AdGate Media

What AdGate Media is

AdGate Media was a New York rewarded-advertising company founded in 2011 by Dan Sapozhnikov and Sean Glickman. It built offerwalls and a monetization suite for app and website developers. Prodege, the El Segundo, California group behind Swagbucks, MyPoints, InboxDollars and Pollfish, bought the company in July 2022. In September 2026 Prodege retired the standalone AdGate brand: adgatemedia.com now forwards to a Prodege announcement page, existing users log in to a legacy dashboard at prodegeads.com, and new publisher signups are routed to the BitLabs dashboard, Prodege’s publisher monetization product.

In practice, applying to AdGate today means applying to Prodege’s monetization program. Prodege says its rewarded demand reaches more than 120 million users across 1,500 loyalty programs.

Offers and verticals

This is not a classic CPA network where affiliates push paid traffic to tracking links. Publishers embed a rewarded inventory layer in their own app, game, website or loyalty program; users earn points by completing activities, and the publisher earns a share of what advertisers pay. Demand falls into three groups, served through offerwalls and widgets that can be switched on or off per placement:

• Games and offers: mobile game installs and in-game milestones, app sign-ups, and finance tasks up to opening a bank account.
• Surveys: rewarded market research surveys, a core Prodege business.
• Shopping and receipts: cash back and receipt scanning with offers from more than 2,000 retailers.

Demand is global, so audiences outside the US still get fill, though survey and finance payouts are usually strongest in tier-one countries.

Commission models and payouts

Publishers work on revenue share: they receive an agreed percentage of what Prodege earns on each completion, set per account and not published. Game offers pay on CPI, CPE or a hybrid of both, and publisher earnings follow whichever event the advertiser pays on. Publisher payout in USD and user reward are set separately, so the reward ratio stays under publisher control.

Payments run Net-30 after month end, so April earnings arrive around June 1. The minimum is $100 after reconciliation, and smaller balances roll into the next cycle. Chargebacks come off before the threshold check, so a $110 month with $20 of reversals pays nothing until the balance recovers. Methods are bank wire, PayPal and cryptocurrency, with fees varying by method and wire usually cheapest. A signed insertion order and completed payment details are required before the first payment.

Tracking, tools and platform

Integration options include a hosted web offerwall, an iframe, native SDKs for Android, iOS, Unity, Flutter and React Native, and APIs for offers, surveys, receipts and cash back. Server-to-server callbacks report each completion with payout and user reward, can be secured with hashing, and have separate versions for reversals and banned users. The dashboard covers placements, currency, design and revenue reporting, with shared team workspaces.

Traffic rules and compliance

All traffic is rewarded by design, but it must be the publisher’s own organic users. Each workspace has to pass verification before it receives demand, and applications are denied for thin information, low quality or volume, poor audience fit, or suspicious and non-organic activity. Denied applicants cannot reapply. Test mode must be off at launch, or users collect rewards on test completions at the publisher’s cost. Chargebacks on low-quality users come straight out of the monthly balance.

Support and getting started

New partners create a dashboard account with Google, GitHub or email, set up a company workspace, request verification and then build a first placement. Verification takes about two to three business days. After approval an account manager advises on the integration method and on offerwall placement. Partnership and integration questions go to partnerships@bitlabs.ai.

Who it suits

The program suits app and game developers, rewards and get-paid-to sites, loyalty programs and survey communities that already have engaged users and a virtual currency. It does not suit media buyers, SEO affiliates or bloggers looking for CPA offers and tracking links, and new apps without real daily users are likely to be turned away at verification. Former AdGate publishers should log in to the legacy dashboard, check balances and ask their manager about migration before integrating anything new.