Since 2006, JuicyAds has led the industry as a multi-award-winning adult advertising network. We provide a marketplace for publishers and advertisers to grow through transparency, scale, and innovative ad tech.
We've remained a top choice for publishers and advertisers for twenty years.
Access billions of daily impressions across every continent with precision targeting.
Proprietary technology plus 3rd party traffic auditing to ensure your budget goes to real human eyes, not bots.
Dedicated account managers, plus AI and Live human support to help optimize your growth.
The fun, surprising details behind who we are and why we’re different.
JuicyAds got its name because the word "juicy" sounded like it was "sexy" and the domain was available for registration.
The company was earning $2M/year in revenues before hiring its first employees and contractors.
The original JuicyAds logo was hand-drawn on the Founder's living room coffee table.
The original codebase was built entirely by a single engineer.
The advertising network ran on one server until the network reached 100 million daily impressions.
Our team has helped law enforcement with prosecutions of cybercriminal malware distributors.
Reflections on twenty years from CEO and Founder "Juicy Jay"
A: Long before JuicyAds, I was operating mainstream (non-adult) celebrity websites. I stumbled upon adult affiliate programs when searching for ways to monetize the website. My first adult websites failed but then I started acquiring TGPs and built a network.
A: Over time I realized my websites were making more money from advertising than affiliate earnings, and built JuicyAds to save time by automating it for my advertising clients. There are still weird codebase artifacts from the original system buried in the code. I knew pretty much everyone in my niche and someone asked me if I could sell their ads also (and take a percentage). Looking back, we were probably the very first adult advertising network before we went public in 2006, because what I built at the time didn't exist in the adult industry yet.
A: Back then I wasn't trying to innovate, the earnings from running my friend's ads was peanuts and a waste of time. I just automated things for myself so I didn't have to do it. It wasn't until more people started to ask and I realized the software could monetize the entire industry.
A: The funny thing about our first XBIZ award was that nobody was there to accept it! At the time we were the second-largest adult advertising network and didn't think we could win. The day after the ceremony I was reading the winners list on the XBIZ website. I was shocked, I had no idea we had won. I didn't get to touch the award until it showed up at my house a few months later.
A: Hefner. Always Hugh Hefner. Not because of the whole "Playboy" lifestyle or anything like that, but because he was the most well-known when I got started. I had the chance to hear Larry Flynt speak once, and only later realized how much he had done for the industry.
A: Everything. As a self-taught programmer, I didn't know how to code like a professional, or how to scale databases or large multi-server networks. That all was learned the hard way. The business was launched with no outside funding or venture capital. Bootstrapping the business from the start forced us to be profitable from the very start which made it difficult to compete with other networks that were well-funded. But, many of them would go out of business over the years.
A: Our struggles are a reflection of the struggles of everyone else in the business (with a few extras). The last decade or so has seen several key issues take a bite out of the advertising industry: Google's monopolistic behaviour, the rise of ad blocking, privacy and data regulation, and age verification have all made advertising a much harder business to operate in. So we have to keep changing with it.
A: JuicyAds would not have survived without the resilient team we have, with an attitude of never giving up. There's been many times that we've had to change strategy or make tough decisions, but those changes made us better and stronger along the way. Always trying to do the right thing not just for us but for our Advertisers and Publishers also helps.
A: What’s next for us is evolution. With the launch of our new ad delivery engine, we’re moving from being an adult ad network to a performance and data platform. This is being built on decades of experience, first-party relationships, and smarter creatives. The industry is maturing, and we’re focused on building something resilient that can scale beyond adult while still leading it.
Milestones that shaped the platform, the products, and the people behind JuicyAds.
From industry trade shows to internal milestones.
Stories from inside JuicyAds from the team members who lived them!
“I originally joined Juicy in 2012 as an hourly support rep, thinking it would be a cool (but probably short-term) work from home gig. Fast forward 14 years, I'm now the COO and consider this team my second family.My first time meeting everyone in person was during a 2013 trip to Las Vegas, and coming from a corporate insurance background, which is about as uptight as it gets, it was quite the culture shock. There is nothing quite like an Internext Vegas show to make you realize that the structured world of insurance hadn't prepared you for everything in life!
What I thought would be a short-term pit stop turned into a 14 year career defined by growth and genuine friendship. I didn’t just find a job, I found a team and a place to truly call home. We don’t just work alongside one another, we’ve navigated the highs and lows of this constantly changing industry together, building a level of closeness that you rarely find with any company. It’s been an honor to grow up alongside this group, and I’m incredibly proud of the history we’ve written together.”
“I joined JuicyAds in my early thirties and now I’m approaching my mid-forties. I’ve now been with JuicyAds for almost 13 years (with a three-year break in between), and what I feel most is gratitude and loyalty. Not many companies become part of your life story. This one did.After taking a break, JuicyAds took me back at the exact moment I needed it most. I had just had a baby and felt completely alone, in a country that wasn’t mine, raising my child without support. Jay offered me a role that gave me what I desperately needed at that stage of my life: flexibility, stability, trust, and fair compensation. In many ways, I’ve grown up alongside the company. Over the years, I’ve learned a lot, professionally, of course, but even more personally. Two things stand out: balance and trust.
Life doesn’t separate neatly into work and everything else. Your work is a third of your time, your energy, your focus. When I stopped trying to divide those worlds and instead allowed them to integrate, everything changed. JuicyAds became part of my balance, not something competing with it. And that shift made all the difference.”
“So many great memories with JuicyAds. One has to be my trip to Las Vegas in 2015, a place I had never been to before. What a fantastic experience. One of the few times all of the staff had got to meet up, and it was an amazing 10 days. And...I even won a few quid in the slot machines! I paid a bit of a price with horrible jet lag on the way home to UK (lol) but the experience was more than worth it!
On the other side of the pond at TES Barcelona went to one of the Champions League matches, which was on at Nou Camp, during that weekend (the timing for that show was perfect!) Watched Messi score five goals (his first time in any Champions League match), and it ended up a cracking 7-1 win for Barcelona. That's actually a sporting occasion I still talk about with friends to this day! These are just of a few of the many great memories I could mention during my years at Juicy! ”
“From the epic conference parties to the pandemic watch parties (who can forget Tiger King?), our team has seen and done it all together. I’ve had the absolute honor of being with JuicyAds for nearly 15 of the last 20 years in business. This company isn’t just a place to work, it’s a tight knit family that goes through all of life’s ups and downs together. Our love for Jay and the company he’s built pours into everything we do. Cheers to the next 20 years!”
2011: Traffic Services Company of the Year
2014: Traffic Services Company of the Year
2015: Traffic Services Company of the Year, North America
2016: Traffic Services Company of the Year, North America
2017: Traffic Services Company of the Year, North America
2018: Progressive Leadership Executive Award: Juicy Jay
2019: Progressive Web Brand of the Year
2020: Senior Leadership Executive Award: Rainey
2020: Traffic Service Company of the Year
2021: Traffic Service Company of the Year
2022: Traffic Service Company of the Year
2023: Traffic Service Company of the Year
2012 Best Adult Traffic Network
2012: Best Adult Company Rep: Julie Larson
2013: Business Man of the Year: Juicy Jay
2013: Traffic Service Company of the Year
2014: Best Adult Internet Brand
2015: Best Industry Representative: Jimmy “Wizzo” Foreman
2015: Best Traffic Services Company: North America
2016: Best Adult Internet Brand
2017: Best Traffic Services Company: North America
2018: Best Traffic Services Company
2019: Best Traffic Services Company
2020: Hall of Fame (Juicy Jay)
2020: Best Traffic Services Company
2021: Best Traffic Services Company
2022: Best Traffic Services Company
2011: Best Advertising Network
2014: Affiliate Manager of the Year: Jimmy “Wizzo” Foreman
2014: Best Advertising Network
2015: Newbie of the Year: Kira KittyKat
2016: Best Advertising Network
2017: Best Advertising Network
2021: Best Traffic Network
