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Both cover ad networks. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Display ads with no traffic minimum to join
Get paid for recommending other newsletters
Infolinks | SparkLoop | |
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| Starting price | Free | Not listed |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Usage-based | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Web |
| Covers | Ad Networks, Monetization & Payments | Ad Networks, Giveaways & Referrals, Newsletter & Email |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Display ads with no traffic minimum to join
Infolinks places in-text, in-frame and interstitial ads on sites that the managed networks will not take, because it sets no pageview floor at all. That is its whole reason to exist and it is a real one for a site that is growing. The formats are more intrusive than a standard banner, and the rate it pays is not published anywhere before you apply.
Our note
The lack of a traffic floor is the reason to list it and the reason to be careful: intrusive formats on a small site can cost more in readers than they pay. Run it against AdSense for a month and compare both the revenue and the bounce rate before keeping either.
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Get paid for recommending other newsletters
SparkLoop turns a newsletter's own audience into revenue by paying it to recommend other newsletters, either inside the email or on the page somebody lands on after subscribing. The same network runs the other way, so a publisher can buy subscribers from it as well as sell them. Both sides sit on the free plan. It works with the mainstream sending platforms rather than replacing one.
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| Nothing in particular |
| Substack |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Our note
Treat the free tier as the whole product and the $2,000 add-on as a separate decision for a newsletter already growing fast enough to reward referrers. Read the per-subscriber rates before planning revenue around this, because they are the number the pricing page leaves out.
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