Web Monetization Wrapped 2025
Written by Rabeb Othmani
Welcome to Web Monetization Wrapped, a look back at the progress we made in 2025 and everything we shipped, fixed, revived, and pushed forward this year.
Turn up the volume. Let’s relive the year. 🎧✨
🎼 Top Genre: Strengthening The Ecosystem
2025 wasn’t theoretical, it was measurable.
- More wallet providers supporting Web Monetization, bringing the number to 3
- More publishers & podcasts experimenting with Web Monetization
- More developers building creative tools and integrations
- More momentum than we’ve had in years
The needle moved and we moved it.
🎵 Top Song: Reviving The Grant Program
This was our headline track of 2025.
- Relaunched the Web Monetization Grant Program
- Brought in three publishing platforms that will bring new tools and experiments to their 900+ podcasts, 500,000+ writers, and 200,000 social web users in 2026.
- Strengthened the ecosystem with real, tangible support. $100,000 in financial support , to be exact.
This wasn’t just an initiative, it was a comeback tour.
🎥 Your Artist Clip: We Refreshed Our Web Presence
As a thank-you, your Web Monetization browsing experience got a glow up.
- Completely redesigned webmonetization.org
- Modernized the visual identity and restructured the content to make it more accessible, informative, and action-oriented
- Updated and expanded the documentation
- Made information easier to find, clearer to understand, and simpler to act on
Looks better. Works better.
💿 Top Albums: We Leveled Up Our Product Offerings
Because a standard only moves if we do.
- Expanded extension availability to Safari
- Improved the user experience for the Publisher Tools
- Shipped new Publisher Tools
- Shipped fixes and docs that unblock users
- Launched a WordPress Plugin
- Resolved bugs and improved overall extension performance
- Developed a prototype for the in-browser implementation.
⏱️ Minutes Listened: We Strengthened Community Connections
Not just building tech, building a movement.
- Brought more publishers, partners, and developers into the conversation
- Received impactful code contributions from community developers who stepped up for Hacktoberfest.
- Supported community events and working groups
- Listened, iterated, and responded to ecosystem needs and community feedback.
More voices, more momentum.
💫 That’s Web Monetization Wrapped 2025
Consistent follow-through, collaboration across teams, transparency, listening to the community, and a willingness to solve problems as they came.
Different skills, different roles, same mission:
Powering the Internet of Opportunity
Real progress. Stronger foundations. New energy.
Ready for the next track? 🎶
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