Zero Ad Network for publishers
Earn from the time paying subscribers spend on your website or channel.
In short
- People pay for one monthly membership, called Freedom.
- You add your Publisher ID to your website or channel.
- Each month, a subscriber's payment is shared among the publishers they spent time with. You keep 70% of your share.
Your Publisher ID
This is all you need to start. Use the same ID on everything you publish.
This is an example Publisher ID. Replace it with your own before using it.
zapub_7Fq2xR9nKd3wV8mB4tL6yH1cYou can also copy it from Websites & creators. Publishing is free: you don't need a paid membership, and there is no approval queue.
Choose your path
Find the row that describes you, and follow its guide.
| Where you publish | Start here |
|---|---|
| A WordPress website | WordPress plugin |
| Your own website, built with Node, Bun or Deno | Node, Bun & Deno SDK |
| Your own website, built with PHP | PHP SDK |
| A website with no ads, trackers, cookie banners, popups or paywall | Response header or meta tag — nothing else to build |
| YouTube, Twitch or another platform you don't control | Creator pages |
| Any other server | Response header, then remove ads for subscribers |
How it works
- You add your Publisher ID to your website or channel.
- A subscriber visits. Their browser extension finds your ID and measures the time they spend on your content.
- You earn. Each month, subscription money is shared out by time spent. Once your balance reaches $30 and your Stripe setup is complete, it is transferred to your Stripe account.
Your website appears in your dashboard after a subscriber's activity is uploaded and processed. This is not instant.
What subscribers get from you
If you run the website, subscribers must get a clean page:
- no ads
- no cookie consent screens
- no non-essential third-party trackers
- no marketing popups, including newsletter prompts
- your base subscription or an included level of paid content, if you sell access
Adding your ID does not do this for you. If your website has none of these, there is nothing to change. Otherwise, remove them for subscribers.
Creators on platforms they don't control are not expected to remove that platform's ads.
What you earn
Say a subscriber pays $10, and Stripe's fee is $0.60. That leaves $9.40 to share. If they spent half their time on your website, your share is $4.70. After the 30% platform fee, you earn $3.29.
Key terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Freedom | The single monthly membership that subscribers buy. |
| Subscriber | A person with a paid Freedom membership and the browser extension. |
| Publisher ID | Your public ID, starting with zapub_. There is one per account. It is not a secret. |
| Website integration | A website you control, announced with a response header or meta tag. |
| Creator integration | Your content on a platform you don't control, such as a YouTube video. |
| Membership token | Proof of membership, sent by the extension in the Better-Web-Token header. It contains no name, email or account ID. |
Why this exists
A large share of people now block ads, and browser changes keep chipping away at ad revenue without giving publishers anything back. Zero Ad Network takes a different route: readers pay a fair price directly, publishers earn from real attention, and no personal data is sold. Nothing is blocked — publishers simply serve a cleaner page to the people who paid for one.