Every time you see an ad online, money changes hands. But how does it work exactly — and why does AdShare give you 5% of it? This guide explains the basics of online advertising revenue in plain English.
The most common way online ads are priced is CPM — Cost Per Mille, which means cost per 1,000 impressions. An impression is simply one person seeing an ad once.
For example, if an advertiser pays a $2.00 CPM, they're paying $2.00 for every 1,000 times their ad is shown. That means each individual impression is worth $0.002.
AdShare uses Google AdSense to serve ads. AdSense is a marketplace where advertisers bid in real time for ad space — every time a page loads, an auction happens in milliseconds and the highest bidder wins the impression.
Google takes a cut of the winning bid (around 32%) and passes the rest to the publisher — that's AdShare. AdShare then shares 5% of that revenue with you for watching the ad.
Ad revenue isn't fixed — it varies based on several factors:
AdShare commits to sharing 5% of every ad impression's revenue with the user who watched it. This is calculated in real time — whatever the ad generates, you get 5% of it automatically credited to your balance.
This means your earnings naturally scale with ad market conditions. When advertisers spend more, you earn more. It's a fairer model than fixed-rate reward platforms that pay the same regardless of what the ad actually generates.