Advertise
Strategic Media

Advertise

Reach owners, operators and investors in the environment where they research decisions — not where they scroll.

Display inventory across The Open Key is deliberately scarce. We run a small number of placements per page so that each one is seen rather than tuned out, and we do not sell below-the-fold filler.

Every placement is served first-party. There are no third-party ad-tracking cookies on this site, which means your campaign reaches a real, logged-in professional audience rather than an inferred one.

What's included

Homepage leaderboard

Full-width, above the first editorial rail. One advertiser at a time.

In-feed placement

Sits inside the article stream, styled to the page and clearly labelled.

Article sidebar

Persistent through the read, targetable by section and region.

Newsletter banner

Inside the Daily Executive Briefing, our highest-engagement surface.

Placements & targeting

Placements
Home leaderboard · in-feed · article top · article sidebar · hub banner · newsletter
Targeting
By section, by region, or run-of-site
Delivery
Weighted rotation — no single-impression dumping
Reporting
Impressions and clicks per creative, in your partner portal
Labelling
Every unit is marked “Advertisement” with the advertiser named

Creative is reviewed before it goes live. We will decline anything that mimics editorial without a label.