AfricanDate Reviews reaches people at a specific and valuable moment: they are about to sign up for an international dating platform, and they are searching for a reason not to. If your product serves that audience honestly, we would like to hear from you.
Before anything else, the part that governs everything below.
What advertising here does not buy
We sell attention. We do not sell ratings, and we will not pretend otherwise to close a deal.
- You cannot buy a score. Ratings are the arithmetic average of member reviews, calculated automatically. There is no mechanism by which we could change one for you even if we wanted to.
- You cannot buy the removal of a negative review. Not as part of a package, not as a goodwill gesture, not at any price. Reviews come down only when they break our published moderation rules.
- You cannot buy ranking position. Listings are ordered by score. There is no promoted slot in the ratings table.
- You cannot buy editorial coverage. Our blog decides what it investigates. Sponsored articles are possible, clearly labelled as such, and separate from editorial.
Advertisers on this site carry whatever score their members have given them, including one star. If that is a problem for your campaign, we are the wrong site and we would rather say so now.
This is not a moral flourish. A review site that quietly sells its ratings is worth nothing to readers, and once readers work it out, the audience you were buying no longer exists.
Who reads this site
- [X] monthly visitors, [X] page views
- Primarily [US, UK, Canada, Australia] traffic
- Mostly [men aged 30-60], arriving from search
- [X]% of sessions land directly on a platform review page — high commercial intent
- [X] registered members who have written [X] reviews
The defining characteristic of this audience is not size, it is timing. These are people with a payment page open in another tab.
What we offer
Display advertising
Standard IAB placements across article and review pages. No pop-ups, no interstitials, no auto-playing video, no content that mimics site navigation. Sold on a monthly flat rate rather than CPM.
Sponsored articles
A full article on a subject relevant to our readers, written to our editorial standards and labelled Sponsored at the top of the page and in the article listing. We keep final say on accuracy and headline, and we will not publish anything that reads as a review of a platform we rate.
Newsletter placement
A labelled slot in our email to subscribers. One advertiser per send.
Brand response profile
Free, and worth more than most people expect. If we rate your platform, you can claim your page to add an official description, respond publicly to individual reviews, and correct factual errors. Companies that engage seriously with criticism tend to read better to our audience than companies that stay silent.
What we will not run
- Platforms currently under active fraud investigation by a consumer protection authority
- Advertising that presents itself as editorial or as a member review
- Creative using stolen, stock-passed-as-real, or AI-generated photographs of “members”
- Anything sexually explicit
- Financial products aimed at people in payment disputes — debt consolidation, credit repair, chargeback services
- Adult webcam, escort or “sugar” arrangements marketed as dating
We check advertisers before accepting them, and we will end a campaign mid-flight if a serious pattern of member complaints emerges. Remaining budget is refunded pro rata.
How it works
- Get in touch with your product, target markets, budget range and timing.
- We check the fit — usually two working days. If we say no, we will tell you why.
- You get a proposal with placements, dates and a flat price. No auction, no hidden fees.
- Creative review. Send assets at least five working days before launch.
- Launch and report. Impressions, clicks and click-through rate at the end of each month.
Rates
Rates depend on placement and duration. Monthly display packages start at [$X]; sponsored articles start at [$X]. Quarterly and annual commitments carry a discount. Ask for the current rate card.
Talk to us
Email [[email protected]] with a short description of your product and what you are trying to achieve. Include your website and the markets you care about. We answer every enquiry, including the ones we turn down.
If you are a dating platform hoping to improve a poor rating, the honest answer is that advertising will not do it. Fix what your members are complaining about — the score follows the reviews, automatically, and it moves in both directions.