how we mark sponsorship

what money can and can’t buy here.

Every listing on Littles is free and stays free. A provider can pay to be featured. Here is exactly what that does and doesn’t do.

what it buys

  • a badge on the listing, so you can see it is sponsored
  • a place at the top of explore for that category and town
  • a line in the Saturday letter
  • three at a time, never more

what it never does

  • Ask Littles will never see it. The sponsorship flag is not sent to the assistant at all — that is written into the code and tested, so when the assistant arrives it cannot be influenced even by accident.
  • It never reorders a list you sorted. Sort by closing soonest and you get closing soonest.
  • It never changes a price, a date or an age range.
  • It never gets a listing published that we couldn’t verify.

If you ever see a featured listing that isn’t marked, that’s a bug. Tell us and we’ll fix it.

Run something and want to be featured? Here’s how it works.