Sponsorship
Advertise with MDM
A trade publication for the people who specify, buy and run medical device manufacturing. Sponsorship buys visibility here, and never anything else.
The rule that shapes everything below
Money buys visibility. It does not buy coverage, routing, verification or rank. Every sponsored unit carries a visible label, in the markup as well as on the page. Nobody pays to receive a sourcing request, the featured directory slot cannot be bought at any price, and verification cannot be bought at all. We negotiate on price and never on labels.
The units
- Newsletter sponsorship
- Presenting position at the top of the weekly edition, with a logo, forty to sixty words and a link. A secondary position runs mid edition. Priced on verified subscriber count.
- Sponsored content
- Labeled, held to the same style guide as editorial, and capped at one piece per section per month. It is edited to the same sourcing rules: named sources, primary sources linked, standards cited by number and year.
- Site display
- Offered in packages rather than standalone.
- Category sponsorship
- One sponsor per directory category, at the top of that category’s page, labeled Sponsored, beside the earned featured slot and never replacing it. Each placement runs for a dated period and is priced on the measured results of the earned featured slot.
Who may sponsor, and what is exclusive
When Life Science Outsourcing, Inc., which publishes this site, sponsors here, it pays the same rates as any other sponsor, is invoiced through the same process and is labeled exactly the same way. Its position as publisher is set out in full on about and network rules.
A competitor of Life Science Outsourcing may buy any placement the publisher can buy, on the same terms as anyone else. Being a competitor of the publisher changes nothing about what a company may buy, what it pays or how it is labeled.
A category sponsorship is exclusive for its dated period, and for nothing wider. One sponsor holds a directory category at a time, and this site refuses a second placement in that category for any day the first one runs. The exclusivity reaches that one category and those dates. It does not reach another category, the newsletter or sponsored content, and no editorial month is exclusive to any sponsor. It is exclusive visibility and never exclusive access: every company listed in the category stays listed, the earned featured slot stays beside the sponsor, and requests in the category route exactly as they would with no sponsor.
The editorial calendar
Twelve monthly themes. Each one concentrates features, explainers and data work in a single area, and each is available to sponsor against.
| Month | Theme |
|---|---|
| January | Packaging and Sterile Barrier |
| February | Cleanroom and Assembly |
| March | Sterilization |
| April | Molding and Extrusion |
| May | Electronics and Software |
| June | Supply Chain |
| July | Quality and QMSR |
| August | Startups and Scale-up |
| September | Automation |
| October | Machining and Metals |
| November | Diagnostics and Consumables |
| December | Year in Data |
Rates
Rates are on request. We do not quote an audience figure we have not verified.
Talk to us
Sponsorship enquiries go to [email protected]; say which unit or which editorial month you are asking about. Product news and releases are free and go through submit news, which is a different thing and is not sponsorship.