Hey Memphis
Your next customer reads this at 6am.
Hey Memphis is the free weekday email Memphians open before their first cup of coffee. If your customers are in Memphis, this is where their day starts.
Get the kit and a quote for your dates
- 7,286 subscribers
- 42.1% average open rate
- 4.5% average click rate
Straight from our email platform, verified October 21, 2026.
How it works.
- Tell us about your businessThree fields. No call to book, no discovery form, no chatbot.
- We send the kit and a real priceThe media kit and a quote for the dates you want, the same day — priced against today's list, not a rate card average.
- Pick your dates and you're inAn insertion order and an invoice, then your spot runs inside the issue, labeled sponsored.
People here are already looking for something to do.
So an ad here is an answer, not an interruption. We ask every new reader whether we’ve helped them find something yet — these came back unprompted, and nobody was paid.
Showed up — and told the venue where she heard it
Yes! It’s been very helpful. We went to the Orpheum 901 event last night for drinks and a fabulous tour. Their management wanted to know how we had heard about the event and we shared your listings.
Spent money at a local spot he found here
Yes it definitley has, Ive had a dozen oysters on the half shell for a terribly reasonable price thanks to you!
Went to a free event — and credits the issue
Hey yes I’ve been able to find local events that I had no idea of! Definitely had a great time Sunday at the Grizz open practice thanks to you!
Acted on a local business’s promotion, twice in a week
Yes, we’ve used it twice for events already. Where byway was today and wiseacres Labor Day deal. I got my wife to subscribe to it as well.
New in town — at a festival in her second week
Yes. Just moved here 2 weeks ago & we attended Cooper-Young Festival.
Off social media entirely — we’re how she finds local spots
I am currently not on social, so your emails have been super helpful, especially when it comes to grabbing a much needed caffeine fix from Bywater. 🙂
Plans outings with friends from what we print ahead
Enjoying it, especially the "Looking ahead" segment as it helps make plans across friends.
Passed a listing along to her family
My daughter loves Widespread Panic so I was happy to show her that.
Goes to what she reads about — in her words, not ours
They help me figure out what is going on for the day and rest of the week! I do participate in events that I learn about from the emails.
Drove to a suburb event she’d have missed
Yes! Craft event at Collierville Library! Thanks for what you are doing for the 901 community!!
Going to a festival for the first time because of an issue
Also, Gonerfest—thanks for the info! I’m going for the first time.
Read it at 6am, made a plan for that night — one week in
Yes, I’m going to the guitar thing tonight! After a week, it’s cool. I personally would appreciate more random things like the guitar event!
A reminder that landed in time to matter
I like it a lot, and you reminded me of the Metal Museum opening.
Reads it as a prompt to go do something
I like your format. It is easy to scan. I’m using it as an awareness alert in case I want to do something on the spur of a moment.
Why a local email beats a big billboard.
A billboard on Poplar gets seen. That’s about all you’ll ever know about it. Same with a quarter page in print, same with a thirty-second spot — you buy the impression and then you guess.
Email is different. We can tell you how many people opened the issue your ad ran in and how many of them clicked through to you. Not a projection. A count, from the send.
And this is a Memphis room, and a careful one. Readers believe what’s in here because we check it before we print it — and that is the only reason they believe you when you show up in it.
You’re not renting attention. You’re borrowing trust we earn every weekday morning at 6.
Who’s on the other end.
It grew every week of that window, from 4,148 inboxes on the first issue to 7,158 on the last. And it’s a Memphis list by design — written for people who live here, which is who it brings in.
- 7,286 subscribers — Memphians who asked for this, and more of them every week. 128 of them joined since the last issue went out.
- 42.1% average open rate — More than a third of the list opens the average issue, which beats most email you get.
- 4.5% average click rate — They don't just open it — they click through and go do the thing.
Straight from our email platform, verified October 21, 2026. These are rolling averages, not our best day, and we’ll tell you if they move down as fast as we’d tell you they moved up.
Four ways to show up.
All four run inside the issue itself, where the reader already is.
- Headline Sponsor — Your logo and 150 characters at the very top of the issue, under "Together with." The first thing anyone reads that morning.
- Featured Story — A photo and about 140 words in the middle of the issue, written in our voice or in yours. Enough room to actually tell people something.
- Baseline Ad — Text only, 150 characters. One clean line that says who you are and where to find you.
- Sponsored Story — A full article on heymemphis.co in our voice or yours, labeled Sponsored and yours to keep, plus six plugs for it in the daily.
Read the work before you talk to us.
Every event we print is checked against the organizer, the venue, or the box office before it goes in. If we can’t confirm it, we cut it — a charming wrong sentence is worse than a plain right one. If we say it’s Saturday at 7, it’s Saturday at 7.
You don’t have to take our word for any of that. Every issue we’ve ever sent is public in the archive, and the guides we write for the city are free to read too. Nothing is behind a login and nothing is behind a paywall, so you can judge the room before you decide whether you want to stand in it.
Slots are open and the next few weeks are still wide. That’s the whole reason to talk now: you’re early, and your price is quoted against today’s list rather than the one it will be in a month.
One email with the kit, then we pick dates and I send an insertion order and an invoice. If this list isn’t the right buy for you I’ll say so — sometimes it isn’t. — Josh
Not ready yet?
Fair — most people find us before they have a budget for us. Leave an email and I’ll send a note every so often: what the list is doing, what a slot costs now, and which weeks are open. No sales sequence, and nothing else.