Pyrobid: Sell Ads & Newsletter Sponsorships to Monetize Your Site

You built something people read. Now let businesses pay you to reach them.

Pyrobid gives your site its own advertise page, in your name and your colours. A business signs up there, picks a slot on your site or a send in your newsletter, pays and uploads its ad. You approve it and it runs. The money goes to you, and Pyrobid takes no commission.

This plugin puts your Pyrobid ad slots on your WordPress site and links to your advertise page. Pyrobid is a paid service: 14 days free, then from $29.99 a month.

See yours first, free. Activate the plugin and press See your advertise page. Pyrobid shows you the page your site would get, with your site’s name and colour, before you sign up for anything. Or try the live demo as an advertiser.

Pyrobid runs on the ad platform that ran the advertising for Bitcoin.com for five years, with over a billion impressions served.

Why Pyrobid

• No commission. Advertisers pay you directly, any way you already get paid: a bank transfer, PayPal or an invoice, turned into ad credit with a voucher code. Card payments through your own Stripe are optional. Pyrobid never touches the money.
• No traffic minimum, no network to approve you. Your advertise page works from the day you install, whatever your traffic.
• Advertisers serve themselves. They sign up, add funds, book and upload their ad, then track impressions, clicks and spend in their own dashboard. No media kit, no email thread, no invoice to chase.
• Sell your newsletter too. Each send can carry one sponsor at your price. Advertisers book sends on the same advertise page, and it works with any email tool, from Mailchimp to beehiiv.
• You stay in control. Approve every ad, or switch on auto-approve. Set a floor price on every slot and a price on every send.
• Empty slots sell themselves. A slot nobody has booked shows your Advertise Here card, linking to your advertise page. Already run AdSense? It keeps filling the views nobody has booked.
• Live reports. Views, clicks and spend by day, country, device and browser, for you and for each advertiser.
• Your brand, not ours. Your portal and advertise page carry your name, logo and colours, at yoursite.pyrobid.com, or on your own domain with Pro.

In WordPress

• Slots in one click. Your portal’s setup, Create Zone and every slot in Zones have an Add to WordPress button. It opens Settings, Pyrobid here with the slot filled in: press Add slot and it is on your site and serving. No code to copy.
• Ad slots, anywhere. Paste the code your portal gives you for a slot and it becomes a slot on this site. Put it on a page with the Pyrobid ad slot block, the [pyrobid zone="..."] shortcode or the Pyrobid ad slot widget.
• Or let it place them. Top of each post, end of each post, or after a paragraph of your choice. Sticky and interstitial slots go on every page and place themselves on the screen.
• A link to your advertise page. The Pyrobid advertise link block and the [pyrobid_advertise] shortcode, for your menu, footer or any post.
• Light. Your portal’s ad script loads asynchronously, only on pages that show a slot, and only after you switch serving on.
• Your numbers stay in your portal. The dashboard box takes you there: advertisers, ad approval, reports.

Formats

On your site, the slots your portal offers: static banner, sticky banner, interstitial, static native, native exit and native interstitial, in the sizes you choose when you make them. In your newsletter, a sponsor’s image and link in each send, set up in your Pyrobid portal with nothing to install in WordPress.

Who it is for

Bloggers, niche and hobby sites, local news, forums, directories and newsletter writers: anyone whose readers a business would pay to reach, and who wants to make money from advertising without an ad network in the middle.

Price

The plugin is free. Pyrobid is a paid service: 14 days free, then $29.99 a month (Starter), or $99.99 a month on your own domain (Pro). The trial takes a card at signup and charges nothing for 14 days. Cancel any time from your account page. Start at pyrobid.com.

Help and links

• Pyrobid, the service this plugin connects to.
• Live demo: book an ad as an advertiser would.
• Quick start: your first ten minutes
• Help centre: guides for site owners and advertisers, with pictures.
• Free media kit generator: no account needed.

External services

This plugin connects your site to your own Pyrobid ad portal, a service run by Pyrobid, LLC.

• What loads, and when: your portal’s ad script, from the portal address you enter in Settings, Pyrobid (for example yoursite.pyrobid.com, or your own domain on Pro), on pages that show one of your ad slots. Nothing loads until you tick “Serve my ad slots from my portal”.
• What is sent: when a page with a slot loads, the visitor’s browser asks your portal for the script and for the slot’s ads. Your portal receives the visitor’s IP address, browser user agent, the page address and the slot, to choose, show and count ads, and records views and clicks.
• The Add to WordPress button in your portal: it opens this site’s Settings, Pyrobid page with the slot’s portal address, zone, size, name and kind in the link. Nothing is saved until you press Add slot, and the plugin sends nothing back.
• The “See your advertise page” button: when you press it, your browser opens pyrobid.com/start/ with your site’s address, its title and a colour from your theme in the link, so the page can show your site’s advertise page. Nothing is sent unless you press it.
• The “Make your free media kit” link: when you press it, your browser opens pyrobid.com/tools/media-kit-generator/ with the same three, so the kit starts with your site’s name and colour. Nothing is sent unless you press it.
• What is not sent: the plugin makes no requests from your WordPress admin, and keeps its settings only in your own database.

Pyrobid’s terms and privacy policy. The plugin adds suggested text for your own privacy policy under Settings, Privacy.