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Reach the people who run things in the Gulf.
Display, sponsored articles, newsletter placements, and issue partnerships, read by the people who run companies across the GCC. Every paid piece is labelled.
Rates and dates
Tell us the goal. We reply with formats, dates, and a price.
Request ratesOr email [email protected]
01 / Formats
Five ways to run
Rates depend on run length and season. Ask for them and we send a proposal, not a rate card.
- 01
Homepage takeover
- Where
- Front page
- Run
- One day to one week
Your creative in every ad slot on the front page for the run, desktop and mobile.
- 02
Sponsored article
- Where
- Site, newsroom feed
- Run
- Stays live
A labelled piece written with our team, published on the site with your links.
- 03
Newsletter placement
- Where
- The Sunday Brief
- Run
- One send or a series
A labelled slot in the Sunday email: headline, short text, one link.
- 04
Issue partner
- Where
- The monthly features issue
- Run
- One issue
Your name on the issue page and on each feature in it. One partner per issue.
- 05
Branded series
- Where
- Site and newsletter
- Run
- Three months or more
A multi-part programme with an agreed topic, output, and a report at the end.
02 / Readers
Who you reach
- Where
- Readers across the six GCC states: the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman, plus people abroad who do business with the region.
- Who
- Founders, executives, investors, and policy people. The same people we write about in the monthly features.
- How they find us
- Search, LinkedIn, and the Sunday email. Most read on a phone, so every format has a mobile version.
Want numbers? Ask when you request rates. We send what the live analytics show, for the site and the newsletter.
03 / Process
How it works
Four steps. Most partners go from brief to live within a few weeks.
- 1
Brief
Tell us the goal, the audience you want, and when. The form below takes two minutes.
- 2
Proposal
We reply with formats, dates, and a price. One document, no deck.
- 3
Production
You send creative, or our team writes with you. Everything paid gets a label before it goes live.
- 4
Report
After the run you get the numbers we saw, from the live analytics: impressions, clicks, and reads.
04 / Rules
The rules
Short, and the same for every partner.
- Labelled
- Sponsored and branded work says so, on the site and in the email.
- Editorial stays editorial
- Advertisers do not see or shape news stories or features. The editors choose who is featured; see Get featured.
- We can say no
- We decline work that conflicts with the Code of Ethics or that our readers would not want to see.
- No reader data
- We do not sell reader data or share the subscriber list with partners.
05 / Request
Request rates
Two minutes. We reply with a proposal, usually within two working days.
Prefer email? Write to [email protected] with the company name in the subject line.
06 / Questions
What partners ask
- Can we pay for a feature?
- No. Features are editorial and the editors choose who runs. A published feature carries an editorial fee that covers production, not the decision. Start at Get featured.
- What audience numbers can you share?
- Ask when you request rates. We send what the live analytics show for the site and the newsletter, not a rounded media-kit figure.
- Can we focus on one country?
- Tell us the market. We will say plainly which formats can focus on it and which cannot.
- How far ahead should we book?
- Homepage takeovers and issue partnerships go first come, first served. An issue partnership has to be agreed before that issue is locked, so ask early.