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Infrastructure Providers

Ad Networks and Traffic Platforms

The networks that sell the reach Google and Meta will not, plus the affiliate ecosystem around them.

What is different here

Why this one is not like the rest of the category.

These companies market to two audiences at once — advertisers buying traffic and publishers selling it — and almost all of them build for only the first. The second funnel is usually wide open. Low difficulty across the cluster, and the terms are searched by exactly the operators who would also become clients of ours.

The searches that decide it

3,600 people a month ask this, and an engine answers with names.

Measured monthly volume. These are your operators' searches, not yours — which is the point. Whoever the engines name for these is the one getting the qualified demo. Where a global figure is shown it is summed across every regional database; the United States is rarely more than two thirds of it.

QueryUS / monthGlobalDifficultyCPC
adult ad networks 3,600 — 21 $7.31
adult traffic 720 — 8 $5.77
adult affiliate marketing 140 — 26 $2.57

Source: Semrush, measured 2 October 2026. US column is the United States database; Global is summed across all regional databases and is shown only where it was pulled. Difficulty is Semrush KD, where lower is easier.

What we do

The work, applied to Ad Networks and Traffic Platforms.

Also in Infrastructure Providers

Neighbouring work.

Taking 2 new clients this quarter

Be the name AI gets named

Fifty prompts, four engines, your categories. You will see your score and exactly who is being named instead — before you commit to anything.

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