Philadelphia companies searching for a route into the Philadelphia Business Journal find old guest columns, reprints, and a templated estimate for print advertising. The guest columns prove contributed content exists in this journal. The journal's own sponsored formats are publicly visible too. What nobody does is connect those facts to a buyer: here is the paid article, here is what it looks like, here is how you get one. This page makes that connection. It covers whether your company can be published in the Philadelphia Business Journal, what the article is, who reads it, how publishing works step by step, what decides the price, and the one email that starts it.
The short answer: yes, your company can be published in the Philadelphia Business Journal
Yes. Your company can be published in the Philadelphia Business Journal through a paid, labelled article placement in the Philadelphia edition. This is not submitting a guest column and hoping an editor selects it, not pitching news, and not waiting for an invitation. It is a specific article about your company, in this specific journal, reviewed by the journal before it is published, and permanent once it is live.
We hold a placement arrangement covering this journal, so the route is open and defined. 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: what the article gets you, what it looks like, who it fits, how publishing works, and what it will not do.
Ready to put your company in the Philadelphia Business Journal?
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 Greater Philadelphia checks
Picture the moment your company is being evaluated. The lender reviewing your facility, the health system supplier being vetted by procurement, the partner at a client firm checking your practice before a referral. Each of them reads the Philadelphia Business Journal, the publication this region's business community uses to know itself, and finds your company's name inside it as a published article. In a market built on institutions and relationships, that page settles questions before they are asked out loud.
That is what this placement is bought for, and it leaves durable assets behind: the live link you forward in proposals and credential packets, and the journal's name in the "As Featured On" row of your own website. The article stays live and findable every time the checking moment comes around again.
Why the Philadelphia Business Journal, specifically
The Philadelphia Business Journal is read across Greater Philadelphia and South Jersey by owners, executives, lenders and firm partners in health care, education, finance and professional services. The journal's institutions show who that audience follows: its 40 Under 40 has run since 1991 and drew about 300 nominees for 2026, marked with a special edition and an awards event, and its Best Places to Work programme named 80 companies in 2025 across five size categories. These are the executives and employers this readership pays attention to, mapped year after year.
The market beneath the journal is an eds and meds economy. Education and medicine anchor roughly a quarter of the region's output, health care and social assistance account for about 32 percent of city employment, and the largest employers include the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine, Jefferson Health and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The city is a cell and gene therapy hub known as Cellicon Valley. The metro economy, at about 557.6 billion dollars, is the eleventh largest in the US, and the region entered the top five US venture capital centres in 2025. A journal read in that environment is read by the people who fund, supply and advise this region's companies.
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 Philadelphia edition alone. The benefit was never raw reach. It is reach into Greater Philadelphia's decision-making room.
What a sponsored article in the Philadelphia Business Journal actually looks like
Precision matters here, because vague offers are where buyers of journal placements get hurt.
The article is a full article page inside the Philadelphia edition on bizjournals.com. The edition is named and fixed before you pay anything: your article runs in the Philadelphia Business Journal, not in an unspecified journal somewhere in a network. It is labelled as paid content under the journal's rules; the journal's sponsored formats run openly under a sponsored content label, including sponsored sections and sponsored articles produced with major local institutions, so the format is visible in the wild for anyone to inspect. The journal reviews your 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 protects you from a natural confusion. The journal also runs multi-expert sponsored roundtables, where several voices share one section. The standard placement described here is a single-company article about your business. If a roundtable format is ever what is quoted to you, it will be named as such before you pay, not swapped in afterwards. And the article is a web article in the journal, not a print piece and not a Book of Lists entry; the Book of Lists is the journal's standing business reference for this market, the audience context that makes the journal valuable, not a product bundled into your placement.
One city, one edition: why the Philadelphia edition is the whole point
The journal's site hosts dozens of separate city business journals, each with its own readership of local decision makers. A placement is bought in one named edition, and the edition is the product. Your lenders, clients and competitors read the Philadelphia edition. An article in another city's journal does nothing for the checking moment in your market.
This is where domain wide offers fail their buyers. A seller who quotes one flat arrangement for "the business journals" without naming your city is selling a slot in a system, not a presence in your market. Here, the market is chosen by you, confirmed before payment, and printed in the article's home: the Philadelphia Business Journal. 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, and the New York Business Journal guide covers the region's flagship market. The buying decision, though, is always one city at a time.
Who this is built for, and who should skip it
This placement is built for Greater Philadelphia companies whose next big yes comes from another business: health and life sciences suppliers, professional firms, education-adjacent services, fintech and commercial real estate companies, and any business whose next client or lender reads this journal. It also fits companies outside the region that want a Philadelphia 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 anyone expecting one article to deliver instant sales by itself; a journal placement compounds credibility across every deal that follows, and it should be bought with that horizon. If you are comparing outlet types before deciding, our guide to which news outlets accept sponsored content walks through the fit honestly.
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 Philadelphia 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 the Philadelphia Business Journal, 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 a Philadelphia Business Journal 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 Philadelphia article for your company is the same object as an article in any other city for any other company.
The cost figure the internet offers for this journal today estimates print advertising, a different product with a different job. Display advertising is likewise a separate product with its own channels. 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 Philadelphia 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. What it guarantees is the thing itself: a permanent, credible article about your company in the journal Greater Philadelphia's decision 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 Philadelphia Business Journal 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 a sponsored article in the Philadelphia Business Journal cost?
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.
How much does it cost to advertise in the Philadelphia Business Journal?
Display advertising is a separate product with its own channels and rates. This page covers the sponsored article, which is quoted individually. The two should never be priced from the same page.
Who reads the Philadelphia Business Journal?
Greater Philadelphia and South Jersey owners, executives, lenders and firm partners across health care, education, finance and professional services, reading their own market's journal as a working habit.
How do I submit an article or guest column to the Philadelphia Business Journal?
Guest columns are an earned editorial route the journal selects. A paid placement works differently: it is arranged through us, and the journal reviews the article as paid content before publishing.
Can I pay to publish an article about my business in the Philadelphia Business Journal?
Yes. A labelled paid placement is a real, open route, separate from earning editorial coverage by pitching news.
Is a sponsored article in the Philadelphia Business Journal labelled "Sponsored Content"?
Yes. The journal's sponsored formats run under that label, openly, which is what keeps them legitimate and durable.
What is the Philadelphia Business Journal Book of Lists?
The journal's standing business reference for this market, built from its own research. An article runs in the same journal its readers use alongside that reference; it is not itself a listing, and listings are never sold.
Should I buy an ad or an article in the Philadelphia Business Journal?
They do different jobs. An ad rents attention for a campaign window; an article is a permanent page about your company that readers can find, forward and check later. Choose by the job you need done.
Disclosure: PressFeature sells article placements in the Philadelphia Business Journal, 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.