Sponsor Pitch · 2027 Season

Sponsor the Coachella Valley Vertical Video Series.

A pilot episode and a 10-episode web series anchored to the Valley's two festival weekends (Coachella + Stagecoach), distributed through SunshineFM and the local Coachella Valley creator network.

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The Pilot

Title: "The Desert Frequency — How a 9-City Radio Station Built an AI-Native Festival Season."

Logline: A 30-minute, ground-level portrait of how SunshineFM wired Mirage — a 30-day geo-fenced social network — into the Coachella Valley between Coachella Weekend 1 and Stagecoach, then wound it down on a hard date.

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Distribution

Why This Story — Not That One

Why Coachella Valley, and why this season.

The Coachella Valley is the rare American media market with two identifiable peak events (Coachella and Stagecoach) in the same six-week window — a built-in audience arc that no other inland market carries. For a sponsor, that's compressed booking, not a year-long brand build.

Local context is already on the wire. The SunshineFM Restaurant Week microsite — mirage.sunshine.fm/eat — published 126 restaurants across 9 cities (Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, La Quinta, Indio, Rancho Mirage, Cathedral City, Coachella, Desert Hot Springs) as a single SSR dataset. That dataset is the same roster the series will pull characters from.

From the Season 1 record: "30-day geo-fenced social network, festival-season 2026, intentionally shut down." The proof point for "we can actually run this" is the documented Season 1 benchmark — see /season1.html#by-the-numbers.

There is no Fortune-500 ad-sales team between the sponsor and the audience. SunshineFM is the operator. The owner is the closer. The sponsor's brand sits inside the only Coachella Valley festival-window series on the local-rack — not a national buy against a generic Coachella-branded content package.

Four entry points. $2,000 – $10,000 per episode.

All tiers renewable across the 10-episode season. Brand-integration beats pure media: the 30–50% CPM-uplift wedge below is where the producer-side cost stack (location, talent, post) is already paid for and the sponsor buys the integration, not the media.

Silver · $2,000/episode
$20,000 season
  • End-card logo (sponsor slate, all 10 episodes)
  • Credit in long-form YouTube cut
  • Co-branded social cutdown (one IG Reel / one TikTok)
  • Listing on /series credits page
Best fit: regional product brands, single-location retailers, restaurants / cafes with one Valley location.
Platinum · $8,000/episode
$80,000 season
  • All Gold placements
  • Episode-segment title sponsorship (one named segment per platinum episode)
  • Featured interview / cameo slot in the long-form cut
  • Three co-cut branded cutdowns per episode
  • Sponsored newsletter feature during the season window
Best fit: regional category leaders, hotel/resort groups, beverage or hospitality brands.
Title Sponsor · $10,000/episode
$100,000 season · 1 slot
  • All Platinum placements
  • Series-name inclusion ("presented by…")
  • Opening + closing credit on every episode
  • Day-of shoot presence for one episode
  • Long-form cut co-title card
Sole title slot per season. Best fit: a single category-defining brand inside the festival/cultural-press window.

Send the deck.

Drop a few lines — work title, brand, what you'd want to be attached to. We'll reply within one business day with the story bible, the 10-brand sponsor prospect list, and a slot calendar.

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