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Sponsor Curiobot!
** Sale! We're currently offering 50% off all ads to kickstart our program! See details below. **
We're very excited to see that since Curiobot moved out of beta testing in early March 2008 the site has really taken off. As I write this (March 27th, 2008), we are looking at over 38,000 unique visitors for the month of March alone. We've also passed the 300 mark for strange and amazing products in our archive. That's an average of over 2 totally unique products found per day since we started scouring the internet back in November 2007. That's a lot of hard-to-find finding!
Back to the point!
We've initiated a plan to add tasteful, relevant advertising to the Curiobot website. The idea is to retain the clean, graphic appeal of the site while enabling sponsors to tap into our large audience of unique-product-hungry viewers. Let me explain...
Why you should advertise on Curiobot
Using Curiobot as an advertising medium is a great opportunity to engage an interested, diverse group of viewers. By carefully aggregating products from all ends of the internet into one place, we have attracted an equally broad spectrum of users. We have piqued their interest. If your site aligns with those interests, we're sure that you can handle the rest.
We continuously and aggressively promote Curiobot as the best place to find one-of-a-kind gifts online. And in doing so, we are representing and marketing the products that we have selected to be a part of our archive. If what you sell aligns with what we feature, we'd like to promote you too. We genuinely want people to get interested in all the wonderful things that the internet holds... in addition to LOLcats.
Does this advertising plan affect which products are included in the gallery?
Absolutely not. We're still committed to hand-screening the products in our archive. They are added regardless of their merchant and benefit to our site. We just add the coolest items we find. You will always be able to suggest a product for free. We do not offer an option to pay for permanent inclusion in our archive.
Types of ads
Presently, we are offering two very different types of sponsorships. We have decided to base our program on a guaranteed-pageviews model. Ads are sold strictly in units of 1000 pageviews, with a minimum purchase of 10,000 pageviews. Prices vary according to the type of ad, described below.
Featured Product Placement
If you have an item that has already been admitted into our gallery, you have the option of ensuring its place at the front of every page. As shown in the image, rather than being contained in a single grid square, it is enlarged to cover a 2 x 2 area at the top of the list.
A maximum of 5 featured products rotate through this slot at the top of every page of our archive. It guarantees not only that your item remains at the top of the list, but also that it captures the eyes of every visitor to the page. Clicking on the featured product works just like clicking on any other product, taking the user to our pop-up review, which includes links to its merchant's site. Ads are 314px square.
Featured product sponsorships cost $15 per 1000 pageviews, with a minimum purchase of 10,000 and a maximum of 100,000.
Inline Grid Squares
To advertise a website, product, or service on our site, we offer inline ads. These ads are placed within our gridded layout, and are perfect for targeting users who are already immersed in the page's content.
The ad squares are loaded into a maximum of 2 positions per grid page. Their locations are determined randomly for maximum effectiveness. Clicking on an inline ad brings the user directly to the URL of your choice. We create the ads using the text and/or images you provide to ensure that they are correctly formatted. Ads are 150px square.
Inline ads cost $10 per 1000 pageviews, with a minimum purchase of 10,000 and a maximum of 100,000.
** We're offering our first 10 customers a 50% discount off of either plan, making the featured product ads only $7.50 per thousand impressions, and the inline ads only $5.00! **
Details and ordering
Curiobot retains the right to hand-select our advertisers, just as we hand-select the products in our gallery. This helps us ensure that our site remains a helpful, unique, focused resource. If we don't think that your ads are appropriate for our site, we'll let you know, and if possible, we'll work with you to fit them in somehow.
We think that our ads are a fantastic value, but if for any reason you are unsatisfied with your sponsorship, we offer a full, prorated refund, minus a non-refundable $50 fee (which covers the cost of us creating and placing the ad).
As mentioned above, ad slots are sold based on guaranteed pageviews/impressions, meaning that your ad stays on our site until a minimum number of people have seen it. The only exception to this is that for any quantity of pageviews purchased, the maximum running length of a campaign is 6 months. If for some reason your ad impressions are not used up at the end of 6 months, they will be refunded at the rate at which you paid for them, minus the $50 service charge mentioned previously. You can read all of this legal stuff in the contract we'll send you.
If you're ready to sponsor Curiobot, contact us and we'll be in touch. Don't forget to include your email address, name, and phone number (if you'd like a call)!
Sponsor Curiobot!
** Sale! We're currently offering 50% off all ads to kickstart our program! See details below. **
We're very excited to see that since Curiobot moved out of beta testing in early March 2008 the site has really taken off. As I write this (March 27th, 2008), we are looking at over 38,000 unique visitors for the month of March alone. We've also passed the 300 mark for strange and amazing products in our archive. That's an average of over 2 totally unique products found per day since we started scouring the internet back in November 2007. That's a lot of hard-to-find finding!
Back to the point!
We've initiated a plan to add tasteful, relevant advertising to the Curiobot website. The idea is to retain the clean, graphic appeal of the site while enabling sponsors to tap into our large audience of unique-product-hungry viewers. Let me explain...
Why you should advertise on Curiobot
Using Curiobot as an advertising medium is a great opportunity to engage an interested, diverse group of viewers. By carefully aggregating products from all ends of the internet into one place, we have attracted an equally broad spectrum of users. We have piqued their interest. If your site aligns with those interests, we're sure that you can handle the rest.
We continuously and aggressively promote Curiobot as the best place to find one-of-a-kind gifts online. And in doing so, we are representing and marketing the products that we have selected to be a part of our archive. If what you sell aligns with what we feature, we'd like to promote you too. We genuinely want people to get interested in all the wonderful things that the internet holds... in addition to LOLcats.
Does this advertising plan affect which products are included in the gallery?
Absolutely not. We're still committed to hand-screening the products in our archive. They are added regardless of their merchant and benefit to our site. We just add the coolest items we find. You will always be able to suggest a product for free. We do not offer an option to pay for permanent inclusion in our archive.
Types of ads
Presently, we are offering two very different types of sponsorships. We have decided to base our program on a guaranteed-pageviews model. Ads are sold strictly in units of 1000 pageviews, with a minimum purchase of 10,000 pageviews. Prices vary according to the type of ad, described below.
Featured Product Placement
If you have an item that has already been admitted into our gallery, you have the option of ensuring its place at the front of every page. As shown in the image, rather than being contained in a single grid square, it is enlarged to cover a 2 x 2 area at the top of the list.
A maximum of 5 featured products rotate through this slot at the top of every page of our archive. It guarantees not only that your item remains at the top of the list, but also that it captures the eyes of every visitor to the page. Clicking on the featured product works just like clicking on any other product, taking the user to our pop-up review, which includes links to its merchant's site. Ads are 314px square.
Featured product sponsorships cost $15 per 1000 pageviews, with a minimum purchase of 10,000 and a maximum of 100,000.
Inline Grid Squares
To advertise a website, product, or service on our site, we offer inline ads. These ads are placed within our gridded layout, and are perfect for targeting users who are already immersed in the page's content.
The ad squares are loaded into a maximum of 2 positions per grid page. Their locations are determined randomly for maximum effectiveness. Clicking on an inline ad brings the user directly to the URL of your choice. We create the ads using the text and/or images you provide to ensure that they are correctly formatted. Ads are 150px square.
Inline ads cost $10 per 1000 pageviews, with a minimum purchase of 10,000 and a maximum of 100,000.
** We're offering our first 10 customers a 50% discount off of either plan, making the featured product ads only $7.50 per thousand impressions, and the inline ads only $5.00! **
Details and ordering
Curiobot retains the right to hand-select our advertisers, just as we hand-select the products in our gallery. This helps us ensure that our site remains a helpful, unique, focused resource. If we don't think that your ads are appropriate for our site, we'll let you know, and if possible, we'll work with you to fit them in somehow.
We think that our ads are a fantastic value, but if for any reason you are unsatisfied with your sponsorship, we offer a full, prorated refund, minus a non-refundable $50 fee (which covers the cost of us creating and placing the ad).
As mentioned above, ad slots are sold based on guaranteed pageviews/impressions, meaning that your ad stays on our site until a minimum number of people have seen it. The only exception to this is that for any quantity of pageviews purchased, the maximum running length of a campaign is 6 months. If for some reason your ad impressions are not used up at the end of 6 months, they will be refunded at the rate at which you paid for them, minus the $50 service charge mentioned previously. You can read all of this legal stuff in the contract we'll send you.
If you're ready to sponsor Curiobot, contact us and we'll be in touch. Don't forget to include your email address, name, and phone number (if you'd like a call)!
