First, the name, because in Pittsburgh the name is half the confusion: the region's business publication is the Pittsburgh Business Times, not a business journal, and it is a different publication from Pittsburgh Magazine. Buyers search for all three, land on awards pages and explainers, and never find the one thing they want explained: the paid article, in this exact publication. This page is that explanation: how your company gets published in the Pittsburgh Business Times, what the article is, what decides its price, and the one email that starts it.
The short answer: yes, your company can be published in the Pittsburgh Business Times
Yes. Your company can be published in the Pittsburgh Business Times through a paid, labelled article placement in this publication. That is its exact name, and the placement is bought in it specifically, not in a journal with a similar name and not in the magazine across town. This is not pitching a story to a journalist and hoping. It is a specific article, reviewed by the publication before it is published, and permanent once it is live.
We hold a placement arrangement covering this publication, so the route is open and defined. You do not need a PR firm on retainer, a journalist's favor, or a news event to point at. 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 Pittsburgh Business Times?
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 publication Pittsburgh's leaders check
Imagine the checking moment, a month from now. A bank relationship manager reviewing your firm, a health-system supplier being vetted, an energy client comparing you with a competitor: each of them opens the Pittsburgh Business Times, and your company's name is there, in a published article, in the publication they trust for their own market. Your next proposal goes out with that link inside it. Your website carries the publication's name in its "As Featured On" row, and the due diligence questions get shorter because the proof is sitting in front of the person asking.
That is what a placement like this is bought for. Consumer coverage says people have heard of you. An article in the region's business publication says the business community you sell to, borrow from and partner with has you on its own pages. It is a credibility asset aimed precisely at the readers who sign the largest checks your company will ever cash, and it stays live and findable every time the checking moment comes around again.
Why the Pittsburgh Business Times, specifically
The Pittsburgh Business Times is the serious business read for a six-county metro: owners, executives, lenders and firm partners across health care, higher education, energy, banking, tech and professional services. The market beneath them runs on "eds and meds", higher education and health care, accounting for more than 250,000 local jobs. The University of Pittsburgh recorded 1.5 billion dollars in research expenditures in fiscal 2024, top-20 nationally. Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute anchors more than 260 deep-tech and robotics companies employing over 11,300 people, and the region minted its eighth unicorn in a decade in June 2025. PNC Financial Services, one of the largest diversified financial institutions in the United States, is headquartered Downtown and is the region's largest private employer.
The publication's own institutions show you who that audience follows. Its Best Places to Work put 85 companies on its 2025 lists from about 140 applicants, scored on Quantum Workplace data across four size categories. And its Book of Lists is a working reference in this market: Robert Morris University's career center directs its students and employers to it, and the university library provides student access. A publication whose audience is measured that way is not a general traffic play; it is a room full of decision makers, already seated.
The supporting figures sit underneath that picture, stated honestly. Our outlet directory records the business journals' platform at a Domain Authority of 91 with 7.8 million monthly organic visits across the platform's site; those are the platform's figures, not a claim about the Pittsburgh publication alone. The benefit was never raw reach. It is reach into the exact room where your next client, lender or partner is sitting.
What a sponsored article in the Pittsburgh Business Times actually looks like
Precision matters here, because vague offers are where buyers get hurt, and Pittsburgh adds a trap of its own.
The article is a full article page in the Pittsburgh Business Times on its site. The publication is named and fixed before you pay anything: your article runs in the Pittsburgh Business Times, not in an unspecified publication somewhere in a network. It is labelled as paid content, under the publication's sponsored format of the kind its Business Spotlight pieces use. The publication reviews the article before publishing it, so nothing goes live unreviewed. Once published, the placement is permanent; it does not come down at the end of a campaign window, because there is no campaign window attached to it.
The article links to your company, and those links follow the publication'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 from a business publication should be asked hard questions about what they are actually selling.
Now the trap, stated plainly so nobody sells it to you: this placement is not a print piece and not a list entry. And it is not the 40 Under 40. The famous Pittsburgh 40 Under 40 belongs to Pittsburgh Magazine, a different publication. Anyone who offers it to you as part of a Pittsburgh Business Times placement is describing something that is not theirs to sell.
One region, one publication: why the Pittsburgh edition is the whole point
Dozens of separate city business publications share one site, each with its own readership of local decision makers. A placement is bought in one named publication, and the publication is the product. Your bankers, clients and competitors read the Pittsburgh Business Times, in front of the southwestern Pennsylvania readership. An article in another city's publication, however fine, does nothing for the checking moment in your market.
This is exactly where domain wide offers fail their buyers. A seller who quotes you one flat arrangement for "the business journals" without naming your publication is selling you 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 Pittsburgh Business Times. Readers weighing several markets can find the wider picture in The Business Journals guide, which covers how the city publications work as a family of choices. The buying decision, though, is always one market at a time, and for a Pittsburgh company it is this one.
Who this is built for, and who should skip it
This placement is built for companies whose next big yes comes from another business: medtech and biotech firms, robotics and AI suppliers, energy services, banking and professional firms across the Pittsburgh region. It also fits companies outside Pittsburgh that want a Pittsburgh Business Times name in their proof set, because the region's eds-and-meds economy is read about across the country.
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 an article to deliver instant sales by itself; a placement compounds credibility over every deal that follows it, 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 publication, and you receive your individual quote. 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 publication's review.
Step 4: Publication review. The Pittsburgh Business Times 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 Pittsburgh Business Times, 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 Pittsburgh Business Times article
There is no printed price for this placement, and the reason is structural, not tactical. The price is decided by the publication 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 Pittsburgh article for your company is the same object as an article in any other city for any other company. It is not, and the quote should not pretend otherwise.
Searchers asking what it costs to advertise here are asking about a different product: display advertising is rented space, and this page covers the sponsored article. 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 quotes like this in full.
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 publication'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 publication your market's decision makers read, published under its 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 Pittsburgh Business Times 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 advertise in the Pittsburgh Business Times?
Display advertising is a separate product. This page covers the sponsored article, whose quote is individual and comes by email.
How do I get featured in the Pittsburgh Business Times?
Two routes exist. You can earn coverage by pitching news, which the newsroom decides on its own terms, or you can buy a labelled placement arranged through us, with review before publishing.
Who reads the Pittsburgh Business Times?
Owners, executives, lenders and firm partners across the six-county Pittsburgh metro, in health care, higher education, energy, banking, tech and professional services.
Can I pay to publish an article in the Pittsburgh Business Times?
Yes. A labelled paid placement is a real, open route, and it exists alongside the publication's editorial coverage, not instead of it.
What link do I get from a sponsored article in the Pittsburgh Business Times?
A link to your company, carrying sponsored attributes under the publication's paid-content rules. A plain editorial dofollow link is not part of a paid placement.
Is the Pittsburgh Business Times the same as Pittsburgh Magazine?
No. They are different publications. The 40 Under 40 many searchers mean belongs to Pittsburgh Magazine, not to this publication.
How do I get my company in the Pittsburgh Business Times Book of Lists?
Listings come from the publication's own research and are never sold. The article is presence in front of the readership that uses the Book of Lists as a working reference; regional universities point their students to it.
How long does it take to get published in the Pittsburgh Business Times?
The timeline is confirmed with your quote before you pay, because the publication reviews first. No invented figure is promised on this page.
Disclosure: PressFeature sells article placements in the Pittsburgh Business Times, and this page is our own marketing content, published to explain the placement honestly. Platform figures cited are from our public outlet directory. Published November 2026. Last reviewed: November 2026.