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Explore Top Colleges Marketing Partners

Version: October 9, 2026

This page lists the companies and categories of companies whose products, services, studies and offers Explore Top Colleges may advertise in its emails and on its websites (“Marketing Partners,” as defined in our Terms of Use). When you sign up, you agree to receive email advertisements from Explore Top Colleges about the Marketing Partners listed here, as this page is updated from time to time. Every email is sent by Explore Top Colleges, a brand of Ikan Media Inc., and includes an unsubscribe link.

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Categories of advertisers

We advertise offers from companies in the following categories. Examples are listed for information only; not every example is advertised at every time, and we add companies to a category before we advertise their offers.

  • Clinical research and clinical trials: clinical trial sponsors, research sites and patient-recruitment companies.
  • Market research, surveys and focus groups: survey panels and market-research companies (for example, Ipsos, YouGov, Nielsen, Toluna and Pinecone Research).
  • Rewards, cash-back and paid-activity apps: apps and sites that reward surveys, games, shopping or testing (for example, Swagbucks, Freecash and KashKick).
  • Product testing, samples and coupons: product-sampling, product-review and coupon programs (for example, P&G brandSAVER).
  • Education: colleges, universities, career-training schools and school-matching services.
  • Insurance: auto, home, health and life insurance companies, agencies and comparison services.
  • Personal finance and banking: banking, credit, debt-relief, home-equity and lending services.
  • Legal services: law firms and legal-claim review services.
  • Health and wellness: telehealth, wellness and health-information services.
  • Government-benefits and assistance information: privately operated guides and matching services about public benefits, grants and assistance programs (none is a government agency).
  • Home services: home-improvement contractors, home-security and home-warranty companies, and housing services.
  • Employment and gig work: job boards, staffing platforms and gig-work apps.
  • Consumer software and services: antivirus, privacy and other consumer software and subscription services.
  • Sweepstakes and giveaways: sweepstakes operators and giveaway sponsors.

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