Lindsay Valdez

April is here and we're excited to officially enter warmer temps, higher CPMs and Q2. Looking at the 12 months of the year, Q2 indicates the time period of April, May and June. January tends to be the slowest month of the year for ad revenue, coming off some of the highest months of the [...]

Freestar monetizers some of the word's largest publishers, and because of that, we take quality very seriously. In order to grow publisher's average CPMs the  last 8 years, safe to assume quality has always been in mind. But recently we've doubled-down on what's required for acceptance and even said goodbye to legacy publishers who didn't [...]

By now you've realized the RPM equation is a complicated one, made up on many uncontrollable factors. RPMs vary by content niche, seasonality, geo location, viewability, device type, and many other factors. But there's another piece of the puzzle that actually makes a huge impact in how much money an advertiser is willing to pay [...]

January is a challenging revenue month for almost all publishers. Coming off of Q4, when advertiser spend is at its highest and people are online, scrolling through webpages with intent to purchase. But the high-traffic, high-CPMs of November and December are followed by typically the lowest in January. The drop is largely because advertisers pump [...]

This Wednesday several hundred of our closest enterprise publisher friends will join together to run down the list of SEO trends to focus on this next year. And just like all trends, they wouldn't be so unless a substantial amount of noise and adoption hadn't already happened. 2022 was a busy year for Google [...]

Google turned up the heat in 2022, having more than ten major algorithm updates. A mix of core updates, several targeted at product reviews, a few more targeting spam and also introducing a new signal into the algorithm, called the helpful content update. There are over 200 factors within the algorithm, some carrying significant weight [...]