Sponsorship
ITBudgetCalculator.com accepts one sponsor. A single, clearly labelled strip reading “Independent research, supported by X”, category-exclusive for the sponsor’s own category. Everything else on the site stays exactly as it is.
How it works
This site is a benchmark reference read by the people who set IT budgets: CFOs, CIOs, and finance teams validating a number before they commit to it. Sponsorship associates one company with that research through one strip, on the sponsor’s terms of visibility and on our terms of independence.
The strip is the entire sponsorship. There is one sponsor at a time, the slot is exclusive within the sponsor’s category, and the labelling is plain: readers always know it is sponsorship, and they always know it bought nothing beyond the strip itself.
The hard rule
Vendors this site evaluates are not eligible to sponsor it.
If your products appear in our benchmarks or comparisons, sponsorship is not available to you.
The same separation applies page by page: the sponsor never appears on pages covering its own products or its category competitors. A reader weighing options in the sponsor’s category sees no sponsor at all.
Never for sale
Sponsorship buys the strip and nothing else. The following are editorial:
Benchmark tables order industries and categories by the published data, never by commercial relationship. That does not change for a sponsor.
Where the site compares approaches, tools, or cost models, the conclusion follows the sources. Sponsorship buys no influence over any outcome.
The calculator, its inputs, its benchmark ranges, and its output are not a placement surface. No sponsor appears inside or around calculator results.
Verification is free for every vendor, sponsor or not. A verified figure means the source checked out, nothing more.
The sponsor sees content when readers do. No preview, no approval, no input into what gets covered or how.
What the sponsor receives
A single strip reading "Independent research, supported by X". It is the only sponsor surface on the site, and it is always labelled as sponsorship in plain language.
One sponsor at a time, exclusive for the sponsor's own category. No rotation, no second slot, no competing sponsor from the same space.
A monthly report covering how the sponsorship performed. Written for a sponsor deciding whether to renew, not a media kit.
Early sponsors lock a founding rate that holds as the site grows. Terms are discussed by email, not published here.
How sponsorship is disclosed
Sponsor links carry rel="sponsored" so search engines see the relationship the same way readers do. On the page, the labelling is plain language: “supported by”, named, in the strip, every time it appears.
The site’s editorial position, sources, and verification cadence are documented on the about page and the methodology page. Sponsorship changes none of it.
Enquiries
If the model above reads like the kind of association you want, write to us. Include who you are and the category you would want exclusivity in. Not sure your category qualifies? Ask anyway; if this site is not the fit, another in the network usually is.
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