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The people reading this are thermal engineers, data center operators, infrastructure investors, and the teams specifying and buying cooling equipment. They subscribed for the reporting. Sponsoring alongside that content puts your message in front of the right audience, in a context they already trust. We keep the sponsor count low and the standards high, because that is what makes it worth something for everyone.

How We Think About Sponsorships

A good sponsorship earns its place. It brings something genuinely relevant to an audience that can act on it. We treat every partnership as a collaboration: you bring the substance, we present it in a way that respects the reader's time and intelligence.

Clear labeling. Tight copy. No ambiguity about what is editorial and what is paid. That clarity is what keeps the audience, and the sponsorship, valuable.

Who We Work With

  • Companies selling products or services relevant to data center cooling, thermal management, liquid cooling, or adjacent categories like power, facilities, monitoring, and fluid handling
  • Industry events, conferences, and summits our readers would actually attend
  • Companies hiring thermal and cooling engineering professionals
  • Research firms, consultancies, and data providers in the data center infrastructure space

Who We Don't Work With

  • Companies with no clear connection to data center cooling or infrastructure
  • Competing newsletters or publications
  • Gambling, crypto speculation, or financial products
  • Anything we wouldn't stand behind recommending to a reader
  • Anyone seeking editorial influence, link placement in editorial sections, or approval over our coverage

Sponsorship Tiers

Four options. Each edition carries a maximum of one primary sponsor and one Cooling Byte. No stacking beyond that. No sidebar ads. No pop-ups.

Limited Availability

Founding Sponsor

We are opening a small number of long-term Founding Sponsor positions for companies that want a sustained, recurring presence with our audience. Four spots. That is all we will offer at this tier. When they fill, the tier closes permanently.

Founding Sponsors lock in a preferred rate for 12 consecutive weeks of Primary Sponsor placement. You get a "Founding Sponsor" badge on every placement, priority access to Dedicated Send slots, and a quarterly audience insight briefing with engagement data and reader breakdown by job title and company type.

This is the deepest relationship we offer, and the pricing reflects the commitment on both sides.

  • 12 consecutive weeks of Primary Sponsor
  • Preferred rate, locked for the full run
  • "Founding Sponsor" badge on every placement
  • Priority access to Dedicated Send slots
  • Quarterly audience insight briefing
  • Four spots available. When they fill, this tier closes.

Best for: cooling vendors, CDU manufacturers, integrators, and service providers who want sustained visibility with the people who spec, buy, and build cooling infrastructure

Cooling Byte

Single Line

A one-line sponsored mention inside the Cooling Bytes roundup. Your company name, a short message, one link. It sits alongside the news bites readers already scan every week. Feels native. Stays out of the way. Still gets clicked.

  • One sentence, max 25 words
  • One link
  • Company name displayed
  • Labeled "Sponsor"

Best for: product launches, event promos, open roles, or staying visible on a weekly basis without a heavy commitment

Most Popular

Primary Sponsor

The main sponsorship block. Placed between editorial sections in the newsletter with a headline, body copy, your logo, and a CTA link. This is the spot most readers engage with because it has enough room to actually say something worth clicking on.

  • Headline: max 12 words
  • Body: 50-80 words
  • One CTA link
  • Logo: 200px wide max
  • Labeled "Sponsored by [Company]"

Best for: driving demo requests, datasheet downloads, webinar signups, or putting your company in front of the people who spec, buy, and build cooling infrastructure

Deep Integration

Dedicated Send

A standalone email to our full subscriber list, written collaboratively between your team and ours. We bring the editorial voice and audience knowledge. You bring the substance. The result reads like something worth opening, not something worth archiving.

  • Full email, 200-400 words
  • Written collaboratively (we will not forward a press release)
  • Your logo and branding
  • Up to 3 links
  • Subject line co-crafted for deliverability and open rate
  • Labeled "A message from [Company]"
  • Limited to 1x per month

Best for: major product launches, funding announcements, case study distribution, event pushes, or running a targeted campaign against the cooling infrastructure buyer

Copy Standards

Your copy should feel like it belongs in the newsletter. Our readers are engineers and operators. They can tell when something was written by someone who understands their world and when it was pulled from a pitch deck. We want the former.

We encourage

  • Specific claims backed by real numbers ("40% reduction in pump energy at 85kW rack density")
  • Addressing a problem our readers actually deal with
  • Linking to something useful: a technical resource, a datasheet, a case study, a demo
  • Direct language. Say what you do and why it matters. Then stop.
  • Event, webinar, or job invitations that are genuinely relevant to this audience

We will push back on

  • Vague superlatives ("industry-leading," "best-in-class," "revolutionary")
  • Copy that reads like it was copy-pasted from a press release
  • Performance claims with no data behind them
  • More than one CTA or link in a single sponsor slot
  • Anything designed to look like editorial content
  • Any request to shape, soften, or redirect our coverage

Labeling

Every sponsorship is labeled "Sponsored by [Company Name]" in its own visual section, clearly separated from the editorial around it. Sponsor copy stays in sponsor sections. Editorial stays in editorial sections. We don't use softening language like "presented by" or "in partnership with" that blurs the line.

Editorial Independence

Sponsoring this newsletter does not buy editorial influence. If we cover your company, it is because the story earned coverage. If we write something critical about your market segment, the sponsorship runs anyway. These two things operate in separate rooms, and that separation is what makes both worth having.

Specifically, we will never:

  • Promise editorial coverage as part of a sponsorship deal
  • Show sponsors editorial drafts before publication
  • Adjust our positions or coverage based on who is paying us
  • Kill a story about a competitor because a sponsor asked

Pricing and Availability

Rates, subscriber count, engagement stats, and audience breakdown are all in our media kit. We offer single-edition bookings and multi-week packages at a discount.

A Cooling Byte and a Primary Sponsor can run in the same edition since they sit in different sections and serve different purposes. Dedicated Sends go out separately from the regular newsletter and are capped at one per month so we do not burn the list.

Not every inquiry is the right fit. We will always tell you honestly if it isn't.

How It Works

  • Reach out. Tell us your company, what you want to promote, and which week(s) you are looking at
  • We check the fit. If it works, we share rates and audience data
  • You send copy. Headline, body, CTA link, optional logo. We review it and may suggest edits to sharpen performance.
  • We both sign off. Payment clears before the send date.
  • You get the numbers. Open rate, click-through rate, unique clicks on your link. Delivered within 48 hours of the send.

Let's talk.

Email sponsor@thecoolingreport.com with your company name, what you would like to promote, and your preferred timing. We will get back to you within two business days.

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