Earn from your developer audience without selling them out.
One native, labeled ad per page from developer-tool companies. You keep 70% and see exactly what every ad earned.
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Built by publishers, for publishers
distribution.dev is built by daily.dev and DEV, two places where millions of developers discover what to read every day. We built the network we wanted as publishers ourselves: a fair split, every ad accounted for, and only ads our own readers would welcome.
distribution.devSee what your audience could earn
Move the sliders. It is an estimate, not a promise: real earnings depend on your topics, your readers' countries and how many block ads.
Assumes one ad per page and a 70% revenue share, at the rates developer ad networks pay today.
From application to first payout
Apply
Eight questions about your site.
Try it first
Add the snippet and see test ads.
X-Publisher-Key: <publisher key>
Get approved
A reply with a reason either way.
Get paid
Your earnings for the month, paid out.
What your readers see
One labeled ad that fits your site or newsletter, only from developer-tool companies we have reviewed. Read the placement policy
Halyard
Kestrel CI
Only tools your readers would use
Every advertiser is a developer-tool or cloud company we review by hand. Switch off any category you don't want on your site.
- Databases
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Security
- AI APIs and models
- Cloud and hosting
- Developer tools
- APIs and SDKs
- Email and messagingBlocked by you
Every dollar, accounted for
Many networks share a percentage, but not what the advertiser paid. Your dashboard shows both, for every campaign.
| distribution.dev | Typical developer ad network | Generic display network | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See what each advertiser paid | |||
| See exactly what we keep | |||
| Your earnings for every campaign, every month | |||
| Only developer-tool advertisers |
Am I eligible?
If these sound like you, apply. If you're not sure, apply anyway and tell us about your readers.
- Developer audienceMost of your readers write software or work in tech.
- A regular developer audienceA site, docs or newsletter developers come back to.
- Original contentYour own writing, docs or tools. No scraped or mass-generated pages.
- Room for one adA clear spot on the page for one labeled ad.
Your numbers stay yours
distribution.dev runs on daily.dev's ad technology, but your data doesn't travel. Your traffic, readers and earnings never reach daily.dev's sales or product teams, and we never contact your direct sponsors.
