Mobile Orchard Advertising / Sponsorship Opportunities

Mobile Orchard accepts advertising and sponsorship enquiries. We like to handle advertising personally, one-to-one, to maintain a high standard. To discuss, contact Dan Grigsby at dan@mobileorchard.com or read on for some background information to help you make a decision.

Snapshot

Mobile Orchard is the top ranked iPhone developer news site and podcast. Launched just after Apple dropped the iPhone NDA in October/08, Mobile Orchard produces news, research/analysis, tutorials, tips, interviews and podcasts of interest to iPhone developers.

Mobile Orchard stories have been covered by Fortune/CNN, TUAW, Daring Fireball, O’Reilly, Boing Boing Offworld, the Digg Homepage, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal.

Readership

By publishing multiple, high-quality items per week, Mobile Orchard has become essential reading in the iPhone programming community.

Excluding feed readership, the main Mobile Orchard site receives approximately 110,000 pageviews per month.

Our feed is read by thousands and our Twitter stream is followed by thousands:

Advertising/Sponsorship Options

Mobile Orchard offers highly-targeted advertising/sponsorship options to reach iPhone developers:

Sidebar Sponsorship

Sidebar sponsorship opportunities are available at $300 per month with a 3 month minimum commitment.

Sidebar ads appear near the top of the screen in the right column. Position is determined by tenure, with longest-standing advertisers getting preference. The ads appear in every page view (i.e., they are not in rotation) within the main site, as well as the developer profiles site. They are sized at the popular “Tech Crunch”/IAB standard 125-pixel square. Ads are images in PNG, JPG or GIF file format.

Sidebar sponsors, along with their ad and a brief text blurb, are featured in a periodic sponsors post.

Post Footer Sponsorship

“Post footer” sponsorships are highlighted text ads that appear at the bottom of individual posts. They are available at $50 each.

Post footer sponsorships are not removed. They stay on the post for the long-term. The site’s home-page features the 10 most recent articles, so a footer sponsorship ad is visible on the home page until 10 newer articles have published.

The added advantage of post footer sponsorship is that all of the feed subscribers will see the message in the post, so it’s a great way to target regular subscribers.

Notes

These are not SEO options as all links are “nofollow”ed for Google’s convenience. Our advertising is all about targeting Mobile Orchard’s readers, subscribers and listeners.

Pageview numbers derived from January 2010 traffic.

Last updated: Feb 12/2009.