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How to advertise to PHP developers

To advertise to PHP developers, be where they read every day: daily.dev Ads, Laravel News, Laracon and r/PHP. daily.dev gives you a verified company page they follow and puts your posts and releases in the feed of developers who read #php and #laravel, and in the Web Development newsletter, in one plan we run for you.

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Who are the PHP developers on daily.dev?

What they read, where it comes from, and what else they follow: the signals a campaign is targeted on.

The tags that reach them

Target any mix; your plan runs the campaign on them.

  • #php
  • #laravel
  • #webdev
  • #backend
  • #javascript
  • #sql

800+ targetable keywords in all (daily.dev Media Kit 2.0, August 2026 — targeting).

Where PHP developers get their news

The sources that publish most on these tags, ranked by followers on daily.dev.

  1. 1 Hacker News
  2. 2 freeCodeCamp
  3. 3 Laravel News
  4. 4 Laravel Daily
  5. 5 FREEK.DEV
  6. 6 DuckDB

What they also read

Tags on the same recent posts, as a share of them. Worth adding to a campaign.

  • #ai-agents8%
  • #css8%
  • #symfony6%
  • #react6%
  • #testing3%
  • #database3%

Tags, sources and co-reading: daily.dev public API snapshot.

How do you reach PHP developers?

Developers are the audience that taught the industry to block ads. The way in is not a louder interruption; it is the reading they chose, in the place they open every day. That is why daily.dev Ads exists: to help brands earn a place in that reading, week after week.

13K+
companies whose developers read daily.dev
800+
targetable stacks and topics
2,000+
content sources in the feed

Written by the daily.dev Ads team, which plans and runs every campaign on the platform. Sources on the audience overview.

  1. Laravel is the entry point, so publish for it.

    For many PHP developers, Laravel is the framework. Publish the Laravel integration, the service provider or the artisan command, so readers meet your product in their own framework.

  2. Composer install, then the first call, then nothing else.

    PHP developers adopt a package in minutes or not at all. Open your posts with the install line and the first working call, and link to the quickstart rather than an overview.

  3. Hosting and deployment are the questions they still have.

    If your product touches where PHP runs or how it deploys, publish the deploy flow step by step. It is the kind of post PHP developers save and come back to.

  4. Respect the language; the audience has heard the jokes.

    PHP developers tune out anything that nods to the dismissive takes. Write about modern PHP as the typed, tested language it is, and your company page reads as one of their own.

Postmark
“The hardest part is usually reaching developers in a way that feels relevant instead of generic. They’re quick to tune out broad marketing, so context and audience fit matter a lot.”

Trevor Rawls

Senior Marketing Manager

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Why do developers pay attention on daily.dev?

Harry on earning developer attention: lead with what your product does, respect a skeptical audience, cut time to value, and show up in the right context instead of interrupting.

More from the team: the developer marketing series →

What do PHP developers read, and what should your brand say?

A few things they read and discuss

Examples of popular posts on these tags that PHP developers read and talk about on daily.dev. Open any of them to join the conversation.

  1. AI Hallucinated a Table That Was Never There SQL Authority 10 87
  2. What We Know About Laravel 14 Laravel News 5 50
  3. What's New in PHP 8.6 Laravel News 4 55
  4. Difflock: Lint Laravel Migrations and Diff Your Schema Laravel News 4 20
  5. Magic 8 Ball : Frontend Coding Exercises Kirupa 3 36

Each post opens on daily.dev with its discussion.

What that means for your message

Your takeaways from what they discuss. Our team writes the creative with you.

  • Laravel first Publish the service provider and the facade in a working example
  • Deploying PHP Walk through push to live, with the steps counted
  • Modern PHP Show typed, tested code; let it answer the reputation

How do you target PHP developers on daily.dev?

Targeting is built on what developers read on daily.dev, not a self-declared profile. You set it once with your campaign manager; your plan runs it, and we optimise it every week.

Tags
#php, #laravel, #webdev, #backend, #javascript, #sql, and any of the 800+ targetable keywords
Seniority
Junior, mid-level, senior and leadership, from on-platform activity
Region
Global, or by region and country
In your plan
  • Your verified company page
  • Your posts in their feed
  • The Web Development newsletter
  • Your logo on the daily.dev homepage
  • A weekly report and a campaign manager
Creative

Our team works with you to shape, finish and test your creative, so it reads like the posts around it.

Creative specs for every placement

Pick a size

Same work in every size. The size sets your reach.

Plan size
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Prices are quoted per company. See how plans work →

Where else can you reach PHP developers?

Where PHP developers can be reached with paid media, and what each channel is good at. Most teams combine two or three; a plan here is the always-on part.

Compare daily.dev with

daily.dev Ads
PHP newsletters PHP Weekly, Laravel News
Format
Your verified company page, your posts in their feed, the newsletter they chose, the homepage One sponsor slot per issue
Target by stack
Yes: #php, #laravel and related tags, seniority, region By list
How you buy
Managed monthly plan Per issue
Best for
Building a brand developers follow, every week, with creative and reporting done for you Launch-week spikes

Channel facts from each channel's own public pages, October 2026. Prices are not compared.

What do teams build with PHP developers on daily.dev?

Build your brand with them

Show up every day in the reading PHP developers chose, with your posts, releases and point of view, so yours is the name they know when they pick a tool.

Grow a community around your product

Your verified company page is where PHP developers follow you, discuss your posts and come back for your next release.

Strengthen your employer brand

Share engineering stories, culture and open roles with PHP developers where they already discover tools and ideas.

Brands building with developers on daily.dev

Brands building with developers on daily.dev

Google
Okta
AWS
Vanta
RevenueCat
JetBrains
ClickHouse
Neo4j
Appwrite
Pulumi
OpenRouter
Postmark
Google
Okta
AWS
Vanta
RevenueCat
JetBrains
ClickHouse
Neo4j
Appwrite
Pulumi
OpenRouter
Postmark
Atlassian
Sentry
Google Cloud
Zoho
QA Wolf
Postman
PostHog
Temporal
dbt Labs
CodeRabbit
Bright Data
Novu
Atlassian
Sentry
Google Cloud
Zoho
QA Wolf
Postman
PostHog
Temporal
dbt Labs
CodeRabbit
Bright Data
Novu
Notion
Datadog
Cursor
Edge Impulse
TigerData
Snyk
LaunchDarkly
Sonar
Retool
Windsurf
Stream
context.dev
Notion
Datadog
Cursor
Edge Impulse
TigerData
Snyk
LaunchDarkly
Sonar
Retool
Windsurf
Stream
context.dev

Google, AWS, Google Cloud, Cursor, Vanta, Zoho, Atlassian, Notion, Okta, Sentry, Datadog, JetBrains, Postman, Snyk, ClickHouse, Edge Impulse, RevenueCat, QA Wolf, TigerData, PostHog, LaunchDarkly, Neo4j, Temporal, Sonar, Appwrite, dbt Labs, Retool, Pulumi, CodeRabbit, Windsurf, OpenRouter, Bright Data, Stream, Postmark, Novu, context.dev

Postmark drove 12.8× more signups context.dev hit 3× the industry CTR benchmark

Guides on reaching PHP developers

All guides: developer marketing resources →

Advertising to PHP developers: your questions

Yes. Your posts can reach only developers who read #php, or #php with #laravel, #webdev, #backend or #sql, with seniority and region on top. It is built on what developers read, not a self-declared profile.

daily.dev reaches millions of developers, and PHP developers there read about Laravel, deployment and the databases behind their apps. We do not publish audience sizes per segment; tell us the regions and seniority you need and your plan proposal comes back with the reach it buys. 75% of active developers across the network are mid-level or senior.

Your verified company page comes first, with Laravel examples, release notes and deployment write-ups. Your plan puts them in the feed of developers who read #php and #laravel and in the Web Development newsletter. Lead with a quickstart written for Laravel.

Yes. Every plan includes a verified company page that developers follow. What you publish there (releases, tutorials, engineering posts) reaches your followers, and your plan puts it in the feed of PHP developers who read #php, #laravel, #webdev. The following stays yours between campaigns.

Yes. Engineering stories, culture and open-source work published on your company page reach PHP developers where they already read, which is what makes an employer brand stick. To hire them directly, recruiter.daily.dev matches roles to developers who opt in.

daily.dev Ads is one managed monthly plan in three sizes, Starter, Growth and Scale. Every size includes your verified company page, your posts and releases in their feed and newsletter, creative made with you and a weekly report; the size sets the reach. Prices are quoted per company, so tell us the audience and regions you need and we come back with a size and a quote.

Pick a plan. We reach
PHP developers for you.

Tell us what you sell and the regions you need. We come back with a plan size, the reach it buys and a quote.

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