SPACE CITY ROCK: Advertising with Us

Want to advertise with Space City Rock? We can't say we blame you, there -- from an advertising standpoint, we happen to think we're a pretty good opportunity. There are relatively few major e-zines and really), have a loyal fanbase, sit happily at the top of the results you get for "Houston music" in almost every search engine or directory you can find, see visitors from as far away as Sweden, Lithuania, Taiwan, and Australia, and have even won a couple of awards. In terms of statistics, we get roughly 300 unique visitors and 600 pageviews a day, or 2100 visitors and 4200 pageviews per week, on average.

Now, we're not in this to make money. Heck, if that was our only concern, we'd be running an entirely different kind of Website, believe me. We do this because we genuinely love music (and movies, and comics, and whatever else you might find here) and think the Houston music scene deserves exposure. With that in mind, we try to keep our ad rates reasonably cheap. The table below lists our standard, rock-bottom advertising rates and associated specs, as of Fall 2006.

In the past, we tried to break down ad rates based on the location of the banner on the site because we were limited to only one banner per page. With the new ad-server software we've managed to get running, however, your ad will now run on every page of the site, from the homepage all the way down to the review pages and including the always-popular Shows List part of the Houston Music page. (Note that our older review pages aren't yet updated, but they will be within the near future.) For one monthly/tri-monthly price, your ad will appear throughout the site. Easy for you, easy for us, everybody's happy.

We can also do custom ads or ad campaigns, by the way, depending on what you're looking for and what size/type of ads you want to give us -- not everything's possible within our site design, but we'll definitely try to accommodate you as best we can.

For the rates above, your banner ad (of whatever size) will rotate for a full month.

Ads can be linked to whatever you choose.

All ad sizes are in pixels, and standard ads must fit the sizes specified; otherwise, they won't be displayed. Contact us at the address below for custom sizes.

Everybody gets equal time. By default, all ads rotate throughout the site at the same frequency.

You can change your ad at any time -- just send us the new ad, and we'll get it updated as quickly as humanly possible.

Upon request, we can send you weekly reports showing how your ads are doing.

We do reserve the right to turn down ads, for whatever reason. Some general rules: no porn ads; no ads for medical stuff (you know what I'm talking about); and definitely no ads for the latest Christina Aguilera opus. Sorry.

Ads can be JPEGs, GIFs, Flash, HTML, or whatever the heck else you feel like using.

We're not graphic design geniuses, I'm afraid, so we can't really offer to design ads for you.

We don't put up your ad until we receive payment. The only exceptions we make are for charities or causes we really like (and no, cool indie record labels don't count).

The rates above are subject to change, of course, as time goes on. Always check out this page for the most up-to-date info -- we'll keep it updated.

We realize that not everybody's a fancy-pants big-time record label; people who are friends of ours and/or are extremely poor can get a Poor Folks Discount. Contact us for details, but be warned that we don't do this for just anybody, yo.