THE HUNTER’S LEDGER
Sponsor The Hunter's Ledger
Reach Defenders Who Build, Buy, and Use Detection
An independent threat intelligence publication. Every report ships with working YARA, Sigma, and Suricata detections, validated IOC packages, and evidence-tied attribution. Sponsorship places your brand alongside the kind of technical research that working defenders actively consume and integrate.
Why Sponsor
Reach buyers, not eyeballs

Detection engineers, threat intelligence analysts, and security leadership doing daily work that informs procurement, not a CPM impressions buy.

Credibility by association

Your brand sits alongside reverse engineering, working detection rules, and evidence-tied attribution, presented as a supporter of the defender community, not an advertiser.

Permanent shelf life

Reports are archived in perpetuity and keep surfacing in search, vendor evaluations, and threat hunts. Placements stay live for the life of every report.

Who Reads This

Every reader here is a working defender, the exact technical security audience vendors want in front of: the people who evaluate, recommend, deploy, and buy detection and tooling. The most active cohorts:

  • CISO and security leadership, taking risk framing, business impact, and vendor capability signals to inform tool evaluation.
  • Threat intelligence analysts, pulling attribution assessments, infrastructure pivots, actor TTPs, and IOCs.
  • Detection engineering teams, integrating ready-to-deploy YARA, Sigma, and Suricata rules with evidence backing.
  • SOC analysts (L1 through L3), using behavioral indicators, kill chain reconstruction, and ATT&CK mapping to build hunt content.

Reach here is about relevance, not raw volume. The audience is concentrated exactly where security buying decisions get made:

10K+ views

In a peak month and climbing, readers who come for working detection content, not general traffic.

3,500+ on LinkedIn

A following of detection engineers, threat-intel analysts, and security leaders, the roles that evaluate and buy.

~400 views / day

Daily LinkedIn profile reach, where every report is posted and discussed in the community.

And the reach compounds beyond the site. Every campaign also ships as machine-readable intelligence, a consolidated Suricata feed currently carrying 112 rules across 35 campaigns, 58 IOC feeds in JSON, and 41 STIX bundles built for OpenCTI and MISP. All of it is public and machine-readable, so it can go straight into a detection stack without anyone loading a page here. That is reach that does not depend on a visit to the site.

Sponsorship Tiers
Flexible & Custom

These are starting points, not limits. Bundle reports in any size, mix new and catalog, sponsor monthly, or build something custom. Tell me what you're trying to achieve and I'll shape a package around it.

Flagship · Best Value
Monthly Sponsor
$500
Per Month
New sponsors: first 3 months $300/mo, or a first full year at $4,400
Or pay annually $5,000 per year, paid up front Two months free, a $1,000 saving (17% off)
Flagship, always-on presence, and the strongest value per dollar. Standing brand presence across the whole site, for as long as you sponsor.
  • Logo and tagline in the left-margin Sponsors panel on every page and report, a standing, high-visibility placement
  • Logo and a dofollow link in the site footer on every page, plus a featured slot in the Sponsors section
  • Early access to the whole package before it goes public, the report and its detection rules and its IOC feed, plus first option to sponsor any upcoming report exclusively
  • A welcome announcement post when you join, plus a quarterly sponsor spotlight post, with extra posts any time at the add-on rate
  • A one-time feature in a single report during your first month
  • Your logo in the subscriber email newsletter
  • One threat question answered a year. Bring an indicator, a domain, or a threat you are unsure about and I go and look, then send you the written answer and the evidence behind it. A clean result is an answer too
  • Your rate is locked for as long as you keep sponsoring. Renew without a break and a published price rise never reaches you
  • An Official Sponsor badge for your own site and marketing, yours for as long as the sponsorship runs
2 slots open →
Monthly or annual, whichever suits your budget cycle. Annual prepay is 17% cheaper, locks your rate for the term, and unlocks the threat question straight away. On monthly it unlocks at twelve months.
Best fit: Sponsors who want ongoing, site-wide brand association with the publication, visible to every reader, for as long as you sponsor.
Report Sponsor
$150
New Report
New sponsors: first new report $100
or $100 From the Catalog (33% off the new-report rate)
Or pay annually $1,170 Year of Reports, 12 new reports across 12 months A $630 saving (35% off the new-report rate)
Exclusive single-report placement, one sponsor per report, no competing logos. Pick a new report at $150 or a catalog report at $100; catalog reports keep drawing search traffic long after publication.
  • Sole Sponsored-by banner at the top of the report, exclusive, no competing logos
  • Logo and a dofollow link to your site or chosen landing page
  • Permanent for the life of the report. It never expires, and keeps surfacing in search and hunts
  • The report's launch post credits you (LinkedIn, X, and subscriber email)
  • Early access before it goes public, and not just the report. The detection rules and the IOC feed come with it
  • You pick which report you sponsor, from anything already published or on the schedule
  • Bundle & save on new reports: 3 for $335 · 6 for $630 · 12 for $1,170 across a full year. Catalog reports stay $100 each, bundled or not
Buy one at a time, bundle 3, 6 or 12, or take a full year at the deepest rate. Bundle pricing is against the new-report rate; catalog reports are $100 each whenever you buy them.
Best fit: Sponsors who want exclusive association with a specific report or threat, with sole placement, permanent for its life.
Monthly or Annual

Both work, and I genuinely do not mind which you pick. Take whichever suits your budget cycle. Annual prepay is cheaper because it is worth something to me to plan a year ahead, so the saving is passed straight back to you rather than held as a negotiating chip.

How you payMonthly SponsorReport Sponsor
As you go$500 per month$150 per new report, $100 from the catalog (any age, bundled or not)
BundledNot applicable3 new reports $335 (26% off), 6 for $630 (30% off)
Annual$5,000 per year. Two months free, a $1,000 saving, 17% off$1,170 for 12 new reports across the year, a $630 saving, 35% off
First timeFirst 3 months at $300 per month, or a first full year at $4,400First new report $100

Two things worth knowing before you choose. An annual commitment locks your rate for the full term, so a published price rise cannot reach you mid term, and the lock holds through renewal. Keep sponsoring without a break and you keep the rate you started at, whatever the list price does later. Monthly stays flexible and can be stopped at the end of any billing month. Either way the placements, the benefits, and the editorial independence below are identical. If you are new and want to go annual straight away, you do not lose the intro rate: the first year is $4,400, which is the same discount the three intro months would have given you, applied to the annual price. The one benefit that does depend on how you pay is the threat question, which opens immediately on an annual prepay and at twelve months on monthly, because it is a real piece of work and a full year is what earns it.

Editorial Independence

Sponsorship buys placement and brand association, not content control. These rules protect the credibility that makes the publication worth sponsoring in the first place.

  • Sponsors do not review reports before publication.
  • Sponsors do not influence findings, attribution claims, or recommendations.
  • Sponsors can name a subject, whether as the threat question included with a Monthly sponsorship or as a suggestion for what gets published next. What the evidence then says is never negotiable.
  • Sponsors are never named as analysts or contributors.
  • Sponsored placement is always clearly disclosed. This is not native advertising.
Optional Add-Ons

Optional extras to add more reach whenever you want it.

  • Newsletter mention, $50. One-off sponsored mention in a subscriber email send.
  • Extra LinkedIn or X post, $50. A single dedicated sponsored post about your capability or content.
Commissioned Research

Name a threat your organization needs intelligence on and I will go and get it, with original investigation, full technical analysis, working detections and a published report at the end, held to exactly the same evidence standards and the same editorial independence as everything else here. This is a new investigation commissioned by you. It is a different thing from picking which existing report you sponsor, and a much deeper one than the single threat question included with a Monthly sponsorship.

Priced on scope, because scope varies enormously. A single host or one open directory is a very different piece of work from a fifty-address infrastructure cluster with a malware family sitting behind it. Tell me what you want to know and I will come back with a defined scope and a fixed price before any work starts, so there are no surprises in either direction.

Pricing Sheet

The full sponsorship pricing sheet is available as a printable PDF for circulation within your team or procurement process.

Download Pricing Sheet (PDF)
Get In Touch
Ready to discuss sponsorship?

Reach out however works best for you: email, LinkedIn message, async chat, or a call. Happy to walk through the audience and recent reports, or just answer questions. Custom packages and bundles welcome.