Partners
Reach the people building the Coast's next decade
Our readers don't skim about the Sunshine Coast's growth. They act on it.
Coast Advantage is a weekly business-intelligence brief for the Sunshine Coast's run to 2032: local operators, investors, commercial buyers and side-hustlers who signed up to be told, with real numbers, where the next opportunity is. If your business serves people who are about to lease a site, buy a franchise territory, or start something on the Coast, this is the room they're standing in.
Who reads it
A small list of the right people
Three kinds of reader, one shared trait: they see the growth story and want specifics, not inspiration.
Operators and founders
Local business owners and aspiring ones, reading for the next site, gap or customer channel before it's obvious.
Investors and buyers
Property and commercial buyers tracking DAs, leases and infrastructure timelines against the 2032 clock.
Owners already trading
Established Sunshine Coast businesses positioning for the construction workforce and the population arriving behind it.
The list is young and growing weekly, and we won't dress that up: ask us for the numbers and we'll share the live subscriber count, open rate and site traffic, not a screenshot from a good week.
The format
One partner an edition. Clearly labelled. Never disguised.
Each weekly edition carries at most one partner slot: a short message in the house style, marked as a partner message, written or approved by you. That's the whole inventory.
What we don't do: we don't blend partners into editorial, we don't write advertorial briefs, and the honest risk section of every brief stays honest no matter who is paying. That discipline is exactly why the audience opens the email, and why the slot is worth having.
Your message also lives on the edition's public archive page permanently, which means it keeps working long after send day: the archive is where search traffic and forwarded links land.
We would rather run no partner than the wrong one: Sunshine Coast relevant, reader useful, and never a substitute for editorial judgment.
Founding partners
Talk to us early, get the founding rate
We're opening a small number of founding partner slots as the list grows through 2026. Founding partners lock early pricing and first choice of editions. Tell us who you want to reach and we'll reply with the current numbers and a straight answer on fit.
hello@news.coastadvantage.com.au · we reply with live metrics, no pitch deck.