Advertising and Affiliate Disclosure
Last updated: 14 August 2026
This page sets out how Rundowns AI makes money, and the rules we hold ourselves to so that it never decides what we publish. It exists because a reader is owed a straight answer about who is paying for what they are reading.
How this site is funded
Three sources, in the order we would prefer them: display advertising, affiliate links, and sponsorship of the newsletter.
None of them buys editorial coverage. There is no arrangement, on any of these, under which a company can pay to be written about, to be written about favourably, or to have something removed.
Display advertising
Where advertising runs, it is served by third-party networks. Those networks choose which ads you see, not us, and we do not know in advance what will appear next to a given article.
Ad units are labelled and kept out of the body of an article. We do not run units designed to be mistaken for editorial content, and we do not run interstitials that cover the page before you have read anything.
The cookies advertising uses, and how to opt out of personalised ads, are covered in the privacy policy.
Affiliate links
Some links to products or services may earn us a commission if you buy something. The price you pay is the same either way.
Where an article contains affiliate links, that is disclosed in the article itself, near the top, not only on this page. Our rules for them are short:
- A tool is only recommended if it would have been recommended without a commission attached.
- The existence of an affiliate programme never changes a ranking, a comparison, or a verdict.
- Where we compare tools, options without an affiliate programme are included on equal terms.
- We do not fill a guide with links for the sake of it. If the honest answer is that you do not need the product, that is what the piece says.
Sponsorship
The newsletter may carry a sponsor message. It is labelled as a sponsor message, it sits in its own block, and it is written to be visually distinct from the editorial around it.
Sponsors see their own placement before it goes out. They do not see the editorial, and they have no say over it.
What we will not do
We do not publish sponsored posts dressed as reporting. We do not sell links inside existing articles. We do not accept payment to remove or amend a published piece, and a correction request is judged on whether it is correct, never on who is asking.
We do not take payment from a company in exchange for a review score, a benchmark result, or a place in a comparison.
Conflicts of interest
If we hold a commercial relationship with a company we are writing about, the article says so. That includes a current advertiser, a sponsor, or an affiliate partner.
Being an advertiser earns no protection from coverage. If an advertiser is the subject of a critical story, the story runs, and the relationship is disclosed inside it.
Questions
If you think something on this site reads like it was bought, tell us. Write to us through the contact page and we will either explain the relationship or correct the piece. Our wider standards are in the editorial policy, and advertising enquiries are handled on the advertise page.