TinyAdz alternative: how Perch compares

Both sell advertising on your website. They work in opposite directions: TinyAdz brings advertisers to your slot, and Perch lets your own readers buy it.

Side by side

NetworkMinimum to join Publisher sharePayout thresholdSelf-serve
TinyAdz None stated — explicitly open to small and niche sites Not published $100 Yes
Perch None 75% $65.00 Yes

Sources, checked 2026-08-26: TinyAdz (tinyadz.com)

Choose TinyAdz if…

You want the network to find advertisers for you and you have nobody in mind.

Choose Perch if…

You would rather set your own price, approve each ad, and have the buyer be someone who already reads your site — or you want a lower payout threshold.

What TinyAdz does better

Matching. TinyAdz finds the advertiser for you, so a slot can fill without you knowing anybody — whereas here the first sale usually comes from your own reader clicking the slot.

Where Perch is weaker

Nobody finds your advertiser for you. There is no demand pool to fall back on — the slot fills when one of your own readers, or a business you approach, buys it. On a site with no local or niche connection to its audience, that is a real disadvantage against a matched network.

The differences that actually matter

Who decides the price?

On TinyAdz the rate is an outcome — set by an auction, a matched advertiser, or a managed partner, and reported to you afterwards. On Perch you type a number: what one advertiser pays for one day in your slot. Nothing sells below it.

Who is the advertiser?

On TinyAdz they come from a pool you do not choose. On Perch the slot itself carries an invitation, so the buyer is usually someone already reading the page — a local business, or another site in the same niche.

What does the visitor's browser do?

Matched network placement with click tracking on the outbound link. Perch's embed sets no cookies and writes nothing to the visitor's device, so it does not itself create a consent-banner requirement. The full detail is on the security page, including the exact byte size the script adds to your page.

When do you actually get paid?

TinyAdz pays out at $100. Perch pays out at $65.00, into your own Stripe account. For a site earning a few dollars a month, that gap is the difference between money arriving and a balance that only ever grows on a screen.

Can you run both?

Usually yes, and plenty of sites should. They are not the same slot: a direct-sold space in a prominent position alongside network fill elsewhere on the page is a normal arrangement, and it is worth checking TinyAdz's own terms about what may run beside their units.

Other comparisons

Google AdSense

No published traffic minimum, but every site goes through an approval review

Self-serve

Mediavine

$5,000+ in annual ad revenue for the main programme; the Journey tier starts at 1,000 sessions

No self-serve sign-up

Raptive

25,000 monthly pageviews

No self-serve sign-up

EthicalAds

50,000 monthly pageviews, and developer-focused sites only

No self-serve sign-up

The full comparison table covers every network here with sources, or work out the numbers for your own site with the earnings calculator.