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You may notice that our ads don't look very traditional, and maybe don't even look very much like ads. That's what we're going for. Uvumi's graphic designer, Lloyd Winter, posted on his blog about the designs, which we hope you'll read to get an idea of where we're coming from.
So, back to the topic of supporting Uvumi.com by purchasing ad space. If you are an Uvumi member who would like to help support the website with your hard-earned dollars, we invite you to purchase ad runs for whatever purpose you would like, either to promote your music, promote someone else's work, or drive traffic to your personal blog/website/whatever. We ask that you keep your ad designs simple and minimal, so they fit nicely into the existing Uvumi.com design.
We are capable of scheduling ad runs for specific days and times, and we have five different ad zones you can choose for your campaign:
Ad Zones on Uvumi.com
Front Page - Upper right-hand corner of the home page, below the site section icons
Charts Page - Upper right-hand corner, on all Charts pages
Member Profiles - Upper right-hand corner of all public pages of member profiles
Aggregated Content - Includes all browse/search pages (songs, people, events) - Upper right-hand corner
Profile Management - Right side of user avatar box at top of every profile management page
Ad Sizes on Uvumi.com
Pricing
Non-corporate Uvumi Members: $2/Thousand Impressions
Corporate Advertisers: Email advertising@uvumi.com for quote
How to purchase
At this time we don't have an automated system to submit new ads and make payments. We are going to operate via email and PayPal until we grow a little more, so if you would like to inquire about buying some ad space on Uvumi.com, please email advertising@uvumi.com to get started.
I have a release set for june 6th, have just e-mailed you. Thanks
Thanks
My suggestion is, if you're on your profile page, for example, when you click to see another profile, you shouldn't need to request another ad, because your profile has the same structure of any other profile, and I believe that could be done with ajax request (I really don't know much about it but I think it would work). Then I would not request a new ad and yet navigate through profiles. So the same ad would remain for a long time.
Not sure of what would be the best but maybe if a user only request a new ad when he goes to the uvumi homepage or if he came to the site using a direct link to another place other than the homepage. This way every print of ad would target more diversity of people.
Hope I didn't make any confusion here. :)
Keep it up!
Just for instance - a logical ad for us would be to get folks click through to our album/merch page. Our own site has a white and black theme, but with touches of red. Our album cover is light brown. Is there room for some color in the ads? For example, we have a black logo that uses our red heart avatar - we might like to use that.
In short, color is ok!
Do you have an estimate of hits per month ?
We are all starving artists/listeners ;)
Will there be some sort of statistic-tool for the advertiser?
B.t.w. I'd prefere a payment on a "by click" basis.
With impression-based advertising, you're paying a (usually) lower price to put your name/brand/image in front of viewers, which is the real value. Any clicks your ads get help you quantify the value of your campaign, but because you're being billed per impression it can be a better value over all.
We'll send impression and click-through statistics to customers at the end of each ad campaign, or periodically for long-term campaigns.
I think a $2 CPM is not bad.