Our highest priority here at DEV is serving our amazing glocal community. Ensuring financial stability is critical to that mission. As such, we’ve been exploring ways to bring more variety and creativity to our sponsorship initiatives..

Over the past few months, you have likely seen sponsors displayed in our native “billboards” on the platform — the display locations placed within the post sidebar, below the comments section, and in a few other strategic spots. This feature powers our efforts to develop transparent monetization with organizations who bring relevant and useful offerings to our developer community.

Starting today, we’ll begin testing the waters with two new carefully-chosen partners who will expand our sponsorship capabilities — those partners are EthicalAds (the team behind ReadTheDocs), and BuySellAds / Carbon Ads, a platform that collaborates with the Mozilla Developer Network, CodePen, and other notable communities. These partners resonate with our commitment to transparency and user privacy, standing apart from an advertising ecosystem that too often is aimed at consuming every piece of available data. We’re excited about partnering with them and their combined years in serving the developer ecosystem.

We expect this initiative to complement our campaigns such as future Hackathons and community events. These offerings help us sustain our free and open community. While we think that this is ultimately going to be value-add for the community, I also want to remind you that you may opt out of any kind of sponsored billboards in your settings.

Thanks for being part of the DEV community and happy coding!