Sponsor a town

Put your business on your town's page

Every Ontario municipality has a page on Council Books. Residents come to it to understand where their tax money goes and what to ask council. Each page has room for up to 5 local sponsors, and every visit shows one of them.

Ask about a sponsorshipRead the rules first

What you get

• A share of every visit. Each town page has up to 5 sponsor slots, and every page load shows one of them, chosen at random. The fewer sponsors on a page, the more often you appear.
• Your logo, a line about your business and a link, in a clearly labelled "Sponsor" space on the town's overview page. The space always shows a sponsor once a town has one.
• Readers who care about their community. People reading their council's budget are homeowners, renters, business owners and voters in your area.
• Local, not targeted. Your sponsorship is matched to the town's page, not to the person reading it. We run no ad networks, and sponsors get no data about readers, so readers trust what they see.

Price

Per slot, by the size of the town, billed monthly. Cancel any time.

Launch prices for the first sponsors. Sponsoring several towns in one area? Ask about a regional rate.

How it works

1. Tell us the town and a little about your business, using the button below. Want more of the page? You can take more than one slot.
2. We check it fits the rules. We reply within two business days.
3. Send your logo and one line, and your sponsorship goes live on the page.

The rules

These keep Council Books trustworthy, which is what makes a sponsorship here worth having.

• Sponsors never touch the content. No say in what we write, no early look, and no way to add, change or remove a question. Sponsoring a page does not mean we agree with you, or you with us.
• Never next to a question. The sponsor space sits on the town's overview page, apart from the questions and the evidence.
• Always labelled. Every sponsorship says "Sponsor" plainly.
• Who we do not accept: candidates, political parties and election advertising of any kind; the municipality itself; and businesses that bid on or hold contracts with that municipality. We also turn down anything misleading or unlawful.
• We can end a sponsorship that breaks these rules, and refund the unused part.

Good fits

Credit unions and local banks, accountants and tax preparers, property-tax help, local news and community radio, colleges and libraries, and local businesses that want to show they back an informed community.

Ask about a sponsorship