For software vendors

Featured vendor placements

Put your product in front of readers choosing a tool for one specific job, on our ranked best-tools pages. You buy visibility, never rank.

What you get

• A band with your product name, a headline, up to three lines and a button to your page, on one /best page of your choice.
• $299 per month, prepaid for 1, 3 or 6 months, with 10% off 3 months and 15% off 6 (rounded to whole dollars). No subscription, nothing renews automatically, and we remind you a week before the end.

  Term	Price	Per month	You save
  1 month	$299	$299	-
  3 months	$807	$269	$90 (10%)
  6 months	$1,525	$254	$269 (15%)

• At most 2 featured vendors per page, so the band stays small and readable.
• Clicks arrive in your own analytics tagged utm_source=analytics1.com. A private placement page shows your status and dates.

What money cannot buy here

• Rank or score. Every list is ordered by the Analytics1 Score, computed from published vendor evidence with fixed weights. Paying, or being an affiliate partner, changes neither the score nor the order. A sponsored vendor that also appears in the ranking appears at its own score.
• Unlabelled placement. The band always reads “Sponsored · not part of the ranking”, sits outside the ranked list, and its links carry rel="sponsored".
• Copy approval. No vendor sees or approves our editorial copy. Band copy may not claim a rank, award or score.

How it works

1. Choose a page and a term, write your band and pay by Stripe.
2. We check the product does the job the page is about, usually within one business day.
3. Approved: the band goes live and your term starts that day. Not approved: a full refund.

Coming later: newsletter sponsorship

We are starting a monthly email for readers of this site. Once the list is large enough to be worth buying, one sponsor slot per issue will be offered here, labelled the same way. Ask through the contact form to be told first.