How to Sponsor Violinist.com

Violinist.com is your violin community.

With helpful advice, engaging interviews, and lively discussion, Violinist.com reaches hundreds of thousands of violinists around the world each month. Our options for sponsors include "Premium Link" logos on all content pages, run-of-site banner ads and business directory listings.

Premium Links

All current sponsors on Violinist.com are noted with links in a column on the right side or bottom of all Violinist.com content pages. For sponsors that want more prominent visibility in that column, we offer a Premium Link, a 300-pixel by 120-pixel hyperlinked logo. Premium Links always appear above text links in the sponsors column.

Advertisers who book a one-year placement and pay in advance will get 12 months of Premium Link exposure for $5,000 — a $1,000 savings off the regular $500 monthly price for 12 months.

Banner Ads

Banner impressions are assigned on a run-of-site basis into one of up to three available positions on each Violinist.com content page. Our supported creative size is the IAB's Medium Rectangle (300-pixels wide by 250-pixels tall) in .JPG, .PNG or .GIF format, in RGB color.

Banner ads can be run in sponsorship package with a Premium Link:

$1,000/month: 150,000 banner ad impressions + Premium Link
$750/mo: 75,000 banner impressions + Premium Link
$500/mo: 140,000 banner impressions + sponsor column text link
$250/mo: 70,000 banner impressions + sponsor column text link

For sponsors who reserve a 12-month placement and pay in advance, we offer two months free on the placement (12 months for the price of 10), as well as a complimentary 12-month listing in our Shops Directory. Email laurie@violinist.com to order.

Shops and Luthier Directories

The Violinist.com Shops Directory feature retailers and other organizations that market to the violin community.

Display listings are available for $500 a year. A display listing on the directory page includes:

Your business, school or product name,
A 160-pixels-wide by 120-pixels-tall logo or photo,
Your street address and phone number, if applicable, for reader inquiries,
A 60-word description of your business, product or school, telling Violinist.com readers why they should select you,
A link to your website and to your preferred email address for reader inquiries,
A text link to your website in the "Sponsors" column on all Violinist.com editorial pages.

To submit a Shops Directory listing, please apply here.

We also offer a Luthier Directory, for which listings are available for a one-time set-up fee of $200 upon completion of the sign-up form.

Activation

In addition, we encourage our sponsors and supporters to activate their support for the community through respectful participating in our blogs and forums. We ask that you refrain from commercial solicitations in your posts, using this participation only to demonstrate your knowledge and experience to the benefit of other readers. Leave your advertisements on Violinist.com to "ask for the sale."

We have prepared articles on "How to find new customers for your violin-related business" and "How to get publicity on Violinist.com" to help guide our sponsors and potential sponsors learn how best to engage the community in a responsible, respectful and productive way.

Terms and Conditions

All placements must be paid in advance. If payment is not received by the time a placement is scheduled to begin, exposure will be forfeited without credit. If payment is not received within 30 days of a placement's scheduled start, the entire remaining placement will be canceled, and no future placements will be made for that sponsor until a $250 cancellation fee is paid to Violinist.com, in addition to the advance payment for that future placement.

Advertisers must provide their own creative, which is subject to approval by Violinist.com.

Please be advised that Violinist.com will not accept advertising for products or services that are not legal in the United States of America. Nor will we accept advertising from potential sponsors that we feel reflect poorly upon or disparage violinists or the Violinist.com community. Nor will we not accept advertising on behalf of artists or organizations listed on the American Federation of Musicians' International Unfair List.

To Order:

To purchase one of our sponsorship or announcement packages, deliver creatives, or to talk about how Violinist.com can help your business or organization, please contact Violinist.com:

Laurie Niles
E-mail: laurie@violinist.com
Phone: +1-626-376-2755

If your placement has been approved and you would like to pay your invoice online to Violinist.com, please select your invoice amount and click the button below. (For other amounts, please contact us for a private payment link.)