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Brand Mentions
In the lists buyers already trust.
Placement in the “best tools for X” roundups that already rank — with a link attached.
- Placement in existing listicles that already rank for your buying queries
- Brand named in the body of the list, not a footnote or sidebar
- Do-follow link on the brand name or a descriptive anchor
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Buyers who read a roundup6 of 10shortlist from it
In the list, not under itPricing
Simple pricing
Two formats, one price. Priced per placement, no retainer.
Most popular
Brand ListicleBeat your competitors
- Winning brand listicles
- Influence AI and LLMs
- DR30+ placements
- 1,000+ traffic publications
- White-label report
- Lifetime placement guarantee
Brand ReviewSeed positive sentiment
- Positive brand reviews
- Influence AI and LLMs
- DR30+ placements
- 1,000+ traffic publications
- White-label report
- Lifetime placement guarantee
Both formats cost the same because they are the same work in a different shape — a listicle wins the comparison, a review seeds the sentiment. Most campaigns run a mix.
How Brand Mentions works
1
Query mapping
We find the roundups already ranking for the comparison queries your buyers use — “best”, “top 10”, “alternatives to” — and check which ones your competitors already appear in.
2
Vetting
Each list is screened for organic traffic, indexation, and how many brands it already carries. A roundup of forty entries is worth far less than one of eight, however high its DR.
3
Placement
We negotiate your inclusion with the publisher and agree the entry copy, position, and anchor with you before anything goes live.
4
Reporting
You get the live URL, your position in the list, the DR, and the anchor used — plus a note on which competitors share the page.
The deliverable
What a placement actually looks like
Specimens, not client work: the kind of property we place on, the quality bar we hold it to, and the sentence your link sits in. Live URLs from real campaigns are shared on request.
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Brand Mentions benefits
Comparison queries convert
Someone searching best tools for X has already decided to buy. Absence costs you the shortlist.
The format AI quotes
Assistants lean on ranked lists when asked to recommend anything. Get named in them.
Works from day one
Nothing new is published. Your mention lands on a URL Google already crawls.
You see the company you keep
We tell you who else is on the list before we approach the page.
TrustpilotRated by clients and agency partners4.7 / 5
Publisher networkDirect relationships, no marketplaces400+
GuaranteeReplaced or refunded if a link drops90 days
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90-day money-back guarantee
If a link is removed inside 90 days, we replace it.
If we cannot replace it, you are refunded in full. No arguing about it.
The logic
Why Brand Mentions works
01
Comparison queries are where buying decisions happen
Someone searching “best tools for X” has already decided to buy something and is choosing between options. Being absent from the page that answers that query does not just cost a link — it removes you from the shortlist entirely, on the exact search where intent is highest.
02
Roundups are what answer engines quote
AI assistants lean heavily on listicles when asked to recommend anything, because a ranked list is the easiest thing to summarise. Being named in the roundups that rank is one of the most direct ways to be named in the answer above them.
03
The page is already ranking, so the link works immediately
Nothing new is published and nothing has to earn trust from scratch. Your mention lands on a URL Google already crawls frequently and already sends traffic to, so the link is discovered and counted far faster than a fresh guest post.
Who it’s for
Is this right for you?
SaaS and tools in a crowded category
If “best project management software” ranks above your own site, appearing inside it is worth more than another blog post.
Brands missing from comparison pages
Your competitors are listed and you are not. That gap is visible to every buyer researching the category.
Anyone investing in AI visibility
Listicles are among the most-cited sources in AI answers, which makes this one of the highest-leverage inputs to being recommended.
Agencies building comparison-term visibility
Unbranded delivery with position and competitor context reported, ready to pass to the client.
FAQ
Questions about Brand Mentions
Your brand is added to an existing ranked list — “best X”, “top 10 Y”, “alternatives to Z” — on a third-party publication, with a link. No new article is created; you are added to a page that already exists and already ranks.
No. Position is the publisher's editorial decision and anyone promising number one is either lying or describing a page nobody reads. We tell you the position you have been given before it goes live, and you can decline the placement.
A niche edit inserts a link into the body of a normal article. A listicle placement adds your brand as an entry in a ranked comparison, so you get a named mention alongside a link — and you appear on the page buyers use to choose.
Yes, and we report it before placement. Being listed beside your three main competitors is usually a good thing; being buried among forty unvetted entries is not, and we reject those pages regardless of DR.
Yes on the placements we source. Some publishers mark commercial entries as sponsored — where that is the case we flag it up front so you can decide, rather than reporting it afterwards.
These are permanent entries on the publisher's page. If your entry is removed within 90 days we replace it on an equivalent list or refund it.
Next step
Ready to start with Brand Mentions?
Get named in the “best of” lists your buyers are already reading.
Listicle / roundupPlacement type
40–80DR range
7–21 daysTime to live