Ad Placement and Pricing

Here is a three-minute video-tour that shows you everything you need to know in order to advertise on Iranian.com.

Advertising On Iranian.com is as simple as 1, 2, 3.    

1.  Choose the "ZONE" your ad will run in.  

2.  Chose the REGIONs  you want to cover -- 

• Eastern North America (about 35% of our traffic), 
• Western North America, (about 35% of traffic) or 
• Europe / Rest of World (30% of traffic, mostly in Europe)

The dividing line in North America (US and Canada) is the Mississippi River.

3.  Fill Out the Order Form.

• Name, contact information
• Start and Stop dates for campaign
• Payment details
• Submitting the artwork for the ad itself 
• The "destination" web page when people click on the ad 

We need 24 hours notice and prepayment to run ads.

Price List  

(prior to any quantity or charitable discounts)

Premium Ads.   (The three large ads at the top of the page)   - $5.00 per thousand impressions

• Leaderboard in masthead
• Wide Skyscraper at top left
• Rectangle at top right.

All the above are $5 CPM, with surcharges for very narrow targeting and discounts for "run of site" ads.

Value Ads and Bargain Ads.

Rules and Regs

• Artwork.   We cannot help you create artwork.  Use any good graphical designer.  One that works with many of our clients is Ardalan Payvar, ardalan[AT]tactdesign[DOT]com.
• File Types.  We support flash, .jpg, .png, .gif and .bmp graphical ads.
• Hosting.  We support hosting of your ads on our servers, on your servers or third-party servers.
• File Sizes.  Each graphical file must be 50 kb or less, with up to 100 kb of polite download following full page rendering.
• Animation/Rich Media.  We prefer non-animated ads.  No animation lasting longer than 6 seconds will be permitted.  
• Ordering.  Orders are taken by email or by Insertion Order form. Minimum order size is $200.
• Prepayment or Credit Accounts.   Advertisers may prepay their accounts using credit cards, PayPal or wire transfers.  If Advertisers wish to set up a credit account, they need to contact us about  an Account Opening Form, including credit application and bank references.
• Discounts.  We discount prices 20% for bona-fide non-profit organizations.  Also, there are quantity discounts available and factored in on the Order Form.  If you qualify for both, the discounts are multiplied together.
• Reports.  We can give you weekly reports of impressions per ad, clicks, and click through rate. 

Any questions?  Simply use the “contact us” form or email us your question.  Or call (408) 849-4738 (direct).