iDevGames

Advertising

Why Advertise with iDevGames?

Our focus is game development for Apple’s platforms, which include the Macintosh, iPhone and iTouch. We do promote cross-platform development as well. Our advertisers and sponsors are software, hardware and service companies that serve Apple’s platforms and the game development industry. We do not accept advertisements from online gambling websites and we reserve the right to reject ads from companies that do not share our focus on the previously mentioned markets.

As iDevGames has been online since 1998, we have received accolades and coverage from a wide range of websites including Slashdot.org, Steve Steve Wozniak’s webiste, Apple and many others. iDevGames garnered industry praise in 2000 when we launched a Mac-centric development contest called uDevGames. (www.udevgames.com). This contest has awarded over $100,000 in prizes to independent game developers since 2001. Participants from uDevGames have graduated to professional roles at major software developers such as Freeverse, a leading iPhone and Mac developer.

iDevGames receives 73% of its visits from search engines on average. Searching for terms related to our focus will often result in “first page” links from iDevGames’ content — our great search engine placement translates into more potential click-through visitors to our sponsors and advertiser’s websites. (i.e. quality backlinks). On average, we receive over 5,000 page views a day, though reaching 12,000-20,000 is often the result when we have major new content such as postmortems and product reviews. Our visitors spend an average of 1.40 minutes on iDevGames, though we have been trending over 2 minutes recently. By far, the most popular keyword search that brings us new visitors is ‘iPhone game development’. With this exciting new platform, we’ve seen a steady increase in visits and new members to our community. We forecast that our community will continue to increase as the iPhone continues to dominate the smart phone market.

Ad Units

1. 260 × 90
2. 125 × 125
3. 468 × 60 or 728 × 90

The 260 × 90 ad unit is placed in rotation with our other sponsor’s ads. The 125 × 125 ad units are stationary images that do not rotate and always appear on page load. Both ad units appear on our front page, categories pages and other site content pages. (We have over 500 plus articles)

The third ad unit is offered in two sizes and is displayed in our forum. We also have a very active forum with over 1,600 users — 500+ which are active. We are able to place a 468 × 60 or 728 × 90 image just below our logo on all forum pages.

Ads (1) and (2) are sold by month, semi-annually and annually. Their costs is as follows:

1. 125 × 125 – 1 month for $25, 6 months for $135, 1 year for $240
2. 260 × 90 – 1 month for $15, 6 months for $81, 1 year for $144
3. Forum Banner – 1 month for $75, 6 months for $405, 1 year for $765

Discounts have been applied in the above prices for longer campaigns.

We offer the following further discounts:

• Additional 5% off for developers who release under an open source license.
• Additional 5% off for indie game developers with revenue below $2,000 a month.
• Additional 5% off for developers which publish a game postmortem on iDevGames. (Each postmortem provides a 5% discount with the maximum postmortem discount of 20%)

iDevGames reserves the right in determining which of the above special discounts advertisers qualify for.

We do not offer campaigns longer than one year. During the period that we serve your ad, you may update the image and link at any time. We accept PNG, JPEG, and GIF formats for ad images — we do not serve Flash and prefer not to display GIF animation.

If you would like your banner professionally designed to best attract click-throughs in our community, we offer a design service for a flat fee of $40.

To place your ad, please select between ad slot 1, 2 or 3 as well as the length of the campaign. You must also provide us with the image or image URL, ALTernative text, TITLE text, and link URL. You may select starting date once your data and payment have been received.

To get started, please contact our Editor-in-Chief, Carlos Camacho, about advertising on iDevGames.

Further Advertising Opportunities

iDevGames also has a sister site called iDevApps. Our sister site’s focus is on application development for the Mac and iPhone. In addition, we sponsor a Mac game develop contest at uDevGames.