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Your sponsored content published onForbes.Bloomberg.The Wall Street Journal.TechCrunch.CNN.Der Spiegel.
The global marketplace for premium sponsored articles that places your brand in the media that matter. 70,000+ verified media outlets across 90+ countries and 40+ languages.
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What is ranksource?
The sponsored content marketplace connecting brands and top-tier media outlets.
On one side, advertisers who want to grow their visibility. On the other, newsrooms that want to monetize their audience. ranksource brings them together directly, at a clear price, with publication possible in as little as 48 hours. AI accelerates targeting, briefing and coordination in a PR-first workflow where publishers keep editorial sign-off. Every publication is a premium sponsored article, designed first and foremost to build authority and brand awareness, with SEO and AI visibility benefits.
Advertisers
ForbesPublished
Your brand, front-page on this major outlet
Audience2.1 MFrom$3,400
Premium media outlets
48hAverage time to publication
70k+Verified premium media outlets
All-inclusiveYou pay per publication
Why ranksource
Publications protected for the long term.
The right media outlets in seconds. An article written for each newsroom. Monitored for the full stated term, up to 3 years. Everything is included.
The right media outlets in seconds
Describe your target and choose from the best titles. Pricing is transparent and the audience is verified.
Explore the marketplace↗Content written for each newsroom
Nothing generic: every article is written in the voice of the outlet that will publish it and reviewed by its newsroom.
Discover our custom editorial↗Published, monitored for up to 3 years
ranksource monitors your publication for the full term stated by the media outlet, up to 3 years. If an issue arises, correction or republication comes first. If neither resolves the issue, we refund you under the offer terms.
How monitoring works↗Use cases
Which objective does ranksource address?
Brand authority, launches, entry into a new market, crisis communications, SEO or AI visibility: six business objectives, one global sponsored article marketplace.
Brand authority
Build lasting credibility over time.
Regular sponsored articles in the titles that matter to your audience.
Build my authority →Launch & operationsAnnounce a product, a funding round, an M&A.
Coordinate a synchronized press release distribution across multiple outlets and markets, on your schedule.
Announce a launch →Market entryEstablish your brand in a new market.
Publish in local press media outlets, in 40 languages, across 90 countries.
Open a new market →Crisis communicationsReclaim the narrative.
Push your story to premium press media outlets, often in under a week.
Steer the crisis →SEOStrengthen your domain authority.
High-value links in verified press outlets, monitored for the full stated term, up to 3 years.
Strengthen my SEO →AI visibilityPublish in the sources AI models read.
Appear in the answers of ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overview by publishing on the sources they cite.
Grow my AI visibility →How it works
From brief to published sponsored content, in four steps.
Enter an SEO keyword, a topic or a question for an AI assistant, or describe your campaign to Raya. ranksource recommends the most suitable media outlets for placing your sponsored content.
marketplace + AI
A keyword, a topic, an AI question or a brief.
Your brief
SectorFintechMarketsUnited States, United KingdomBudget$20,000ObjectiveBrand authority
Recommended media outletsMatch
Fast Company
96 %$3,900
Business Insider
93 %$5,400
City A.M.
90 %$2,700
Prefer to hand the campaign over to our team?
Book a managed campaign→Two sides, one product
A platform built for both sides.
For the advertiser: you define the angle, budget and timing. For the publisher: you keep control over your editorial line. ranksource coordinates the rest.
Visibility you can prove.
Engage directly with newsrooms. You see the price, you validate the angle, you receive the published sponsored content.
- The all-in price shows on a single line, with audience, format and outlet authority.
- Each sponsored content piece written specifically for one outlet, never mass-distributed.
- Every publication is monitored for the full term stated by the media outlet, up to 3 years. If an issue arises, correction or republication comes first; if neither resolves the issue, a refund follows under the offer terms.
Monetize your audience without compromising your line.
You receive vetted briefs, set your own pricing, decline at no cost, and we guarantee you get paid fast.
- Pre-validated advertisers, aligned with your editorial line.
- You set the pricing; ranksource guarantees your earnings and pays you.
- Production assistance tools, centralized billing.
The proof
A live marketplace, not a promise.
Our marketplace brings together the leading outlets, an experienced team and global coverage. Four figures sum it up.
70k+ media outlets
Premium outlets indexed: press, magazines, niche titles.
95%
Share of the catalogue with real ranking positions measured, across an index of 36.6M keywords.
48h
Fastest production turnaround: your sponsored content can be publication-ready in 48 hours.
90+countries
Global coverage, 40+ editorial languages. You publish where your audience reads.
Measuring the return
Brand content works. Here's how you prove it.
More than one in two marketers struggles to tie a concrete result back to their content (Content Marketing Institute, 2025). The brand content that converts best is the sponsored article published in a real outlet. At ranksource, every one is measurable from the moment it goes live. Here's what you track.
Your authority grows
When established media outlets write about you, your site gains credibility with Google, measured by what the industry calls Domain Rating, and improves its keyword rankings. Each article remains monitored for the term stated by the media outlet, up to 3 years.
Your visibility grows
We track searches for your name before and after the campaign, the visitors outlets send your way, and the ground you hold against competitors (your “share of voice”).
Your presence in AI
We follow how often ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answers cite you on the topics that matter to you.
+50%
higher brand recall when your brand appears in a real outlet rather than on your own pages.
Nielsen, 201660%
of B2B decision-makers pay more to work with a brand seen as a reference in its field.
Edelman-LinkedIn, 202495%
of B2B buyers aren't ready to buy today: your content works for the day they are.
LinkedIn B2B Institute, 2021What they say
Why brands, agencies and newsrooms choose ranksource.
Brands, agencies and publishers all come to us for the same thing: sponsored content that goes out fast, reads beautifully, and earns its keep. Fast, well-crafted and profitable, with no compromise.
“One week on ranksource. More coverage, in more countries, without losing the newsrooms' voices. Our team keeps the strategy, ranksource speeds up execution in every market.”
“We broke the ceiling on how many clients an agency can run in parallel. Each consultant has their own account, billing is centralized. We saved three coordination roles without missing a single delivery.”
“We feared losing editorial control. In reality, it's the opposite: every brief comes pre-filtered, and we keep our hand on angle, publication and timing.”
Comparison
Faster than anything you were doing before.
Too many content campaigns generate visibility no one can tie back to a result. At ranksource, every publication is measured from day one: authority, brand awareness, SEO and AI visibility. You approve the angle, publishers approve the publication.
Open catalogue
Direct buying
Managed support
ranksource
What you buy
An unverified placement
Your hours + a complex spreadsheet
Scope and deliverables agreed in the proposal
Premium sponsored content in leading outlets
Pricing model
Catalogue rate, no context
Negotiated outlet by outlet
Fees agreed in the proposal
Exact price confirmed before payment
Editorial review
Rare
You handle every editor revision
Based on the agreed editorial scope
Review available on every sponsored content piece
Coverage monitoring
Manual
Manual tracking, in a spreadsheet
Based on the agreed monitoring plan
Article monitoring until the end of the term stated by the media outlet, up to 3 years.
Time to article
2 to 6 weeks
4 to 8 weeks
Timeline agreed with the team
48h on average
Languages & markets
Limited
Limited to your address book
Markets covered based on the expertise engaged
40+ languages, 90+ countries
Get your next sponsored content published this week.
No commitment, no minimum. Brief a campaign, see your sponsored content published in leading outlets in your industry. You continue only if the result convinces you.
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