The xHamster firehose with a real API: 10 billion claimed daily impressions and weekly payouts — just don't expect premium spots on day one, or sympathy if your traffic gets flagged.
$100 minWEEKLYsince 2014
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Best Buy Adult Traffic in 2026
ExoClick and TrafficStars lead in 2026 — ExoClick for open-marketplace scale (13 billion daily ad serves, €200 minimum deposit), TrafficStars for exclusive xHamster inventory from a $100 top-up. TrafficJunky stays essential as the only route into Aylo's tube sites. Buy the inventory you actually want, not the biggest impression count.
The arithmetic comes first, because every network here will happily take your deposit and only some will return it as profit. ExoClick wants €200 minimum. TrafficStars starts around $100 by e-wallet ($500 by wire). TrafficJunky ranges from $25 via PayPal to $100 by card and $1,000 by wire. None of that is the real cost — the real cost is the testing budget you burn finding the three placements in a thousand that convert for your offer. I plan $500-1,000 per geo-format combination before expecting a readable signal.
Ownership of inventory is the map you need. TrafficJunky is the only door into Aylo's tubes — Pornhub, YouPorn, RedTube — and claims around 4 billion daily impressions off some of the highest-intent adult traffic that exists. TrafficStars holds xHamster exclusively and claims 10 billion daily impressions once RTB partners are counted. ExoClick is the open marketplace: roughly 13 billion ad serves a day across tens of thousands of publisher sites, which buys you the widest reach and the most variable quality in the same dashboard. JuicyAds plays a different game — marketplace buys on individual named domains, useful when you want a specific site rather than a category of traffic.
The past year's story is regulation, not ad tech. UK age-verification enforcement landed in July 2025 and a lengthening list of US states followed; volumes from those geos shifted, VPN-routed sessions rose, and geo reports got noisier as a result. Factor that into any pre-2025 benchmark CPMs you are working from.
My buying routine: one geo, one format, frequency caps on day one, S2S conversion postbacks feeding the network's optimiser, and a whitelist cut after 48 hours of spend. Read the refund and inactivity-fee terms before you deposit — several networks quietly expire dormant balances.
Quick comparison
| Service | Score | Model | Rate | Min payout | Schedule | Cookie | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TrafficStars | 8.1 | cpm/cpc/cpa | — | $100 | weekly | — | 2014 |
| ExoClick | 7.7 | cpm/cpc | — | $20 | weekly | — | 2006 |
| JuicyAds | 7.6 | cpm/cpc/cpa | — | $25 | weekly | — | 2006 |
| ClickAdu | 7.5 | cpm/cpc/cpa | — | $10 | biweekly | — | 2014 |
| HilltopAds | 7.5 | cpm/cpc | — | $20 | weekly | — | 2013 |
| RichAds | 7.4 | cpm/cpc/cpa | — | $10 | biweekly | — | 2018 |
| TwinRed | 7.3 | revshare/cpm | Rev-share or flat/floor CPM, set per insertion order | $50 | monthly | 60d | 2007 |
| PlugRush | 7.0 | cpc/cpm | — | $25 | custom | — | 2007 |
| TrafficJunky | 6.6 | cpm | — | — | — | — | 2008 |
| Clickadilla | 6.4 | cpm/cpc/revshare | — | $50 | custom | — | 2016 |
All Buy Adult Traffic, ranked
TrafficStars
8.1/10The xHamster firehose with a real API: 10 billion claimed daily impressions and weekly payouts — just don't expect premium spots on day one, or sympathy if your traffic gets flagged.
$100 minWEEKLYsince 2014
ExoClick
7.7/10Still the biggest adult ad network by a distance — weekly Net7 payouts from $20 and 20+ formats, provided your traffic survives their compliance team.
$20 minWEEKLYsince 2006
JuicyAds
7.6/10Twenty years old, $25 weekly Friday payouts and a 20% referral cut — the adult ad marketplace still earns its keep, provided you sell zones direct instead of living off RON banners.
$25 minWEEKLYsince 2006
ClickAdu
7.5/10Twelve years of pop inventory, a $10 PayPal minimum and support that answers — the catch is the twice-monthly default schedule and a fraud filter that holds balances first, asks later.
$10 minBIWEEKLYsince 2014
HilltopAds
7.5/10Weekly Tuesday payouts from $20 and a proper adult lane make this the popunder workhorse — just keep your traffic clean enough to survive the fraud filter.
$20 minWEEKLYsince 2013
RichAds
7.4/10A 5B-a-day push/pop machine that happily runs adult-dating creatives on the buy side — then reads you its no-adult-sites rule the moment you show up as a publisher.
$10 minBIWEEKLYsince 2018
TwinRed
7.3/10The ex-DoublePimp exchange, est. 2007: video pre-roll and RTB demand most adult networks lack, $50 Paxum monthly — just don't expect a published rate card.
Rev-share or flat/floor CPM, set per insertion…$50 minMONTHLY60d cookie
PlugRush
7.0/10Nineteen years of buying, selling and trading adult traffic from a named Norwegian company that pays from $25 on request — modest inventory, but the 5% lifetime two-sided referral is honest money.
$25 minCUSTOMsince 2007
TrafficJunky
6.6/10The only counter selling Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube inventory at the source — roughly 4 billion daily impressions, CPM-only, with a support reputation that trails the product.
since 2008
Clickadilla
6.4/10Strong place to buy adult pops and push — 13 formats, $5 tests, 7% referral on spend — but a 1.9 Trustpilot full of payout-block stories means I'd never let a balance build here.
$50 minCUSTOMsince 2016
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FAQ
Which network should a first-time buyer start with?
TrafficStars or ExoClick. Both have self-serve dashboards, granular geo/device/site targeting and entry deposits in the $100-200 range. I would not start on TrafficJunky despite the famous inventory — Aylo tube traffic is expensive, auction competition is sharp, and the learning curve costs more there. Graduate to it once you have a funnel that already converts elsewhere.
What do CPMs look like on adult traffic in 2026?
Too variable to quote responsibly: rates move by format, geo, device and placement, and the networks do not publish standard cards. Directionally, popunders in tier-3 geos trade for cents while premium tube banner and pre-roll inventory in tier-1 geos trades for multiple dollars. Treat any blog post quoting a fixed CPM as outdated on arrival — pull live estimates from each network's traffic calculator before budgeting.
How much of this traffic is bots?
More than zero everywhere, and worst on popunder and push formats — advertiser reviews of every major network mention it, TrafficStars included. The defence is structural: run S2S postbacks so you optimise on conversions rather than clicks, cut placements with click-through but zero engagement after 48 hours, and use your tracker's bot filters. Networks refund proven invalid traffic inconsistently; assume the filter is your job.
Do age-verification laws change how I buy traffic?
Yes, in two ways. Volume and mix from regulated geos (UK since July 2025, a growing set of US states) shifted as users moved behind VPNs — so geo targeting and geo reporting are both less precise there. And if you are sending traffic to your own site, the compliance burden lands on your landing pages, not the ad network's. Price tier-1 regulated geos with that overhead in mind.
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