Wave Media
Long Island Wave
Our regional lifestyle publication, reaching more than 20,000 monthly viewers across Nassau and Suffolk Counties and Apple News, covering the people, businesses, and places that make Long Island tick.
The Publication
The pulse of Long Island.
- Local business features
- Wellness and beauty
- Dining and nightlife
- Fitness and lifestyle
- Events and community
Long Island Wave is a digital-first publication that spotlights what is happening across Long Island, from restaurant and wine bar openings to wellness studios, beauty professionals, fitness coaches, and the local founders building something worth talking about.
Paired with an engaged email subscriber list, it gives brands a way to reach a regional audience through real editorial coverage, not just paid placement. Stories run online and go out to subscribers, so a feature keeps working long after it publishes.
The Site
longislandwave.com, today.
Built, published, and maintained in house, down to the ad server filling the placement under the lead story.
A live capture of the Long Island Wave home page. The banner beneath the featured story is real inventory, served by our own ad network.
The Audience
A regional readership that pays attention.
Local and Loyal
Readers who live, work, and spend across Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Real Editorial
Coverage that earns trust, not banner ads people scroll past.
Engaged Subscribers
An email list that opens, clicks, and shows up to what we cover.
Evergreen Reach
Stories live online and keep working long after they publish.
Media Specs
The breakdown, by channel.
Read across longislandwave.com and Apple News, where stories live online and keep working long after they publish.
Long Island Wave is published on Apple News, putting local stories in front of a national audience alongside the regional site.
Dedicated and sponsored sends to a Nassau and Suffolk audience that opens, clicks, and shows up.
The sections readers follow, alongside dining, events, and community across Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Audience: Long Island lifestyle readers across Nassau and Suffolk Counties, with national reach through Apple News.
The Technology
The ad network behind the pages.
Built In-House
An intelligent ad network runs Long Island Wave.
We did not bolt an ad exchange onto our publications. We built the ad server. Advertisers, creative, placements, and reporting all live in our own system on Cloudflare's edge, which means no Google ad tag, no auction taking a cut, and no third party sitting between a brand and the readers we spent years earning.
Every slot filled on the fly
Placements are not hardcoded. As a page is served, the network reads the slot, pulls the advertisers eligible for it, and rotates between them, so a position is shared fairly instead of belonging to whoever booked first.
The right shape, every time
Each placement declares the format it accepts, and the network matches creative to it. A wide banner is never squeezed into a square, and an Enhanced buy runs its banner and its box as two pieces of real inventory.
Numbers that actually happened
Impressions and clicks are recorded by our own server as they occur, not by a tracking pixel an ad blocker can drop. Reporting reflects what ran, broken out by placement.
First-party by design
There is no third-party ad tag anywhere on the site. Pages stay fast, the sites ship a strict content security policy, and reader data never leaves the publication.
Two packages. Standard places your creative in the square units across the site. Enhanced adds a wide banner and runs both, so your brand competes for every slot on the page. Advertisers, creative, and reporting stay with this title. Nothing is pooled into an exchange or resold through a network we do not control.
Ways to Partner
Put your brand in the story.
Editorial Features
Earned-style coverage that positions your brand as part of the scene.
Display Advertising
On-site placements in front of an engaged regional audience.
Email Placement
Reach subscribers directly in the newsletter they already open.
Sponsored Content
Branded stories written in the publication's voice.
Advertise With Wave
Reach Long Island, your way.
Advertise, sponsor, or run a feature in Long Island Wave.