You're spending money to reach students. You just can't tell if it's working.
Every local business is fighting for the same college dollars. The usual playbook barely moves the needle:
Flyers get tossed before they're read
Instagram is a slot machine — you pay, you hope
And none of it tells you who actually showed up
What's different
We go straight to their phones. And we don't make you guess.
Campus Report lands in the one thing every student carries everywhere. But the real difference is what happens after your deal goes live.
Reach
Direct to the phone
Your offer reaches students where they actually are — not a flyer board, not a feed that buries you.
Partnership
We build the deal with you
Our system shows what students respond to, so we help you craft offers they'll actually use.
Proof
See what's working
How many students saw your deal, how many clicked to claim it, and how many shared it with a friend. Run a few offers and you'll see which ones students actually want — and which ones to drop.
Picture it
This is what your deal could look like in this week's Campus Report:
★ Clip & Save · Student Deal
Your Logo
Your Business
Your student offer here
CLAIM DEAL →
A preview of how you'd appear — students tap "Claim Deal" and we track every one.
What you'll see
Every deal comes with a scoreboard.
Most local advertising is a black hole. With Campus Report, you get a dashboard like this for every offer:
Your Advertiser Dashboard
0
Saw it
0
Clicked
0
Shared
Sample dashboard — this is what your real numbers will look like.
The partnership
Your numbers, whenever you want them.
You're not on your own. You get a private login to your own dashboard — see how your deal did, issue by issue, any time you like.
What you see when you log in
✓Saw it — how many times your deal was seen, and how many devices that was.
✓Clicked — how many tapped through to claim your code.
✓Shared — how many finished passing your deal on to someone else.
Our standard
Students come first. Your deal earns its spot.
Campus Report isn't a flyer dump. Our system ranks deals by what students actually want. Nobody can pay for a position — there is no price that buys a better spot, and the best deal for students wins it.
That's good news for you: it means students trust what they see here. We'll help you build a deal strong enough to earn its place — so when you show up, you show up next to the best.
Where you can show up
More than one way to get noticed.
From student deals to featured spots and events — we'll help you pick what fits your goals.
What you can buy
Every placement, and what it does.
Five ways to show up in the weekly issue, and they are not all bought the same way. Two are a straight $25 an issue or $100 a month — the student deal slot and the secret menu deal. One is awarded, not sold. One is arranged directly with us. And one is not for sale at any price. Tell us what you're after and we'll walk you through it.
⭐ Most popular
Deal of the Week
awarded weekly
Hero spot at the very top of the student deals section. Largest placement in the newsletter — every subscriber sees it first. Awarded each week by the ranking algorithm to the best deal submitted — you don't buy it, you win it.
⭐ Hero placement✅ Highest visibility🔄 Weekly
Student Deal Slot
$25 an issueor $100 a month
A dedicated deal tile in the student deals section. Every approved deal runs — where it lands is earned: better deals for students get higher placement.
📊 Algorithm ranked✅ 35 slots max🔄 Weekly
Secret Menu Deal
$25 an issueor $100 a month
A special code or offer that ONLY Campus Report subscribers get. Creates massive exclusivity and drives foot traffic from your most loyal customers.
🔒 Exclusive offer⚡ +10 rank boost🔄 Weekly
Sponsored Restaurant Review
By arrangementarranged directly, one per month
A featured write-up of your restaurant, written by us in our editorial voice and clearly marked Paid Promotion — so readers still trust it. This is editorial coverage, not a measured placement: a review carries no performance numbers. One per month, and it is arranged directly with us rather than submitted through the portal — we agree the feature period with you and write it ourselves.
🍽 Featured🔒 1 per month✍️ Editorial
Featured Restaurant Review
not for sale
Each week, students vote on which local restaurant we review next — and we write it honestly. This one isn't for sale: no business can pay to be reviewed here. It's listed so you know the difference between it and the sponsored version above.
🍽 Editorial review📅 Weekly
Coming this fall
The free cookie that fills a table.
Students travel in packs. A genuinely free item pulls one student through your door — and he does not come alone. The friends who come with him are paying full price. That is the entire trick: the free item is the draw, the table is the revenue.
The Campus Card launches this fall — it is not running yet, and this is your chance to be on the first one. The Campus Card will be a digital promotional card students buy for $20. It will carry twelve hand-picked deals from twelve local businesses — one deal each, one season. The deals are genuinely free items — no purchase required. The students who buy one are the students who already go out.
✦ Campus Card · Fall Season
Your Logo
Your Business
Free fries — no purchase needed
ON THE CARD →
One of twelve. A preview of how your deal would sit on a student's card.
Your deal will sit in the pocket of every cardholder, all season long.
We will put the card in front of every subscriber — a presale run before the season opens, then shout-outs while it runs.
You will see your redemption numbers in your portal — how many students actually walked in and used it, tracked like every other placement.
The free item is the draw, not the cost: one student comes in for the free fries, three friends come with him, and they're the ones buying.
Twelve slots a season, hand-picked. Deals are submitted for consideration — sending one does not reserve a spot, and we choose the twelve that make the strongest card for students.
Twelve slots · we'll walk you through submitting a deal
A second reason
Hiring eats your time too. Post where they already are.
Every semester, your best student workers leave — and you're hiring all over again. Campus Report's Marketplace puts your "Now Hiring" post in front of the same students, right where they already look for work. Included with your advertiser account — your Now Hiring post runs in the weekly issue and on the Marketplace board at no extra charge.
✦ Now Hiring · Campus Marketplace
Your Logo
Your Business
Now Hiring · Part-time · 15–20 hrs/wk
VIEW JOB →
A preview of how your hiring post would appear — it runs in the weekly issue and on the Marketplace board, at no extra charge. Job posts don't carry performance numbers; deals do.
Before you ask
The questions we actually get.
What does advertising cost?
$25 per issue, or $100 a month. A month is a term of four appearances. You are billed on Tuesday, when the board is frozen for the week — before your deal runs, never after, and only for an issue your deal is actually on. The ranking model doesn't change: better deals for students still rank higher and get featured more.
When will my placement appear?
Approved placements appear in the next Wednesday issue. Apply by Sunday midnight to make that week.
What is the ranking algorithm?
We rank deals based on value to students. Free items rank highest. BOGO deals rank second. The exact formula is proprietary but the principle is simple — better deals for students = better placement for you.
How do I know it's working?
Log in to your business portal any time and see how your placement did — how many times your deal was seen, how many devices that was, and how many tapped to claim it. Real numbers, updated with every issue.
Am I locked into anything?
No long-term commitment. A term is four appearances — four issues your deal actually runs in — and when it is used up you decide whether to go again. We put the terms in writing before anything runs: what you're offering, any limits, and when it ends. That protects you as much as us — a student can't turn up claiming something you never agreed to. For the Sponsored Restaurant Review, the commitment is the feature period we agree on.
Founding Advertiser
Our price goes up as the audience grows. A founding advertiser's ceiling doesn't.
Campus Report is a paid advertising channel, and the standard rate will rise as the readership does. Founding status is awarded, not bought — we give it for the strongest deal offered to students. It sets a ceiling on what you pay per issue — $35, $50 or $75 depending on the tier awarded — and that ceiling holds for six months from the day the standard rate first climbs above it.
Better deals for students rank higher and get featured more. That part doesn't change.
Awarded on the deal, not the date
Tell us what you'd offer students and we'll come back to you with what it would look like.