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Pressmark · For publishers

How it works for publishers

Pressmark is the open register of sponsored placements: a free-to-browse directory where agencies and brands find sites like yours, see honest indicative pricing, and brief you. No marketplace sits in the middle, and no one takes a cut of your placement.

List or claim your site Plans
£0 commissionWhatever you agree with a buyer is yours. Marketplaces take a cut of every deal; we never do.
Free to claimClaiming your entry costs nothing and takes two minutes with an email at your domain.
Briefs deliveredBuyers brief a category; every claimed publisher gets it by email and answers with an offer.
Evidence shownDated checks, an independent traffic estimate, and a clear mark where data is publisher-confirmed.

From compiled entry to a deal

  1. We compile your entry

    From your own advertising page: formats, an indicative price, the page itself. Checked on a rolling cycle and dated on the entry.

  2. You claim it, free

    Confirm an email at your domain, or a DNS record, file or meta tag. The entry becomes yours.

  3. You set it straight

    Correct the price, tick the formats you sell, add guidelines and a micro pitch. Save a price and guidelines and the entry is marked Publisher-confirmed with today's date.

  4. Buyers brief your category

    A brief reaches every claimed publisher in the category by email, immediately or as a digest you choose.

  5. You answer with an offer

    Format, exact price, turnaround, examples and how to reach you, in one structured form the buyer compares side by side.

  6. You deal directly

    The buyer contacts the publishers they choose. Pressmark is not in the conversation and takes nothing from it.

Claimed and Pro

Claimed listing

Free

Most directories charge for this.

  • Your entry, your data. You correct it; we mark it Publisher-confirmed, with the date.
  • Open to Google. Your entry is indexable, titled "your site: sponsored post cost, guidelines & contact".
  • Your terms up front. Pitch, formats, price and turnaround on your entry; your price in the register.
  • Every brief in your categories. By email or digest, with a form to answer it.
  • Briefed from your entry. A buyer on your page can brief you and your category from it.
  • Alerts your way. By category, immediate or digest, or off.
  • Your advertising page, linked under your price.
  • Proof it's seen. Views on your dashboard; a link and badge for your site.

Claim your site

Pro listing

£99 £349 one-off payment for lifetime Pro, first 50

One placement pays for it. Everything after that is yours.

Everything in a claimed listing, plus:

  • Buyers reach you, not the pool. A Contact button to your form, your page, or both.
  • In your words. Name the button yourself; a 100-character pitch.
  • You see briefs first. Instant alerts, 24 hours before free listings.
  • Your prices, up front. A rate card for every format you sell.
  • A person, not a form. Named contact with photo and title beside the button.
  • Your story. An About section on the entry, in your words.
  • Your numbers. Reach by channel, beside the independent estimate.
  • Three categories. Listed wherever you fit, not just one.
  • Media pack and social profiles, linked from the entry.
  • Enquiries, your way. Relayed to any inbox you choose, checked for spam and unsafe links first.
  • Proof it's working. Views, clicks, briefs and offers on your dashboard.
  • The Pro mark, on your entry and in the register.

Reserve your founding seat

From your dashboard, once your claim is verified. Reviewed by hand; no card, nothing charged.

Straight answers

Is it really free? Yes. Claiming is free, and claimed publishers receive every brief in their categories. Pro buys presentation and a direct route to you. Every publisher, paid or not, sees the same briefs.

What about SEO? Every outbound link on Pressmark is nofollow, permanently, and paid-placement links are additionally marked sponsored. We send you buyers, not link equity, and that policy is what keeps the register safe to be listed on.

Who sees my details? Buyers see your entry. Your login email, enquiry inbox and buyer identities are never published. Enquiries and offers are checked for spam and unsafe links before they are relayed.

Can I leave? At any time, from your dashboard. The entry comes off the register at once, you can restore it for 7 days, and the domain is never compiled again without you.

Claim your entry in three steps

  1. Find your site at pressmark.org/directory, or add it at pressmark.org/list-your-site.
  2. Confirm an email at your domain: one click, done. DNS, file or meta-tag verification also available.
  3. Set your price, formats, guidelines and micro pitch. Buyers take it from there.