On the Grand Strand, your next customer usually meets you twice: once in a search result, and once in person. Businesses here live on being checked, by visitors planning a trip, by families choosing a clinic, by homeowners hiring before the season turns. The name those checks run against is News 13. This page is about putting your business on it: how a published article on wbtw.com works, what the finished thing looks like, what decides its price, and the one email that starts it.
The short answer: yes, a Grand Strand business can get featured on WBTW
Yes. A Grand Strand or Pee Dee business can be published on wbtw.com through a paid article placement, arranged through us at PressFeature. This is not pitching a story to the News 13 newsroom, and it is not only a segment on the station's lifestyle show. It is a separate, defined route: a sponsored article about your business that runs on the station's website, labelled as paid content, reviewed by the outlet before it goes live, and permanent once published.
You do not need a news hook or a publicist. You need a business worth writing about and one email. The rest of this page gives you the whole picture, including the local evidence that paid business features are already an established habit on this station.
Ready to get your business on WBTW?
Send us your business name, your website, and what the article should be about. You get a fit confirmation and your individual quote back by email.
uzairasad@pressfeature.orgOne email starts it. No form, no obligation.
What you actually get: your business on News 13, in front of locals and the visitor economy
Picture the finished thing. A live article page on wbtw.com carries your business name in the headline and your story in the text: what you do, why the Strand trusts you, and how customers reach you. It sits under the News 13 name that this market has watched since 1954.
Then the article goes to work in the places a tourism economy actually checks names. You use the link in your listings and booking pages, where a visitor comparing three options looks for a reason to pick one. You put it in partner emails and proposals. You add WBTW to the "As Featured On" row on your own website, and the claim is verifiable in a click. For a visitor-facing business, the article is not decoration; it is the credibility page your customers were already looking for.
Why WBTW carries weight on the Grand Strand and in the Pee Dee
WBTW first aired on 18 October 1954, licensed to Florence, and it has been the market's CBS station for its entire life. For decades it was known simply as TV 13 before rebranding to News 13 in 2002, and its studios on McDonald Court in Socastee, with a Myrtle Beach address, put it physically inside the community it covers. Its service area spans eight South Carolina counties plus two in North Carolina, which means one station covers both the Pee Dee's year-round towns and the Strand's visitor economy. The station itself describes its news team as the market's top-rated on air and digital, and the habit behind that claim is seventy years old.
The figures sit under that standing: in our outlet directory, wbtw.com carries a Domain Authority of 75 and roughly 465,800 monthly organic visits. For businesses here, though, the operative fact is simpler: locals and visitors alike check News 13, and a story under its name inherits that trust.
What a sponsored article on wbtw.com actually looks like
Precision first. The placement is a full article page on wbtw.com itself. It is labelled as paid content, and that labelling is not a weakness; it is what makes the placement legitimate and durable. The outlet reviews the article before it is published, so what goes live has passed the station's own check. Once live, the placement is permanent.
The article links to your website, and those links carry sponsored attributes, as paid content rules require. Anyone promising a plain editorial dofollow link from a paid placement is describing something that does not exist.
The shape of the piece will feel familiar if you know the station's lifestyle strand. Business features around WBTW read as helpful local explainers, written in plain language, with the business's contact details and link inside. The article takes that same reader-friendly shape and gives it the one thing a broadcast feature cannot have: permanence.
Living Local Carolina is a TV show. This is the permanent version
Living Local Carolina is WBTW's lifestyle show, and business segments on it are a visible local habit. A clinic's explainer piece on the show carries its booking phone number and link, and a local credit union runs a recurring named panel segment on the show and proudly markets that partnership on its own website. Businesses on the Strand already pay to be featured in this station's world; that question is settled locally.
What a segment cannot do is stay. It airs, it ends, and the business is left pointing at a memory. The article is the version that stays live: searchable when a visitor plans a trip in March, sendable when a partner asks for proof in October, and carrying your own link inside it. This page sells the article, and our guide to which news outlets accept sponsored content explains how the written route compares across outlets.
Who a WBTW article is right for, and who should skip it
This placement fits Grand Strand and Pee Dee businesses whose customers research before they arrive or buy: attractions and hospitality firms, clinics, home services, retailers and professional practices. If your customer's decision starts with checking your name against the market's trusted one, this article is built for that moment.
It does not fit a business with no customers in the two regions. If nobody who matters to you reads wbtw.com, spend the money where your customers actually are. We would rather tell you that now than sell you the wrong placement.
How publishing on WBTW works, step by step
Step 1: Email us. Write to uzairasad@pressfeature.org with your business name, your website, and what the article should be about. That email is the whole application. For the article, you contact us, and you deal with one email address throughout.
Step 2: Fit confirmation and your quote. We confirm your business and topic fit the outlet, and you receive your individual quote for this placement.
Step 3: The article. You can supply the article yourself, or we arrange the writing for you. Either way, the draft goes to the outlet for review before anything is published.
Step 4: Review and go live. The outlet reviews the article. Once approved, it is published on wbtw.com, fast once the review is complete.
Step 5: Your live link. You receive the live link to your article, yours to use in listings, booking pages and partner emails from that day on.
Your protection is stated plainly because it is part of the arrangement 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, the honest limits, and how to start
There is no public price for a WBTW sponsored article, because each placement is quoted individually. The deciding factors are the ones that differ between businesses: the scope of the article, whether you supply it or we arrange the writing, the placement specifics, and timing. Our guide to how much a sponsored article costs explains that factor model in full, and one email returns your exact figure with no obligation.
The limits, plainly. The article is paid content and is labelled as such; it is not editorial coverage and not the News 13 newsroom endorsing your business. No one can guarantee rankings, traffic, visitor numbers or bookings from a placement like this, and this page promises presence and credibility in front of the market, nothing more. That presence is the product, and it is permanent.
If WBTW is the name your customers check, the next step is a single email. Write to uzairasad@pressfeature.org with your business name, your website, and the story the article should tell. Our services page covers the wider picture of what we do, but the WBTW article itself begins with that email.
Get your business on WBTW
One email with your business name, your website, and the story you want told. 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 can my business get featured on WBTW?
Email us with your business and story. We confirm fit, quote individually, place a labelled article on wbtw.com after the outlet's review, and send you the live link.
How much does a WBTW sponsored article cost?
No public price exists, because each placement is quoted individually. The factors are scope, production, placement specifics and timing, and one email returns your quote with no obligation.
How do I get on Living Local Carolina?
Living Local Carolina is the station's TV lifestyle show, and segment appearances are broadcast arrangements. The permanent written route is an article on wbtw.com, which is what we arrange.
Does WBTW publish sponsored articles on wbtw.com?
Yes, in the form of clearly labelled paid content, reviewed before publishing. Its lifestyle strand shows the business-feature shape the article takes.
How do Myrtle Beach businesses get on News 13?
By the paid article placement arranged through us, for the written route. Earned news coverage remains the newsroom's separate choice.
Who do I contact at WBTW about a paid feature?
For the article, you contact us. We handle the placement and you deal with one email address throughout.
How long does a sponsored article stay on wbtw.com?
The placement is permanent. It does not end when a show segment airs, and if it does not go live you receive a full refund in writing.
Can a Grand Strand business buy a feature on WBTW?
Yes. Grand Strand and Pee Dee fit is exactly the test this product is built on.
Disclosure: PressFeature sells article placements on WBTW, and this page is our own marketing content, published to explain the placement honestly. Figures cited are from our public outlet directory. Published October 2026. Last reviewed: October 2026.