WordAds
Automattic, San Francisco, California, United StatesWordAds is an advertising platform for 
WordPress sites that allows publishers to monetize content by displaying automatically managed ads across their pages.
It serves display, video, native, and sticky ads from a marketplace of more than 50 advertising networks and demand partners, manages ad placement across posts and pages, and optimizes bidding between advertisers.
WordAds requires a 
WordPress.com Premium or higher plan for WordPress.com sites, the Jetpack Security or Complete plan for self-hosted WordPress installations, and a 
PayPal account to receive payouts.
According to our data, WordAds ranks 39th among the online advertising platforms we track.
It has 0.5% of the advertising market share and is detected on 0.07% of all websites.
It is especially popular in the United States, appearing on 0.1% of all websites in the country.
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📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Advertising
- Rank: 39
- Market share: 0.5%
🏆 WordAds Awards
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Spain in the Advertising category.
- ⬆️ 31st most popular in the United States in the Advertising category.
⚡ Sites Using WordAds
We have data on 2,744 websites that use WordAds advertising technology. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using WordAds is 
tumblr.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tumblr.com |
#65 | United States | American English |
| 2 | #3,739 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 3 | #3,756 | United States | English | |
| 4 | #5,525 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 5 | #44,007 | Spain | Spanish | |
| 6 | #61,494 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 7 | media.tumblr.com |
United States | American English | |
| 8 | #68,846 | Uganda | American English | |
| 9 | #80,930 | Saint Lucia | American English | |
| 10 | #82,623 | Austria | German | |
| 11 | #82,640 | United States | American English | |
| 12 | #93,057 | Estonia | Estonian | |
| 13 | #109,127 | American English | ||
| 14 | #119,282 | American English | ||
| 15 | #122,187 | English | ||
| 16 | #149,277 | American English | ||
| 17 | #172,542 | English | ||
| 18 | #172,587 | Nigeria | English | |
| 19 | #181,801 | American English | ||
| 20 | #198,058 | English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use WordAds:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Blogs/Wiki category.
Most of the sites using WordAds are from the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
- United States 52.6%
- Spain 8.7%
- United Kingdom 7.3%
- France 3.6%
- Brazil 3.2%
- Italy 3%
- India 2.6%
- Germany 2.1%
- Canada 1.5%
- Other 15.4%
Most WordAds users speak English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
- English 71.8%
- Spanish 8%
- Portuguese 3.2%
- French 3%
- Italian 2.1%
- German 1.8%
- Indonesian 1.4%
- Chinese 1.1%
- Japanese 0.9%
- Other 6.7%
WordAds advertising technology is especially popular on .com top-level domains.
- .com 80.4%
- .org 4.8%
- .net 3.8%
- .blog 1.7%
- .co.uk 1.2%
- .me 0.6%
- .in 0.6%
- .com.br 0.5%
- .ca 0.4%
- Other 6%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing WordAds include blogs and wiki, sports, and entertainment.
- Blogs/Wiki 54.4%
- Sports 7.1%
- Entertainment 5%
- Marketing/Merchandising 4.6%
- General News 4.1%
- Business 3.3%
- Technical/Business Forums 2.9%
- Internet Services 2.1%
- Online Shopping 2.1%
- Other 14.4%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind WordAds?
WordAds is owned by Automattic Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Which country uses WordAds the most?
The majority of WordAds users are from the United States.
Who uses WordAds?
According to our data, WordAds is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as tumblr.com, brasil247.com, and
coach.com.
How does WordAds stack up against the competition?
WordAds is a fairly popular advertising technology, ranking ahead of 163 other online advertising platforms we track.
What are the alternatives to WordAds?
Alternatives and possible competitors to WordAds may include 
AdRotate, 
Google AdSense, and 
Microsoft Advertising.
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Jetpack🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.