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Reach the people who plan Bay Area weekends
BayAreaTX is the local guide to Bay Area Houston, from Pearland to the Gulf, rebuilt from public calendars every morning. Listing your event or weekly special is free. If you'd like more visibility, here's what's available. Get in touch and we'll talk it through.
BayAreaTX by the numbers
- 579events on our calendar in October
- 3,326local places with their own page
- 23towns covered, from Pearland to Galveston
- 8restaurants with kids-eat-free nights
- 10ready-made day plans every weekend
Live counts from today's build of the site.
Free, always
Get listed for free
We list things on their merits, not on who pays. If it's open to the public and worth a neighbor's time, send it in.
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List your event free
Festivals, markets, shows, fundraisers, library and school events. Send the date, time, place and a link, and we'll add it to the calendar (and the weekend picks, if it's a standout).
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Send us your weekly special or kids-eat-free night
Happy hours, trivia and live music nights, weekly food specials and kids-eat-free nights go on Deals by day and Kids eat free once we've checked them.
Email us your special
Own a place we already list? There's an "Own this place?" link on its page that fills in the details for you.
What's available
Ways to work together
Newsletter sponsorship
One clearly labeled sponsor spot in the Thursday letter, the weekly email of five things worth leaving the house for.
Featured events and places
Extra visibility for your event or business on the site, always marked "Sponsored". It never changes where anything ranks in our lists or picks.
Sponsored weekend day plans
A ready-made day out built around your corner of the Bay Area, labeled as sponsored, with stops we would recommend anyway.
Event promotion
Help getting a festival, show, market or fundraiser in front of locals who plan their weekends with us.
Seasonal guide sponsorships
Present a seasonal guide: holiday lights, boat parades, spring break, summer on the water, back to school.
Chambers, schools and libraries
Partnerships with chambers of commerce, school districts, libraries and nonprofits: shared calendars, community guides and cross-promotion.
Something else
Have another idea? Tell us about it.
What it looks like
Examples of sponsored spots
Mockups with made-up names, so you can see exactly how a sponsored item is labeled. They aren't real listings.
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Lunch · 12:30 PM Sponsored
Your Waterfront Kitchen
Fried shrimp and a table on the deck between the morning market and the afternoon on the boardwalk.
Sponsor
This week's letter is brought to you by Your Business
Two or three sentences in your words, with one link. It sits between our picks, set apart and labeled.
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The rules we keep
Sponsorship policy
- Labels are always shown. Anything paid for is marked "Sponsored" (or "Sponsor" in the newsletter), wherever it appears.
- Ranking is never for sale. Our picks, lists, top picks and search results are editorial. A sponsorship never moves anything up or anyone else down.
- Free listings stay free. Events and weekly specials are listed on their merits whether or not anyone sponsors anything.
- We can say no. We can decline any sponsorship, for example when it isn't a good fit for a local guide or isn't something we'd recommend to a neighbor.