A Bay Area company searching for how to get featured in the San Francisco Business Times today finds the paper's own stories, firms celebrating coverage, generic PR pitches, and at least one spam page faking answers to questions nobody asked. What it does not find is an explanation of the paid article route: what it is, what it looks like, and how a business buys one. This page is that explanation. It covers whether your company can be published in the San Francisco Business Times, 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 San Francisco Business Times
Yes. Your company can be published in the San Francisco Business Times through a paid, labelled article placement in the San Francisco edition. This is not pitching the newsroom, not hiring a PR firm to hope on your behalf, and not an earned column. 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 San Francisco 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.
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Picture it: your company name in the journal the Bay Area's funders check
Picture the moment your company is being evaluated. The investor running diligence before a term sheet, the enterprise client vetting your firm as a vendor, the partner at a law firm checking a referral, the senior hire reading up before signing. Each of them opens the San Francisco Business Times, the business journal of this region, and finds your company's name inside it as a published article. In a market where every serious player is researched before they are trusted, that page does quiet work no pitch deck can.
That is what this placement is bought for, and it leaves durable assets behind: the live link you forward in diligence rooms and proposals, 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, which in the Bay Area is constantly.
Why the San Francisco Business Times, specifically
The San Francisco Business Times is the business journal for San Francisco and the wider Bay Area, read in the city, the East Bay and across the region by founders, executives, investors and firm partners. The market beneath it is extraordinary by any measure: a regional economy producing roughly 1.2 trillion dollars a year, a scale that would rank around eighteenth among national economies; 321 unicorn companies, more than any other start-up ecosystem in the world; and real GDP per capita of about 164,100 dollars in 2024, the highest of any large US metro. The industry mix is led by professional and business services, finance and real estate, and information. OpenAI and Anthropic are headquartered in the city, alongside major employers like Salesforce, Uber, Wells Fargo and Visa. This is the readership's home market.
The journal's own institutions show who that audience follows. It runs the Bay Area Best Places to Work jointly with the Silicon Valley Business Journal, with rankings built from confidential employee surveys, an honest window into the employers this readership respects. Contributed pieces from outside experts visibly run in its pages, which tells you contributed formats are native to this journal; the paid article is the labelled, open version of that presence.
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 San Francisco edition alone. The benefit was never raw reach. It is reach into the room where Bay Area funding and vendor decisions get made.
What a sponsored article in the San Francisco Business Times 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 San Francisco edition on bizjournals.com. The edition is named and fixed before you pay anything: your article runs in the San Francisco Business Times, not in an unspecified journal somewhere in a network. It is labelled as paid content under the journal's rules. The journal reviews it 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.
Two clarifications protect you. This is a web article in the journal, not a print piece. And it is not a Book of Lists entry; the Book of Lists is the audience context that makes the journal valuable, not a product bundled into your placement. Contributed editorial columns, which the journal also publishes, are a separate earned format chosen by its editors, not something sold here.
One city, one edition: San Francisco is not Silicon Valley
The journals site hosts dozens of separate city business journals, and the Bay Area has two of them. The San Francisco Business Times covers the wider Bay Area from San Francisco. The Silicon Valley Business Journal is a separate edition centred on San Jose and the South Bay. They share a region and even a joint awards programme, but they are different journals with different readerships, and a placement is bought in one named edition, confirmed before payment.
This is where domain wide offers fail their buyers. A seller who quotes one flat arrangement for "the business journals" without naming your edition is selling a slot in a system, not a presence in your market. Here, the edition is chosen by you and printed in the article's home. If your buyers sit in San Francisco and the East Bay, this is your edition; if they sit in the South Bay, the Silicon Valley edition is the honest recommendation. 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 Bay Area companies whose next big yes comes from another business or an investor: B2B firms, professional practices, fintech and enterprise services companies, and funded start-ups whose next investor, enterprise client or senior hire reads this journal. It also fits companies outside the region that want a San Francisco business journal name in their proof set, because the Bay Area is where the technology economy keeps its scoreboard.
It does not fit a purely consumer business chasing foot traffic or app downloads, which needs its customers' eyes rather than the business community's. And it does not fit anyone expecting an article to substitute for a sales pipeline; the article makes the pipeline's conversations easier, it does not replace them. If you are comparing outlet types before deciding, our guide to which news outlets accept sponsored content walks through the fit honestly, and the PIX11 guide shows the consumer-facing route in the country's other great media market.
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 San Francisco 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 San Francisco 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 San Francisco Business Times 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 San Francisco article for your company is the same object as an article in any other city for any other company.
Be aware that the one cost figure floating around for this journal prices a stale print display advertisement, a different product entirely, and says nothing about an 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 business journal quotes in full. The figure you receive is the figure for your company, your article, and the San Francisco 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, no funding round and no clients. What it guarantees is the thing itself: a permanent, credible article about your company in the journal the Bay Area'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 San Francisco 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 publish a sponsored article in the San Francisco Business Times?
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.
Can a Bay Area business pay to get featured in the San Francisco Business Times?
Yes. A labelled paid placement is a real route, separate from pitching the newsroom for earned coverage, and the labelling is what keeps it legitimate and durable.
Who reads the San Francisco Business Times?
Bay Area owners, executives, investors, firm partners and professional services leaders across San Francisco and the East Bay, reading their region's business journal as a working habit.
How do I submit an article or press release to the San Francisco Business Times?
News tips, releases and columns are editorial routes the journal controls. A paid placement works differently: it is arranged through us, and the journal reviews the article as paid content before it runs.
How do I get my company in the San Francisco Business Times Book of Lists?
Listings are the journal's own research and are not sold. The article is a permanent presence in front of the same readership that uses the Book of Lists, not a listing itself.
What is the difference between advertising and a sponsored article in the Business Times?
An ad rents 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 paid article be labelled as sponsored and 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. No plain editorial dofollow is promised.
Does the San Francisco Business Times cover Silicon Valley and the East Bay, or only San Francisco?
Its coverage spans the wider Bay Area, including the East Bay. The Silicon Valley edition centred on San Jose is a separate journal, and your placement is confirmed in the edition you choose before you pay.
Disclosure: PressFeature sells article placements in the San Francisco 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 October 2026. Last reviewed: October 2026.