LinkBourse vs Collaborator
The difference that decides a dispute is who counts the delivery. The publisher publishes and the buyer checks. Ongoing verification of what stays up is not part of the transaction. On LinkBourse the platform measures it — impressions, clicks and a daily check that the placement is still live — and escrow releases against that measurement, refunding a shortfall pro rata. Everything else below follows from that one difference.
| Collaborator | LinkBourse | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A publisher marketplace for paid articles, links and Telegram placements, with a catalogue of sites and channels and traffic estimates shown next to each. | A marketplace for advertising services and placements where escrow releases against delivery the platform measured itself. |
| How the money is held | Funds are held by the platform and released to the publisher after the buyer accepts the published placement, with an automatic acceptance window. | The buyer funds escrow before work starts. Money leaves escrow when the buyer accepts, when the auto-release window passes, or — for a measured placement — when the flight ends and the delivery figures are in. |
| Who counts the delivery | The publisher publishes and the buyer checks. Ongoing verification of what stays up is not part of the transaction. | The platform. Impressions and clicks are counted by our own tracker, and a link or placement is fetched daily to check it is still live, still followed and still indexable. |
| What happens on a shortfall | A support process, with the platform mediating between the two sides after the fact. | A pro rata refund, calculated from the measured delivery and paid without anyone opening a ticket. A placement pulled inside its retention window is reversed out of the seller’s balance. |
What Collaborator does better
- — Deep coverage of Eastern European and CIS publishers that few Western platforms carry
- — Telegram channel inventory alongside websites, priced per post
- — Well-developed catalogue filters on traffic and topical relevance
Buy there instead if: Your campaign is regional in exactly the markets they cover deepest and you need that publisher base specifically.
What is different here
- — Delivery on impression and click-priced placements is counted by our own tracker, and a shortfall refunds pro rata
- — Retention on links is enforced by a daily check rather than by trust
- — Publishers carry a verification tier that says how their audience figures were obtained
- — Buyer and seller both operate under one written cancellation and make-good standard
Buy here if: You need the delivery of each placement evidenced, not just the fact that it was published once.
What is on sale here today
740 live services from 165 practices, from $5,000, median delivery 30 days. Counted from live listings when this page was last built, not from a press release.
Browse the catalogue →Collaborator is not affiliated with LinkBourse. Everything above describes publicly documented mechanics and carries no figures from their pricing; check the current terms at collaborator.pro.