A Blog in Your Own Language: Which Ad Networks Will Take It, and at What Traffic

The forum version of this method is a paragraph long: buy a cheap domain in your own country, put WordPress on shared hosting, let a language model draft the articles, publish a lot, apply to an affiliate program, and put ads on it once the traffic arrives. The half that never appears in the paragraph is the ad side, and it is the half that decides whether a blog written in Vietnamese, Turkish or Portuguese ever gets paid for its pageviews.

So this page reads the five ad networks people actually name, in the order a new site meets them, and answers four questions off each network's own page: will it take my language, how much traffic and from where, what share do I keep, and how long after the month ends does the money move.

The language list that decides two doors at once

Google keeps a page of languages that may be a site's primary language on AdSense. There are 50 of them, and the list runs from Arabic and Bengali through Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian to Urdu and Vietnamese. The same page says that placing ad code on pages with content primarily in an unsupported language is not permitted under the publisher policies.

That is the first check, and it costs nothing. If your language is on the list, AdSense is open to you in principle, and so is Ezoic, because Ezoic's requirements page says all sites must be written in an AdSense-supported language. If your language is not on the list, two of the five doors are shut before you have bought a domain.

What it costs to open the site

The cost side is short and already covered in detail on what a website costs before it pays. A .com at Porkbun is $11.08 to register, WHOIS privacy and SSL included, and the same $11.08 a year to renew. Shared hosting at Namecheap starts at $5.88 a month for three domains and 20 GB. Nothing on any of the five network pages asks for a .com, so a local domain is fine.

The writing is where the forum method leans on models. Gemini's free tier costs nothing in dollars, with the condition printed on the pricing page that free-tier content is used to improve Google's products. Claude's cheapest entry is Haiku 4.5 at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. OpenAI bills gpt-4o-mini at $0.15 and $0.60. What a full article costs at those rates is worked out on what an AI-written article costs.

Two network pages speak to this directly. Ezoic lists automatically generated content among the things a site must not use. Raptive asks for content that is 100% original. Neither page defines the line between a draft you edited and an article a model wrote, so the honest reading is that the model is a tool in your process and you are the author of record, with a byline and a pair of eyes on every paragraph.

AdSense: the one door with no traffic figure

The eligibility page asks for three things: your own unique and interesting content that meets the program policies, access to the site's HTML source so Google can verify you own it, and an age of 18 or over. It names no pageview count. That is why every new blog applies here first, and why Mediavine, further down this page, wants you in good standing with AdSense before it will look at you.

The economics: publishers receive 80% of AdSense for Content revenue after the advertiser platform takes its fee, which works out to about 68% of what an advertiser spends through Google Ads. The payment threshold is $100 for a U.S. Dollar account, after a $10 verification step, and it varies with your reporting currency. If the balance reaches the threshold by the end of the month and there are no holds, the payment is issued between the 21st and the 26th of the following month; if it does not, the balance rolls over and keeps accruing.

One line to keep: a disabled AdSense account is barred from the programme for good. Two of the other four networks lean on that account, so this is the one to protect.

The next gate: 10,000, 25,000, or 250,000

Monumetric publishes the lowest bar. Its Propel tier takes sites doing 10k to 80k pageviews a month, charges a $99 one-time implementation fee, and keeps between 15% and 30% of ad revenue depending on the ad technology running. The requirements are specific in a way the others are not: a WordPress or Blogger site, a sidebar 300px wide, at least 6 ad slots on both desktop and mobile, approval by the major ad providers.

Raptive wants at least 25,000 pageviews a month, consistently, Google Analytics set up, and content that is 100% original. It keeps up to 25% and pays the creator at least 75% of ad revenue each calendar month.

Ezoic is the surprise. For years it was the network with no minimum, and older guides still say so. Its requirements page now says sites are generally required to have 250,000+ monthly active users, verified by connecting Google Analytics during the application. Publishers who were monetizing with Ezoic before February 19, 2026 are grandfathered regardless of size, as long as they keep Ezoic installed; a grandfathered site that removes the integration for more than 7 days loses the status and has to meet the 250,000 bar to come back. New sites added to an old account after that date must meet it too. The split is generous once you are in: Ezoic keeps up to 18% of Net Revenue and the publisher receives no less than 82%.

Mediavine does not count traffic at all for its main program. It asks for a minimum of $5,000 in annual ad revenue, original audience-first content, clean human brand-safe traffic, and good standing with Google AdSense and AdExchange. The publisher's minimum share is 75% of gross ad proceeds.

Where the readers have to live

This is the section a blog in your own language fails first, and it is written on three of the five pages.

Monumetric requires a minimum of 50% of traffic from the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Raptive requires the majority of traffic to come from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand. Journey by Mediavine, the self-serve program for sites below the $5,000 revenue bar, requires a minimum of 1,000 sessions from Tier 1 countries, which its page lists as including the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia, within a 30-day period.

Read those three together. A blog written in Vietnamese and read in Vietnam can pass Monumetric's 10,000 pageviews and Raptive's 25,000 pageviews and still be turned away, because the pageviews came from the wrong map. Journey by Mediavine's 1,000 Tier 1 sessions is the lowest of the geographic bars, and it is still 1,000 sessions from readers who mostly do not speak the language the blog is written in.

AdSense and Ezoic publish no geographic requirement on the pages we read. For a site whose readers are at home, those two are the realistic doors, and one of them now opens at 250,000 users.

How long after the month ends

All five pay for a calendar month after it closes. AdSense is the fastest, between the 21st and the 26th, once the $100 is there. Raptive submits the fee to its payment processor within 45 days after the end of the month, and its agreement says plainly that submission is not arrival. Monumetric combines earnings as each ad provider pays and releases them on Net 60. Mediavine pays NET sixty-five (65) days after the end of the month, in U.S. dollars, and then charges the wire: $15 for a U.S. wire, $20 for an international wire in local currency, $26 for one in U.S. dollars.

Ezoic is the odd one. It pays about 35 days after Ezoic itself receives payment from the advertiser, so the clock does not start on the last day of your month. On termination the balance follows within about 120 days after month end.

What ends it

Every one of the five can end the relationship without giving a reason. AdSense can stop ad serving or disable the account at any time for policy breaches, and disabled means barred for good. Ezoic may suspend or terminate at its sole discretion, closes accounts inactive for 6 months, and keeps balances under $20. Mediavine may end the agreement or cut off Program access at any time and remove ads from any part of the site without notice. Raptive may terminate by giving notice, or act on its own judgement that the site breaks policies that live inside the dashboard. Monumetric can terminate immediately, at any time, without notice.

The practical reading: keep the AdSense account clean above everything, because it is both the first door and the reference two other networks check.

What to do today

Open the AdSense language page and find your language. Register the domain and the cheapest hosting that runs WordPress, since one network only takes WordPress or Blogger. Write, edit and sign the first articles yourself, whatever drafted them. Apply to AdSense the day the site has original content and a contact page, because it is the only door without a number on it. Then watch two figures in Analytics, not one: monthly pageviews, and the share of them from the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The first figure opens Monumetric at 10,000 and Raptive at 25,000. The second decides whether those doors are open to you at all.