Inserting "sponsored content" into a fixed position in a view
I found a pretty great solution that i hope others can use.  I simply made a new view with my list of sponsored content in a node queue.  I then used the function views_embed_view inside my view template of content and displayed each block at a certain row ID whick looked a bit like this:

&lt;?php foreach ($rows as $id =&gt; $row): ?&gt;
  &lt;div&lt;?php if ($classes_array[$id]) { print ' class="' . $classes_array[$id] .'"';  } ?&gt;&gt;
&lt;?php print $row; ?&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;?php if ($id == 3): ?&gt;
&lt;?php print views_embed_view('sponsored_content','block_1'); ?&gt;     
 &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;
 &lt;?php if ($id == 8): ?&gt;
&lt;?php print views_embed_view('sponsored_content','block_2'); ?&gt;
 &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;