Own the best real estate
in developer discovery.
A permanent bar at the foot of the daily.dev homepage feed, on top of the live breaking news. One brand in full colour, ten beside it, on every load. Not a campaign you launch and pause. A seat you hold.
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The brand behind the platform
Developers see who keeps daily.dev running, every time they open it.
On the homepage, all session
Fixed to the foot of the feed, above the news they came for.
2M+ to 60M+ a month
Every tier buys a contracted monthly floor, in writing.
A brand buy, not a banner
No clicks to chase and no CTR to defend. Presence is the product.
"Not an ad. A signal."
Brands that reach developers on daily.dev
Google, Atlassian, Notion, Okta, Redis, Sentry, Datadog, JetBrains, Postman, Snyk, ClickHouse, PostHog, LaunchDarkly, Neo4j, Temporal, Sonar, Appwrite, dbt Labs, Retool, Pulumi, CodeRabbit, Windsurf, OpenRouter, Bright Data, Stream, Postmark, Novu, context.dev
Developer marketing is anything but marketing.
The feed is where millions of developers explore, learn, and stay up to date. They come to it several times a day, in discovery mode, with their guard up and their ad blockers on. They are very good at ignoring brands that turn up to sell to them, and they notice the ones that turn up to support the thing they use.
Sponsoring the homepage is that signal. It says you keep the platform running for the community that lives on it, and that credibility carries into everything else you do here, your organic content and your paid campaigns alike. Developers do not thank ads. They do respect the brands that keep their favourite platform free.
The most valuable pixels in developer media.
The breaking news bar underneath your logo is not decoration. It is a real product developers come back to check: live headlines, what is happening right now. So the eye path on this page runs one way every session — scan the feed, drop to the news, and pass straight through the sponsor logos on the way. Most brand placements buy space next to attention and hope some of it spills over. This one sits on top of the single strip developers look at on purpose.
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One buy, both surfaces.
The headline tier ships the homepage bar and the digest co-brand together. Your mark sits at the foot of the feed all session, and at the top of the daily.dev Digest, above the first story, on every send. The Engagement Ads suite comes with it: your brand tags fully branded, branded upvote animations, branded tag chips, and tag page takeovers.
Product mockup for illustration. Brand names and marks shown are fictional.
One anchor. And no competitor anywhere on the bar.
The headline slot is exclusive twice over. There is one anchor position and one brand in it, and holding it buys category exclusivity across the whole bar: no competing brand appears beside you in the featured seats, or below you in the monochrome rotation. Not for the week. For the term you signed. You are not defending a share of voice against whoever happened to buy this month — in your category, at the foot of the daily.dev homepage, you are the only brand a developer sees.
Product mockup for illustration. Brand names and marks shown are fictional.
Always on, contracted in writing, with nothing to optimise.
A floor, in writing
Every tier buys a contracted monthly impression floor, from 2M+ to 60M+. The floors are deliberately conservative, so anything above them is free media. Under-delivery is made good with impressions or an extension.
Part of the homepage
Not an auction, and not a rotation you might lose. The bar is built into the page. It is there when developers arrive, still there when they scroll, and it does not need a budget check to render.
No CTR to defend
This is a brand product, so there is no click funnel to explain to your board and no dashboard to refresh. What you present internally is presence, permanence, and a delivery floor you can point at.
Three ways to stand behind daily.dev.
One headline slot. Four Featured. Twenty Community.
Headline Sponsor
1 exclusive slot60M+ /month
guaranteed impressions, platform and email
- Full colour logo, anchor position, always on
- Category exclusivity across the whole bar
- Co-brand across 10M+ monthly emails, permanently
- Engagement Ads included
Featured Sponsor
4 slots8M+ /month
guaranteed impressions
- Monochrome logo, premium seat beside the headline
- Four times the impressions for twice the price
Community Sponsor
20 slots2M+ /month
guaranteed impressions
- Monochrome logo, standard rotation
Quarterly or annual commitment, billed quarterly in advance. Annual plans are cancellable with 90 days notice. Pricing is not published — ask for the rate card and we will send it with current slot availability.
Request the rate card →Built for brands that want to be part of the furniture
What teams are actually buying when they take a seat on the bar.
Become the brand developers associate with the platform itself
Category ads buy you a moment. The anchor slot buys you the association. Your logo is the answer to "who keeps this running", every session, for as long as you hold the slot.
Reach the whole engineering org, not a segment
Targeted campaigns find the personas you asked for. The bar does not filter: every developer who opens the homepage passes it, from the junior writing their first PR to the staff engineer who picks the stack to the manager who signs off on it.
Hold the room through a launch quarter
Campaigns start and stop. The bar does not. Sit above the breaking news for the whole quarter your launch is trying to win, instead of buying attention back every week.
From picking a seat to a permanent logo
Four steps, one logo, and no campaign to manage afterwards.
Pick your seat
One headline slot in full colour. Four featured positions beside it. Twenty community slots in the wider rotation. Availability is confirmed before you sign.
Send one logo
A full-colour mark and a monochrome mark, plus one line of copy if you take the headline slot and the digest co-brand that comes with it. That is the whole creative brief.
Go live on the homepage
Your logo goes up at the foot of the feed, on top of the live breaking news, on every load, all session. Nothing to schedule and nothing to refresh.
Delivery against your floor
Your monthly impression floor is contracted in writing and confirmed on request. Under-delivery is made good with additional impressions or an extension.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently Asked Questions
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