LiveIntent vs Paved Ad Network

March 11, 2025 |
Keenen Charles

In email marketing LiveIntent and Paved are two of the biggest names in advertising. Both specialise in email-based advertising and offer programmatic solutions that make the process easier.

So when trying to monetize your email newsletter with ads, which platform should you choose?

LiveIntent

For Publishers

LiveIntent offers an advertising platform designed specifically for email newsletters. It offers easy integration with a snippet of HTML and can begin serving targeted ads. Advertisers can bid on space within your newsletters but you can also control where your content is shown so it always aligns with your brand.

Ads are displayed as banners in your email and are optimised for each reader when the email is opened. They also offer an option for native ads.

Examples of ads from LiveIntent

For Advertisers

LiveIntent works with 2,500 premium publisher newsletters that reach 240M+ real people. Brands like 1440, CNET, Nordstrom, and more have ran successful campaigns with them in the past.

You can build lookalike audiences, avoid existing customers, or re-engage lapsed customers.

Paved Ad Network

For Publishers

Paved has an all-in-one platform for email newsletter advertising. On top of it's marketplace they offer a programmatic ad network. It automatically matches your newsletter with advertisers by adding an HTML snippet to your emails. They also offer geographic and demographic targeting, bot-filtering tech, and CPC-based campaigns.

Paved uses native ads that blend seamlessly into your email newsletter and this style can increase purchase intent by 18%. Example of Paved native ad

The Paved marketplace also lets you have direct relationships with advertisers and potentially higher revenue. It's great to have both options available in one platform.

For Advertisers

The Paved Ad Network boasts 150 million monthly impressions and can feature your ads in newsletters from huge brands like NBC, Mozilla, NewsBreak, and more. Companies like Nextdoor, Square, Notion, Noom, Hired, and more have all advertised through Paved with successful results.

You start by creating an audience segmented by B2C or B2B, location, industry, size, job title, age, or gender. Then upload your creative or import from campaigns you ran with Google or Meta. And finally set your budget. You pay only for real clicks and bots are automatically filtered out.

Feature Comparison

LiveIntent Paved Ad Network
Programmatic Ads
Conversion Pixel
CPM
CPC
Geographic targeting
Lookalike audiences
Bot filtering

Conclusion

Which advertising network you choose depends on your business needs. As a publisher Paved gives you a wide range of options for finding advertisers but both are really easy to integrate. As an advertiser, both boast great brands to work with but their feature sets vary and your personal needs determines which type of targeting and campaigns are right for you.

➡️ Learn more about Paved

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Keenen Charles

Keenen is the creator of InboxReads and a believer in the future of newsletters and email for sharing great content.

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