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The Think Tank Post
Wednesday, 7 October 2026

For research institutions

Reach people who read policy research on purpose.

This index already lists 600 institutions across 66 countries and 5,666 publications, and every link in it goes to the institution rather than staying here. If you run events, a membership programme or executive education, this is where the people you want are already looking.

We launched this month, so the honest position is that the audience is small and growing. The rates below are founding-partner rates and they say so. They will go up when there are numbers behind them, and partners who start now keep theirs.

What you can buy

01

Topic sponsorship

£450 a month

Institutions running executive education, fellowships or a membership programme

Named at the top of one topic page and in its rail, for a month. One sponsor per topic at a time, so you are not sharing the space with three competitors.

Founding rate. Three topics are available: security and defence, energy and climate, international economics.

02

Event promotion

£250 an event

Conferences, report launches, webinars

Your event in the rail of the topic it belongs to, and on the question pages it touches, for six weeks up to the date.

03

Report launch feature

£350

A flagship piece of research

A fortnight in the home feature slot and in its topic, with your own summary and a link straight to you.

04

Membership recruitment

£700 a month

Institutions with paid membership or fellowship programmes

Site-wide placement, shown on every page carrying a rail. Capped at two partners at a time.

05

Data licence and API

From £2,400 a year

Libraries, research offices, teams tracking a policy area

Programmatic access to the index: every institution, publication, topic and question, with the full history and a weekly export.

Priced by institution size. Talk to us about what you actually need.

What no amount of money buys

This matters more to us than any single placement. An index that can be bought is worth nothing to appear in, including to the institution that bought it.

  • 01Nothing buys a position in the index. Placements sit in rails and defined blocks, never in a result list, and a sponsor's publications do not move up a page.
  • 02Nothing buys inclusion. We index an institution because it publishes on these topics, and we would index you if you never spent a penny.
  • 03Nothing buys the removal of anyone else, or of a finding you dislike.
  • 04No third-party ad tags. Creative is text and an image on our own servers. An ad network's script would report every reader to someone else, and we tell readers we do not do that.
  • 05No reader data is sold, shared or used to build a profile. Outbound clicks are anonymous and stay that way.

Every placement carries the words “Paid placement” in the same position, in the same type, on every page it appears on. You can see how it looks before you commit.

Talk to us

Tell us what you are trying to do and we will say plainly whether this is any use to you. If it is not, we will say so.