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General Niches

Communities & Networks advertising rates

What Communities & Networks platforms can charge for sponsorships and ad placements, by traffic level and pricing model. The calculator below is pre-set to this niche.

Benchmark CPM
$4.00
per 1,000 impressions
Benchmark CPC
$0.60
per click
Benchmark CPA
$10
per conversion
Flat rate at 10K
$90
per spot, per month

Why Communities & Networks pays what it pays

Communities trade reach for trust. A Discord server, forum or Slack group has fewer impressions to sell than a content site, but the members are present repeatedly and take each other's recommendations seriously, which converts at rates a publisher site rarely matches.

Selling here means selling access carefully. The fastest way to destroy a community's commercial value is to let sponsors post like advertisers, so the formats that last are the ones the members would tolerate even if nobody was paying.

Calculate Your Pricing

Quick set visitors:
Monthly pageviews 20,000
Impressions (all spots) 40,000
Est. clicks/mo (~1% CTR) 400
Suggested Price per Ad Spot
$0
per month · Flat Rate
CPM (per 1,000 impressions)
$0
$0/1K views · $0/spot
CPC (per click, ~1% CTR)
$0
$0/click · ~0 clicks
CPA (per action, ~2% of clicks)
$0
$0/action · ~0 actions
Flat Rate (monthly, scaled to traffic)
$0
$0/spot × 0 spots

Annual Potential (Best Model)

$0
Flat Rate

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Communities & Networks rates by traffic level

Estimated monthly revenue across all pricing models, assuming 2 pages per visit and 2 ad spots - the same assumptions the calculator starts from.

Estimated monthly revenue by traffic level and pricing model
Monthly visitors CPM CPC CPA Flat rate Best model
1K $16 $24 $10 $100 Flat rate
5K $80 $120 $40 $130 Flat rate
10K $160 $240 $80 $180 CPC
50K $800 $1,200 $400 $400 CPC
100K $1,600 $2,400 $800 $570 CPC
500K $8,000 $12,000 $4,000 $1,260 CPC

Estimates, not quotes. Real deals swing either side of these numbers depending on how engaged and how well-defined your audience is.

Formats that sell in Communities & Networks

Not every format earns the same rate in every niche. These are the ones that consistently clear here.

  • Channel or section sponsorships with a persistent, low-key mention
  • Sponsored AMAs, events and workshops run for members
  • Newsletter and digest placements sent to the membership

Communities & Networks pricing questions

How do I sponsor a community without annoying members?

Sell placements that add something - a sponsored AMA, a tool the members actually want, a funded event - and keep persistent mentions small and clearly labelled. Communities forgive disclosed sponsorship and punish disguised advertising.

My community is small. Is it worth listing?

Yes, if it is specific. Sponsors regularly pay well for a few hundred members who all do the same job, because that concentration is impossible to buy through any ad network.

Niches either side of this one

What sits just above and just below Communities & Networks on rate.

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