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Your brand in the media that matter
Your sponsored content published onForbes.Bloomberg.The Wall Street Journal.TechCrunch.CNN.Der Spiegel.
Publish sponsored articles to build your authority. Improve your visibility on Google and in AI-generated answers too.
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Access 70,000+ verified media outlets in 90+ countries and 40+ languages.
What is ranksource?
The sponsored content marketplace connecting brands and top-tier media outlets
Choose media outlets that reach your audience, with clear prices and terms. Raya helps prepare your selection and content, subject to the publisher’s approval.
Illustrative example
Advertisers
Rains
Revolut
Huawei
L'Oréal
RainsRevolutHuaweiL'OréalForbesPublished
Your brand in this major media outlet
Audience2.1 MFrom$3,400
Premium media outlets
The New York Times
Forbes
Der Spiegel
CNN
The New York TimesForbesDer SpiegelCNN48hWith the fastest media outlets
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. Published with no time limit on 9 in 10 media outlets, checked after publication. 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 to last, monitored automatically
On 9 in 10 media outlets, your article is published with no time limit. The others show their term on their listing, before you order. After publication, ranksource checks that the article and its links stay online: every day for the first month, then every month for the entire guarantee. If an issue arises, correction or republication comes first. If nothing works, 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, with no time limit on 9 in 10 media outlets.
Strengthen my SEO→AI visibilityPublish in the sources AI models read
Use dated snapshots to find the outlets Google AI Overview, Perplexity and ChatGPT cite, then publish in those sources.
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.
- On 9 in 10 media outlets, your articles are published with no time limit. After publication, ranksource checks that each article and its links stay online: every day for the first month, then every month for the entire guarantee. If an issue arises, correction or republication comes first, then a refund under the offer terms if nothing works.
Monetize your audience without compromising your line
Set your prices, review each order and keep control of your publications. Your workspace shows pending earnings and available funds separately.
- Pre-validated advertisers, aligned with your editorial line.
- Set your rates and track your earnings until they become available.
- 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
Measure what informs your next campaign
More than one in two marketers struggles to tie a concrete result back to their content (Content Marketing Institute, 2025). Find your published articles. Inform your decisions with SEO analyses and dated reports of the sources cited by AI.
Your SEO position
Analyse your domain and compare it with competitors: authority, estimated organic traffic, keywords and rankings. Each analysis is dated to help you set priorities.
Your publications, documented
Find your sponsored content and its links, then export them for your reports. Their availability is checked every day for the first month, then every month for the entire guarantee.
The sources cited by AI
Ask a question and see which outlets ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overview cite as sources in that search. Identify relevant outlets with offers in the catalogue.
+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
Checks on the article and its links every day for the first month, then every month for the entire guarantee.
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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