Sponsorship
Pay for the views you actually get.
Chatterbox runs a single, transparent sponsor model: pick the ZIPs you want, pick the dates you want them to run, and pay $0.005 per verified view ($5 CPM local). One rate per scope level. No bundles. No exclusivity games.
Choose your reach
Local pizza shop or national brand — transparent per-view pricing at every scale.
State-wide
$3 CPM
Cover every ZIP in a state. Lower per-view rate at wider reach. Great for regional chains and state-level campaigns.
Choose a state →Nationwide
$2 CPM
Every ZIP page in the country. Lowest per-view rate. For national brands that want local presence everywhere.
Go nationwide →How it works
- 1
Pick your reach
Individual ZIPs for local businesses, a whole state for regional chains, or the entire nation for brands like T-Mobile and McDonald's.
- 2
Pick your run dates
Any window from a single day up to a year. The cart shows your live total based on verified visits over the last 7 days.
- 3
Pay once, run live
Stripe Checkout, single payment for the estimated window. Your ad appears on every page in your scope until your end date.
What it costs
A flat $0.005 per verified visit, calculated against the last 7 days of actual traffic on each ZIP page. The cart's estimate is what you pay; we don't surprise you on the upside or the downside.
Example: pizza place in 07738 covering Monmouth County
- 12 ZIPs selected (their own ZIP plus 11 neighboring towns)
- Average ~50 visits/day per ZIP this week
- Run window: 30 days
- Estimate: 12 × 50 × 30 × $0.005 = $90.00 total
Smaller cart? Smaller bill. Bigger cart? Bigger bill. The math is the same for every sponsor — including you.
Why per-view, not flat rate
Most local-news sites charge a flat monthly rate that doesn't match what you actually get. A busy ZIP and a sleepy ZIP can't share one number — one of them is overpaying, the other is underpaying.
We bill against the same verified visitor counter we publish on every ZIP page (SHA-256 hash-chained, public, tamper-evident). The number you'd see on your ad's home ZIP is the same number we used to price your cart.
That means: when traffic grows, your bill grows with it (and so does your reach). When it shrinks, you don't get held to a contract you signed when the audience was bigger.
$5.00 minimum. Stripe handles all payments — we never see your card.