Advertising policy

• No payment changes data. Not a figure, a chart, a Space Score, a tracker, a ranking, a fact-check, or an editorial article.
• No payment changes order. Search results, the company directory and the job board are ordered without reference to any payment. Paid job posts appear in a separate slot labelled “Featured”; they do not move organic listings. Nothing paid appears on any company profile or directory card: we no longer sell enhanced company listings.
• Sponsors never preview or shape editorial. No sponsor sees an article, report or dataset before it publishes, and none chooses what we cover.
• Sponsored content never feeds AI-drafted products. The weekly lunar article, the daily and weekly briefs, AI insights and mission debriefs are built from inputs that exclude partner content and sponsor messages.
• Some pages carry nothing paid at all: no ad units, no sponsor slots, no partner content:
  • Space stocks (/space-stocks)
  • Space Markets Daily (/markets-daily)
  • All rankings, including Space Score, the weekly Space Score edition and the Top 25 (/rankings)
  • Company report cards (/report-cards)
  • The Moon tracker (/moon)
  • The monthly report (it carries stock movers) (/reports/monthly)
  • Chart of the Week and data charts (the rotation includes stock and score series) (/chart)
  • The Promise Ledger and the promise trackers (no organisation can pay to change, reorder or preview its record) (/promises)
  • /funding-tracker (/funding-tracker)
  • /tonight (/tonight)
  • /programs (/programs)
  • /orbital-data-centers (/orbital-data-centers)
  • /embed/space-score (/embed/space-score)
• Listed companies buy nothing company-level. Listed companies (any company with shares on a public exchange, and its parent or subsidiaries) can claim and correct their profiles free, like everyone else, and can buy only what anyone can buy at list price: Research seats and job posts on /hire. We sell them no sponsorship, partner article, display ad or any other company-level product. Nothing paid appears beside a share price.
• Company profiles are not for sale. Claiming a company profile, and every claim function, is free, forever. We never charge to claim, to verify or to correct a profile. SpaceNexus no longer sells enhanced or premium company listings. They were retired on 7 October 2026. None was ever sold, so no refunds were due; if one ever turns up, it will be refunded for the unused time. Corrections follow the same published service levels for everyone, with or without an account (corrections).

These rules are checked by automated tests that fail our build if a score, ranking or data module starts reading from advertising, sponsorship or partner-content code, if a paid label goes missing, or if a paid link loses its rel="sponsored".

Every paid item says so in words, before you reach the content, not in colour or an icon alone.

Current prices and audience figures are on the rate card.

A sponsor of an editorial data report gets its name, an optional one-line message and a link above the report, labelled “Sponsored · Presented by <sponsor>”, with this line directly under it:

The sponsor had no role in selecting, analysing or reviewing this data and did not see it before publication.

An unsold slot shows nothing. Score, ranking, stock and Moon-tracker surfaces cannot carry one.

• From $295 per article written by the sponsor, or from $595 written by us for the sponsor, published at /partner.
• “Partner content · Sponsored by <sponsor>” appears above the headline; a disclosure box appears above the text; the byline says who wrote it and for whom; the page title and share card carry the word “Sponsored”.
• We fact-check the factual claims before publishing. An article cannot be approved in our system until an editor has written fact-check notes (at least 40 characters), and editing an approved article takes it back off the site until it is checked again. We may edit or decline any piece.
• The 14-day distribution package, included in the price. For 14 days from publication the article is shown in these labelled slots, each of which says “Partner content · Sponsored by <sponsor>” in words and links with rel="sponsored":
  • one card at a fixed position in the news feed (the 5th card). It sits in its own slot: it never changes the order of our news stories and never replaces one. When more than one partner article is running, one is shown per day, in turn;
  • a “From our partners” card after the end of related blog and analysis articles, chosen by topic. It never appears inside an article, and never on market, stock, score, ranking or data pages; with no related topic there is no card;
  • one card in the lower half of the homepage, never in its top section;
  • one block labelled “Sponsored” in Monday's SpaceNexus AM email, at a fixed spot after all of its news, added after the brief is written and checked (its AI never sees partner content), and never in an issue that carries a stock figure. Its link counts clicks without identifying anyone. Week in Space Data, our Friday data email, and SpaceNexus AM on other days never carry partner content;
  • one LinkedIn post and one X post from SpaceNexus, each labelled as sponsored and naming the sponsor;
  • an end-of-campaign report of engaged views and unique clicks for each placement. An engaged view is a visitor who interacted with the page while the card was at least half on screen, counted once a day; pages loaded by automated clients without interaction are not counted.
• Partner content is never mixed into the order of our news, blog lists or search results, and is kept out of news feeds (RSS), the Google News sitemap, site search, Week in Space Data (our Friday email), and the pages that carry nothing paid (listed above). It is never shown to the AI that drafts any of our products. The one exception to “nothing paid in an AI-drafted product”: a single labelled “Sponsored” block at a fixed spot near the end of Monday's SpaceNexus AM email, added by code after the brief is written and checked, never mixed into its text, and never in an issue that carries a stock figure.

We work with people across the industry: companies, investors, researchers and other publications. Every kind of collaboration follows the rule this page starts with: a partner can lend us expertise, data, an audience or money, but nothing a partner does changes what our data, scores or rankings say.

• Contributed analysis and interviews, unpaid. We invite practitioners, investors included, to write bylined pieces or answer our questions. We choose the topic, edit the piece and fact-check its factual claims. Contributors are named with their firm and disclose any financial interest in a company they mention, and the disclosure is printed with the piece. A contribution may not promote the contributor's fund, portfolio, products or any offering. No one pays or is paid for it.
• Data partners. An organisation may share data with us under an open licence. We credit it wherever the data is used, check the data before we use it, and use it only where it belongs (events or news, for example). Contributed data never changes a score, ranking or funding total by itself, and anything it adds names its source.
• Methodology review. We welcome comment on how we build the Space Score, the funding tracker and our datasets, and may ask outside reviewers to look at a method. No one outside SpaceNexus sees a score before it is published or can change an individual result.
• Co-hosted events. We may co-host webinars or briefings with analysts and organisations. We decide the content. A partner that pays is shown as “Presented by <partner>” in words, and no event is used to pitch an investment.
• Access, not influence. Any firm, investors included, may buy SpaceNexus Research seats, data licences or API access. A purchase buys no coverage, no early look and no say in any result: customers see the same data as every reader.
• No co-branded content. We do not publish content branded jointly with a company or a firm. A contributor appears under their own name and firm, inside SpaceNexus editorial, as described above; paid pieces are partner content, labelled as such.

• Paid content about whether to buy or sell a security, and any stock promotion. Paid content may promote companies and products, never an investment decision. We do not accept compensation to promote a security (the kind of arrangement Section 17(b) of the Securities Act requires to be disclosed), and nothing sponsored appears on our stock or score pages.
• Sponsorships, partner content or other paid placements that market an investment fund or any other offering to investors.
• Crypto tokens, token sales, and investment or “guaranteed return” schemes.
• Claims we cannot verify, or that are misleading, including invented statistics and undated “as of” figures.
• Political and issue advertising.
• Anything designed to look like SpaceNexus editorial, data or a SpaceNexus recommendation.
• Anything unlawful, deceptive, or that impersonates a person or organisation.

We review every campaign and article before it runs. Self-serve campaigns are reviewed within 2 business days, and declined self-serve campaigns are refunded in full automatically.

• Paid online at checkout. Weekly brief sponsorships, display campaigns and job listings are paid by card through Stripe when you order.
• Display budgets. A display budget is paid up front and billed down at $30 per 1,000 viewable impressions as your ad is actually shown. We only take a budget we expect to deliver: a self-serve budget is capped at what we estimate we can deliver in 90 days, from our measured audience, and the order form shows today's estimate. When the campaign ends, whatever was not delivered is refunded to your card automatically and we email you the amounts. A declined campaign is refunded in full.
• Invoiced products. "Presented by" report sponsorships, the jobs widget line and partner articles are quoted before booking. We then send a Stripe invoice by email at the rate-card price (never below the published minimum), payable online within 14 days. Nothing goes live until the invoice is paid, unless we have agreed in writing to publish first.
• Declined partner articles. If we decline a paid partner article, we refund it in full. The refund goes back to the original payment method, and we email you when it is made.

Every paid link (ad units, sponsor names and partner-article links) carries rel="sponsored", so search engines do not treat it as an editorial endorsement. Sponsored pages stay out of RSS feeds and the news sitemap; on our own pages they appear only in the labelled, fixed-position slots described above.

Display ads load only after you accept advertising cookies in the consent banner; if you reject them, no ad code loads. Pro members and people on a Pro trial see no ads. Google's ad code also waits until you interact with the page, so automated traffic does not request it. See the cookie policy and privacy policy.

A sponsor in an email is labelled “Sponsored” with the sponsor's name before its message. Our newsletters carry a one-click unsubscribe and our postal address, and our systems refuse to send a sponsored issue without that address. The only email that can carry a sponsor today is Monday's SpaceNexus AM, with at most one labelled partner-article block; an email or issue that carries Space Score or stock content never carries a sponsor.

Advertising and sponsorship: use the form on the rate card or contact us. To report a paid item that is not labelled, or one you think breaks this policy, tell us; we treat it like a correction.

Postal address: SpaceNexus LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801

See also our editorial standards.