Audience Engagement & Portals
Give your audience a branded place to start, browse and engage, from start pages to enterprise portals and interactive widgets.
Products
What’s included in Audience Engagement & Portals
Open a product for eligibility, integration, controls and reporting, or add it to your application. Availability and terms are confirmed during your property review.
Branded start pages
by Advertising.com Engagement Platform
A custom browser start page under your brand: news, search, entertainment and brand features in one recurring touchpoint, with search and display advertising built in.
- Best for
- Brands, ISPs and membership organizations
- Eligibility
- Telecoms, ISPs and media organizations with large user bases
- Devices
- Shared after we review your property
- Integration
- Deployed, managed and updated by the Advertising.com team
- Controls
- Tailored design, curated content and features (news, weather, bill pay, outages)
- Reporting
- Anonymized user trends and engagement patterns
- Terms
- Integrated search and display ads, premium content partnerships. Final terms are in your agreement.
- Also called
Setup & support
- Install
- Our team sets it up
- Support
- Advertising.com account team
- Next step
- Assisted onboarding: our onboarding team will contact you
Enterprise portals
by Advertising.com Engagement Platform
Portals for telecom providers, ISPs and media organizations that add customer features such as email, bill pay, outage reports and upsell offers, so customers return and support calls drop.
- Best for
- Enterprises, ISPs and telcos
- Eligibility
- Telecom providers, ISPs and media organizations with large user bases
- Devices
- Shared after we review your property
- Integration
- Custom start pages deployed and managed by the Advertising.com team
- Controls
- Brand-tailored design; bill pay, outage reports and upsell features
- Reporting
- Anonymized user trends and engagement data
- Terms
- Search and display ad monetization. Final terms are in your agreement.
- Also called
Setup & support
- Install
- Our team sets it up
- Support
- Advertising.com account team
- Next step
- Assisted onboarding: our onboarding team will contact you
Buzz Widget
by AdMedia
Interactive content such as quizzes and polls you can add to your pages and monetize.
- Best for
- Sites adding engaging content modules
- Eligibility
- Assessed for each property when you apply.
- Devices
- Shared after we review your property
- Integration
- Widget or plugin for your site or blog editor
- Controls
- Filter content by category, format, popularity, date and tags
- Reporting
- AdMedia, via publisher support
- Terms
- CPM display and video revenue during interactive quizzes. Final terms are in your agreement.
- Also called
Setup & support
- Install
- Tag on your pages
- Support
- AdMedia publisher support
- Next step
- Assisted onboarding: our onboarding team will contact you
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Engagement Platform: custom start pages that engage, retain and monetize
For telecom providers, ISPs and media organizations with large user bases. A personalized start page combines news, search, entertainment and your brand’s features into a touchpoint customers see every time they open their browser.
Enhanced user engagement
Fresh, relevant content, including local news, weather and entertainment, gives users a reason to return.
More revenue opportunities
Search and display advertising are built in, using your ad inventory and premium content partnerships.
Brand loyalty & retention
An always-on brand touchpoint that keeps customers connected to you.
Data-driven insights
Anonymized usage trends and engagement patterns guide how the page is personalized.
Customer features built in
Bill pay, outage reports and upsell offers can sit on the start page, so customers find answers without calling support.
Customizable to your brand
Design, content and features are tailored to your brand and audience.
White-glove implementation
We deploy, manage, optimize and update the start page, with a dedicated team at every stage.
Real portal example
CenturyLink.net: one portal for everyday tasks
Customer showcaseAn existing portal on the Advertising.com Engagement Platform, shown as an example of what can be built.
CenturyLink.net brings web search, news and entertainment, weather and games together with the services customers come back for: email, bill pay, account management and support.
- Web search
- News & entertainment
- Local weather
- Daily games
- Email access
- Bill pay & account
- Support & speed test
An example of the branded portals offered through the Advertising.com Engagement Platform, with search and display advertising built in.

Getting started
Three steps to launch
- 1
Tell us about your property
Share your site or app, audience and the products you picked in a short application.
- 2
Review the right products
We confirm which of these products fit, plus eligibility and compatibility.
- 3
Implement and launch
Add the tag, plugin, SDK, feed or API each product uses, with support from our team.
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