Hi,
Yes, the loop only has the links on that page. On category pages for example, in link_results_loop, you only have the first page of links, not all the links available. This means if there are featured links later, you can't access them.
To do what you want, you should sort by isSponsored first, and then alphabetically. Then you could use the code I posted to display the sponsored ones first.
Cheers,
Alex
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