AdvertStar review

AdvertStar lists CPA, CPI and CPL as its payout structures, which spans the common ways networks here pay, from cost per action to cost per sale. Pay per action is the most common model in this group at 45.9%, so the set is conventional rather than unusual.

You need $50 in your balance before a withdrawal goes out, and the payment cycle is Net 20. That threshold sits above the €43.85 typical across the networks compared, and it places AdvertStar at 39 on this measure.

AdvertStar states a Net 20 schedule, so approved earnings clear on a fixed timetable rather than on request. The threshold that has to be reached first is $50, which decides how long a small account waits before seeing money move.

Support runs on email, so questions go by email rather than a live channel. Across the sites compared, chat appears at 14.2% and phone at 26.6%, which is where publishers who need a fast answer should look.

The network lists 5,000 publishers, which puts it at 68 among the brands compared and below the 20,000 typical for affiliate networks, and well under the 117,000 at the upper end of this group.

AdvertStar is headquartered in Estonia and has run since 2011, so the network is established rather than new. The publisher base of 5,000 shows it has kept partners on the books for a while.

AdvertStar takes an overall 3.9 here, with the cost side at 5.4 and the offer side at 2.4. The split says the payout setup holds up better than the range of offers, so publishers chasing a wide catalogue will find less here.

Across the networks compared here, the vertical that appears most often is 31.4%, followed by 23.8% and 10.2%. AdvertStar's CPA, CPI and CPL give room to work across those verticals, because each pays on a tracked action rather than on brand awareness.