A list can carry a sponsor. The order cannot.

A list in this magazine can be sponsored. If that happens, the sponsorship will be a labeled line, set apart from the names, in the same type as a colophon. It will not change who is on the list, and it will not change the order. Engagement, then average views, then followers, remains the sort. A sponsor does not buy the first position. I have sat on the creator side of a deck that hid the sponsorship inside the ranking. I will not publish that trick.

I do not have a rate card, and I am not going to copy one. A price printed before I have done the work would be theatre, and it would also be a lie about what this directory holds. The table has no prices. I also do not have clients to list. An empty logo row would be worse than silence, so this page is silent on names. I will not borrow someone else’s client list to make the silence look busy.

What I will not sell is the directory as a contact file, a filter by ethnicity, or a profile rewritten to flatter a buyer. The public page stays public. The figures stay the figures. I do not hold escrow, I do not process a checkout, and I do not hand over an inbox. If two people want to work together, they already have the numbers I can stand behind. The introduction is not a product I offer.

There is no application for this either. Contact explains why there is no form. When I am ready to talk about a labeled line on a specific list, the terms will be a paragraph a person can read, not a deck, and not a number I invented this afternoon.