Missing In-content and Sidebar Ads

March 20, 2026 18:12

Hey team!
Just got onboarded and footer + video ads are working, but in-content, sidebar, and leaderboard ads aren’t showing at all. I’ve already added content hints/content anchors, but those placements still aren’t appearing.

My site is PennyCentral.com, and it’s built on Next.js.

Could the team queue a manual content rescan for my site? Any other suggestions would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks!

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Journey Support Team

March 20, 2026 20:29
Hi Cade Allen
I took a look at your site and I'm currently seeing your sidebar and in-content ads running. Journey is built in a way that works best on websites that have post content in which it can insert ads. It looks like your site has the main pages built in a way where content is nested into inner blocks. This is intentional as to provide a way for publishers to prevent ads from loading in certain locations. For more information about this you can check out this help document.
Additionally, Journey is not compatible with content hints or custom placements of ads - this remains a benefits of advancing to Mediavine Official.
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