Advertise With Us
What we offer
CBD STRAINS ONLY reaches an adult audience actively interested in cannabis strains, CBD products, cultivation, and cannabinoid science: readers who arrive researching a specific strain or product and stay for the depth. For brands in this space, that is an unusually qualified audience, and we offer clean, clearly labeled ways to reach it. What we do not offer, under any budget, is influence over our editorial work, and this page explains both halves.
Formats
Display advertising
Standard display placements across the site, served through our advertising partners or booked directly with us. Direct bookings can be scoped to relevant content areas, such as growing guides or CBD product coverage, subject to the acceptance rules below.
Sponsored content
We accept a limited amount of sponsored material, and the constraints are strict by design. Sponsored content is labeled as sponsored, prominently and unambiguously, at the top of the page and anywhere it is promoted on the site. It is visually and structurally distinct from editorial work, and it is never presented as, or formatted to resemble, one of our reviews or strain profiles. We retain the right to decline or require changes to sponsored material that is misleading, non compliant, or beneath the standard of the site. If your goal is a piece that looks like our editorial with your product winning, we are not the right publication.
What advertising does not buy
This part is non negotiable, and it is published so you can rely on it as a reader and understand it as an advertiser.
- No influence over reviews, scores, rankings, or coverage decisions. Editorial and advertising do not coordinate.
- No advance sight of editorial content, and no notice of upcoming coverage, favorable or otherwise.
- No protection from criticism. An active campaign does not soften a review of your product, and pulling a campaign in response to coverage changes nothing.
- No unlabeled placements, ever. Our Editorial Standards and Ownership and Funding pages bind us publicly on all of this.
What we accept and what we refuse
Cannabis advertising carries legal weight that generic advertising does not, and our acceptance rules reflect it.
- Advertisers must be lawful operators in the jurisdictions they target, and campaigns must comply with the advertising rules that apply to them. We may ask for evidence of licensing where relevant.
- No advertising that targets minors, uses content with obvious appeal to minors, or promotes irresponsible consumption.
- No unsubstantiated health or medical claims. If a creative asserts a therapeutic effect, it needs the regulatory standing to say so; miracle cure copy is refused on sight.
- No advertising of unlawful sales channels, and nothing that asks us to help route around the law of any jurisdiction.
- We may decline any campaign that conflicts with the interests or trust of our readers, without obligation to elaborate.
Affiliate programs
Separate from advertising, we participate in affiliate programs for some retailers, disclosed on every page that carries such links. Joining an affiliate program is not a route to coverage: whether and how we review a product is decided editorially, before and independently of any affiliate consideration. Brands are welcome to tell us about their programs; the wall described above applies in full.
How to start
Email support@cbdstrainsonly.com with the subject line Advertising. Include who you are, what you want to promote, the markets you operate in lawfully, the formats you are interested in, and your timeline. We respond to serious, compliant proposals within a week. Proposals for paid reviews, undisclosed placements, or link buying do not receive a response, because the answer is already published on this page.
