TechSideline.com has a wealth of long-term sponsorship and short-term advertising opportunities. We can accommodate you for as little as $50, or you can buy a high-exposure sponsorship for $750-$1,000 per month.
Here’s a list of our offerings — we’ll provide lots more detail in a moment, and help you figure out what will work best for you.
Long-term Sponsorships
- 6 or 12 month contracts, best exposure and best value
- Site sponsorship – $750/month
- Full sponsorship (site + social media) – $1,000/month
Short-term Advertising
- Available a-la-carte, for any duration
- Home page “super banner” – $150/day
- Message board “sticky post” – $50/day
- Article sponsorship – $100 per article, or $250/month (4 articles)
- Promotional Tweet – $50/tweet
- Facebook promotion – $50/post
- Rotating banner ads – cost depends upon number of ads purchased; see below.
Sponsorship and Advertising Details
Site Sponsorship – $750/month
A TechSideline.com Site Sponsorship (6 or 12 month contract) includes:
- Two days of home page super banners per month (example)
- Two days of message board sticky posts per month (example)
- Four sponsored articles per month (example)
- A fixed 300×60 button ad in the right-hand border of every page on the site (example)
- Sponsorship page listing (example)
Full Sponsorship – $1,000/month
A TechSideline.com Full Sponsorship includes all the elements in a Site Sponsorship, plus promotion on our social media channels. With our huge Twitter and Facebook following, we can turbo-charge your social media presence among Hokie fans!
- Two promotional Tweets per month on TSL’s Twitter account (example), with 14,300 followers (as of Oct. 2017).
- Two Facebook promotional posts per month on TSL’s Facebook page (example), with 22,742 Likes (as of Oct. 2017).
Home Page “Super Banner” – $150/day
Your extra-large banner ad will appear at the top of TechSideline.com’s home page, which receives 13.6 million views per year (1.1 million per month, approx. 37,000 views per day)
Here’s what it looks like (Example: Campus Emporium “VT Retail Therapy Sale”)
Message Board Sticky Post – $50/day
Your promotional message appears at the top of our message boards for 24 hours. It looks like a regular post and stays pinned to the top of the board.
Here’s what it looks like (Example: Fisher Law Firm sticky post):
Article Sponsorship – $100 per article, $250 per month (4 articles)
Your company name and logo appear with the words “sponsored by” in the article lead-in, at the top of an article, and at the bottom. You can either sponsor one article for $100 or four articles (spread out in a month) for $250.
Example (click here to see a sponsored article)
Promotional Tweet: $50 per tweet
We’ll tweet out your sponsor message and a link to your site. TechSideline.com has over 12,300 Twitter followers, as of Oct. 2016.
Example (click here to see a promotional tweet)
Facebook Promotion: $50 per post
We’ll promote your business on our Facebook page, which has over 20,500 “Likes” as of Oct. 2016.
Example (click here to see a promotional Facebook post)
Rotating Banner Ads
You can purchase ad campaigns to run in our 728×90 banner ad position. Your ads will rotate with other ads. The cost depends upon the number of ads you purchase and the length of the campaign, but some examples are shown below.
Note that the cost of rotating banner ads is an additional cost added to the cost of the sponsorship elements described above.
- 200,000 ads in one month: $1,000 ($5 per 1,000 ads served)
- 1 million ads in three months: $3,000 ($3 per 1,000 ads)
- 6 million ads in one year: $12,000 ($2 per 1,000 ads)
Payment Options
- PayPal
- Credit Card
- Check
Find Out More
Click here for a quick guide to help you decide what to buy, or click here to return to our advertising home page.
