NewsWibe readers check the news the way they check the weather: often, quickly and on a phone. They are news-first scrollers — professionals catching up between meetings, students, shift workers, sports fans chasing a score that just changed. Put your brand inside that habit, in standard formats, under rules that keep both your message and our journalism credible.
What you can buy
- Billboard and leaderboard positions on the homepage and section fronts, including the large top-of-page unit.
- In-read display on article pages and section rivers — medium rectangle and half-page sizes that hold up on mobile.
- Closing placements near the foot of long articles for campaigns that need repeated sight.
- Sponsored features written by our producers and labelled as sponsored (see the Services page).
Every advertisement is labelled “Advertisement”. We do not run pop-unders, auto-playing sound, disguised close buttons or creative that copies our headline style. If the creative shrinks badly on a phone, it does not run; if the landing page does not match the ad’s promise, it does not run either.
Booking, step by step
Send your organisation, objective, dates, markets and preferred formats through the Contact page form under the advertising topic. We reply in writing with availability, placement options and the current rate basis. Nothing is booked until creative, dates and price are agreed in writing by both sides — no surprises later.
Standard creative is due two business days before launch; sponsored features need five. Finished campaigns receive a plain-language delivery and placement summary.
Refusals
We decline advertising that misleads, imitates news, promotes what is illegal in the reader’s market, or targets a private individual. Political advertising, where we accept it, is labelled and must name its sponsor. Buying advertising never buys coverage, an early look at a story or a kinder headline — that wall is in our Code of Ethics and it does not move.
Agencies and the network
Agencies can book NewsWibe on its own or inside a 24World Media network buy — one agreement across sister publications, one consolidated report. Tell us the audiences and markets; we will propose the mix that actually reaches them.
Start on the Contact page. Publisher’s office: 1411 N Sterling Ave, Palatine, IL 60067, United States.
What the rate covers — and the make-good
A confirmed rate covers the named formats in the named positions for the agreed flight, plus the delivery report; there are no production surprises hiding in the invoice. If a campaign under-delivers through a fault at our end — a position that failed to serve, a slot pulled early — we make it good with replacement placements of equal prominence, agreed with you, rather than arguing over a credit.
Creative that survives a small screen
Most of our audience meets your creative at phone width, so that is the bar: type readable without zooming, identity unmistakable in the first second, animation calm enough to sit beside breaking news. Creative that borrows our typography, our colour furniture or the look of a headline is rejected, as is anything that hides its sponsor. Political creative, where accepted, carries the sponsor’s legal name on the unit. Every advertiser, charity included, must be able to substantiate the claims in its own advertisement on request.