Solus Email
An exclusive email sent to our readers and dedicated to your message. It comes from the Wave publication so our readers trust the content, and you get the subject line and the entire email to deliver your message. Often people rely on solus emails for high-impact direct response campaigns including but not limited to whitepaper pushes, webinar or reports.
Content Guidelines
At Construction Wave, our goal is to be a construction executive’s trusted daily news source. In order to maintain and grow this trusted relationship we have with our audience, we must hold our advertorial content to standards that reflect our editorial goals and vision.
We do not allow:
- Misleading subject lines (see article)
- “This was made for you.”
- “RE: Your marketing goals”
- “ACTION REQUIRED: Download this now”
- All caps, exclamation marks, unusual characters in subject lines (this could negatively impact email deliverability)
- Headline: 1-5 words recommended
- Subheading: 5-10 words recommended
- Body copy: 50-80 words recommended
- Include customized greetings, bullet points, call-to-action button and linked text
- Header Image (optional): 1000×500 (JPG or PNG)
- Company logo (with white background)
- Subject Line: 50 characters or less
- Preview text (optional): 50 characters or less
- Title/Headline: 10-12 words max
- Link to content
- Logo: sized 190×70 or 200×200
- Body: 140 characters or less, including spaces and punctuation
- CTA: 30 characters or less, including spaces and punctuation
- Hyperlink: landing page URL
Headline Newsletter Sponsor
The headline newsletter sponsorship will put your promotion at the very top article list of the daily newsletter. Your brand will be the first thing our audience sees before our audience begins reading the articles of the day.This is a high impact placement that is great for a direct response campaign.
- Logo: sized 150×40
- Headline: 5-10 words
- Body: 140 characters or less, including spaces and punctuation
- CTA: 30 characters or less, including spaces and punctuation
- Hyperlink: landing page URL
- Logo: sized 150×40
- Headline: 5-10 words
- Body: 140 characters or less, including spaces and punctuation
- CTA: 30 characters or less, including spaces and punctuation
- Hyperlink: landing page URL
Sponsored Article
An article written by you, appearing within the flow of stories for the day. This package is a great opportunity to position your company as a thought leader around relevant topics. Our audience tends to favor articles that are more editorial in nature, and often clients repurpose content such as blog posts or summaries of case studies or white papers (See more content guidelines below).
Content Guidelines
At Construction Wave, our goal is to be a construction executive’s trusted daily news source. In order to maintain and grow this trusted relationship we have with our audience, we must hold our advertorial content to standards that reflect our editorial goals and vision.
Sponsored articles should be informative and relevant to the publication’s day-to-day editorial coverage. We cannot allow articles that are overly self-promotional of a client’s product or service.
Here are some strong examples to emulate:
Story
- Title and copy for story – 500 words max, with all applicable links (please indicate any special text formatting to be included)
- Story teaser text (100 characters or less)
- Header image (900x500px or larger)
- Must provide image source and photographer name
- Image should be editorial in nature and contain no logos or headlines
Your Company Logo
- 300×300 minimum, square dimensions mandatory
- GIF, JPG, PNG format
Submissions
- Articles need to be submitted three working days before going live. Your point of contact will guide you with this.