How We Research and Update Cheap Adult Traffic Data
Last updated: 3 August 2026
This policy governs every page on the site. It exists because the niche we work in has a specific failure mode: adult ad network figures get copied between directories until the original source is forgotten, and a wrong minimum deposit can cost a reader a week and a wasted registration. The rules below describe where our figures come from, the order in which sources outrank each other, how a page gets built and checked, and what happens when we get something wrong. They are written to be checkable, so a reader who disagrees with a conclusion can see exactly which step produced it.
Four principles
Primary sources or nothing. A figure exists if a platform publishes it or if it can be observed directly. A figure that appears only in third-party directories does not exist for our purposes, however many directories carry it.
Dated, not timeless. Deposit thresholds, VAT rules and format lists on the Buy Cheap Adult Traffic change without announcement. Every figure on this site carries the date it was checked, and pages carry a verification date at the foot.
Gaps stay visible. When a platform stops publishing a number, the cell says so. We do not fill an empty cell to make a table look complete.
Commercial relationships stay out of the copy. The site earns affiliate commission, disclosed in the affiliate disclosure. That arrangement does not decide what a page says about the network that pays it.
Source hierarchy
Tier one: platform documentation. Help centres, advertiser payment pages, published policy documents and terms. This is where deposit thresholds, VAT treatment, balance reservation rules and moderation timelines come from. For the current comparison that meant reading ExoClick's advertiser payments documentation and ClickAdilla's help article on minimum funds directly rather than a summary of either.
Tier two: direct observation. What a public interface shows without payment: registration flows, published format lists, whether a bid tool is accessible before a deposit. Observation is recorded with a date and described as observation, not inferred into a general rule.
Tier three: attributed reports. Practitioner accounts of things we have not measured, such as how much idle balance to keep against a reserve. These appear with attribution language that marks them as reports, never as measurements.
Not a source: affiliate directories. Listing sites and network review aggregators are the mechanism that spreads stale figures, so citing them would defeat the purpose of the site. Where a directory disagrees with a platform's own page, we print both and say which is which.
Regulatory and news sources are used for market conditions rather than product facts, and are separated from company claims. When a company reports its own traffic decline and a regulator publishes a different count, we print both and label the company figure as a claim.
How a page is built
Step one, intent. We define what a reader arriving on the query actually needs to leave with, then check whether the draft delivers it in the first screen rather than three sections down.
Step two, source collection. Every figure that will appear is collected from a tier one or tier two source and logged with its URL and check date. Anything that cannot be sourced is either dropped or marked as unavailable.
Step three, drafting. The person who collected the sources writes the page. We do not split research and writing between people, because the caveats get lost in the handover.
Step four, adversarial review. The draft is read against a fixed set of questions: which sentences would be true of any competitor and therefore say nothing, which figures are unsourced, which comparisons put a publisher-side number against a buyer-side number, and what a reader will still have to look up elsewhere. Claims that fail are cut or fixed.
Step five, publication. The page goes live with an author name, a verification date and the source links embedded in the text where the figure appears rather than collected in a list at the bottom.
Step six, review. Pages are revisited when a platform changes terms, when a market shifts, and on a scheduled pass regardless. Deposit thresholds and format availability are the fastest-moving fields and get checked first.
What fact-checking covers
Deposit thresholds are checked against the platform's own payments page or help centre, not its marketing copy, because the two disagree more often than they agree. Format lists are checked against the advertiser-side documentation rather than the publisher-side page, since networks frequently buy in more formats than they let publishers monetise. Tax and fee treatment is read from the payment documentation in full, including the country-specific exceptions that sit below the headline rule. Moderation timelines come from the platform's published statement of them where one exists.
Price ranges get the strictest treatment because they are the easiest thing to get wrong. Publisher payout figures and advertiser CPM figures are different sides of the same transaction and are never compared as if they were equivalent. Where published benchmarks do not separate adult from mainstream inventory, we say so on the page rather than implying a precision the sources do not support.
Independence
Editorial decisions are made on what the documentation says. No network, affiliate manager or partner can change a figure, remove a stated drawback or influence the order in which platforms appear. We do not accept payment for placement, and we do not offer a positive assessment as a condition of any commercial arrangement.
The practical test of that is what we publish about the network that pays us. Our main page states that AdsCompass ships no CPA-goal autobidder comparable to those on PropellerAds or RichAds, that whitelist construction is manual, and that the labour cost of manual source management overtakes the saving from a cheaper CPM past a certain spend. Those statements reduce conversions and remain published.
Corrections
Report an error to [email protected], or through any route on the contact page, naming the page and the specific figure. We check the claim against the primary source within 48 hours. If it is confirmed, the page is corrected and the verification date updated the same day. If the correction changes a conclusion rather than a detail, we note what changed rather than editing silently.
We do not remove published material at the request of a network. If a figure was right when checked and has since changed, we update it and keep the record of the change visible in the date rather than pretending the page always said the new thing.
Who may write here
Every page carries a named author with a public profile and a reachable address. Anonymous content is not published. The author must have hands-on buying experience in the vertical they write about and must state where their claim rests on personal experience and where it rests on documentation. The current author's background and the boundaries of what he claims are set out on the author page, and the wider remit of the site is described on the about page. Correspondence arising from a correction is retained and deleted as described in the privacy policy, and the site's tracking position is documented in the cookie policy.