Journey by Mediavine Overview and Case Study April 2024

This is my review of Journey by Mediavine and my April 2024 income report for my latest case study blog.
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[@aj75852]

I applied as well, but I am still waiting for the approval (hoping to get approved). It's good that you have given a walk through so to have an idea what to expect. 😊

[@CaseyBotticello]

Most of my other sites are pending too! I think they will be opening up the pool of sites significantly over the next few months, so don't lose hope!

[@Fringinto]

Hiii ! I just got mine after 1 month of Grow, so excited!!! Thank you for your video, very helpful!

[@CaseyBotticello]

Thanks! And congrats!

[@okonkwoaisosa]

Hi Casey. Thanks for the full guide. Please what do you use for the slides and in making your videos

[@CaseyBotticello]

I just use Canva (keeps it simple). Just requires webcam and mic 🙂

[@TaraCannon]

Thank you so much for this! I look forward to your next update. I was recently at Travel Con in Portland and there were some murmurs about people not being able to control the types of ads displayed on page (excluding categories) as you can with Mediavine. Would love to know if this is the case. Also, although you may not wish to share your site that is running Journey, I'd love to see one. If you can share a link of another site so I can take a look at how the ads display, I would so appreciate it.

[@CaseyBotticello]

This is indeed true-Journey does not currently allow you to control ad settings at all. As for an example, that’s a good idea and I’ll try to include one or two sites in my next video for this case study!

[@TaraCannon]

@@CaseyBotticello Thank you!

[@CaseyBotticello]

@@TaraCannon Journey sample sites in latest video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6OclGNjq8yogJo 🙂

[@BloggingisHardWork]

Great Video Casey! I'm waiting for my invite as well, and look forward to see how this goes for different niches!

[@CaseyBotticello]

Thanks! I’m just glad to have a new way to monetize sites…hopefully they expand this program substantially before the end of the year as I’d like to test a few niches as well in higher RPM Q3 and Q4!

[@BloggingisHardWork]

@@CaseyBotticello I also think this is going to force other ad companies to improve their services. The more options people have the more likely they are to change services!!

[@Autumnrainsco]

Hi there! Great video! Have they mentioned the process for when a site that’s been accepted to journey starts growing and eventually meets the 50k threshold, will that site automatically be converted to the regular mediavine ad program? Or would you have to apply as if for the first time?

[@CaseyBotticello]

They posted something that basically said that they are in the process of finalizing this process but the idea is that they will notify you once you’re eligible. Based on my knowledge of MV, I’m sure they will stream the transition and you’ll probably get approved faster, but unlike Journey, MV requires more detailed analytics and advertiser reviews (currently). So my guess is it would just be a more streamlined version of the normal application process.

[@richardwparis]

Went live today on my site - super excited to see the results!

[@CaseyBotticello]

Congrats! Let me know how it goes once you get your first month or so of data 🙂

[@richardwparis]

@@CaseyBotticello will do! Day 1 matched 9 months average RPM on Adsense so I’m VERY excited to see what it’s like in a month 😁

[@CaseyBotticello]

@@richardwparis That is great to hear! Keep it up!

[@renobrecords]

Is there a way to disable to the Grow badge? I do not want to that on my site.

[@CaseyBotticello]

Do you mean the “heart” icon in the corner or the first party data collection form in between content?

[@Von199X]

Wish I knew this 8 years ago when my blog was getting a ton of traffic now the traffic is gone

[@CaseyBotticello]

I’m sorry to hear that about your traffic 🙁 note, this is a new program, otherwise I too would have dozens of sites already onboarded

[@ffi5733]

Brilliant video thank you so much! Can I ask what niche your site is that got accepted?

[@CaseyBotticello]

For this case study I’m not disclosing niche right away given how small the pool of Journey sites is.

[@ffi5733]

@@CaseyBotticello thank you for taking the time to reply. That’s understandable. Do you think engagement time plays a part in their decision?

[@CaseyBotticello]

@@ffi5733 It definitely could! They can mainly measure this through Grow, which I'd imagine aims to measure engagement in one way or another (dwell time, # of impressions per page, ctr, etc.)

[@ashishgorasiya5618]

Does mediavine have rules for domain age ? I have 77k pageviews but site is 2 months old only. I want to apply for mediavine.

[@aj75852]

I think minimum 4 months (not sure)

[@CaseyBotticello]

Good question! Yes, your site does need to be at least 4 months old as @aj75852 noted.

[@CaseyBotticello]

Exactly right!

[@John-pr3bn]

I was accepted but I haven't passed yet. Do they pay more than Ezoic? My EPMV at Ezoic is currently 11 on average.

[@CaseyBotticello]

Would definitely give Journey a try!

[@senorashby1769]

Any update on how it's going?

[@CaseyBotticello]

It’s going well! I will add a new update video once month is finished and I have the full data 🙂

[@kissofmeditation8419]

Man admanager keeps rejecting inspite of hand wrotten high quality content...it says low value content

[@CaseyBotticello]

Grow/Journey do not require Google ad manager approval-you only apply through Grow.

[@user-nf8bo5cv4g]

Hi @CaseyBotticello, I really need your response to know if I have a problem or not. I've been following you since your first video about the journey, and I submitted my website a month and 20 days ago, and I had 25,000 visits to my website. However, due to Google updates, the number of visitors has now dropped to 20,000, and my website has not been reviewed yet, even though it has been over a month. I also submitted a post on their forum and no one has responded. Is this normal or is there a problem that I am not aware of?

[@CaseyBotticello]

This is normal. Most sites take a few months to get in. 30 days is simply the minimum amount required.

[@user-nf8bo5cv4g]

@@CaseyBotticello Thank you CaseyBotticello and we are waiting for your next video and I hope you talk about some of the companies that give invitations ADX

[@CaseyBotticello]

@@user-nf8bo5cv4g Thanks! To clarify, are you asking for other ad networks that partner with Google's ad exchange? Or just top ad networks? If it's the latter, you can check out: bloggingguide.com/guides/blog-ad-networks/

[@ssaliimz]

it took me around 3 months to get approved