Advertise with North York Guide
One product: a sponsored article in the hub your customers already read — Local Food, Local Services, or Local Events — with a banner surfacing it. $50/month if you write it, $100 one-time plus $50/month if we write it for you.
Source: Google Analytics, Jul 9 – Aug 7 2026.
Most readers arrive from a Google search for something specific — a patio, a drop-in skating rink, a dentist near Yonge and Sheppard. That's a different kind of attention than a social feed. They're already looking for what you sell.
Sessions to North York Guide grew 36% month over month between Jul 9 and Aug 7, 2026 (Google Analytics), and 62% of visitors are based in Toronto. 78% arrive from search — meaning most of the audience typed a question about a North York place and landed on an answer, a genuine local-intent signal, not a scroll-past impression.
The reader who searches "best patios in North York" is closer to a decision than the reader who scrolls past an ad.— North York Guide
A sponsored placement puts your business inside that answer — in the hub a resident is already reading — labeled clearly as sponsored, never disguised as an editorial pick.
There's one placement: a sponsored article that lives in Local Food, Local Services, or Local Events — whichever hub your customers are already reading — plus a banner in that hub surfacing it. The only question is who writes the article.
| Option | You provide | Price |
|---|---|---|
| You write it | The article and the photos | $50/mo |
| We write it | The photos and a short brief | $100 one-timethen $50/mo |
Both options need photos from you. See exactly what we need →
Send these and your placement goes live within five business days. Photos are the one thing we can't produce for you — we don't use stock or AI imagery for a real business, so what you send is what readers see.
Not sure your photos will work? Email them before you commit and we'll tell you honestly.
Every sponsored placement uses this exact component, wherever it appears on the site — same gold border, same "Sponsored" label, every time.
General and family dentistry on Yonge at Sheppard. Evening and Saturday appointments, direct insurance billing.
Book a visit →Example placement, shown for illustration.
Advertising pays for North York Guide to keep doing local reporting. It doesn't change what we say.
rel="sponsored". Search engines see them as paid placements, not editorial endorsements.A sponsored article in the hub your customers already read — Local Food, Local Services, or Local Events — plus a banner in that hub surfacing it. A dental practice sits in Local Services, a restaurant in Local Food. It's labeled sponsored, held to the same editorial standard as the rest of the page, and never placed inside a ranked list. At $50 a month you write the article and send the photos.
North York Guide logged 4,358 sessions a month between Jul 9 and Aug 7, 2026 (Google Analytics), with 78% of visitors arriving from search and 62% based in Toronto. Traffic to the specific page carrying your placement varies by topic and season, and we'll tell you what a given page is doing before you commit.
Either way works, and that's the only difference between the two prices. If you write it, the placement is $50/month. If you'd rather we write it, that's $100 one-time plus the same $50/month — you send photos and about a page of notes, we write it in North York Guide's voice, and you see a draft before anything publishes. It carries the sponsored label from the first line. Full requirements →
Then we can't run the placement yet. We don't use stock or AI imagery for a real business — a reader who shows up expecting what they saw in the photo is the entire point. Phone photos in good light are genuinely fine. Email them before you commit and we'll tell you honestly whether they'll work.
No. Rankings are never paid for, at any rate: sponsors are clearly labeled and never appear in the ranked list. A sponsored placement is a separate, labeled unit — it doesn't put a business into a ranking, and it doesn't change how a business that's there on its own merit is ranked.
We decline advertisers whose product or service we wouldn't recommend to a neighbor. That's the standard we apply, not a fixed category list, and we'll tell you directly if that's the case.
Email info@northyorkguide.com with which option you want and which hub you want to be in. We'll confirm availability and invoice you directly — reply to that email with any billing questions.
Tell us which hub you want to be in and whether you're writing the article or we are. We'll confirm availability and next steps within one business day.
Email info@northyorkguide.com