Sponsorship Ads

Paged Out! is a zine about programming, security, retro and modern computers, electronics, the demoscene, and more - one article, one page - made by the community, for the community. It is and always will be free to download, share, and print - that's our promise to our readers.

You can help us keep that promise. By sponsoring Paged Out!, your company contributes to the costs of making each issue and brings the zine closer to being fully self-sustaining. Thank you - your support means a great deal to us!

Why sponsor Paged Out!?

• Support something the community loves. Your ad helps keep Paged Out! free for everyone - and shows our readers that your company cares about them.
• Reach a deeply technical audience. Our readers are programmers, security professionals, and tinkerers who read Paged Out! for the love of the craft.
• Stay in the issue for good. Every issue can be downloaded for free long after its release - and your ad stays part of its PDF.
• Get a fair spot. Thanks to our ad re-shuffling, every Sponsorship Ad gets an equal chance at every position in the PDF - including the very first one.
• Be in good company. Every ad goes through our ethics review, so your brand only appears next to ads we're happy to stand behind - and many companies keep coming back (meet our long-term sponsors).

Magazine statistics

While we don't have detailed statistics on our readers, we do count downloads. As of October 2026 (web PDF downloads only):

• Paged Out! issues have been downloaded more than 1.7 million times in total.
• On average, each issue has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.
• The latest issue (#9, released in July 2026) has already been downloaded more than 220,000 times.

How to get a Sponsorship Ad

Sponsorship Ads are published in the web (PDF) version of each issue. They come in two formats - half-page ads (750 CHF net) and full-page ads (1,500 CHF net) - and can showcase your products, tools, services, or your company itself.

If you're interested in a Sponsorship Ad, please:

1. Contact us at ads@pagedout.institute and let us know which format you're interested in.
2. Prepare the advertisement as described in the technical details (and make sure it follows our ad content policy). If you don't have a designer - no problem! Our designers can create an ad for you. Just let us know when you contact us.
3. Send the ad to us no later than 2 weeks before the issue's planned publication date, so it can go through our review process (there might be some revisions).

Order of ads in the magazine

It has to be said that in a magazine most readers see the first ad. The further the ad is from the beginning of the magazine, the fewer people see it. With that in mind, and wanting to ensure that every ad gets a fair amount of attention, in March 2025 we introduced a new feature - ad re-shuffling.

Here is a slightly simplified explanation of how that works:

1. We generate multiple versions of the issue’s PDF.
2. In every variant, the ads are in different slots.
3. Readers receive a random variant.

Thanks to this, across all readers, each Sponsorship Ad appears at every position with equal probability.

Have questions?

Don't hesitate to contact us at ads@pagedout.institute - we're happy to help!