Branded Content & Distribution
Content that travels with a Long Island audience.
We create content in your voice and put it where our audience already is. Editorial and branded pieces, distributed across our titles, email, and social. Content plus the channel to carry it. Since 2001, with offices in Melville, NY, Boca Raton, FL, and soon Miami.
The Channel
We do not just place the content. We publish the channel.
Our titles are the second half of that promise. Every one is ours end to end, from the editorial calendar to the ad server that fills every placement, so a branded piece can run as real editorial in a publication readers already trust instead of as an impression rented on someone else's platform.
Digital · Nassau & SuffolkLong Island Wave
Our regional lifestyle and news title, covering the businesses, restaurants, openings, and people shaping Long Island, from Montauk to Manhasset.
40,000+Monthly viewers
- Distribution
- The site, Apple News, and an email newsletter
- Beat
- Business, food and drink, openings, and the people behind them
Digital · South FloridaGold Coast Wave
Long Island Wave's sister title, covering the businesses, restaurants, openings, and people of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade, from Jupiter to Homestead.
October 2026Launched
- Distribution
- The site, the iPhone and Android apps, and an email newsletter
- Beat
- Business, food and drink, openings, and the towns of the Gold Coast
Digital · New York CityNew York City Wave
Long Island Wave's sister title for the five boroughs, covering the businesses, restaurants, openings, and people of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, neighborhood by neighborhood.
October 2026Launched
- Distribution
- The site, the iPhone and Android apps, and an email newsletter
- Beat
- Business, food and drink, openings, and the neighborhoods of the five boroughs
Print & Digital · NYC & Long IslandCreations Magazine
A holistic living title in its fourth decade, reaching wellness-minded readers in print through nearly 900 locations and online between issues.
80,000+Monthly readers
- Print circulation
- 60,000+ copies across nearly 900 locations
- In print
- 40 years, bi-monthly, and free to read online between issues
Built In-House
Wave Ads, our own ad network, runs every title.
We did not bolt an ad exchange onto our publications. We built the ad server. Advertisers, creative, placements, and reporting all live in our own system on Cloudflare's edge, which means no Google ad tag, no auction taking a cut, and no third party sitting between a brand and the readers we spent years earning.
Every slot filled on the fly
Placements are not hardcoded. As a page is served, the network reads the slot, pulls the advertisers eligible for it, and rotates between them, so a position is shared fairly instead of belonging to whoever booked first.
The right shape, every time
Each placement declares the format it accepts, and the network matches creative to it. A wide banner is never squeezed into a square, and an Enhanced buy runs its banner and its box as two pieces of real inventory.
Numbers that actually happened
Impressions and clicks are recorded by our own server as they occur, not by a tracking pixel an ad blocker can drop. Reporting reflects what ran, broken out by placement.
First-party by design
There is no third-party ad tag anywhere on the site. Pages stay fast, the sites ship a strict content security policy, and reader data never leaves the publication.
Two packages. Standard places your creative in the square units across the site. Enhanced adds a wide banner and runs both, so your brand competes for every slot on the page. Each title keeps its own advertisers, its own creative, and its own numbers. Nothing is pooled, and nothing is resold through a network we do not control.
To run in more than one publication or region, buy through Wave Locals, our ad publication and ad network: one buy, as many titles and regions as you need.
Advertise in one title or all of them through Wave Locals, our ad publication and ad network across every region we cover.
Content With a Channel
Great content, with somewhere to go.
Most content sits and waits to be found. Ours ships into an audience we already own.
Made to fit.
Editorial and branded content created in your voice and built for our readers.
- Editorial content
- Branded content
- In your voice
Built-in reach.
Distributed across our titles, email list, and social, not left to chance.
- Email distribution
- Social amplification
- Owned channels
Create, Publish, Distribute
Three phases, one team.
From the first idea to the last detail, one team owns the work. No briefs handed off, no finger pointing.
Create
Make it.
- Editorial writing
- Branded content
- Photo and video
- Audience-fit topics
- SEO-aware
- Design and layout
Publish
Place it.
- Owned titles
- Digital articles
- Featured placement
- Multi-format
- Series and runs
- Web and SEO
Distribute
Move it.
- Email distribution
- Social amplification
- Cross-title promotion
- Audience targeting
- Performance tracking
- Partner syndication
How It Connects
One piece, carried to the audience.
Your goal sets the direction. We carry it through create, publish, distribute, and measurement, all the way to every reader.
The same strategy and the same standard, from first step to every reader.
Why Wave
Strategy first, made in-house, built to perform.
We start with the goal and build toward it, with one team accountable from the plan to the result.
Strategy First
Every initiative has a goal and a number, not just output.
In-House, End to End
One team owns the work, no handoffs or outsourcing.
Built-In Distribution
Content and the channel, together.
Measured and Iterated
We track what works and improve what does not.
What We Deliver
What we produce and place.
Editorial Content
Stories worth reading.
Branded Content
In your voice.
Email Distribution
Straight to inboxes.
Social Amplification
Extend the reach.
Owned Placement
In our titles.
Reporting
See what landed.
Where It Fits
When content needs an audience.
How We Work
Strategy first, then build.
Every piece is built with intention, tied to a goal and a number. The agents carry the volume; our people make the calls.
Create
We make content in your voice.
Publish
We place it in our titles.
Distribute
We carry it to email and social.
Common Questions
Questions clients ask.
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Let's Talk
Let's create content that travels.
Book a call with a senior member of the team. We will share a relevant point of view for your business, no pressure and no jargon.