Food Advertising

Gourmet Ads operates within the terms and conditions as set out by Cox Digital Solutions and these can be seen here.

No, Cox Digital Solutions required Publishers to create an account unique to each network.
You’ll need to make sure you’re logged out of your existing account before applying to Gourmet Ads.
Apply to Gourmet Ads here and create your second account.

No. There are no setup costs at all.

Publishers are paid on or before the 12th of each month, providing they have met the minimum payout threshold of $10. This payment is approx 42 days after the end of the month that advertising was delivered. Payments are made by check, PayPal or Wire Transfer and these are managed within your Control Panel. We highly recommend payment by PayPal as it is the quickest form of payment. All payments are made by Cox Digital Solution on behalf of Gourmet Ads.

We support a wide range of regular display ad units, plus high visibility units.  Click here for a list of all Ad Units supported.

Our entire Ad Serving infrastructure is managed by Cox Digital Solutions which provides global ad serving which is robust and reliable. All the ads are hosted in their platform.

We have sales offices in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ. Apart from these we have arrangements with local providers right around the globe, as such as are confident that we can manage your inventory in most countries.

It varies greatly between publishers and is best answered in a blog we wrote on the subject, How Much Will I Earn?

CPM Rates will vary significantly based on a number of variables, such as where your audience is based to what Ad Units you run on your site. We also take into consideration the Click Through Rate of your site. We've explained this in detail in the blog What CPM Rate can I Expect?

Gourmet Ads provides advertising on a CPM basis which is an acronym standing for "Cost Per Mille", with "Mille" standing for "1000". So, "CPM" represents the fee we pay per 1000 ad impressions. If you had two ads per page, then you would only need to display 500 pages views (2 Ads x 500 Page Impressions) to generate 1000 Ad Impressions.

Gourmet Ads works with some of the world’s biggest brands in the Food, Kitchen, Grocery and Home sectors. We also work with many non-endemic advertisers to reach your food audience. For a sample list of advertisers click here.

When you are approved by Gourmet Ads, we'll send you a welcome email which includes a link to our Quick Start Guide and your Ad Tags which are best suited for your site. To get started, simply copy and paste these into your website or ad server and then you'll beginning earning revenue. Initially ads running through your tags will be a combination of Run of Network, Remnant and House Ads which will provide 100% Fill. We'll progressively add new campaigns over the following days. However it can take up 6 to 8 weeks for all running campaigns to be allocated to your site. The is because many advertising agencies will need to approve your website before we ad your site to a campaign they are running.

Gourmet Ads receives dozens of publisher applications each week. Each site is reviewed by our editorial staff and we only accept sites if they are eligible.
Depending on the number of publisher applications we have, it can be as quick as 1 day through to 8 weeks. We need to ensure there is a careful balance of advertisers to publishers.

Priority is given to sites that have;

a) Two Ad Units Above the Fold
b) Allow at least 2 High Visibility Ad Units
c) Have published a Privacy Policy and provided the link to us
d) Have signed a Comscore Traffic Assignment Letter
e) Have filled in our Placements Questionnaire so we know what Ad units we can sell.

Check that your website or Food Blog meets our Publisher Eligibility list.  If your site does, then Apply to be a Publisher here.