Banner Advertising
We offer banner advertising to interested parties wishing to market their product(s) or service(s) to consumers of the school-related information provided on this website. As of August 2024, EducationOversight.org receives approximately 1,200 visitors / 35,000 clicks per day. Advertisers may purchase a single or multiple ad spots on a monthly basis.
Ad Rotation
Advertisements are randomly rotated on page load, which means that every time a EducationOversight.org web page is accessed, one of any number of ads is randomly loaded from the rotation. The current ad will be visible for 5 seconds before the next ad is randomly loaded. *Static ads remain visible indefinitely.
Placement
Home Page:
Standard Page:
Category Page:
Footer:
Popup ads may be placed on any type of page.
Sizes & Specifications
275 x 500 Rectangle: Displayed in the footer section of the website on every page.
300 x 300 Square: Displayed on the right sidebar of the homepage, category, and/or standard page.
300 x 600 Rectangle: Displayed on the right sidebar of the category and/or standard page.
500 x 900 Popup: Displayed on any page(s).
“Static” Upgrade
Advertisers may upgrade their ad by making it static. Static ads appear constantly and are not included with other ads in rotation.
Billing & Terms
Billing will be monthly and partial months will be billed on a prorated basis. Banner advertising invoiced and billed as soon as the advertiser emails me confirming the start date and the duration of their advertising commitment. Billing will be subject to Net/30 terms. With a 10 % penalty for any payment not postmarked within the term period. Advertisers must notify us no later than 5 days prior to termination date if an advertiser wishes to extend advertising. Extensions for campaigns are only available when no other advertiser(s) have filled the available position(s).
Click-through Data
We are currently unable to provide advertisers with outbound click-through data. However, advertisers may obtain this information by simply looking at their website analytics and viewing the number of referral visits which come from EducationOversight.org
Banner Specifications (Vertical Left Side):
We have standardized our advertising specifications to bring them into IAB standard. Banner Ad specifications are 160 x 600 px and Maximum Size of 40k. IAB also dictates a maximum :15 for an animated loop. In our application that is a good suggestion, but not a requirement. Specifications not mentioned here default to the IAB guidelines found at the IAB website. No ads will be accepted that float over other EducationOversight.org content, logos or advertisers. No ads will be accepted that create unsolicited audio on a users computer. Advertisers may choose to host their banner ad in their own web space. If this is your choice, EducationOversight.org won’t be responsible for operation of the ad and once the ad is running, notification is required prior to changing the content of a remotely hosted ad. Advertisers are responsible for developing their own ads. File types supported are GIF, JPG and PNG. Flash files are no longer supported due to their incompatibility with many browsers without additional plugins as well as being unsupported by many mobile platforms and browsers.
Enforcement:
EducationOversight.org has put in place these and other policies to ensure that all advertisers are treated fair and equally. If in any case special considerations are needed, it is the prerogative of EducationOversight.org to suspend any or part of these policies in order to facilitate the needs of our advertisers while keeping in mind the necessity of equality and fairness to our other advertisers. This doesn’t extend to the point of infringing on currently running or pre-paid advertisements without reimbursement to the advertiser on a daily prorated scale.
Any violation of these policies, whether intentional or other wise, could result in the immediate termination of advertising and forfeiture of payments for said advertising. It is totally at the discretion of EducationOversight.org to handle these situations on a case by case basis. These policies are subject to change without notification. Please review them regularly. It is sometimes necessary to change in order to maintain EducationOversight.org as the leader in this field.
Please direct inquiries to
Complete statistics concerning traffic information are available upon request but are quite lengthy. EducationOversight.org is a directed web site with the focus toward central office level administrators and those who provide services to school districts, not the population in general.
Specifications:
We have standardized our advertising specifications to bring them into IAB standard. Banner Ad specifications are 180 x 150 px and Maximum Size of 40k. IAB also dictates a maximum :15 for an animated loop. In our application that is a good suggestion, but not a requirement. Specifications not mentioned here default to the IAB guidelines found at the IAB website. No ads will be accepted that float over other TexasISD.com content, logos or advertisers. No ads will be accepted that create unsolicited audio on a users computer. Advertisers may choose to host their banner ad in their own web space. If this is your choice, TexasISD.com won’t be responsible for operation of the ad and once the ad is running, notification is required prior to changing the content of a remotely hosted ad. Advertisers are responsible for developing their own ads. File types supported are GIF, JPG and PNG. Flash files are no longer supported due to their incompatibility with many browsers without additional plugins as well as being unsupported by many mobile platforms and browsers.
Send all ads as attachments to —- when you are ready. Remember while our site works best on Google Chrome, it should be functional on Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE), it is important in all cases to stay with the most current version of the browser available. That said, many users don’t keep their browser versions up so beware of using techniques unique to a browser or very new options as some reader may not experience your ad in the way you intended.
Changes:
Changes to ads are welcome at any time and will incur no extra costs as long as the ad maintains the same dimensions as the original. New ads tend to grab the interest of the reader while people tend overlook familiar ones. We can’t guarantee that new ads will go up the moment that they are received, but we will be diligent in getting them posted in a timely manner.
Billing:
Standard fee is billed monthly in advance via invoice mailed to you. A $25 setup fee will be added to the first invoice to cover additional time it will take to lay your ad into the web site. We are also interested in beginning a transition to electronic invoices where your invoice will be emailed to you to expedite the process and to eliminate the costs of printing and mailing. Payments should be made payable to…
These policies are subject to change without notice.
Last updated: August 28, 2024