🆚 Google AdSense vs. Google Ad Manager

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Advertising technology
Advertising technology

About

Google AdSense is an advertising network that lets publishers earn revenue by displaying targeted ads on their websites.

It supports contextual and audience-based ad selection, offers automatically placed ads, provides multiple formats such as display, in-article, in-feed, and multiplex, and overlay formats such as anchor, side rail, and vignette ads.

Since 2024, AdSense has been paying publishers on a pay-per-impression basis, also known as the CPM (cost per mille) model.

Google Ad Manager is an ad management and ad exchange platform for large publishers who have significant direct sales, that enables them to serve and sell advertising inventory across websites and mobile apps.

It requires a valid Google AdSense account, offers unified ad serving with real time bidding across multiple demand sources, and supports multiple ad exchanges and networks including Google Display Network, Ad Exchange, and other third-party options.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Revenue share80%

Categories

Advertising › Rank #1
Advertising › Rank #7

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Google AdSense advertising technology is 5 times more popular than Google Ad Manager.
Total websites

Market share

Advertising

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google AdSense is more popular than Google Ad Manager in all countries.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Germany
France
India
Brazil
Spain
Italy
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google AdSense is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, general news, and entertainment, while Google Ad Manager is more commonly used on recreation and hobbies sites.
Blogs/Wiki
General News
Entertainment
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Sports
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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#12
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