Brand Partners
Local businesses that back local food coverage.
Twelve years of reporting on where Tucson eats has built an audience that reads us on purpose. If you want to reach them, we'll tell you exactly what we have and what it costs — on one call, with no deck.
Tell us what you're afterLocally owned restaurant, artisan or market? You never pay us. The Insiders programme is free and it lives on Restaurant Partners — we would rather send you there than sell you anything.
Measured, not marketed.
Read live ·
Every figure below is read from the system that produces it at the moment this page loads — not typed into the copy. Where a number is an average we say so, and where it comes from someone else's platform we say that too.
Restaurant partners
164
186 live vouchers across 164 restaurants.
Source: Partner database
Newsletter subscribers
23,373
About 21,326 are reached per edition, opening at 32% — the mean of the last 11 editions, excluding follow-up resends.
Source: Mailchimp
Monthly unique visitors
65,531
124,951 page views in July 2026, the last complete month.
Source: Google Analytics
Foodie Club members
1,031
People who join a club about eating out are people who spend on eating out.
Source: Membership database
Not from our systems
Social reach and ad impressions sit in Meta and the ad server, not in anything we can read from here. We'll bring the current figures to the call with the date they were pulled, rather than print them alongside numbers we can prove.
Why this audience is worth reaching
The reason our readers trust us is the reason you can't buy your way into the stories.
- We don't take money from restaurants
- Restaurant partnership is free, and always has been. No listing fee, no pay-to-be-featured, no tier that buys a better position.
- We don't sell editorial
- No sponsored articles, no advertorial, no paid reviews — not now and not for the right number. What we publish is what we chose to publish.
- Our editor decides what we cover
- Coverage is an editorial decision made by our editor, independent of who is advertising that month. Advertisers find out the same way readers do.
Hoping for coverage rather than advertising?
Pitch it. New menu, new opening, a chef doing something worth writing about — send it to our editor. It costs nothing, it always has, and it is a genuinely different route from this page. Buying an ad will not make it more likely; a good story will.
Pitch a story to our editorWhat a partnership looks like
The offer
An annual brand partnership
Most of what we do well happens across channels and over months, not in a single placement. A partnership is a custom mix of everything on the rate card, and optionally exposure to the 164 restaurants in our Insiders programme — every one locally owned — and the members who use it.
- A bulk package across web, social, newsletter and events, built for what you actually sell
- Industry exclusivity for the length of the agreement
- Monthly reporting on what ran and what it did
- Better rates than the à-la-carte list below
- Open to trade where it makes sense for both of us
Or à la carte, at list price
Everything below can be bought on its own. Partners pay less than this.
| Item | Rate | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Instagram reel | $850 | Made by our team, on our account. |
| Run-of-site web ads | $500 / month | Across tucsonfoodie.com. |
| Newsletter ad | $288 | Or $750 for three consecutive weeks. |
| Sponsor a guide | $100–500 / month | Depending on the guide. |
| Event sponsorship and activations | Talk to us | Scope and audience vary by event. |
Tell us what you're after
Two fields are required and the rest help. Shane takes these himself, and if we're not the right fit he'll say so on the call rather than in a proposal three weeks later.
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