# InformationWeek: AI Startup Coverage, free or paid (informationweek.com)

> InformationWeek is a tech publication at informationweek.com. It covers AI startups, with a rule: IT leader columns, no promo. Listing is free, with paid spots on offer. The link you get is dofollow: a company link in the body of a live article carries only rel="noreferrer" (checked on a live article, October 2026). Review: it says it tries to reply within a couple of weeks but cannot answer every submission or explain why one is not chosen. Terms read on informationweek.com on 3 October 2026.

Enterprise IT news site that takes exclusive commentary columns of up to 850 words from IT practitioners and leaders, sent as finished drafts rather than pitches. Vendor staff are accepted only sometimes, and columns that promote their company's products or surveys are rejected.

- Site: https://www.informationweek.com/
- Kind: Press
- Verdict: IT leader columns, no promo
- Price: Free to submit a column, and columns are unpaid; sponsored articles and other ads through its advertising team, no price stated
- Link you get: Dofollow: a company link in the body of a live article carries only rel="noreferrer" (checked on a live article, October 2026)
- Review: It says it tries to reply within a couple of weeks but cannot answer every submission or explain why one is not chosen
- Reach: huge (#11382 by traffic in the Tranco top million; #2685 by links in Common Crawl's web graph)
- How to submit: a form; the link or address shows on the page for signed-in visitors (https://listaify.com/login, free)
- Run by: Informa TechTarget
- Lists: every kind of AI product
- Their rule: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/how-to-submit-a-column-to-informationweek
- Checked: 2026-10-03

Page: https://listaify.com/places/informationweek

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