Ledger of record
What sponsor slots actually sell for
Every sponsorship price you can find online is a rate card, a survey, or a screenshot of someone's invoice. This one is neither: it is the winning bid on every slot that has sold at auction on slotsbid, with the sample size printed beside it.
Not yet
No slots have settled yet.
The index publishes at 5 sold slots. Below that a median is not a market rate, it is one creator's invoice — and printing it would be both misleading and nobody's business.
How it is measured
- Winning bid at settlement. The price the sponsor paid for the slot, before the 10% platform fee comes out of it. Deposits are credited against it, not added to it.
- One row per sold slot. Withdrawn, unsold and still-running slots are not counted, and a slot that rolled to a runner-up counts once, at the price it finally cleared.
- Median, not mean. A single unusually large slot moves an average and leaves the typical creator with a number they will never see.
- Bands under 3 sales are withheld. The same threshold that keeps a thin bid ladder private keeps a thin price band out of this table.
What to do with it
If you are setting a rate card, this is the floor conversation, not the ceiling — the whole argument for running the slot as an auction is that the ceiling is the part you cannot guess. Sponsors pricing a buy should read the sponsor's side and then look at what is open right now.