Advertise with Dub

Get in front of the right doors.

A printed card in local mailboxes every month, college athletes on the same card, and a tracked link that shows you what it brought in. You tell us who your customer is. We find the streets where they live.

Sound familiar?

If you market a local business, at least one of these is probably costing you money right now.

  1. +12%1

    Every ad costs more to show.

    Meta's own earnings report says its average price per ad rose 12% in a year. The same budget reaches fewer people than it did last summer.

    Ecommerce ad benchmarks point the same way.2

  2. 81%3

    People scroll right past.

    Most people now say they try to ignore ads altogether, and about half say they block them. Paying for attention you never get is expensive marketing.

  3. 54%4

    Creators are hard to manage.

    Finding someone local, agreeing terms, chasing the post and sorting out who can reuse the video is real work. Usage rights alone hold more than half of paid media teams back from doing more with creator content.

    Contracts, relationships and quality control make the list of headaches too.5

  4. 26%6

    Mail to strangers gets skimmed.

    The Postal Service's own research says ad mail sent to people with no relationship to the sender gets read about a quarter of the time. Sending it to the wrong streets only lowers the odds.

    Most ad mail still gets some attention once it's in the house.7

  5. 32%8

    You can't tell what worked.

    Only about a third of marketers measure digital and traditional spend together. When you're running a few channels at once, that usually means guessing.

    Proving return ranks first among measurement problems for brands that use creators.9

Why the usual fixes fall short

Spending more on ads

A bigger budget buys more impressions at a higher price, shown to people who have learned to ignore them.

A ZIP code mailer

A ZIP code mixes streets that have little in common. You pay the same postage for the households you want and the ones you don't.

A one-off creator post

One post on one day, and usage rights that often run out before you're done with the video.

One card. Two reasons people look.

A mailer gets opened. An athlete gets watched. We put both on the same card, every month, in the mailboxes you choose.

The stamp costs the same on every street.

Postage is flat. It costs the same to reach a modest household as a wealthy one, so what decides whether a mailer pays off is which doors it reaches. Those doors vary a lot, even inside one city.

How far median household income spreads across carrier routes, lowest tenth to highest tenth10

Seattle
2.8×
Spokane
3.3×
Tacoma
3.0×

Buy a whole ZIP code and you pay for the average of streets that have little in common. We work route by route instead.

carrier routes on file across Washington and north Idaho
2,54311
residential addresses on those routes
1,741,97511

For each route we know household income, median age, household size, homes with children and owner-occupancy. So we ask who your customer is, then find the streets where they live.

Three carrier routes inside one Bellevue ZIP code, all the same price to mail12
RouteMedian incomeHomes with childrenOwner-occupied
One~$230,00056%93%
Two~$200,00024%54%
Three~$150,00022%37%

Rounded on purpose. The Postal Service doesn't publish household figures for Bellevue, so these are Census estimates built from the block groups each route runs through. If you install gutters, route three is close to worthless to you and route one is full of customers, and they cost the same to reach.

How it works

  1. Build your campaign

    Answer five quick questions. We show the mail runs that fit your customer, already selected, with your price as you go. Takes two minutes.

  2. Start, and send your offer

    Pay securely with Stripe, then send one line and your logo. We pick the best athlete for your business based on brand fit and availability, design your spot, and send you a proof to approve.

  3. Your card goes out

    It mails at the start of the month. The Postal Service doesn't guarantee a delivery date, so we give you the date we dropped it and the exact routes it went to.

Plans

Every plan puts a full spot on the card and gives you your own tracked link. Start with one run and add runs when the link starts moving.

  • District

    $499.99 /month

    • Homes reached each month5,000+
    • Units on the card1
    • College athletes on the card
    • Athlete reels a month, Instagram and TikTok
    • Instagram carousels a month
    • Guaranteed reel views a month
    • Category exclusive across your city or county
    • Your own tracked link
    • Monthly delivery report
    Get started District
  • Sponsor

    $899.99 /month

    • Homes reached each month5,000+
    • Units on the card1
    • College athletes on the card
    • Athlete reels a month, Instagram and TikTok1
    • Instagram carousels a month1
    • Guaranteed reel views a month5,000
    • Category exclusive across your city or county
    • Your own tracked link
    • Monthly delivery report
    Get started Sponsor
  • Anchor

    $1,999 /month

    • Homes reached each month10,000+
    • Units on the card1
    • College athletes on the card
    • Athlete reels a month, Instagram and TikTok2
    • Instagram carousels a month2
    • Guaranteed reel views a month10,000
    • Category exclusive across your city or county
    • Your own tracked link
    • Monthly delivery report
    Get started Anchor

Add to any plan

  • One reel and carousel

    $749.99

    A one-off for the month you choose, when we have an athlete free. We confirm that before you pay.

  • A second unit on the card

    $450 /month

  • An extra athlete package

    $1,100 /month

  • A second athlete in the same reel

    $750 /month

Then add runs.

Start with one run near your business, watch your tracked link, and add runs when it moves. Your quote shows every run and your monthly total as you build it.

Hold 3 or more runs and the mail on every run is 10% off.

The fine print, up front

Questions we get asked

Is there a long-term contract?

No. Plans are billed monthly, and you can cancel before your next billing date. Your card still goes out for the month you've paid for.

When does my card mail, and when do you need my details?

Cards mail at the start of each month. We need your offer and artwork by the last Friday of the month before.

Who picks the athlete?

We choose the best athlete for your business based on brand fit and availability. They're busy student-athletes, so we handle the matching and the scheduling.

What if a reel misses its guaranteed views?

The guarantee is a floor. If a reel on your plan falls short of it, we make you a second carousel from existing footage at no charge.

Which businesses can't advertise with you?

Our athletes are students, and some are under 18, so we don't work with alcohol, cannabis, tobacco or vaping, gambling or sports betting, adult content, firearms, or short-term and payday lending.

How do I know if it's working?

Every business gets its own tracked link, so visits from the card and the reels show up in your own analytics. Plans with athlete content also get a monthly delivery report.

Sources

  1. Meta's average price per ad increased 12% year over year in Q2 2026. Meta Platforms, Meta Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results (July 2026). https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2026/Meta-Reports-Second-Quarter-2026-Results/default.aspx (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .
  2. Median Meta Ads CPM rose 13.24% year over year to $15.06 (Aug 2025 to Jul 2026, 40,000+ ecommerce brands). Triple Whale, Facebook Ad Benchmarks by Industry (August 2026). https://www.triplewhale.com/blog/facebook-ads-benchmarks (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .
  3. 81% of U.S. consumers say they aim to ignore and tune out ads; 52% report actively blocking ads. Gartner, Gartner Marketing Survey Finds 81% of Consumers Tune Out Ads (April 2026). https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-04-13-gartner-marketing-survey-finds-eighty-one-percent-of-consumers-tune-out-ads (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .
  4. 54% of paid-media leaders cite securing usage rights as a barrier to scaling creator content (n=100, May 2026). CreatorIQ, Creator Content Now Powers 44% of Paid Media Creative (June 2026). https://www.creatoriq.com/press/releases/creator-powered-funnel-report-2026 (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .
  5. Among creator ad buyers, 25% rank negotiating contracts and legal compliance, 25% managing creator relationships and 25% controlling content quality as a top-3 challenge (n=453). IAB, 2025 Creator Economy Ad Spend & Strategy Report (November 2025). https://www.iab.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IAB_Creator_Ad_Spend_and_Strategy_Report_2025.pdf (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .
  6. Ad mail sent to prospects with no prior relationship is read 26% of the time, and recipients consider responding to 2% of it, versus 60% and 15% for existing customers. USPS, The Household Diary Study: Mail Use & Attitudes in FY 2024 (June 2025) (Table 5.5; the executive summary rounds the existing-customer reading rate to 59%, and considering a response is stated intent, not a measured response rate). https://prc.arkcase.com/api/prc-dockets/filing/downloadFile?fileId=242742&inline=true (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .
  7. 70% of advertising mail pieces get at least some attention from the household; 30% are discarded unread. USPS, The Household Diary Study: Mail Use & Attitudes in FY 2024 (June 2025). https://prc.arkcase.com/api/prc-dockets/filing/downloadFile?fileId=242742&inline=true (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .
  8. Only 32% of marketers say they measure media spend holistically across digital and traditional channels. Nielsen, 2025 Annual Marketing Report (May 2025). https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2025/nielsen-releases-its-2025-annual-marketing-report-looking-at-the-power-of-data-driven-marketing/ (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .
  9. 39% of creator ad buyers rank proving ROI, and 34% attributing sales to creators, among their top-3 measurement challenges. IAB, 2025 Creator Economy Ad Spend & Strategy Report (November 2025). https://www.iab.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IAB_Creator_Ad_Spend_and_Strategy_Report_2025.pdf (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .
  10. Income spread figures (2.8x Seattle, 3.3x Spokane, 3.0x Tacoma) are the 10th-to-90th percentile range of median household income across the carrier routes held in each city, computed from the USPS and ACS sources. Dub Sports & Entertainment analysis of USPS and ACS data (derived). https://gis.usps.com/ (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .
  11. Carrier route counts, residential delivery address counts and route-level demographics (2,543 routes; 1,741,975 residential delivery addresses). USPS Every Door Direct Mail route data, gis.usps.com. https://gis.usps.com/ (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .
  12. Household income, age, household size, households with children and owner-occupancy where USPS does not publish them: ACS 5-Year 2023 tables B19013, B01002, B25010, B11005, B25003 at block group level. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (2023). https://data.census.gov/ (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .
  13. EDDM rules: whole carrier routes only, 200-piece minimum, 5,000 pieces per ZIP code per day, no guaranteed delivery date. USPS, Every Door Direct Mail. https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm (opens in a new tab). Retrieved .