Advertise on Diaspora Dreams
Diaspora Dreams is an independent editorial publication for the Indian diaspora — read by NRIs, OCI cardholders, and students abroad in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and the Gulf. Our readers come here to make real decisions: where to study, how to move money, what the visa rules mean, how to keep a connection to home.
That is the audience you are buying: small by mass-media standards, precise by any standard. We publish sourced reference journalism, and we sell placement next to it — honestly labelled, permanently hosted.
Why placement here works
Permanent & indexed
A placement here is not a feed post that vanishes in a day. It is a permanent, Google-indexed page — and our sponsored placements have gone on to draw their own organic search clicks long after publication.
High-intent context
Your brand appears beside the guides diaspora readers use for real decisions — NRI banking, money repatriation, study-abroad financing, OCI rules. Reader intent here is worth more than raw volume anywhere else.
Built for the AI era
Every article carries structured data and named, checkable sources — the standard search engines and AI assistants look for when they choose whom to cite. Content built to be referenced keeps working for its sponsors.
Placements & rates
Sponsored Post
From £350
Your announcement, rewritten in our voice for the diaspora reader.
- Your press release or brief, restyled by our editorial team for a diaspora audience
- Product or brand imagery you supply, properly displayed
- Permanent URL on the site, indexed by Google
- Clearly labelled Paid Post, listed in our sponsored archive
- One round of factual corrections before publishing
Best for: Product launches, film and OTT releases, consumer brands reaching Indians abroad.
Sponsored Feature
From £1,200
Interview-led, longer, deeper — the editorial treatment.
- Reported and written by us, interview-led
- Tiers up to full cover-story treatment with photography and social distribution
- Same Paid Post labelling and editorial standards
- See the full rate card on our commissions page
Best for: Founders, brands and institutions that want a story told, not a notice posted.
Series Sponsorship
From £2,500 / series
“Presented by” across an entire reference series.
- Your brand credited on every part of one editorial series and its series hub
- Series such as The NRI Money Guide, The Crossing (study abroad), The OCI's Guide to India
- Category exclusivity for the sponsorship term
- Sponsor credit is a label, not influence — the editorial stays ours
Best for: NRI banking, remittance and forex services, education-loan and study-abroad brands whose customers our guides already serve.
Partnerships & lead generation
Per-lead / revenue share
For professionals our readers are already looking for.
- Disclosed placement in the “Where to get it” resource boxes on our money, visa and OCI guides
- Per-lead, per-conversion or revenue-share structures
- Affiliate and partner links carry rel=“sponsored” and are covered by our published disclosure policy
Best for: NRI-focused chartered accountants, immigration and property lawyers, study-abroad counsellors, fintech platforms.
Prices in GBP; USD, INR and AED billing available at the prevailing rate. Newsletter sponsorship of The Monthly is available to founding sponsors on request as the list grows. For editorial commissions — profiles, cover stories, legacy projects — see the full commissions rate card.
The rules that protect your placement
Advertising only works in a publication readers trust — so the rules below are as much for your benefit as for our readers'.
- Every paid placement is labelled — a Paid Post ribbon, the sponsor named, and a disclosure block. No exceptions, no white-labelling.
- Paid content never appears in our editorial feeds — not the cover, not the Latest rail, not the news sitemap. It lives on its own permanent URL and in the sponsored archive.
- We do not sell coverage on the Visas & Law desk, and we do not cover political candidates for money during an election cycle.
- Sponsor links are tagged rel=“sponsored” — the search-engine-compliant way to disclose a paid relationship.
- You correct facts; we keep the pen. That boundary is what makes placement here worth buying.
Our full advertising and affiliate disclosure is published in our privacy policy. Past placements live in the sponsored archive.
Book a placement
Write to us through the contact form — choose the Advertising category and tell us the brand, the goal, and the placement you have in mind. We reply to every serious enquiry within three working days, with a scope and a firm quote.
Diaspora Dreams is editorially independent. Commercial relationships never influence our reporting, and we never present advertising as journalism.