If you follow competitive gaming seriously, one website is never enough. Different platforms cover different things: tournament brackets and player histories, game-specific match stats, personal rank tracking, and viewership numbers. These top 10 sites are worth bookmarking regardless of which titles you follow. 1. Liquipedia Liquipedia is the largest
We've all been there: a gap in the day, nothing installed, and no patience for a download screen. These 8 sites are built for exactly that moment, covering daily puzzles, creative experiments, multiplayer drawing games, and deep libraries you can browse without ever leaving your browser tab. All
When you try to figure out how to put ads on your gaming site, the answers split into two extremes: sign up for AdSense in five minutes, or configure Google Ad Manager from scratch. Neither explanation tells you what the infrastructure underneath actually does, or why the choice of ad
A lot of vibe coded websites that get rejected by ad networks are not necessarily rejected because of traffic. Rather, they are rejected because of fixable technical issues that take less than an afternoon to address. This guide covers the seven checks to run before you apply. How to Monetize
23% of mobile pages globally still fail INP, according to Web Almanac data. Interaction to Next Paint is the metric Google made a Core Web Vitals ranking factor in March 2024 to replace First Input Delay. It measures page responsiveness across every user interaction, not just the first one. The
Ad fill rate is the percentage of ad requests your site sends that return a served ad, calculated as (impressions served / total ad requests) x 100. A fill rate consistently below 80% points to one of three causes: too few demand sources competing for each impression, floor prices set above
Building a website used to require a developer or years of self-teaching. Vibe coding changes that. With the right AI tool and a clear idea of what you want to build, a non-technical person can go from first prompt to a live, monetized website in a matter of
Most display ads on a content page are visible for a second or two at most. The user lands, scrolls, and the ad passes out of the viewport before the demand-side platform records a viewable impression. Adhesion units are built to change that by staying fixed in view no
You have a site to build or rebuild. You have heard that vibe coding can get you from idea to live product without a developer. The question is not which tool has the best landing page. It is which tool produces a site that loads fast, gives you full code
If you run a gaming or entertainment site, you already know a large share of your traffic never sees an ad. The visitor lands, reads, plays, comes back next week, and none of it shows up as revenue because an ad blocker quietly stripped every impression before it loaded. Most
Data published by Piano in partnership with Digiday earlier this year found that publishers who lost search traffic did not lose revenue at the same rate. Search traffic fell 36%. Revenue fell 16%. Overall audience was down 9%. That gap is not luck. It is the result of session-level
Publishers without a first-party identity strategy are already seeing programmatic CPMs fall 40 to 60% on unauthenticated inventory, based on early 2026 SSP benchmark data. The same impression, served to an identified visitor with an identity signal passed to demand partners, commands two to four times the CPM of
Switching ad networks makes most gaming publishers nervous, and that nervousness is rational. Revenue gaps during a transition, a poorly timed cutover, or an onboarding process that takes longer than expected can all cause short-term pain. Whether you're coming in from Venatus or Playwire, this guide walks
Your RPM jumped 18% this week. Before you roll out that ad layout change sitewide, ask yourself one question: is that a real lift, or did a game launch drive unusual weekend traffic that inflated every number on your dashboard? For gaming and entertainment publishers, noisy data is not an
Long-form content is simultaneously your best asset and your trickiest monetization problem. Readers who scroll past the halfway mark of a 2,000-word article are your most engaged audience, yet the ad stack on most sites is still calibrated for the reader who barely scrolls at all. The
Google organic search referral traffic fell 33% globally between November 2024 and November 2025. For gaming and entertainment publishers, that number lands with particular force: the content type most vulnerable to AI Overviews, such as guides, tips, and walkthroughs, is exactly what gaming sites produce. While Google's own
If you run a gaming or entertainment website and you are monetizing through a general ad network built for lifestyle bloggers and food publishers, you are likely leaving meaningful revenue on the table. The decision is not just about rates; it goes deeper into how demand is sourced, how formats
Your traffic is growing. Your community is engaged. Your content calendar is full, but your ad revenue looks exactly the same as it did six months ago. That disconnect is one of the clearest signals in publishing: your site has outgrown its current monetization partner. Switching ad networks feels like