Amuse Network reaches people who are actively trying to understand networking properly — home users solving a real problem, IT and network professionals checking a detail, and readers researching a purchase or a provider. If that is who you want to reach, we would like to hear from you.
What we offer
- Display advertising — standard IAB placements in the article and sidebar positions, sold by campaign rather than through an open exchange where you prefer that.
- Newsletter sponsorship — a clearly labelled sponsor slot in our email edition, where one is running.
- Category sponsorship — your brand associated with one of our four sections for a fixed term, marked as sponsorship, with no involvement in what the section publishes.
- Sponsored articles — commercial content written to our readability standards, labelled “Sponsored” at the top of the page and excluded from editorial feeds.
The rules, up front
These are not negotiable, and saying so now saves everyone time:
- Advertising does not buy editorial coverage. Buying a placement has no effect on whether we write about you or what we conclude.
- Sponsored content is always labelled as sponsored, prominently, at the top of the page — not in a footnote.
- We do not sell links in existing editorial articles, and we do not insert, swap or remove links in published work for payment. Please do not ask.
- We do not publish “guest posts” that are advertising in disguise. If the purpose is a link, it is advertising, and it gets labelled as advertising.
- Sponsors do not review editorial articles before publication and have no approval right over anything outside their own paid unit.
- Links in sponsored content carry the appropriate rel attribute, as search-engine guidelines require. We will not remove it.
Our Editorial Policy explains the reasoning in full.
What we will not run
We decline advertising for gambling and betting, cryptocurrency and other speculative investment products, adult content, payday and high-cost lending, “miracle” health products, and any offer that is deceptive, illegal in Canada, or aimed at children. We also decline creatives that imitate editorial layout or system dialogs, auto-play audio, or use aggressive interstitials. We reserve the right to refuse any advertisement without giving a reason.
Technical requirements
- Static images (JPG, PNG, WebP) or clean HTML5. No auto-playing audio or video.
- Creative under 150 KB where possible; heavy units slow pages and we will ask you to trim them.
- All assets served over HTTPS.
- Third-party tracking is limited to measurement of your own campaign, must be disclosed in advance, and must honour reader consent signals. Nothing that fingerprints the browser.
Rates and availability
Rates depend on placement, campaign length and season, and are quoted individually rather than published as a fixed card. Write to [email protected] and tell us:
- Your company and the product or campaign.
- The placement you are interested in.
- Your target flight dates and approximate budget.
- Any geographic focus — a meaningful share of our audience is in Canada.
We will send current traffic figures, available placements and a quote. We normally reply within three business days.
Terms
Campaigns are booked by written insertion order. Payment terms are net 30 for established advertisers and prepayment for first campaigns. Reporting is provided at the end of each flight. Either party may cancel with reasonable notice as set out in the insertion order. Advertising is otherwise subject to our Terms & Conditions.
Press releases and product news
Press releases sent to editorial addresses are not read. If you have genuine technical news — a standard reaching a milestone, a published post-mortem, a piece of real research — send it to [email protected] with the technical detail included and no embargo conditions on our conclusions. That we will read.
Contact
Advertising and partnerships: [email protected]
Amuse Network, 250 University Avenue, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3E5, Canada