I partner with organizations that want Texans to know, care about, and act on the places they live.
My work reaches an audience most institutions struggle to find: Texans who are actively deciding what to plant, where to volunteer, what to read, and what their corner of the state should become. Over the past year, my field stories on the plants, places, and people of Texas were watched 2.6 million times, and the audience behind them more than quadrupled.
If your organization's work depends on people caring about a place, we should talk.
How partnerships work
The best work I've made with partners started with a shared goal, not an ad slot. A story we both wanted told.
Story partnerships. A co-produced field story in my voice and style: on-location filming, a dedicated YouTube video, newsletter feature, and a social clip bundle. This is the flagship. My field stories routinely earn views for years after they publish, so the story keeps working long after the invoice is paid.
Series and seasonal campaigns. Multiple stories built around a season, a place, or a body of work. Fall planting season, a watershed, a restoration project worth following over time.
Annual storytelling partnerships. For institutions whose mission overlaps with mine, I take on a small number of year-long partnerships: a planned slate of stories about your work and the places it touches, produced across video, newsletter, and events, with quarterly planning and a report after every campaign showing exactly what ran and how it performed. This is the deepest way to work together and the work I prioritize. Organizations planning 2027 budgets should start this conversation now.
Sponsor placements. Lighter-touch visibility inside existing videos and newsletters, for brands that fit what my audience is already doing in their yards and their city.
Every partnership starts with a conversation about what you're trying to achieve. From there I'll bring you one recommendation, not a menu. Pricing depends on scope and production needs, and I'll be direct about it early.
Recent partnership
The City of San Antonio's World Heritage Office partnered with me to produce this piece following their annual Food Systems Summit, built around a walk through the San Antonio Botanical Garden's native plantings with ethnobotanist Dr. Gary Nabhan. The story of the foods that grew here for thousands of years, and the people working to bring them back.
48,000 views in its first two weeks, performing 3× above the channel's typical video. Stories like this one keep earning views for years.
Reach
- 2.6 million YouTube views in the past 12 months, across 34,000+ subscribers, an audience that more than quadrupled this year
- Texas Field Notes, my newsletter on Texas nature, native plants, and place, read by one of the most engaged native plant audiences in the state
- SATX Something, my San Antonio newsletter, reaching 5,700+ subscribers
- bigcitysmalltown, San Antonio's top civic podcast, where I serve as co-host and executive producer
- Content with a long shelf life: videos routinely earn views for months and years, not days
Who I've worked with
I partner with institutions doing this work at scale, including Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, the City of San Antonio's World Heritage Office, and the San Antonio Botanical Garden. I'm a Texas Parks & Wildlife Field Ambassador.
"Cory is insatiably curious, a skilled writer and podcast host, and a video whiz. When I think about who will tell San Antonio's story in the years ahead, I think first of Cory." — Bob Rivard, veteran journalist and co-founder, San Antonio Report
"Every state needs their own Cory Ames to highlight the native plants of their areas." — Jonathan Lee, YouTube subscriber
"Cory is connecting our native plant community." — Jean Robinson, Texas Native Plant Landscape Designer
Organizations I've Partnered With:
How I protect the work
I only partner with organizations I believe in, and I'll say so if it's not the right fit. Every story I make has to earn its place in front of my audience on its own merits, sponsored or not. That standard is why the audience trusts the work, and it's why a partnership with me is worth having.
If the final product doesn't deliver the value we agreed on, I'll refund you.
Speaking
Looking for a talk or a moderator instead?
That's over here: https://coryames.com/speaking/
Start a conversation
I take on a limited number of partnerships each season, planned around the field production calendar. Tell me what you're working toward and I'll come back to you within a few business days.
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