Sponsorship Options
Thank you for your interest in supporting the community and joining the DEV / Forem Ecosystem!
To streamline our sponsorship interest process, we have set up the following FAQ.
If you are simply looking to download our media kit outlining all sponsorship options, you can download our prospectus here.
What is Forem? 🌱
Forem is the open source community software that powers DEV and other growing communities.
For more information, please check out Forem.com.
Can I set up my own Forem community?
Absolutely. Forem provides a powerful and extensible way to engage with your community. Many developer-facing organizations are in the process of replacing (or supplementing) their closed and synchronous-first developer communities —typically on Slack/Discord — with the open and async-first Forem platform.
Forem is also a great platform for organizing your private ambassador communities and even your internal teams.
Check out our “Get Started” page for more information on hosting yourself or getting going immediately with our Forem Cloud option.
Can you tell me more about DEV, CodeNewbie, and CodeLand?
DEV (dev.to) is an online platform where programmers of all backgrounds and experience levels gather to publish articles, participate in discussions, and discover products and services.
DEV stats:
- ~830k registered developers 👩💻👨💻
- ~280k email subscribers 📬
- ~270k Twitter followers 🐦
- ~100k Facebook fans 🤩
We also operate CodeNewbie and CodeLand. CodeNewbie is the most supportive community of programmers and people learning to code, while CodeLand is our annual conference for early-career software developers and their champions.
Does my company need to be a paying sponsor to join the DEV ecosystem?
No, we welcome all organizations that are interested in authentically engaging with the developer community to join the ecosystem.
Over 3,000 groups have already established a free organization account on DEV — you can find more information on how to get going here.
What sponsorship options are available for DEV, CodeNewbie, and CodeLand?
We offer three types of sponsorships—
- 🎤 Support for our three in-house podcasts — CodeNewbie Podcast, DevDiscuss, and DevNews
- 🚀 Custom campaigns and hackathons (such as the GitHub Actions Hackathon)
- 📅 Sponsorship opportunities at our annual CodeLand Conference (distributed conference taking place June 16 & 17, 2022)
For more information on these sponsorship options, please download our bundled prospectus here.
Do you offer custom campaigns with banner ads, newsletter inclusions, social posts, etc?
No. At this time, we only offer sponsorship options as outlined in our prospectus.
I’d like to learn more, can I get in touch with someone from the Forem / DEV team?
Absolutely. Please fill out the form below or email sponsors@forem.com.
