Web Monetization Wrapped 2025

Rabeb Othmani

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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

Text reading “More wallet providers supporting Web Monetization, bringing the number to three” on a colorful background.

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

Text reading “More publishers and podcasts experimenting with Web Monetization” displayed over a disco-style background.

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

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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

Music player–style graphic showing “We Did It as a Team” as the track title and “Powering the Internet of Opportunity” as the artist.

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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