Rates & Specs

Simple Living Media offers IAB standard size creative units on all of its sites.

A.  125×125 pixel, or “button ads,” which can be purchased individually per site or collectively on the entire network.  These are shown above the fold on every page within the blog.

B.  728×90 banner ads are sold network-wide only and appear above each blog’s header.

C.  300×250 banner ads are sold network-wide only and appear above the fold, to the right of the most current post.

D.  160×600 banner ads are sold network-wide only and appear below the fold in the sidebar.

E.  180×150 ads are sold only for the monthly newsletter and appear in a solo sponsorship position just below the newsletter banner.  There is also a text mention of the business or product within the newsletter.

Rates

125×125 ads and solo weekly sponsorship:

Though we use a CPM rate as a guideline for pricing our 125×125 pixel ads and newsletter sponsorships, we do not directly measure CPM and require payment in advance.  Per discussion with the ad manager, you will be quoted a price in monthly terms for your ad, and then will receive an invoice prior to your ad’s start date.  We will not publish an ad prior to payment.

All rates additionally include a text ad in the footer of the RSS feed of the specific blog for which you purchased ad space.  So if you purchase ad space on one blog, your text ad will also appear in that blog’s RSS feed footer.  If you purchase network-wide ad space, it will appear in the footer of all the blogs’ RSS feed footers.

All other ads:

We partner with Federated Media to handle creative network campaigns and all other ad placements.  Head over there to start creating your campaign with them.  (And please remember that we can only accept ad campaigns from companies and products we can legitimately support.)

Specs

• We allow JPG, GIF, and PNG files.

• All ad units must target new windows when clicked.

• Tasteful, pre-approved flash is allowed only on the banner ads in partnership with FM.  Flash is not preferred.

• Expansion is allowed only on the banner ads, and only on user-initiated on click/mouseover. The expanded panel must retract in the same manner it was opened.

• At this time, no audio or video advertising is allowed.