Inventory & media kit
Every placement, fully specified.
What each unit is, where it runs, how it is disclosed, how often one person can see it, and exactly what gets measured. Rates are shaped per campaign — request a briefing and we’ll come back with ideas, not a rate card.
Platform-served — available now
Served and measured by our own ad platform, on our own pages.
In-feed native card
Home · browse · search · news feed
- Format
- A native card — headline, subline, image and a call to action — placed in the content grid collectors are already reading.
- Disclosure
- Carries a visible “Sponsored” label; outbound links are tagged rel="sponsored". Never blended with card values, research findings or editorial headlines.
- Frequency cap
- Per-person daily and per-visit caps, set with you on the campaign and enforced automatically — your brand never wallpapers a page.
- Measurement
- Impressions, viewable impressions and clicks, recorded for every impression against one campaign ID shared across the site and the app.
Top banner
Home
- Format
- Billboard strip directly below the hero — the first commercial position on the page, with its space reserved in the layout so it never shifts the content.
- Disclosure
- Carries a visible “Sponsored” label; outbound links are tagged rel="sponsored". Never blended with card values, research findings or editorial headlines.
- Frequency cap
- Per-person daily and per-visit caps, set with you on the campaign and enforced automatically — your brand never wallpapers a page.
- Measurement
- Impressions, viewable impressions and clicks, recorded for every impression against one campaign ID shared across the site and the app.
Mid-page banner
Home
- Format
- Mid-page banner reached on scroll, capped separately from the top banner so the two never stack against one reader.
- Disclosure
- Carries a visible “Sponsored” label; outbound links are tagged rel="sponsored". Never blended with card values, research findings or editorial headlines.
- Frequency cap
- Per-person daily and per-visit caps, set with you on the campaign and enforced automatically — your brand never wallpapers a page.
- Measurement
- Impressions, viewable impressions and clicks, recorded for every impression against one campaign ID shared across the site and the app.
Sold directly
Delivered by people rather than served by the platform — the podcast, the shows and the store. Measurement is what each channel genuinely provides, stated per line.
Podcast host-read integration
The Collector Nation Podcast — audio and video editions
- Format
- A real conversation about your brand inside the show, read by the host — not a 30-second spot dropped between segments. Show-notes placement and social promotion around the episode included by arrangement. Baseline rate $40 CPM, negotiable with term and volume.
- Disclosure
- Disclosed on air and in the show notes as a sponsored integration.
- Measurement
- Episode performance from the platforms themselves: downloads and video views for the episodes you appear in, reported per episode.
Show-coverage sponsorship
Coverage of the industry’s biggest weeks — The National and beyond
- Format
- Your brand presented alongside our reporting, video and live coverage of a major show, planned around the event window.
- Disclosure
- Labeled sponsorship, always distinct from the reporting itself.
- Measurement
- Coverage-package reporting agreed per event: published pieces, video views and on-site deliverables.
Collector Station activation
The flagship store, event floor and content studio — Downtown Easley, SC
- Format
- Retail display, sampling, launches, signings and hosted community events, in front of collectors who came to buy — with produced footage as a deliverable, not just a day of foot traffic.
- Disclosure
- In-store activations are presented as the brand events they are.
- Measurement
- Agreed per activation: attendance, sales where relevant, and the content produced.
In development
Built into our ad platform but not yet live on the page — so we won’t sell it as if it were. Tell us if you want one of these and we will tell you honestly when it lands.
Dynamically inserted podcast audio
Collector Nation Podcast
Inserted audio on the flagship show, with an optional companion card beside the player. (Host-read integrations are sold directly today — see direct sponsorship.)
Player companion card
Podcast pages
Companion unit beside the player. Never interrupts playback.
Video pre-roll / mid-roll
Video and podcast pages
Pre-roll or mid-roll video against original programming.
The standards every placement is sold under
- Payment never changes editorial coverage, ranking or conclusions.
- Research underwriters are named. They do not review wording, results, or the decision to publish.
- Sponsor creative is never blended with card values, research findings or editorial headlines.
- No advertisement is placed between a purchase confirmation and its fulfillment information.
- Every placement is frequency-capped, enforced automatically on every request.
- One campaign ID reports across the site and the app in a single view.