Advertise with Geek Culture and the Joy of Tech

Why advertise with us?
Geek Culture provides online entertainment with cartoons, tech humor, reviews, forums, and more. With daily updated content, a vibrant Forum community, and the Joy of Tech comic, we are a much bookmarked and much-returned-to destination. Our audience is tech savvy, or wanting to become such... they are a perfect market for your gadgets, goodies, software, and services!

Much loved, much visited.
How's our traffic? In July, we've had over 327,596 Absolute Unique Visitors, and served over 1,300,000 page views. Not too shabby! Compare us with your favorite sites, and you will find we stack up to the best of them. The Joy of Tech comic is particularly beloved among the IT crowd, and social news sites like stumbleupon.com and digg.com often link directly to us. All this adds up to lots of traffic, and lots of new "fresh" visitors.

So... what are you waiting for? Your customers are right here, right now, waiting to be impressed upon. Check out other tech sites, and you'll find our rates are extremely competitive! We can deliver the exposure you want for less... so why pay more for the same eyeballs? If you're interested in a custom campaign or an ad that is unique in size or presentation, we can customize a package to your liking. Email us to get started on your custom campaign. We particularly like working with smaller companies and developers, as we love to make web advertising available to smaller start-ups, and we try our best to make each campaign as successful as possible.

Size	CPM	Number of Impressions
125 x 125- (Square Badge) This also includes an announcement in the Forums and on our Joy of Tech page welcoming you as a new advertiser. Special: Order 1 million impressions and save $300.00!	$2.50	Impressions:
The Joy of Tech sidebar special, up to 200 x 200 pixels! As an Official Sponsor of The Joy of Tech, we run a unique badge ad with your logo and link beside the comic. This also includes an announcement in the Forums and on our Joy of Tech page welcoming you as a new advertiser. This sponsorship continues into the web archives, and your badge ad remains with the cartoon in the archives for at least a year! Whoa, that's a ton of value! Order 1 million impressions and save $400.00! Order two million and save $1200!	$3.39 CPM for two million!	Number of Initial Impressions: (Note: after your campaign on the main page is over, your ad continues in the comic archives with unlimited impressions for at least a year!
The Joy of Tech Featured Sponsorship! As a Featured Sponsor of The Joy of Tech, we run a unique banner ad attached to the comic, approximately 600 wide x 100 high! This also includes an announcement in the Forums and on our Joy of Tech page welcoming you as a new advertiser. This sponsorship continues into the web archives, and your badge ad remains with the cartoon in the archives for at least a year, regardless of impressions! Whoa, that's an amazing value! Order 1 million impressions and save $300.00! Order two million initial impressions and save $1500!	$4.20 CPM for two million!	Number of Initial Impressions: (Note: after your campaign on the main page is over, your ad continues in the comic archives with unlimited impressions for at least a year!
300 x 250 - (Medium Rectangle) Also includes an announcement in the Forums and on our Joy of Tech page welcoming you as a new advertiser. Special: Order 1 million impressions and save $500.00!	$5.00	Impressions:

Leaderboard banners
Our advertising rate for leaderboard banners is currently $8.00 CPM (cost per thousand) for a million exposures, and includes this package:
Top of page, wide screen banner, 728 x 90 pixels.
Includes a text blurb in the Forums and on our Joy of Tech page welcoming you as a new advertiser.
Special: Order 1 million impressions and save $500.00!

$4.00 CPM

RSS feed: Sponsorships are available for the Joy of Tech's syndicated feed (RSS). A promotional item from the sponsor appears in the feed at the start of each week, again in the Tuesday night update, and we also remind people of the sponsorship in the Friday updates!

only $99 week, or $199 per month!

160 x 600- (Wide Skyscraper)

Skyscrapers are extremely effective for getting the attention of a viewer, and for relaying you message. Our advertising rate for skyscrapers is currently $5.00 CPM (cost per thousand) and includes an announcement in the Forums and on our Joy of Tech page welcoming you as a new advertiser.

Special: Order 1 million impressions and save $500.00!

Text ads:
Campaigns that are placed directly under the Joy of Tech comic do well. Usually these are plain text blocks, but we can place a tiny custom graphic for you there as well. Only $89 per 2 weeks. Special: Order 3 months and pay only $35 per week!

Other suggestions...

Don't forget our JoyPixels advertising space... it's the tiny perfect way to get your link up on our Joy of Tech page for a whole year for just 100 bucks a block!
If you don't have your own ads ready, we can design them for you, and if you'd like us to suggest a campaign, we'll do that too. We've been doing this for years now, so we have a lot of experience with what works and what doesn't, and it's in our best interest to make your campaign a success!
If you're interested in a custom campaign or an ad that is unique in size or presentation, we can completely customize a package to your liking. Email us to get started on your custom campaign!

We find the most successful campaigns feature a limited-time offer or money-off event. We're pretty flexible, so if you do have a specific dollar figure in mind, let me know and we can design something around that. We try our best to make each campaign as successful as possible, and we do hope we get the chance to work with you.

About us...

We've been in business for over ten years now, and are truly a web institution. We've been featured in many national newspapers and magazines including The Globe and Mail, Shift, and Rolling Stone, and featured in media such as Tech TV, Shift TV, and WIRED news. Each month a print version of The Joy of Tech comic runs in MacWorld UK magazine, Ireland's PC Live Magazine and Sweden's weekly tech magazine MetroTeknik, and we are featured weekly on the highly regarded AllThingsD.com, a Dow Jones site, publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

JoT on Jobs's iPhone! (photo courtesy of Engadget) And we were blown away recently, when at Macworld Expo, during a demo of the iPhone... we saw some of Steve Jobs's webclips... and there we were!