Contextual Commerce for Recipe Content Creators

Our contextual commerce solutions make it easy to monetize your recipe content with relevant in-recipe ads and enhance your site experience with shoppable recipe technology. Installation is simple and no minimum site traffic is required.

 Join our network of 5,200+ recipe sites

 

Unlock monetization opportunities with Chicory Premium ads

Our lightweight, in-recipe contextual ads are served directly within the recipe card and allow you to earn with every view. Ads promote products that are contextually relevant to the recipe a user is viewing, complementing their search for meal inspiration on your site.

  • Premium In-line ads promote products any time they appear as ingredients across our network.

  • Premium Pairings ads align brands with recipes based on lifestyle, occasion, seasonality and more.

 
 
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Enhance your site with shoppable recipe technology

Chicory’s Recipe Activation solution enables your audience to seamlessly cart ingredients for full recipes at 70+ integrated retailers. Our Shoppable Recipe Button appears below the recipe card and can be customized to your branding.

Benefits of shoppable recipe technology

  • Enhances your site with shoppable functionality

  • Installs and operates at no cost to you

  • Builds reader loyalty by making it easy to shop for groceries

  • Opportunity to drive revenue through retailer affiliate programs

 

Unlock Actionable Recipe Insights with Partner Portal

Partner Portal is an insights and reporting platform designed to equip food bloggers with unique insights into how Chicory’s technology performs on your site. Access comprehensive, actionable data to refine content strategy and boost your revenue. Learn more.

  • Analyze your ad revenue by placement, recipe, and domain.

  • Discover which recipes and ingredients drive the most engagement to inform content strategy.

  • Generate, customize and schedule reports to streamline analysis and record-keeping.

 
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How Chicory integrates with other platforms

Creators that are affiliated with ad networks or have sites hosted through other platforms can install Chicory’s monetization solutions. Our partnership with leading ad networks and Wordpress plugins make the installation process quick and simple.

Mediavine

Mediavine content creators can enable Chicory on their site directly through their Mediavine dashboard. Simply toggle on the Chicory widget to enable ads and begin earning incremental revenue.

SHE Media Collective

SHE Media content creators will have Chicory installed on their site automatically upon joining the network. Reporting and analytics can be accessed through your Chicory dashboard.

Wordpress

Wordpress content creators can enable Chicory with our free plugin available here.

 

 Benefits Of Chicory For Recipe Content Creators

 

Generates incremental revenue for your recipe site

 

Appears directly within the recipe card for cleaner site appearance

 

Drives higher engagement with contextual ads that complement your recipes

 

Displays brand-safe context from top food and CPG brands

 

Installs quickly and has no minimum requirements to join

 

Loads asynchronously to ensure fast page load times

 

Partner Portal, a new self-service insights and reporting platform

 

Activates without reliance on personal information

Get started with Chicory

With no minimum requirements to join our network of recipes, installation is simple.

Complete our registration form to become a Chicory Recipe Partner in just five minutes.

If you have any questions, please reach out to publishers@chicory.co.

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 Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes! Many creators that work with Chicory are also affiliated with other ad networks. In fact, we have direct partnerships with Mediavine and SHE Media Collective. Mediavine creators can enable Chicory directly within their Mediavine dashboard. SHE Media creators will have Chicory installed on their site upon joining their ad network.

  • Our technology is triggered by site traffic and will appear when a site visitor lands on a recipe. All of your recipes will enter our system as users visit those pages. Please note, it may take some time for all of your recipes to import. This process may take up to an hour after you first view the recipe. If you don’t see the Shoppable Recipe button or Chicory Premium advertising within your recipe card after 24 hours, it is possible that your recipes may not be formatted correctly. Visit the dedicated recipe formatting FAQ to learn more.

    If the issue persists, please reach out to publishers@chicory.co.

  • Our Payment Policy

    Blogging partners who are working with Chicory directly will be paid in full, every month, on a net-60 schedule. Please note, Chicory does not issue 1099s directly. 

    Payments will be made via PayPal to the associated email address provided during sign-up. If you did not submit a PayPal address during sign-up or are unsure, please contact support@chicory.co. All payments will be sent out through PayPal unless otherwise discussed. 

    If you once worked directly with Chicory, but have switched to using Chicory via Mediavine, any existing balance on your Chicory account (the money accumulated prior to your switch) will be paid to you by our team during the next pay period.

    If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to publishers@chicory.co. You can also find more details in our terms.

  • There are several ways to install Chicory!

    Prior to installing, please ensure your recipe content is formatted and structured according to schema.org’s guidelines. This will allow our technology to accurately interpret your recipe titles and ingredients for the best user experience. See our dedicated FAQ on this topic.

    When you’re ready to install, complete our sign-up form, then choose the best option for your recipe site below.

    1. Install our WordPress plugin, Chicory Shoppable Recipes

      Creators that use WordPress to host their recipe sites can enable Chicory by installing our free plugin.

    2. Enable directly within your Mediavine dashboard.

      Mediavine creators can enable Chicory on their site directly through their Mediavine dashboard. Simply toggle on the Chicory widget to enable ads. For Mediavine questions, please contact publishers@mediavine.com.

    3. Add JavaScript to your recipe pages

      If your site does not use WordPress and is not affiliated with Mediavine, you can install our technology directly on your recipe pages. Please refer to page three of our SDK Installation Guide.