Advertise

VCON is a fan-run convention and while memberships comprise the largest part of our annual income we do try to supplement this by offering interested parties the opportunity to advertise with the convention. If you have a product or service that you would like to promote to hundreds of science fiction and fantasy fans, please review the advertising information and rates below.

Additional questions about advertising with VCON should be directed through the VCON Advertising Queries option on our Contact Form.

Sections: Website Advertising | Program Book Advertising | Registration Bag Insert Advertising

Website Advertising

All our Website advertising is offered through Project Wonderful. We chose this service because we felt their advertising model was much more fair to advertiser and publisher alike than traditional online ad services. Project Wondeful sells ads through their innovative Infinite Auction Model: advertisers make bids on advertising spots and, as long as they are the high bidder, their ad will be displayed! Advertisers can bid whatever price they like for as long as they like: two days, a week, a year - it's their choice, and they are only charged for the time their ad is actually shown in that spot. Advertisers can even choose to bid $0 for short periods of time, allowing them to get a little free advertising whenver there is no one else making a higher bid.

The best way to get started is to click on any one of the "Your ad here, right now: $#.##" links that appear immediately below each of the ad blocks shown on our pages. These links will take to you a page where you can learn more about Project Wondeful's method of web-advertising and then sign up so you can advertise with VCON.

Although anyone can make a bid for VCON ad space we do not blindly approve every bid we receive. We are particular about what products, services and information we wish to have associated with our convention so we review each potential advertiser individually so we can approve those that we believe should appeal to our core audience of science-fiction and fantasy fandom.

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Program Book Advertising

The email address to send ad copy to is publications AT vcon.ca. Please include your ad copy and payment details. /

VCON accepts VISA or personal cheques by standard mail, as well as PayPal payments sent to treasurer AT vcon.ca.

If you are sending your payment by standard mail, please send it to:

VCON 35, attn. Advertising
Box 78069, Grandview RPO,
Vancouver, BC,
Canada V5N 5W1

The deadline for sending ad copy by email is
Tuesday, August 31, 2010.

Notes

• The VCON 35 Program Book has pages of 8.5 inches horizontally by 11 inches vertically (8.5" x 11"; standard US Letter size in portrait orientation).
• There is a margin of 0.5" on all four sides, so the printing area is reduced by 1" in each dimension, giving a full page dimensions of 7.5" wide x 10" high.
• Ad copy for the Program Book must be digitally submitted print-ready, as a graphic in any of the following formats: TIFF, PNG, GIF, BMP, or JPEG. (We advise caution with choosing JPEG. This file format is optimized for photos, and non-photo elements--text, logos, artwork--often do not come out crisply.)
• We recommend using at least 300 dots-per-inch (300 dpi) or pixels equivalent to 300 dpi (as given above). (300 dpi is a rule-of-thumb minimum for good-looking print. More is fine. Less will also be accepted, but your ad may end up looking blocky.)
• You have the full dimensions/pixels of your ad space to use, but we recommend including margins as part of your layout, so that your ad does not bump right up against other ads or surrounding content. We recommend a quarter-inch (0.25" or 75 pixels at 300 dpi) clearance.
• If you are purchasing a black and white space, please send your copy in black and white or greyscale. Only send colour copy if you are purchasing colour space, as a colour ad converted to greyscale may not look as nice as you would like, and we do not offer graphic design or proofing services.

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Registration Bag Inserts

We welcome any advertiser who would like to have one more inserts included in the registration bags that are given to every member who attends VCON. The fee is $15 per insert.

You must supply 600 copies of your insert. Any size or format (within reason) is acceptable, as long as it's ready-to-stuff (e.g. posters must be rolled up and secured as a roll).

Send bag inserts and payment to:

VCON 35, attn. Registration
Box 78069, Grandview RPO,
Vancouver, BC,
Canada V5N 5W1

Registration Bag Inserts must be received by
Wednesday September 15, 2010.

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