How to Get Featured in Fast Company Africa and Mexico in 2026
- ▸Fast Company runs licensed regional editions alongside the US title, and they are separate publications with their own editorial teams.
- ▸Publisive places in the Africa and Mexico editions, not the US edition.
- ▸Ask any provider which edition they mean before you pay, because the name alone does not tell you.
There is more than one Fast Company, and most people buying coverage do not realise it until the article publishes.
Alongside the US title there are licensed regional editions, including Fast Company Africa and Fast Company Mexico. They carry the same name and the same visual identity, and they are separate publications with their own editorial teams, their own audiences and their own commissioning decisions.
That distinction is the whole article, so let us be direct about it.
Which edition Publisive places in
We place in Fast Company Africa and Fast Company Mexico. We do not place in the US edition.
We say that plainly because the name alone does not tell you, and because you will find out eventually. Better now than when the article is live and the byline says something other than what you expected.
Why the edition matters more than it sounds
The published article names the edition it ran in. Anyone who later looks at that article, a client, a partner, a journalist, an immigration attorney assembling exhibits, sees which publication it actually was.
If you were told "Fast Company" and the page says "Fast Company México", that gap is visible to everyone except the person who sold it to you. It is an avoidable problem, and the only way to avoid it is to ask before you pay.
Are the regional editions worth having?
In their own markets, genuinely yes.
Fast Company Africa reaches an African business and technology readership that the US edition does not serve. Fast Company Mexico does the same across Latin America. If you are building in those markets, or want to be visible to people who are, a regional edition may serve you better than a US feature that nobody in your actual market reads.
If your audience is entirely in the United States, be honest with yourself about whether it does what you want.
What to ask any provider
Three questions, whoever you are talking to:
- Which edition? Not which publication. Which edition.
- Is there a named author, and is the piece about me or by me? Those are different things and they are counted differently in most contexts that matter.
- Does the published page carry a sponsored, partner or branded content label? Many do. That is not automatically a problem, but you should know before you pay, not after.
If a provider will not answer those three in writing, that tells you something.
The honest caveat
Nobody can guarantee earned editorial in any Fast Company edition. A newsroom decides what it covers. What can be arranged is a placement, which is a different product, and any provider quoting you a guaranteed price is describing that one whether or not they say so.
That is not a reason to rule it out. It is a reason to know exactly what you are buying.
Getting started
At Publisive Media we tell you which edition, which format and which byline before you commit, and you approve every word before it goes live. Where we cannot deliver something, we say so rather than letting a famous name imply otherwise.
Want to know whether a regional edition fits your market? Let's talk it through.
