher terms: Unique Impression once per IP per 24 h, Unique Click once per IP network-wide per 24 h, domain registered 3+ months, no free domains or subdomains, no bot-fed, mirror or clone sites, section 5 Fraud Prevention and Auditing, marketplace offers need 5,000 unique visits a month checked 29 Oct 2026
30. A-ADS help centre, Minimum Deposit Amount: 100 USD, “or higher depending on the selected coin and network (e.g., 250 USD for USDT ERC20)”, shown in the deposit pop-up checked 28 Oct 2026
31. A-ADS help centre, payment methods: bitcoin and a list of coins and tokens, all converted to BTC; 3% conversion fee, 0.5% for most altcoins checked 28 Oct 2026
32. A-ADS help centre, fiat deposit: bank card in USD, EUR and other currencies through Changelly checked 28 Oct 2026
33. A-ADS help centre, fees: no withdrawal fees; “a 20% commission on the order value, so the Publisher receives 80% of the offer price” checked 29 Oct 2026
34. A-ADS help centre, How the daily budget works: “the default payment model is Cost Per Day (CPD)… you don’t buy impressions or clicks directly”; $10 budget on 10,000 unique impressions = $1 CPM, $2 with a second advertiser checked 28 Oct 2026
35. A-ADS help centre, daily budget: minimum $200 a day recommended for all categories, $300 for premium websites checked 28 Oct 2026
36. A-ADS help centre, account creation: by email (recommended), by access code via “Anonymous sign up”, or social login checked 29 Oct 2026
37. A-ADS help centre, unique advantages: “Self-service platform: No need to contact a manager”; “No KYC required unless you target specific websites like poocoin.app” checked 28 Oct 2026
38. A-ADS help centre, KYC for Poocoin campaigns handled by Sumsub checked 28 Oct 2026
39. A-ADS help centre, advertiser FAQ: text and image banners only, no pop-unders or pop-ups, no JavaScript, no cookies before a click; files under 700 kB; sixteen sizes 120x60 to 970x250; CPD primary, CPA and revenue share checked 28 Oct 2026
40. A-ADS help centre, GEOs: worldwide traffic, high volumes from the U.S., Brazil, Russia, Germany and India; breakdown on the statistics page checked 28 Oct 2026
41. A-ADS help centre, campaign statistics: impressions, clicks, CTR, spend in BTC and USD, CPM checked 28 Oct 2026
42. A-ADS help centre, tracking: dynamic {{partner}} suffix for Google Analytics, Voluum, PeerClick, Binom checked 28 Oct 2026
43. A-ADS help centre, goal tracking: source-level conversion analysis for advertisers checked 28 Oct 2026
44. A-ADS help centre, withdrawals: minimum BTC 0.001 to a bitcoin wallet, any sum over Lightning, processed once every 24 hours checked 29 Oct 2026
45. A-ADS help centre, pending verification: earnings are generated only after the ad unit has been detected checked 28 Oct 2026
46. A-ADS acceptance policy v2: unlicensed gambling rejected; tokens under $500 liquidity rejected, under $50,000 marked risky checked 28 Oct 2026
47. Trustpilot aads.com: 3.9 across 186 reviews (135 five-star, 12 four, 3 three, 1 two, 35 one-star), claimed, “Replied to 100% of negative reviews”; five reviews dated 2026, newest 8 September 2026 checked 3 Nov 2026

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