Community Ads and Sponsorship Ads
Paged Out! zine has two kinds of advertisements:
- Free Community Ads for free projects / tutorials / tools / etc.
- And paid Sponsorship Ads for everything else.
Ad types
Paged Out!'s goal is to be self-sustaining, meaning that each issue should cover its creation costs. Most of these costs are offset by our wonderful sponsors, who purchase either half-page or full-page Sponsorship Ads. Additionally, we reserve at least one ad page for free Community Ads, which promote free and open projects driven by the community.
Important: All ads will be reviewed by our internal ethics committee.
- As a general rule, we will not accept ads related to:
- cryptocurrency and blockchain,
- AI products trained on works of unconsenting authors,
- selling or buying disruptive multiplayer game cheats,
- selling or buying malware,
- selling or buying 0-days.
- We also reserve the right to deny publishing any advertisement in case we deem the advertised topic to be illegal, unethical, shady, or borderline / gray-area.
Sponsorship Ads
Sponsorship Ads can come in two formats - half-page ads (750 CHF) and full-page ads (1500 CHF) - and can showcase commercial products, tools, companies, services, etc.
The income from these ads directly supports the Paged Out! project and the article authors (as per the Standard Author's Agreement profit sharing variants). Thanks :)
Please contact ads@pagedout.institute directly if interested.
Community Ads
Community Ads are always half-page ads and are published in the zine completely free of charge. The idea is to use the unused advertisement space to spread the word about cool free projects, tutorials, tools, etc.
If you're interested in publishing a Community Ad, please:
- Prepare the advertisement as described in the next section.
- E-mail it to us at ads@pagedout.institute (and explicitly write that it's a Community Ad).
Note: Community Ads are reserved only for completely free-of-charge projects (in a full-featured version!). If you offer paid courses, free-but-limited/pay-for-all-features tools, etc., please consider supporting us with a Sponsorship Ad - thanks! If you're unsure whether your project qualifies for a free ad, send us an e-mail to the above address with a description of your project.
In case we receive more Community Ads than we have space, we'll have to somehow select the ones to actually publish (that means we'll reject some - sorry!). We don't have any specific criteria we'll use, but we'll probably focus on how interesting/cool the advertised topic is. We will also prefer ads in English as they have a chance to be interesting for a larger audience (however if there is ad space left we don't mind publishing ads in other languages as long as we're able to vet them). We'll make the final selection a few days before the issue is published.
Technical details
At this moment, we accept ads in two export formats:
- PDF (300 PPI for bitmaps) - use this format if you want clickable links (please keep the links simple - no embedded scripts allowed),
- PNG (300 PPI).
The ads themselves can also come in two sizes: full-page ads (Sponsorship Ads only) are the same size as the articles, and half-page ads (Community / Sponsorship Ads) are the same width, but slightly less than a half the height of an article.
Full-Page Ads
Full-page ads are the same size as an article - that means they are NOT the size of a full A4 page (see update below), but allow for margins and Paged Out! header/footer.
The actual size (see also the diagram below):
- 182mm x 261mm
- 7.17" x 10.28"
- 515 pts x 739 pts
- 2150px x 3082px (assuming 300 DPI)
Update: In case you would like to run a full A4 ad (with a minor "notch" at the top), please let us know; our tooling now supports that, so we're happy to try this.
Half-Page Ads
Half-page ads are the same width as an article (i.e. same width as a full-page ad), but slightly less than a half of its height. One advertisement page contains two half-page ads, with a 20mm separator in between.
The actual size (see also the diagram below):
- 182mm x 124mm
- 7.17" x 4.88"
- 515 pts x 351 pts
- 2150px x 1464px (assuming 300 DPI)
In case of questions...
...please don't hesitate to contact us at ads@pagedout.institute.