Los Angeles has two business publications with nearly the same name, and search results mix them together without mercy. If you have been researching how to publish an article in this market, most of what you found, the media kits, the advertising costs, the print products, belongs to the other one. This page is about L.A. Business First, the online Los Angeles business journal on bizjournals.com/losangeles, and it keeps the two titles separate from the first line to the last. It explains whether your company can be published here, what the article is, how publishing works, what decides the price, and the one email that starts it.
The short answer: yes, your company can be published in L.A. Business First
Yes. Your company can be published in L.A. Business First through a paid, labelled article placement in the Los Angeles edition, arranged through the placement arrangement we hold for this journal. One clarification belongs up front, because this market demands it: L.A. Business First is not the Los Angeles Business Journal. That is a different, independent publication, and section five below separates the two in full. A placement arranged here lands in L.A. Business First, on bizjournals.com/losangeles, and nowhere else.
This is not pitching a story to a journalist and hoping. It is a specific article about your company, in this specific online journal, reviewed by the journal before it is published, and permanent once it is live. You need a company with a story worth an article, and one email to us. The sections below give you the whole picture before you decide.
Ready to put your company in L.A. Business First?
Send us your company name, your website, and the story the article should tell. You get a fit confirmation and your individual quote back by email.
uzairasad@pressfeature.orgOne email starts it. No form, no obligation.
Picture it: your company name in the journal LA's deal community checks
Picture the moment your company is being evaluated. The lender reviewing your application, the studio services client comparing vendors, the logistics partner checking your track record, the investor reading up before a meeting. Each of them follows Los Angeles business news online, and in the journal they open, your company's name is there as a published article. The conversation that follows starts from trust instead of suspicion.
That is what this placement is bought for, and it leaves durable assets behind: the live link you forward in proposals and pitch decks, and the journal's name in the "As Featured On" row of your own website. A permanent web article suits this market, because Los Angeles business is researched online first. The page stays live and findable every time the checking moment comes around again.
Why L.A. Business First, specifically
L.A. Business First is the online Los Angeles title on the business journals site, a web-only journal publishing the market's business news, including coverage produced alongside L.A. Inno, the site's innovation desk. Its readers are Los Angeles owners, executives, lenders and professional partners who follow their market digitally.
The city's business landscape tells you why that readership matters. Los Angeles County's economy is worth roughly 913 billion dollars, and the wider region holds 21.7 million people with an economy of about 1.8 trillion dollars. This is the entertainment capital of the world and, at the same time, the largest manufacturing centre in the United States. The Port of Los Angeles is the number one container port in the country and the busiest in the Western Hemisphere, handling 10.3 million TEUs in 2024. The region's aerospace and defence cluster employs roughly 57,000 people, and sports and entertainment about 197,000. A journal read across those industries is read by the people who sign this city's contracts.
The supporting figures sit honestly underneath. Our outlet directory records the business journals' platform at a Domain Authority of 91 with 7.8 million monthly organic visits across the journals' site. Those are the platform's figures, not a claim about the Los Angeles edition alone, and no invented edition figure will be substituted for them here. The benefit is presence in front of LA's online business readership, in the market's own journal.
What a sponsored article in L.A. Business First actually looks like
Precision matters here, because this market's name confusion makes vague offers dangerous.
The article is a full article page inside the Los Angeles edition on bizjournals.com/losangeles. The edition is named and fixed before you pay anything. It is labelled as paid content under the journal's rules; the platform's own formats distinguish sponsored native content and sponsored advertorial, and paid pieces run labelled as what they are. The journal reviews the article before it is published, so nothing goes live unreviewed. Once published, the placement is permanent; it does not come down when a campaign ends, because no campaign window is attached to it.
The article links to your company, and those links follow the journal's paid content rules and carry sponsored attributes. A plain editorial dofollow link is not part of a paid placement, and a seller who promises you one should be asked hard questions.
One clarification is absolute for this journal: it is web only. There is no print edition of L.A. Business First, no print clipping, and no print product bundled into your placement. Anyone describing a print placement under this name is describing the other publication, or nothing real at all. Your placement is a permanent web article, and in a digital-first market that is the asset that gets found.
Two Los Angeles business journals: which one your article appears in
The names differ by a word, and the publications differ completely. The Los Angeles Business Journal, at labusinessjournal.com, is a separate, independent weekly print publication with its own media kit, its own advertising products and its own programmes. L.A. Business First is the online Los Angeles business journal on bizjournals.com/losangeles. They are not editions of each other, and facts about one, its circulation, its print rates, its lists, say nothing about the other.
A placement arranged through us appears in L.A. Business First, in the Los Angeles edition, confirmed before you pay. That is also the wider city-edition point: the journals site hosts dozens of separate city business journals, each with its own readership, and a placement is always bought in one named edition. Offers that blur the two Los Angeles titles should be checked against a simple test: ask which domain the article will live on. Readers weighing several markets can find the wider picture in The Business Journals guide, which covers how the city journals work as a family of choices.
Who this is built for, and who should skip it
This placement is built for Los Angeles-area B2B companies whose next big yes comes from another business: entertainment services firms, logistics and trade companies, manufacturers, aerospace suppliers, professional practices, and any business whose next client, lender or partner follows LA business news online. It also fits companies outside California that want a Los Angeles business journal name in their proof set.
It does not fit a purely consumer business chasing foot traffic, which needs its customers' eyes rather than the business community's. And it does not fit a buyer who actually wants the print weekly's products: if your heart is set on that publication's print advertising, this is not it, and saying so plainly costs us a sale we were never the right fit for. If you are comparing outlet types before deciding, our guide to which news outlets accept sponsored content walks through the fit honestly, and the CNN guide covers the national route for product brands that qualify there.
How publishing works, step by step
Step 1: Email us. Write to uzairasad@pressfeature.org with your company name, your website, and what the article should say. That email is the entire application.
Step 2: Fit confirmation and your quote. We confirm your company and topic fit the journal, and you receive your individual quote for the Los Angeles edition. The factors behind it are in the next section.
Step 3: The article. You supply the article, or we arrange the writing for you. Either way it is prepared for the journal's review.
Step 4: Journal review. The journal reviews the article before publishing. Nothing about your company goes live in its pages unreviewed.
Step 5: Your live link. The article publishes in L.A. Business First, and the live link is yours: for proposals, for your site's press row, and for every checking moment from then on.
Your protection, in full, before you pay anything: payment is in full in advance, and if the article does not go live, you receive a full refund, in writing.
What decides the price of an L.A. Business First article
There is no printed price for this placement, and the reason is structural, not tactical. The price is decided by the market edition chosen, by the article's scope and whether you supply it or we arrange the writing, and by the placement specifics of your article. A single flat, domain wide fee cannot price that honestly, because it pretends a Los Angeles article for your company is the same object as an article in any other city for any other company.
One warning specific to this market: the advertising cost figures that rank for Los Angeles business journal searches belong to the other publication's print ads. They are not the price of an article in L.A. Business First, in either direction. Every placement here is quoted individually, by email, with no obligation attached to asking. Our guide to how much a sponsored article costs explains the factor model behind business journal quotes in full. The figure you receive is the figure for your company, your article, and the Los Angeles edition, and the refund protection above stands behind it.
The honest limits, and how to start
The limits, in a few lines. The article is labelled paid content; it is not editorial coverage and it is not the journal's newsroom endorsing your company. It guarantees no search ranking, no traffic figure and no clients. Because this journal is web only, the asset is a permanent web page, not a printed clipping to frame. What it guarantees is the thing itself: a permanent, credible article about your company in the online business journal Los Angeles deal-makers read, published under the journal's own review.
If that is the asset your company is missing, the next step is one email. Write to uzairasad@pressfeature.org with your company name, your website, and the story the article should tell. You will receive a fit confirmation and your individual quote. Our services page covers the wider picture of what we arrange; this placement begins with that email.
Start your L.A. Business First article
One email with your company name, your website, and the story to tell. Your fit confirmation and individual quote come back by email.
uzairasad@pressfeature.orgFull refund in writing if your article does not go live.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to publish an article in L.A. Business First?
No printed price exists, because placements are quoted individually. The factors are the edition, the article's scope and production, and the placement specifics. One email to uzairasad@pressfeature.org returns your exact quote, with no obligation.
Is L.A. Business First the same as the Los Angeles Business Journal?
No. The Los Angeles Business Journal is a separate, independent weekly print publication. L.A. Business First is the online Los Angeles business journal on bizjournals.com/losangeles, and that is where a placement arranged through us appears.
Can I pay to get featured in L.A. Business First?
Yes. A labelled paid placement is a real route, arranged through the placement arrangement we hold for this journal, separate from earning editorial coverage by pitching news.
Who reads L.A. Business First?
Los Angeles owners, executives, lenders and professional partners who follow LA business news online, across entertainment, trade and logistics, manufacturing, aerospace and professional services.
How do I submit an article to L.A. Business First?
You do not submit to the journal directly. You email us, we confirm fit and quote, and the journal reviews the article before it is published.
Does L.A. Business First have a print edition or a Book of Lists?
No print edition: it is a web-only journal, and the placement is a permanent web article. Print products sold under the other Los Angeles title are a different publication's business entirely.
What is the difference between advertising and a sponsored article on bizjournals.com/losangeles?
Advertising rents display space for a campaign window. A sponsored article is a full, permanent article page about your company, labelled as paid content, that stays live after any campaign would have ended.
Will a sponsored article be labelled and include a link to my website?
Yes on both. It runs labelled as paid content, and it links to your company with sponsored attributes under the journal's paid content rules.
Disclosure: PressFeature sells article placements in L.A. Business First, and this page is our own marketing content, published to explain the placement honestly. Platform figures cited are from our public outlet directory. Published October 2026. Last reviewed: October 2026.