MUNDELEIN, Ill. — 13 August 2026
Lead Smart Inc, a US pay-per-call and lead-generation affiliate network specialising in home services, processed more than $1 million of inbound call revenue in a single month for the first time in its eighteen-year history in July 2026.
The milestone was reached on 283,293 tracked inbound calls in the month, of which 19,537 converted into billable leads for home-service businesses. August 2026 is running at a comparable rate.
What the network is publishing, and what it is not
Lead Smart does not publish annual revenue totals, margins, or revenue by buyer or vertical. It does publish what it pays the affiliate publishers who generate its calls, because that is the figure publishers deciding where to send their traffic actually need: more than $3.9 million over the trailing twelve months, and more than $50 million since the company was founded in 2008.
Publisher payouts are a network’s largest cost and the hardest figure to inflate — every dollar of it has a publisher on the other end who either received it or did not. Revenue milestones describe the company; payouts describe what the company is worth to the people who supply it.
Where the growth came from
The network attributes the increase to three things: publisher supply, buyer depth, and published data. Lead Smart now works with more than 10,000 registered affiliate publishers worldwide and serves an estimated 50,000-plus home-service business locations across all 50 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico. It has spent 2026 publishing information networks usually keep private — minimum expected payouts across 417,983 ZIP-code and service combinations in 27 live verticals, publisher case studies with the unprofitable days left in, and the payout history of an entire training community including the proportion of its members who earned nothing.
Every number a company publishes about itself has a shelf life. Ours have been quoted years out of date, and the fix is not to argue about the old ones — it is to keep publishing current ones that anyone can hold us to. Matthew Zivkovic, Founder, Lead Smart Inc
Across its history the network has tracked more than 6.7 million inbound calls. It was voted a top-three pay-per-call network in OfferVault’s Top Networks Survey for the seventh consecutive year in Summer 2026, is ranked #6 among more than 400 pay-per-call networks in mThink’s 2026 Blue Book, and was named to the Inc. 5000 in 2023 at No. 2,449.
These figures are floors
The revenue and call figures above are drawn from the network’s own call-tracking records and are stated as minimums. Cost-per-lead reconciliations with buyers are settled after the fact and are not reflected in the tracked totals at the time of publication, so both the revenue and the payout figures understate the final position for any recent period.
About Lead Smart Inc
Lead Smart Inc is a US-based pay-per-call and lead-generation affiliate network specialising in home services. Founded in 2008 by Matthew Zivkovic and led by CEO Seth Pikus, Lead Smart connects more than 10,000 registered affiliate publishers worldwide with buyers across more than 200 home-service categories plus legal verticals, serving an estimated 50,000-plus home-service business locations nationwide. The network has paid out more than $50 million to its affiliate publishers, maintains live payout coverage in all 50 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico, has been voted a top-three pay-per-call network in OfferVault’s Top Networks Survey for seven consecutive years, is ranked #6 among more than 400 pay-per-call networks in mThink’s 2026 Blue Book, and was named to the Inc. 5000 in 2023 at No. 2,449. Learn more at leadsmartinc.com.
Media contact
Lead Smart Inc · 75 E Division Street, Suite B, Mundelein, IL 60060 · (855) 466-5542 · info@leadsmartinc.com.
Sources
Monthly and trailing-twelve-month revenue, publisher payout and call figures are taken from Lead Smart’s own call-tracking and payout records for the period to 12 August 2026 and are stated as floors. Per-call payout coverage figures are from the Lead Smart affiliate bid coverage tool, data as of 12 August 2026. Rankings are as published by OfferVault, mThink and Inc.