Gourmet Ads

Some of the products that Gourmet Ads offers are:

• Publisher Console: A centralized dashboard to keep track of analytics, resources, revenue and support
• Ad Management: Gourmet Ads offers publishers full-service end to end ad management tailored to your website
• Header Bidding: They offer a Prebid.js adapter for food and lifestyle content creators who manage their own prebid stack and are seeking more ad monetization opportunities.
• Website Audit: Offers a free website audit for publishers to optimize site traffic, performance and revenue.
  

Gourmet Ads helps publishers elevate their food websites in incredible ways by offering a solid set of features:

• 24/7 Support: Has staff on every continent to make sure that your request for help is always answered and provides access to hundreds of in-depth FAQs and tutorials.
• Industry-Leading Revenue Opportunities: Offers opportunities to create real revenue every day, and their team helps boost your earnings. 
• Flexibility & Scalability: Helps fill all your inventory or just a little. Their support team helps you find the right mix of ad placements to meet your business goals. 
• Valuable Resources: Has compiled hundreds of resources to maximize your revenue. From viewability and increasing your site traffic to blogging conferences and SEO best practices, Healthy Ads offer tangible opportunities to learn and grow.
• Innovation: Tools to make monetizing your site easy.
• Publisher console: Offers you a centralized dashboard for reporting, financials, educational resources, and support.
  

• Gourmet Ads has a full suite of traditional, IAB-approved, and high-impact ad units suitable for any food-focused website or blog.
• It offers conventional banner sizes such as leaderboards and skyscrapers, and high-visibility, higher-revenue formats such as background skins and over-the-page placements.
• They also provide pre-roll advertising solutions. 

Some high-impact ad units that they offer are:

• Roadblock: Roadblock Advertising enables advertisers to own an advertising space for a specified duration.
• Bumper sticker: Similar to floating ads, Bumper stickers run at the bottom of the user’s webpage
• Over-the-page: Typically serves as the first impression that a user sees when visiting the website, either above or on the side of a publisher’s webpage. 
• Interstitial: Increases user engagement with a noticeable ad format that covers the interface of the site. These ads either fill the screen on a mobile device or float over a webpage on a desktop.
• Background skins: Typically a HTML5 or is a static background visual (JPEG) that serves on the left and right of a website.
• Expandable ad units: Rich media ads that can expand beyond the original size of a standard IAB ad unit, following a user-initiated action such as a click or roll over.
• Outstream video: Usually placed within the content of the page, such as in between paragraphs or text.
• Video pre-roll: Allows you to run highly related advertising which is contextually in alignment with your content
• Mobile Advertising: For content creators with more mobile traffic than desktop websites

Provided that the publisher has exceeded the $100 minimum payment threshold, publisher payments are made at the beginning of each month. This payment is approximately 60 days after the end of the month in which advertising was delivered. They have different payment options depending on where you reside, and these are managed within your Publisher Console.

Payment methods by country are:

• American Publishers – ACH bank transfer only
• Canadian Publishers –ACH bank transfer only
• United Kingdom Publishers – Paypal only
• Australian Publishers – Bank direct deposit only
• New Zealand Publishers – Paypal only
• All other countries – Paypal only

• Gourmet Ads has been providing quality advertising and exceptional service to superior sites since 2008.
• As a large private, premium food ad network, their goal is simple, to help publishers make the most money possible from every pageview on their site. 
• Gourmet Ads is the world’s fastest growing source of online advertising for publishers of cooking, recipe, and lifestyle sites and blogs.

Gourmet Ads monetize sites in relation to food, drink, and lifestyle. 

Gourmet Ads has staff in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, and NZ. They also have arrangements with local providers around the globe, allowing them to manage 100% of your inventory in most countries.

Publishers applying to partner with Gourmet Ads have to meet the following criteria:

1. The theme of the site must be a food-focused, recipe, or lifestyle website or blog.
2. Must have strong US, UK, Canadian, Australian, or New Zealand audiences.
3. Must be actively creating rich and highly engaging content.
4. Must be serving at least 10k page views per month.
5. Must be able to give Gourmet Ads at least 1 ad above the fold.
6. It must have no stacked ads on any page.
7. Preference is given to sites able to hardcode ad tags to the site.
8. Must have a Privacy Policy.
9. Must have a top-level domain like blogname.com.