Templates · 4 min read

The audience page of your sponsor deck, generated from data

Replace 'our readers are founders and operators' with numbers a sponsor can price.

Sponsors buy audiences, and most newsletters sell theirs with adjectives. A resolved list turns the audience slide into the strongest page of the deck.

The structure

  • Headline number: resolved list size and validity rate ('6,200 subscribers, 96% deliverable')
  • Seniority mix: % founders/C-level, % director+, % IC — from resolved titles
  • Industry mix: top 5 industries by share
  • Engagement truth: core + active share, stated plainly ('41% open most issues')
  • Buyer proof: % who have purchased anything from you — the strongest willingness-to-pay signal a sponsor can get

The honesty edge

Include the dormant share. Every sponsor has been burned by inflated lists; showing your decay is the credibility move that prices the rest of the page higher.

Refresh cadence

Regenerate quarterly. A dated audience page ('resolved June 2026') signals operational maturity — and gives you a reason to re-touch sponsors with fresh numbers.

Run this on your own list.