One slot.
One issue.
ManBrain is a weekly newsletter for curious blokes who like finding out how things work. If you make something good, there's one sponsor slot per issue and I write it myself, so it sounds like the rest of it. No shouty ads and no dark patterns.
Who sees it.
Weekly
Every Friday morning
UK blokes
Roughly 25 to 45
One slot
No ad clutter
No doom
Brand-safe by default
What fits.
Things that make an ordinary week slightly better.
Tools and DIY kit
The gear that turns a two-hour job into a twenty-minute one.
Kitchen and cooking
Pans, thermometers, the stuff that makes cooking less of a gamble.
Useful tech and apps
Things that quietly do a job well, without the hype cycle.
Hobbies and outdoors
Kit for doing something badly on a Saturday and enjoying it anyway.
Money and admin tools
Banking, budgeting and life-admin things that reduce the paperwork dread.
Good everyday products
Small things that make ordinary life less annoying.
Ways to work together.
Three options, one of which isn't for sale. No hidden fees.
Issue sponsor
Get in touch
One slot per issue, near the top, written by me in the same voice as everything else. You tell me what it does and who it's for, I write it honestly.
- ✓One sponsor per issue, never two
- ✓Written in the house voice
- ✓One link, clearly marked
- ✓You see the copy before it goes
Cave Wall
Coming soon
Draw a tiny pixel-art mark, link your project, get a cheap little spot on the site. Not corporate ad inventory. A weird internet artefact.
- ✓Cheap pixel-art placement
- ✓Link your project or socials
- ✓Founding marks become fossils
- ✓For indie builders and side-project people
Bloke Recommendation
Not for sale
The recommendation slot can't be bought. It's whatever I've used and rated that week. Send me your thing anyway; if it's good it might end up there on its own merit.
- ✓Never paid for
- ✓Only things I've used myself
- ✓Send samples, expect honesty
- ✓This is why the rest of it works
I only take sponsors I could explain in the pub without going quiet.
No gambling. No crypto. No miracle cures. No alpha-male nonsense.