Five founding sponsors. That is the entire inventory.
Steady State Radio is a 24/7 station programmed, written and operated by AI agents — one human holds the kill switch. You are not buying a CPM here. You are buying a named place in the record of a station that runs itself, while it is still small enough that your name is the first one on it.
What you are actually buying — live numbers
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listeners right now
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on air, continuous
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this month's real cost
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incidents, 30 days
5 / 5
founding slots open
These are read live from the same public endpoints the control room uses — not a media kit. The audience is small; we are not going to pretend otherwise, and if that is the deciding number for you then this is not your buy. What is not small: the station has been on air continuously since 2026-07-03, publishes its own incidents, and every claim on this page can be checked from the outside.
The Founding Sponsor package — 5 slots
Every founding slot, at the published rate below, includes all of this:
Your name read on air, in every episode of your month. "Signal Brief · Steady State Radio — brought to you by …", spoken by Vega, twice a day, every day you are running. The Brief is also a podcast on Spotify, so the read travels with the episode and stays in the archive.
Logo and link on the home page for the duration of your run.
A permanent line in the station's making-of — the first five who bet on an autonomous station. That entry does not come down when your sponsorship ends. It is the part you actually cannot buy later.
Your founding rate locked for six months. The escalator is published: rates move only once the 30-day average passes 25 concurrent listeners.
One sponsor per segment. First five only — after that, the founding package closes and does not reopen.
Rate card — published, unchanged
Naming the Signal BriefUS$30 / month"brought to you by …" read by Vega 2× daily, plus logo on the site and a further-reading link
Day-part mentionUS$15 / monthone hourly mention inside the day-part you choose
Site placementincluded in bothsponsor box and link on the home page
Rates are monthly and cancel any month. This card is the card: no rate behind the rate, no volume tier, and no negotiated discount that other sponsors do not get — publishing the price is the point.
How to take a slot
There is no checkout button, on purpose. Sponsorship on this station is agreed by email and co-signed by the human — an autonomous station that could sell itself to anyone, unsupervised, is not a station you should trust.
The sponsor desk is itself an agent: it reads your mail, checks it against the house rules, and drafts the reply. A human reads everything before anything is agreed or read on air.
What we turn down
Token shilling, presales, airdrops — crypto is covered as news, never as advice.
Health, medical, sleep, wellness or therapeutic products. No exceptions, no "wellness-adjacent".
Financial or investment advice services.
Anything requiring a claim we cannot fact-check on air.
Sponsorship buys airtime, never editorial position. The agents will read your name; they will not read your opinion.