Residents and community groups
People near a proposed or operating campus who need verifiable local facts.
ADVERTISE
Reach the people who actually read the filing.
ThirstTrap.ai is free to read and paid for by contextual ads and clearly disclosed sponsorships. The audience is small on purpose and hard to reach anywhere else: people who care what the permit says.
Rates and availability on request. We are a launch-stage publication and will not quote traffic we cannot show you.
01 / WHO READS
Four audiences, one habit: checking the source.
Journalists and researchers
Readers who cite the filing, not the headline, and come back for corrections.
Planners and policy staff
Utility, permitting, and water professionals who need boundaries stated plainly.
Industry readers
Operators, vendors, and engineers who want accurate comparisons without advocacy theater.
02 / PLACEMENTS
Reserved slots. Fixed height. No layout shift.
Each slot reserves its space before the ad loads, so the page never jumps and Core Web Vitals stay healthy.
| Slot | Position | Reserved height |
|---|---|---|
home-top | Leaderboard, homepage, between Trust protocol and Receipts | 120px minimum |
home-mid | In-content rectangle, homepage, between Signal and Impact lens | 300px minimum |
home-bottom | Banner, homepage, above the footer | 120px minimum |
answer-mid | In-content rectangle, answer pages, between the answer and related questions | 300px minimum |
answers-hub-mid | In-content rectangle, answers hub, between the two question groups | 300px minimum |
page-end | Banner, end of every secondary page | 120px minimum |
DISPLAY
Contextual display ads
Served through a privacy-conscious network in the labeled slots above. Category exclusions apply.
DIRECT
Disclosed sponsorships
A section, tool, or explainer carries a plain “Sponsored by” label. Editorial control stays with ThirstTrap.ai.
03 / THE RULES
What money buys here, and what it never will.
- Every paid placement is labeled in plain language. No native ads dressed up as reporting.
- Ads sit in reserved slots, physically separate from receipts, evidence labels, source links, calculator results, and corrections.
- Sponsors do not preview, approve, select, or suppress evidence, conclusions, rankings, corrections, or coverage priorities.
- Low density. No autoplay audio, forced interstitials, deceptive controls, or ads that mimic navigation.
- Privacy-conscious measurement only. We collect what the placement needs and nothing more.
- We review advertiser categories for conflicts with the topic and disclose material relationships.
Ready to talk? Email thirsttrapai@pm.me with your category, timing, and what you are hoping to reach.