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Advertising pays for everything on this site. There is no paywall, no metered limit and no membership tier, so display placements and newsletter sponsorship are what fund the writing and the checking.
Everything below is standing policy rather than an opening position. We would rather publish the rules than negotiate them one buyer at a time.
Who reads us
Our readers arrive in bursts rather than every hour. Sessions run long and cover several articles, because somebody opening The Little Binger has usually ignored the news for days and wants to close the gap in one go. Evenings and weekends carry more of that than weekday mornings do, which matters if your campaign has a daypart plan.
The sections are Auto, Business, Entertainment, Gaming, Lifestyle, News, Science, Sports, Tech and Travel, so you can buy a general news audience or sit beside one interest. We do not print audience figures on this page, because a number posted publicly goes stale within a month and then gets quoted for years. Ask us and the current numbers come back in the rate card with the measurement method next to them.
What you can buy
Display placements across the site and within individual sections, sold directly by us or filled by the programmatic exchanges that take what we have not sold ourselves. Newsletter sponsorship, which is one sponsor per send rather than a strip of slots. And sponsored articles, under the conditions in the next section.
Some things are not for sale at any rate: a position inside a news story, inclusion in a round-up, a link added to an editorial article, or a mention inserted after publication. Those requests reach us most weeks and the answer has never changed.
How sponsored content works
A sponsored article carries a label above the headline, a visual treatment that does not resemble our reporting, and the sponsor’s name. It stays labelled everywhere it appears, including in the newsletter, and it does not sit in a category feed dressed as journalism.
Nobody in our newsroom writes it. Sponsored copy comes from the advertiser or from writers who do no editorial work for us, and our editors read it only to check it against the law, the labelling rules and plain accuracy. It is excluded from anything shaped like a recommendation. What our reporters may and may not accept from a company they cover is in our editorial standards.
What we turn down
A general news site with sport, gaming, motoring and travel sections attracts a specific set of bad buyers, so it is worth naming them. We do not run sportsbook or casino advertising, however well it pays next to a match report. We do not take grey-market game key resellers, account sales or in-game currency shops. Trading signals, forex schemes and crypto products promising a return are refused, as are extended vehicle warranties and finance offers that hide the total cost, booking sites imitating an airline or hotel’s own checkout, and supplements making a medical claim.
Beyond the categories, we refuse anything built to be mistaken for something else. That covers creative dressed as our own page furniture, fake system warnings, celebrity endorsement using a face or voice the person never licensed, and political advocacy that conceals who paid for it. Creative that redirects, plays sound unprompted or opens new windows is pulled without discussion, and a second breach ends the relationship.
Programmatic, data and privacy
Direct campaigns we build and traffic ourselves, so we see every asset before it runs. Remaining inventory is filled by exchanges, and we require partners there to honour the consent choice a reader made on arrival rather than treating a page view as agreement. Partners who will not answer questions about their data handling do not get our inventory.
What gets set on a reader’s device, and how consent is recorded and withdrawn, is described in our cookie policy and our privacy policy. We do not sell reader email addresses. A newsletter sponsor receives performance figures and never the list.
Booking, reporting and getting a rate card
Write to support@thelittlebinger.com with your dates, the formats you want and the market you are aiming at. The rate card and current audience numbers come back by email, normally within two working days. Direct campaigns are booked on a written order, with creative delivered at least three working days before launch so we can check it against the rules above.
Reporting on direct campaigns covers impressions, viewability and clicks, plus opens and click-through on newsletter sends, delivered once mid-flight and once at the end. We do not pad reports with metrics we cannot verify ourselves. Buying space here buys attention and nothing else, and how that separation is governed is set out in ownership and funding.
Last updated: August 2026.
