Common questions
What is AdHive?
A directory where publishers who sell ad space and brands who buy it can find each other. The deals feed shows sponsorships that are running now, published with both sides’ consent, so you can see what a real placement in your category looks like before you go looking for one.
What does it cost?
Both sides start free, and a free listing is a full listing: it appears in every relevant search and can send and receive messages. Either side can pay for more visibility — see pricing. Separately, if you book and pay through AdHive there is a service fee, split between the two sides: the advertiser pays 3% on top of the publisher’s price, and the publisher receives their price less 7%. You don’t have to — you can agree a deal here and settle it directly, and then we take nothing.
What happens to my money when I book through AdHive?
The advertiser pays the publisher’s price plus 3%, and AdHive holds it for 10 days. When the hold ends — or sooner, if the advertiser releases it — the publisher is paid their price less 7%.
The hold is there so an advertiser who doesn’t get what they paid for can say so before the money is gone. It isn’t an inspection service: we don’t judge whether a placement was any good, and raising a problem freezes the money rather than deciding who is right.
Publishers have to finish payout setup with Stripe before they can be booked at all. Until that is done their listing still appears and they can still be messaged — there is just nowhere for money to go.
What does the Verified badge mean?
That we have seen analytics from the publisher and the audience figure on the listing matched when we looked. It is not an audit and not a guarantee of performance. Listings marked Self-reported have not been checked at all — treat those figures as the publisher’s own claim.
Paying for a plan does not produce the badge. A paid plan entitles a publisher to be reviewed; until that review happens their listing still reads Self-reported, because an advertiser relying on the badge is not the person who paid for it.
Publishers ask from My listings → Get verified, and send a screenshot or a link to the dashboard the figure comes from. We check it against the number on the listing and email either way. Change the figure afterwards and the badge comes off automatically — you can ask again.
Do I have to show my email address?
No. Email addresses are never displayed. Other companies contact you through a message thread on AdHive, and you can reply without either side learning the other’s address.
Can one account both buy and sell?
Yes. A single account can hold a publisher profile and an advertiser profile, switched from a menu. A podcast that also promotes its own live tour is a normal case, not an edge case.
How do I pick my categories?
Choose the one category that describes you best, then up to two more that also fit. Your listing appears in searches for all of them. The list follows the IAB Content Taxonomy, the standard the ad industry already uses.