Advertise on Free Software Magazine

The world is changing, and the way you advertise is changing with it. Companies are discovering that the World Wide Web is quickly replacing printed media, and love the fact that the results are immediate and tangible.

If you are an IT-related company, you have the opportunity to advertise on Free Software Magazine and reach millions of wealthy, educated readers who love technology and want to know about your products right now.

Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions: .

The Story

Free Software Magazine was created in 2004. It focuses on free and open source software, a market that has been booming over the last 2 years—and which is only going to get bigger.

FSM is not yet another Linux magazine. It covers free and open source software as a whole. Our audience is split amongst normal users (those people who use Linux or BSD as a desktop computer) and more advanced users who use free and open source software mainly on server systems (system administrators, web programmers, and so on).

Our readers are educated, love the IT world and are committed to it.

The Target

IT professionals, managers, programmers, everyday desktop users, free software enthusiasts, and anybody who owns a computer and is interested in free and open source software. See our demographic information charts at the bottom of this page for more information about your potential customers!

The advertising possibilities

Here are the advertising possibilities in Free Software Magazine:

Banner ads

Banner ads are fantastic for immediate, tangible results.

Our web site, Free Software Magazine, is prime web-estate: it ranks 8/10 on Google's PageRank and is visited by thousands of IT-orientated visitors daily

Banner ads will be displayed on the right hand side in the home page. The banner will be visible as soon as readers load each page. You will also be able to decide the placement of your banner.

You will have 24/7 access to statistical information about your banner; you will be able to see how many people viewed it and clicked on it in real time.

You can have:

• A set number of clicks. For example if you buy 300 clicks, your banner campaign will terminate as soon as you run out of clicks. This is a great way of guaranteeing good results with your ad.
• A set number of banner impressions. In this case, your campaign will last according to the number of times your banner is displayed.
• A campaign that starts and stops on particular dates, regardless of clicks and impressions.

Newsletter ads

A newsletter ad will guarantee that a large number of people will see your ad in the middle of their screen.

The only ad in one of our fantastic Free Software Magazine newsletters will be yours. The ad will be placed at the beginning of the newsletter—our readers won’t miss it.

The numbers

• 750000—The number of real, unblocked page impressions guaranteed per month. (NOTE: the actual number is actually closer to 900000. However, 750000 people are guaranteed not to have ad blocks or mechanisms that prevents ad viewing).
• 8—Google's PageRank value.
• 35000—The number of people who receive our weekly newsletter. We regularly weed out email addresses, so that we know each person we send to actually reads the newsletter.

The Specs

• Banner ads: Tile: 125x125 pixel, Leaderboard (468x60) or Skyscraper (120x600). Format: GIF (animated GIFs welcome!) or PNG
• Newsletter ads: They can be up to 80 words, maximum 3 paragraphs.

The costs

We are committed to providing the best rates for your campaign.

• Banner ads: please pick one of the possible options:

Format	Cost per click
Tile (125x125, right hand side)	$0.80
Skyscraper (right)	$2.00

You have complete control over your budget: you can choose to buy a certain number of clicks or impressions, or decide how long you'd like to run your campaign for.

• Newsletter ads:
• $130 for 1 newsletter
• $200 for 2 newsletters
• $320 for 4 newsletters
• The package:

You can have the full package for just $499.00. The package includes:

• 2 newsletter ads
• $300 worth of clicks on a banner ad

Contact us!

Please contact us if you have any questions: .

The charts

Here are the demographic charts about our current subscribers: