The two kinds of paid content
Paid content on Tech Junctions comes in exactly two packages: a Sponsored Post and a Sidebar Display Slot. There are no others: no guest posts, no sold links inside guides, and no paid reviews.
Sponsored Post
An article about your product or service, written by our team to our normal standards and published on Tech Junctions. It is labeled “Sponsored by [Brand]” at the top, and you can check facts about your own product before it goes live. You don’t get approval over our opinions.
Label:
Sidebar Display Slot
Your banner in the sidebar next to our guides, labeled “Advertisement”. Runs for an agreed period.
Label:
Quote per brief: We price each campaign after reading your brief and send you a quote within 48 hours.
How to spot paid content
Every paid placement carries the same marker: an orange dot and a tinted tag naming it as paid. You see it before the content itself.
- Sponsored posts show “Sponsored by [Brand]” at the top, before you start reading.
- Sidebar display slots show “Advertisement” above the banner.
What sponsors can do
- Choose the package and the dates.
- Suggest the topic of a sponsored post.
- Send product facts, images and the links you want used.
- Check facts about your own product in a sponsored post before it goes live.
What sponsors cannot do
These rules apply to both packages, whatever the fee:
- Change the wording, steps or conclusions of anything we write.
- Buy a recommendation in any guide, or a better verdict.
- Have a competitor removed from or played down in any article.
- Make the label smaller, move it out of sight or leave it off.
How spec checks work
Before a sponsored post goes live, we send the sponsor the product facts it states about their product: specs, model names, prices and compatibility. The sponsor can point out anything that’s wrong, and we correct it if their published documentation backs them up.
That is the only check a sponsor gets. They can’t change the wording, the structure, the steps, the conclusions or our opinions. For a sidebar display slot, the sponsor supplies their own banner and has no say over the guide it appears next to.
After publishing
If a sponsored post later turns out to be wrong, we fix it under our corrections policy, like any other page. The sponsor can’t ask us to remove or soften a correction.
Links in paid content
Links in sponsored posts and sidebar display slots carry rel="sponsored", the tag Google asks sites to use for links in paid content. We don’t sell links anywhere else on the site.
Sponsored posts don’t contain affiliate links to the sponsor’s products. We never earn a sponsorship fee and an affiliate commission on the same placement.
Network ads and affiliate links
Paid placements are separate from the rest of our income:
- Network ads. Most ads on the site come from our ad network, Mediavine, which picks them automatically. We don’t choose those ads, and those advertisers have no contact with us and no say in what we write.
- Affiliate links. Some guides link to products on Amazon and other stores, and we may earn a commission when you buy. Our affiliate disclosure explains how that works.
What we won’t advertise
- Gambling, cryptocurrency, adult content or tobacco.
- A product under an open safety recall, or from a company facing a regulator over deceptive practices.
- Medical, legal or financial claims presented as our own advice.
Advertising with us
Brands can see each package, how a booking works and the brief form on our advertise page.
Questions or concerns
If you’re unsure whether something on Tech Junctions is paid, or you think a label is missing, tell us through our contact page. Aman Singh, the founder, looks into every disclosure concern personally.