Let’s work together
Well hello, dear advertiser, fancy seeing you here. If you’d rather consider yourself a sponsor, that’s equally grand. Let’s have a chat about advertising, shall we? Oh and if you’re just of the curious sort, we don’t mind. Welcome all the same.
So, why should we work together? Lots and lots of lovely reasons.
What we’re all about
Digerty is all about Digital Liberty. We publish news, opinion pieces—and more importantly—very useful tutorials and guides on all things technology and business.
All things technology?
Okay, well not all things perhaps, we do tend to focus mostly on IT. Content for learners, professionals, decision makers and nosy parkers. We aim to educate, to inspire, to improve and to enable. For free, we might add. In perpetuity.
That’s why we need you, and quite possibly why you could do with a bit of us too.
Fair enough, what’s ‘all things business’ about then?
Right, that needs a bit of specificity as well doesn’t it… Well, what we mean by that is all things to start, run, and improve a business. No, talk of stock prices, day trading or that kind of malarkey here. Although we might dabble in a bit of gossip here and there in our opinion section. Wrapped in a blanket of carefully measured ’tea spilling’ to keep everyone’s emotions from boiling over.
Hmm. Go on.
Much obliged. Well, we’re all about a ‘people-first approach to a cleaner planet’. Meaning, we aim to make things better for people, while promoting more efficient and cleaner ways of doing things.
We aim to lower barriers, raise awareness and level the playing field. Not just for our readers, but for you as well.
And how would you know what we need, hmm?
Because we’ve set the rules. Work with us, and your ads will never have to compete with the dominant players. They’re not allowed to put their foot in the proverbial door, not now, not ever. That’s a promise.
Because of the specific nature of our content, you can rest assured that the right people get to see your ads. Not only that, your goods and services are more than likely going to be needed by those reading our content. Food for thought.
Sounds too good to be true. What’s the catch?
Ah yes, there’s always one of those, isn’t there… Well, the catch is that we’re bringing back good old fashioned advertising. No code snippets, just plain pictures and links. In other words, no user tracking, no advertising metrics. Not to worry, we’ll provide you with aggregated anonymised viewers per page and all that, but that’s the limit. Those numbers come from our CDN provider by the way, our site doesn’t keep track of anything.
The benefit of this however, is that your ads can’t be blocked. They’re pictures and links. Part of the page, part of the content. Non-intrusive, but very much present. Just like newspapers and magazines of old. But better.
Happy readers, happy you.
What you’re all about
Not to worry, we’re not going to pretend to be psychic. We’re just having a chat. To work with us, you’re offering goods and services that we can get behind. Things that we can believe in, things that meet real needs.
That’s a promise to our readers, you see, we don’t allow advertisements that don’t contribute. We don’t allow advertisers that paddle through murky rivers either.
The upside of this, is that our readers will take your ads more seriously.
We can confidently say that there will be no ‘portable walrus polishing kit’ ads here. Nor will there be ads here from companies with too many fingers in too many pies. Only useful things, provided by the right people, for the right kind of readers.
Awfully presumptive that.
Yes indeed. But we’re not budging on any of it.
And what would you do with the revenue, hmm?
As we say on our about page, this magazine exists to raise funds. With these funds we’ll finance projects that will be released as open source, open design, and open standard solutions.
Solutions that others can use to enhance their lives and their businesses. No licenses, no royalties, no subscriptions. No need to pay us royalties, nor anyone else. But we do encourage people to start businesses around our solutions, so they can make a living, enhance adoption, and provide support to others. We create, and let the market do the rest.
We’re quite confident that you’ll end up using some of our solutions as well. At home, at work and beyond.
But yes, we will also buy tea and cakes with the funds. We all need to eat, and it turns out that engineers are quite peckish.
Advertising Options
Still here? Well, that’s very nice of you indeed!
So, what are our advertising options? We offer three primary avenues for advertising, and we’ll have a look at those next. After that, we’ll offer a few more suggestions for good measure.
1. Landing Page
It’s possible to rent ad space at the top, side, and bottom of our landing page. On mobile devices, side becomes middle. Whatever the case, they’ll be nicely formatted. Subtle, but impossible to miss.
2. Per Article, Tutorial or Guide
We also offer both advertising space and product placement opportunities for specific content.
This might need a bit of explanation, so here goes:
Imagine an article about your industry, a tutorial about a specific solution, or an in-depth guide on a particular topic or skill. You could rent ad space for that. Your product or service could even be used in the screenshots that showcase the how, what, why, and where. Tough to get more specific than that.
3. Site-Wide
You could even go all out and make sure that you’re mentioned on every single page in the magazine. From landing page, to article. Showing readers that your commitment to our mission, and our belief in you are in equal measure. Powerful statement, no?
Bonus: Sponsorship
In addition, you could also sponsor us to write a specific piece of content.
We do the work, you get the coverage, the product placement and the affection.
Something to keep in mind
All our ad agreements are time-based. Our aim is not only to keep inspiring, and educating, but also to become an epitome of knowledge. Our tutorials and guides are ’never-finished’. Meaning, they are continuously updated.
Per-page ads have a time limit, just as much as the others do. They can be renewed of course, and well, they should be. Otherwise the ads could very well be replaced by those of another advertiser, along with the product placement.
That’s a good thing if you think about it. Content that’s always relevant, as well as the ads that come along with it.
Where to from here?
Glad you asked! Well, how about you get in touch with us? We can have a nice chat about both our wishes. You never know, it could be the start of a glorious future together. We’re open if you are. Well, even if you’re not, we’re pretty open.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Yours,
Digerty
P.S. By all means, have a click around. It’ll be worth it.
