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2025: Building the Best, for the Best

By Peter Howarth

December 30, 2025

Advertising

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Just like that, another year is in the books, and here at Adcash, we’re feeling in a reflective kind of mood. If 2024 was about industry shifts and big-picture change, 2025 was about execution.

Santa wasn’t the only one bringing the gifts this year. We doubled down on what matters most: giving advertisers more control, more automation, and more ways to win attention. When you already bring high-quality traffic and years of experience, we had to think long and hard about how we could be even better. There was only one answer. 

Powerful new ad formats, smarter optimization, and serious platform upgrades. Let’s break it down.

And if you’d rather watch the highlights, check out our 2025 video recap here.

2025 at Adcash: A Year of Product Power

This year, our focus was clear: Build tools that save time, scale faster, and drive better results, without making things too complicated.

Three major releases defined 2025:

Video Ads

Client API

Auto Rules

Each one solves a different pain point. Together, they’re turning Adcash into the ultimate optimization platform.

Video Ads: Built for the Attention Economy

As predicted last year, 2025 was the year video took center stage on Adcash.

Static ads are still going strong, but video runs on the currency of attention, and attention wins conversions. That’s why we rolled out Video Ads – designed for reach, engagement, and modern browsing behavior.

What Made Video Ads a Standout in 2025

In-Stream Ads – maximum focus
Perfect for moments when users are already in “watch mode” and primed to engage.

Example image of an In-Stream Video Ad

Slider Ads – scale and continuity
Non-intrusive, ad-blocker resistant, and built to blend seamlessly into content.

Example image of a Slider Video Ad

Mobile-first by design
Short, punchy formats that respect how users actually consume content.

High-performing across competitive verticals
Adult, gaming, dating, and finance – video brought something new to ever-evolving verticals.

Example image of Video Ads top verticals: gaming, adult, finance and dating
Video Ads top verticals

Video Ads exploded on the platform, quickly becoming one of the most impactful formats, giving advertisers an option that’s seriously hard to ignore.

Client API: Campaign Control Without the Platform Detour

If video ads were about visibility, the Client API was about speed.

Campaigns don’t wait. Markets shift. Performances spike and dip. Logging into a platform every time you need to make a change just doesn’t scale, so we removed the friction.

What the Client API Changed

With the Client API, advertisers can:

⚫ Create campaigns from scratch

⚫ Start, pause, or edit campaigns instantly

⚫ Adjust bids, budgets, and targeting in real time

⚫ Schedule changes ahead of time

⚫ Automate optimization scripts around their own logic

All without touching the UI.

Tell us what type of campaign you want – creatives, payouts, targeting etc. – and we will create it instantly.

Siim Mõtshärg

Full Stack Developer, Adcash

The Client API turned Adcash into a fully programmable ad engine, perfect for teams running multiple campaigns, managing large budgets, or operating across time zones. Same power. Same results. Just faster, and on your terms.

Auto Rules: Optimization That Never Sleeps

Manual optimization works. It’s fine. But we fixed what wasn’t broken. Advertisers needed systems that react now, not spreadsheets that update later.

Example image of optimizing campaigns with Auto Rules

What Auto Rules Delivered

Auto Rules are fully automated, data-driven optimization templates that:

◾ Detect winning and losing zones automatically

◾ Increase or decrease bids based on CPA and performance

◾ Exclude any poor performance before it drains your budget

◾ Continuously prioritize high-converting traffic

No babysitting. No guesswork. Advertisers launch campaigns knowing their bids stay aligned with real performance. Their spend now goes to where conversions actually happen, and optimization runs around the clock without anyone hovering over dashboards like a nervous intern.

The automatic bid optimization and precise inventory management enabled by Auto Rules have a major impact on performance and greatly smooth our daily media buying operations.

Tim Guillot

Growth Manager, Koala Interactive

Auto Rules freed advertisers to focus on the number 1 thing – strategy, while the platform handled the repetitive work in the background.

2025: Year in Numbers

Features are great, but results matter more. So don’t worry, because in 2025, Adcash once again delivered. At scale. 

Adcash 2025 Year In Numbers

Almost 2 trillion ad requests processed

Hundreds of billions of impressions delivered

Consistent performance spikes during major global events

Strong growth across video, pop, and interstitial formats

24 Partner Collaborations

Campaigns scaled harder, optimized faster, and stayed profitable longer. Combine Video Ads, Auto Rules, and API automation? That kind of advantage feels unfair!

2025 wasn’t just about working with you to put up these ridiculous numbers. It was also about meeting you. Putting faces to names. Strategising. Plotting. Reaching new heights together. This year, Adcash was out there.

Image of Adcash team at Sales Event

⚫ Countries Visited: 13

⚫ Total Events Attended: 16

⚫ Clients Met: 531

Simply put: More traffic. Smarter spend. Better outcomes. Talk about teamwork!

What 2025 Really Proved

This year wasn’t about chasing trends. It was about building tools advertisers actually need. Setting the groundwork for the ultimate advertising platform: 

Video that captures attention

Optimization that works even when you’re offline

APIs that move at campaign speed

2025 showed that performance means doing things smarter, not bigger.

Looking Ahead

If 2025 was about strengthening the foundation, the next chapter is about scaling what works, even further. Thinking outside the box when running campaigns, pushing new GEOs and that key word once again – optimizing everything

To everyone who tested, scaled, broke things, fixed them again, optimized, and grew with us this year: thank you. We’re just getting started. Here’s to faster campaigns, smarter automation, and even bigger wins ahead.

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Peter Howarth

Content Writer, Adcash

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