Advertise
Serious journalism is the best company your brand can keep.
Reach the Maldives’ most considered readers beside independent reporting they trust — through advertising that is native, cookieless, and built for the way people actually read. Sold direct, measured first-party.
Why advertise with us
✦Cookieless by design
First-party and cookieless — no third-party trackers, no consent friction, ready for a post-cookie web.
✦Zero layout shift
Server-rendered into the page. Advertising that loads instantly and never shoves the story around.
✦Brand-safe by adjacency
Your message sits beside sourced, corrected journalism — never user-generated noise or ad-exchange junk.
✦Honest disclosure
Every placement is clearly labelled “Advertisement,” bilingual in English and Dhivehi. Reader trust is the product.
Placements & creative specs
One tasteful unit per view — clearly labelled.
| Placement | Where it appears | Aspect | Creative (px) |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-article billboard | Woven mid-story, at a natural break | 16:9 | 1200 × 675 |
| Sidebar rail | Follows the read down the article column | 4:5 | 1080 × 1350 |
| Homepage leaderboard | Centred band on the front page | 970:140 | 1940 × 280 |
| In-feed native | Between stories on the news index | 3:2 | 1200 × 800 |
| First Light strip | A “presented by” strip inside the daily brief | 6:1.4 | 1800 × 420 |
One high-resolution image, a headline (≤ 60 characters) and a call to action (≤ 20). No animations or heavy scripts. Separate English & Dhivehi creative supported — we design your responsive creative with you.
Packages
Three ways to work together
Placement
Rates on request
per month · one slot
- ✓One placement of your choice
- ✓English or Dhivehi creative
- ✓Clear “Advertisement” labelling
- ✓Monthly delivery report
Section sponsor
Rates on request
per month · own a section
- ✓Billboard + rail across a section
- ✓Both languages included
- ✓Priority share-of-voice
- ✓Front-page leaderboard days
- ✓Quarterly review with the newsroom
Presenting partner
Rates on request
per quarter · exclusive
- ✓First Light brief “presented by”
- ✓All placements, all languages
- ✓Category exclusivity for the term
- ✓Named on the masthead partners page
Our standards
What we will — and won’t — do with your campaign.
We will label every placement plainly, keep advertising and editorial fully separate, and report delivery on our own first-party counts.
We won’t set third-party cookies, sell reader data, or run background auction scripts that slow the page.
Book a placement
Tell us who you want to reach.
We’ll map a placement and a rate to it — live specs and available slots the same week.
advertising@goodmorningmaldives.com