The link exchange that keeps looking

Links that are still there.

Buy a guest post or a link insertion, and we re-read the page every day: the rel, the anchor, the robots tag, the canonical. Switched to sponsored in month three, and the payment comes back out of the publisher’s balance.

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What advertising actually costs on this marketplace →

Both sides are here

Nothing is listed yet

This panel fills with real services and ad placements the moment sellers publish them. It is deliberately empty rather than seeded with examples.

LinkBourse is a marketplace for internet advertising where a buyer can hire the specialist and book the media in one order, under one escrow. It sells two things: advertising services — 551 types of work from paid search to podcast attribution — and advertising inventory, which is bookable space on newsletters, websites, Telegram and YouTube channels, podcasts, apps, communities, streams, CTV and digital screens. Nothing is listed yet; this page fills as sellers publish. What makes it different from a freelance marketplace is that advertising is measurable, so payment can be conditional on measurement: escrow for a placement releases against impressions and clicks LinkBourse counts at its own endpoint, plus a daily check that the ad is actually live on the page. A campaign that delivers 60% of the contracted volume releases 60% and refunds the rest automatically, without either side opening a dispute.

The money answers to the measurement.

  • Pick the exact job551 service types, not five vague ones. Buy “Performance Max setup”, not “marketing help”.
  • Escrow released on delivery dataFor placements, our tracker counts impressions and clicks and checks every day that the ad is live on the page. Short delivery refunds the difference.
  • Verified audience numbersPublishers connect analytics read-only. Traffic figures carry a badge instead of a screenshot.
  • One place for both sidesHire the specialist and book the media in the same cart, on one invoice.
Worked exampleNewsletter sponsorship · CPM

Booked 50 000 impressions at $18 CPM. $900.00 into escrow.

42 180of 50 000 impressions· 16% refunds pro rata

Released to the publisher
$759.24
Refunded to the advertiser
$140.76

Nobody opened a ticket. The shortfall was refunded pro rata the night the flight ended, and commission was charged on the $759.24 that actually moved.

How paying works here

Advertising is measurable, so payment can be conditional on measurement.

  1. 1

    Fund the order

    Money leaves the buyer and sits in escrow. The seller sees it is there and starts work.

  2. 2

    Work runs

    A campaign gets built, or a placement goes live on a real audience for the booked dates.

  3. 3

    Delivery is measured

    Impressions, clicks and a daily check that the creative is live. Services are reviewed against the brief.

  4. 4

    Escrow releases

    Targets met, payment moves. Short delivery refunds the difference automatically.

Your slotBooked · 12 days$450

For publishers

You already own an audience. Sell space on it.

A site, a newsletter, a Telegram channel, a podcast, an app, a Discord. List the slot, choose the price model — flat, CPM, CPC or CPA — and open a booking calendar. You also get a public rate card at linkbourse.com/p/your-site: the “advertise with us” page you never got around to building.

  • Websites and blogs
  • Email newsletters
  • Telegram channels
  • YouTube channels
  • Podcasts
  • Mobile apps
  • Social accounts
  • Communities
  • Live streaming
  • SaaS products
  • Directories
  • Short-form video
  • CTV and FAST
  • Digital screens

For agencies and in-house teams

Buy for five clients without five sets of invoices.

One organization, several members, shared payment method and a single statement. Buy media and services in the same order, keep the approval trail, and hand the client a report that matches what was actually delivered.

  • Team seats with roles
  • One invoice across sellers
  • Approval before spend
  • Consolidated delivery reporting
Create a team account
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Service types
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Placement formats
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Property types
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Pricing models

Questions people ask first

How is this different from a freelance marketplace?

Two things. You can buy media here, not only labour: a newsletter slot, a podcast mid-roll, a banner on a real site, with dates and a booking calendar. And because advertising is measurable, escrow releases against measured delivery rather than a button someone clicks.

What does “delivery verified” actually mean?

Placements run through our own tracker, which counts impressions and clicks and checks every day that the creative is live on the page. If a campaign delivers less than contracted, the difference is refunded automatically instead of becoming a dispute.

Can I trust a publisher’s traffic numbers?

Only the badged ones, which is the point. Publishers connect analytics read-only — GA4, Search Console, Cloudflare, their email platform — and we pull the figures ourselves. Anything typed in by hand stays marked as self-reported.

What does it cost?

Sellers pay a commission on completed orders and buyers pay a service fee at checkout. Media bookings carry a lower rate than services because the ticket size is larger. Nothing is charged for listing or browsing.

I run an agency. Can my team work in one account?

Yes. An organization holds members with roles, so an agency buys for clients and sells services from the same profile, with one payout account and one set of invoices.

Buy advertising the way you buy anything else.

Pick the exact job, fund it once, and let the numbers decide when the money moves.