Lead Smart Inc Ranked #5 Pay-Per-Call Network in 2026 mThink Blue Book of 400+ Networks
Lead Smart Inc placed #5 in the 2026 mThink Blue Book pay-per-call rankings and publishes 296,513 live ZIP-by-service
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Lead Smart Inc placed #5 in the 2026 mThink Blue Book pay-per-call rankings and publishes 296,513 live ZIP-by-service payout records with no login required.
Mundelein, IL (PRUnderground) September 6th, 2026
Lead Smart Inc, a pay-per-call and lead-generation affiliate network for home services founded in 2008, has been ranked the #5 pay-per-call network in the 2026 mThink Blue Book Survey, which evaluates more than 400 performance networks with input from tens of thousands of marketers. The company has also placed in the top three of the OfferVault Top Networks Survey for seven consecutive years, 2020 through 2026.
The 2026 Blue Book pay-per-call ranking lists Aragon Advertising, CJ, Marketcall, GlobalWide Media and Lead Smart Inc in its top five. Lead Smart is the only network in that group built specifically around nationwide home services and emergency restoration, routed to local contractor buyers at the postal-code level.
That distinction defines how the pay-per-call sector now splits. High-volume horizontal networks concentrate on insurance, Medicare, financial services and mass tort, where calls flow into centralized call centers regardless of where the consumer dialed from. Home-service networks face a harder routing problem: a water-damage call in one ZIP code is worth a multiple of the same call three counties away, and it has to reach a contractor who actually services that address. Lead Smart’s live coverage file spans 296,513 ZIP-code and service combinations across 41,259 distinct ZIP codes, 27 verticals and 53 state codes including Washington DC and Puerto Rico.
The second shift is where the money is. As insurance verticals absorbed tighter regulatory friction and TCPA scrutiny, emergency restoration expanded. In Lead Smart’s published payout file, median payouts to the publisher who generates the call run $213.00 for water damage, $210.50 for biohazard and $193.00 for fire damage removal, against an all-vertical median of $42.00. The ceiling is $507.00. Of the 296,513 published records, 66,053 pay $100 or more and 22,870 pay $200 or more.
The third shift is transparency. Performance networks have historically operated as closed systems, with payout tables visible only after a publisher applied, was approved and logged in. Lead Smart publishes its minimum expected payouts openly at affiliate-bid-coverage.leadsmartinc.com, resynchronized daily, with no login and no affiliate account required, so a media buyer or rank-and-rent builder can calculate campaign unit economics before spending anything.
“Rankings are voted on, but payout files can be checked,” said Matthew Zivkovic, founder of Lead Smart Inc. “We publish ours in full, by ZIP code and by trade, and anyone can read it without giving us an email address. If a publisher can see that a water-damage call in a specific ZIP pays $213 before they build anything, they make better decisions, and we get better traffic. That is the whole trade.”
“Being ranked fifth among more than four hundred networks matters because of who votes,” said Seth Pikus, chief executive officer of Lead Smart Inc. “These are publishers and advertisers who work with these networks every day. Seven consecutive years in OfferVault’s top three, and now this, comes from paying on time and answering the phone, not from a marketing budget.”
Lead Smart Inc has paid more than $50 million to affiliate publishers over the life of the network and works with more than 10,000 registered affiliate publishers worldwide across home services, restoration and legal verticals. The company was named to the Inc. 5000 in 2023 at No. 2,449.
The full payout coverage file is public at https://affiliate-bid-coverage.leadsmartinc.com and company news is published at https://leadsmartinc.com/news.
About Lead Smart Inc
Lead Smart Inc is a US-based pay-per-call and lead-generation affiliate network founded in 2008 and headquartered in Mundelein, Illinois. It connects more than 10,000 registered affiliate publishers worldwide with home-service, restoration and legal advertisers nationwide, has paid more than $50 million to publishers, and publishes its ZIP-code-level payout coverage publicly with no login required
Lead Smart Inc
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