Of the sponsored placement costs, the writing is the least expensive component. Thousands of dollars are spent on slot purchases and a week’s worth of audience rentals. At best, the writing gets the opportunity to strive for the return of this investment. Ignoring a generic article in a premium writing slot is an expensive way to be ignored.
So sponsored work must follow the same procedures as editorial work. In sponsored work, the disclosure is placed at the top rather than at the bottom where readers may feel that they have been misled.
Readers that feel an article is a sponsored post, feel tricked by that brand and not the publisher. The best sponsored posts can be so useful that the disclosure becomes irrelevant. Getting to this point requires reporting the same as anything else the publication runs. Anything less means you paid for an increase in bounce rate.
The publisher will now determine if a submission is sponsored. When a submission is detected as sponsored, the slot is paid and the submission is rejected. You are then given the assignment to write against the live placement slot. It is never the writing fee that is lost. The loss is the media buy that is not being utilized.
We match on the publication as much as the subject. A writer who has been published in that particular title or one similar to it already knows the publication’s house style and how much self-promotion the editors will allow in their pieces. We match our authors based on this criteria before we accept an assignment. We do this prior to taking payment from our clients.
Send the publication, link to content guidelines, placement date, and stated goal of the piece. We quote at the same per word rate for everything, including format. There is no account to open, and the order form takes approximately two minutes to fill.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical sponsored article | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short sponsored post | 700 | $70 | $0.70 | $70.70 |
| Standard sponsored article | 1,200 | $120 | $1.20 | $121.20 |
| Sponsored feature | 1,800 | $180 | $1.80 | $181.80 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Every draft goes through an editor, then through several AI detectors and a plagiarism check. Anything that does not come back clean is revised or reassigned. You get the reports with the delivery email.
What the piece is for, who reads it, roughly how long it should be, and anything it must include or avoid. Links to your existing material help. If you are unsure, send what you have and the writer will come back with questions.
Their branded content guidelines are likely going to be more stringent than their editorial ones. To avoid unnecessary revisions, please provide us with their guidelines for this brief. We will write it as per their standards the first time itself. If they come back with their own notes on this, the revisions you have included will cover that round.
No. Publishing undisclosed paid content breaks laws and ethics for most serious publishing outlets and adverse affects the client. We will publish content that will earn our reader’s attention once we have disclosure in order.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
I expect an outline to be long and complex, and I’ll eliminate about a third of the text. I cut two full paragraphs. I appreciate a clear and concise outline. Each image/subheading has its purpose/context. I also appreciate that the FAQ provides answers to actual frequently asked questions, rather than the answers that might fit a certain keyword.
A proper roundup is hard to do, and easy to fake, and this one didn’t. Each one explains where the pricing was verified and when it was checked. Two entries had notes stating that the writer could not verify some vendor’s claims. That is why we accepted it.
Good job overall. The opening analogy of our product being like a filing cabinet is probably going to be viewed as condescending to a bunch of engineers. I flagged that, and I got a different replacement for that opening analogy a couple of hours later. They kept all of the other text as is.
We do not ask you to take the no-AI promise on trust. Each draft is run through these platforms and the reports are attached to your delivery email.
Originality.aiAI detection + plagiarism
GPTZeroAI detection
TurnitinAI detection + similarity
CopyleaksAI detection + plagiarism
Winston AIAI detection
ZeroGPTAI detection
SaplingAI detection
Content at ScaleAI detection
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$10 per 100 words · all of it to the writer · 0.5% to trees