BUSINESS · ADVERTISING
Advertise with The Colony
The Colony OK accepts advertising on its public surfaces — the pages, shows and broadcasts an Oklahoman can reach without an account. Members read ad-free, and advertisers buy space, never coverage. Terms are agreed per advertiser; there is no rate card to quote from yet.
What you are buying
STATED BEFORE THE ASKAn Oklahoma audience that chose this newsroom on purpose, reached on the surfaces that are open to everyone. What is available depends on what is running when you ask, so we will tell you what actually exists rather than point you at a menu — and we will say no to anything we cannot deliver.
What it never buys
THE SAME LINE THE CHARTER DRAWS- Coverage. No advertiser decides what gets reported, or what does not.
- Placement in a story, a headline, or a byline.
- Advance review, editorial input, or the right to kill a piece.
- A member's attention. Membership removes advertising; that is part of what a member pays for.
Article III of the charter is the funding statement, and it binds this page: advertisers buy space, they do not buy stories. If that ever stops being true, the charter changes before the inventory does.
How it works
ONE CONVERSATION, IN WRITINGTell us the business, who you are trying to reach, and roughly what you want to spend. We answer with what is genuinely available, agree the terms in writing, and label advertising as advertising wherever it runs.
Start the conversation.
Send your company name and what you have in mind. A person reads every inquiry.
Email the advertising desk →Or underwrite instead
A DIFFERENT ARRANGEMENTSponsorship is not advertising. A sponsor underwrites the platform around the journalism — the shows, the broadcasts, the newsletter, the county desks — and is disclosed where that work runs, rather than buying space. Plenty of Oklahoma businesses would rather do that.