Formats & Features

Every ad format and every feature Advally runs, each with a short demo and the products that include it.

Ad formats

24 formats, all included in Ad Management, Website Operations, Forum App, WordPress Plugin. Our ad team picks the ones that suit your site.

Top Adhesion

A banner that sticks to the top of the screen once the reader scrolls past it.

See Top Adhesion

Bottom Adhesion

A slim banner pinned to the bottom of the screen while the reader scrolls.

See Bottom Adhesion

Side Adhesion

A tall unit pinned to the side of the page on desktop as the reader scrolls.

See Side Adhesion

Interstitials

A full-screen ad between two pages, which the reader can close after five seconds.

See Interstitials

Video Player

A video player inside your article that plays topical videos and ads.

See Video Player

Content Recommendation

A row of sponsored articles under your content that advertisers pay for when readers click.

See Content Recommendation

Contextual Quizzes

A short quiz written from the page the reader is on, with ads between the questions.

See Contextual Quizzes

Interscroller

A full-screen ad that appears between paragraphs as the reader scrolls, then scrolls away with the page.

See Interscroller

Domino Slider

A stack of ads that fills the empty bottom of a long page's right column on desktop.

See Domino Slider

PushDown Billboard

A large banner at the very top of the site that expands when the reader interacts with it.

See PushDown Billboard

PushUp Billboard

A premium version of the bottom banner that expands upward when the reader interacts with it.

See PushUp Billboard

Desktop Skin

A billboard and the page background together, sold to one advertiser as a takeover.

See Desktop Skin

Mobile Skin

A takeover for phones: one advertiser's creative frames the page as the reader moves through it.

See Mobile Skin

In-Image

A small banner over the lower part of a photo in an article.

See In-Image

In-Image Expandable

A banner over a photo that grows into a larger ad when the reader interacts with it.

See In-Image Expandable

In-Image Canvas

The largest in-image unit: the ad takes over the whole photo for a moment.

See In-Image Canvas

In-Screen

An ad that uses the browser window itself as its frame, over part of the page.

See In-Screen

In-Screen Expandable

An in-screen ad that grows to cover more of the window when the reader interacts with it.

See In-Screen Expandable

In-Screen Expandable Corner

A small ad in the corner of the window that opens up when the reader taps or hovers.

See In-Screen Expandable Corner

In-Screen Expandable Video

An in-screen ad with a video that plays and expands when the reader interacts with it.

See In-Screen Expandable Video

Inactivity Overlay

A full-screen ad that appears only after the reader has gone idle.

See Inactivity Overlay

Inactivity Masthead

A very large banner at the top of the page that appears when an idle reader scrolls back up.

See Inactivity Masthead

Inactivity In-Feed

An ad that slides into the content when a reader comes back after going idle.

See Inactivity In-Feed

Standard Banner Sizes

The standard banner sizes every advertiser makes creative for: billboard, leaderboard, medium rectangle, half page and the phone banners.

See Standard Banner Sizes

Features

Grouped by the product they come with first. Each page lists every product that includes it.

Features in Ad Management

We run your whole ad stack and pay you every month. About Ad Management

ads.txt and app-ads.txt, kept in sync

We host your ads.txt and app-ads.txt and update them every time a buyer changes.

See ads.txt and app-ads.txt, kept in sync

Header bidding, lazy load and smart refresh

Every ad slot is auctioned to many buyers at once in the reader's browser, so the best price wins.

See Header bidding, lazy load and smart refresh

Scam-ad lockdown

When readers report an ad that sends them to a scam page, your ads lock down to trusted buyers for 72 hours.

See Scam-ad lockdown

Measured revenue experiments

We test each ad change on part of your traffic and compare it with the rest before it goes everywhere.

See Measured revenue experiments

Sponsor campaigns

Sell a sponsorship directly and we build it in Ad Manager, pace it to deliver on time and invoice the sponsor.

See Sponsor campaigns

Revenue reports and payouts

Daily revenue for every site, broken down by source and by ad unit, in one dashboard.

See Revenue reports and payouts

Features in Website Operations

We modernize, host and secure your forum, and run its ads. About Website Operations

Bot control and Googlebot alerts

We block the scrapers and bad bots that slow your site down, through Cloudflare.

See Bot control and Googlebot alerts

Site-owner chat and Bug Report button

Beta Ask about your site's ads, ads.txt or health in a chat inside the plugin, and it answers or sends the question to our team.

See Site-owner chat and Bug Report button

Features in Forum App

A XenForo add-on, free for Advally publishers, that keeps your forum healthy and earning. About Forum App

Ad layouts per member group

Choose how many ads each member group sees: more for guests, fewer for members, none for paying members.

See Ad layouts per member group

Ads on chosen forums, per member group

Run ads only in the forums you pick, and set how often and where they appear for each member group.

See Ads on chosen forums, per member group

Crawl and AI-engine checks

Seventeen checks that search engines and AI assistants can read, index and cite your pages, with a one-click fix for each failure.

See Crawl and AI-engine checks

Visits from AI assistants

Counts the visits that ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and other AI assistants send to your forum.

See Visits from AI assistants

Features in WordPress Plugin

A free plugin for WordPress publishers. About WordPress Plugin

Hashed member emails

If your readers sign in, the plugin can pass buyers a one-way hash of their email, never the email itself.

See Hashed member emails

Features in Publisher Copilot

Your own AI assistant for your site's numbers. About Publisher Copilot

Publisher Copilot

Coming An AI assistant that reads your traffic, search queries and which AI crawlers reach you, and answers in plain English.

See Publisher Copilot

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