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App hosting platforms sponsors side by side: Vercel, Render, Railway and DigitalOcean, and where each one ran by quarter.
45Vercel3 newsletter · 5 podcast · 37 event
27Render20 newsletter · 1 podcast · 6 event
23Railway7 newsletter · 15 podcast · 1 event
23DigitalOcean13 newsletter · 1 podcast · 9 event
Where they ran Newsletter and podcast placements by lane and quarter.
Lanes come from each newsletter’s topic and each podcast’s genre. 2026 Q4 runs through 2026-11-02. We read many more newsletters and podcasts from late 2026, so compare companies within a quarter, not one quarter to the next.
| Vercel | Render | Railway | DigitalOcean | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lane | Earlier | ’25 Q4 | ’26 Q1 | ’26 Q2 | ’26 Q3 | ’26 Q4 | Earlier | ’25 Q4 | ’26 Q1 | ’26 Q2 | ’26 Q3 | ’26 Q4 | Earlier | ’25 Q4 | ’26 Q1 | ’26 Q2 | ’26 Q3 | ’26 Q4 | Earlier | ’25 Q4 | ’26 Q1 | ’26 Q2 | ’26 Q3 | ’26 Q4 | |||
| Technology podcasts | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Software & developers newsletters | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| AI newsletters | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Startups & venture newsletters | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Product & design newsletters | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Business podcasts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Events Sponsor lists, booths and partner listings by event sector.
| Sector | Vercel | Render | Railway | DigitalOcean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Developer | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Cloud & data | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Business & tech | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Security | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Retail & consumer | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marketing & media | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Finance & crypto | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Top outlets By newsletter and podcast placements.
Vercel
- Acquired2
- Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth2
- Superhuman AI1
- TLDR Dev1
- console.dev1
- The $100 MBA Show1
Render
- AI Cheatcode3
- Fursah AI2
- Ben's Bites2
- ByteByteGo2
- The Rundown AI2
- JavaScript Weekly1
Railway
- TBPN15
- ByteByteGo3
- TLDR1
- Lenny's Newsletter1
- TLDR Dev1
- console.dev1
DigitalOcean
- TLDR AI5
- This Week in Startups Newsletter3
- Superhuman AI2
- The Code1
- TLDR1
- TLDR Founders1
The detail Outlets behind each lane.
Vercel · Technology podcasts · 2025 Q4
- Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth1 placement
Vercel · Technology podcasts · 2026 Q1
- Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth1 placement
Vercel · Technology podcasts · 2026 Q2
- Acquired2 placements
Render · Technology podcasts · 2026 Q2
- This Week in Startups1 placement
Railway · Technology podcasts · 2026 Q4
- TBPN15 placements
DigitalOcean · Technology podcasts · 2026 Q4
- This Week in Startups1 placement
Vercel · Software & developers newsletters · 2026 Q3
- TLDR Dev1 placement
Vercel · Software & developers newsletters · 2026 Q4
- console.dev1 placement
Render · Software & developers newsletters · 2025 Q4
- TLDR1 placement
Render · Software & developers newsletters · 2026 Q2
- Fursah AI1 placement
Render · Software & developers newsletters · 2026 Q3
- ByteByteGo2 placements
- JavaScript Weekly1 placement
Render · Software & developers newsletters · 2026 Q4
- console.dev1 placement
- The Code1 placement
Railway · Software & developers newsletters · 2025 Q4
- TLDR1 placement
Railway · Software & developers newsletters · 2026 Q1
- TLDR Dev1 placement
Railway · Software & developers newsletters · 2026 Q3
- ByteByteGo1 placement
Railway · Software & developers newsletters · 2026 Q4
- ByteByteGo2 placements
- console.dev1 placement
DigitalOcean · Software & developers newsletters · 2026 Q2
- TLDR1 placement
DigitalOcean · Software & developers newsletters · 2026 Q4
- The Code1 placement
Vercel · AI newsletters · 2026 Q2
- Superhuman AI1 placement
Render · AI newsletters · 2026 Q2
- Ben's Bites1 placement
- The Rundown AI1 placement
Render · AI newsletters · 2026 Q3
- AI Cheatcode3 placements
- Context Window1 placement
DigitalOcean · AI newsletters · 2026 Q2
- TLDR AI4 placements
DigitalOcean · AI newsletters · 2026 Q3
- TLDR AI1 placement
DigitalOcean · AI newsletters · 2026 Q4
- Superhuman AI2 placements
Render · Startups & venture newsletters · 2025 Q4
- TLDR Founders1 placement
DigitalOcean · Startups & venture newsletters · 2026 Q2
- TLDR Founders1 placement
DigitalOcean · Startups & venture newsletters · 2026 Q3
- This Week in Startups Newsletter1 placement
DigitalOcean · Startups & venture newsletters · 2026 Q4
- This Week in Startups Newsletter2 placements
Render · Product & design newsletters · Earlier
- Product Hunt Daily1 placement
Railway · Product & design newsletters · 2026 Q1
- Lenny's Newsletter1 placement
Vercel · Business podcasts · 2026 Q2
- The $100 MBA Show1 placement
Counts are the ads we’ve found. They don’t show spend. A company with few ads here may buy elsewhere.