KernelTrap is actively seeking sponsorship for September and October of 2007.

KernelTrap Audience
In July of 2007, KernelTrap served a total of 3,550,654 pages to over 300,000 unique visitors[1]. Of that, 1,471,719 web pages were viewed by 323,496 unique visitors, and 2,078,935 pages were viewed by 40,795 unique RSS subscribers. During July, our website was visited by an average of nearly 40,000 unique readers each day.

KernelTrap directly reaches a very technical worldwide audience that is interested in the low-level workings of free and open source operating systems including Linux and the BSD projects. By sponsoring KernelTrap, your brand will reach this audience, and you will be a part of the free and open source movement by helping high quality content continue to appear on these pages.

Our regular readers make up about 75% of our daily traffic. The other 25% of our traffic comes from search engines such as Google and Yahoo, as well as regular links from other popular websites including Slashdot, Digg, and OS News.

For the past seven years, KernelTrap has distinguished itself as a consistent source for reliable technical news.

September 2007 Sponsorship Opportunities
KernelTrap is aiming to raise $10,000 through sponsorship for the month of September. We offer three levels of sponsorship, described below.

• Sponsorship level 1:
  Status: Sold
  For $5,000 dollars, you will be given five out of ten slots in our sponsorship block rotation. Each sponsorship block measures 175 x 125 pixels, and appears in the right hand column of the page above the fold. You will also receive three text links on our RSS feed. Each RSS sponsorship link can be comprised of up to 32 characters.

• Sponsorship level 2:
  Status: Sold
  For $3,000 dollars, you will be given three out of ten slots in our sponsorship block rotation. Each sponsorship block measures 175 x 125 pixels, and appears in the right hand column of the page above the fold. You will also receive three text links on our RSS feed. Each RSS sponsorship link can be comprised of up to 32 characters.

• Sponsorship level 3:
  Status: No longer available
  For $2,000 dollars, you will be given two out of ten slots in our sponsorship block rotation. Each sponsorship block measures 175 x 125 pixels, and appears in the right hand column of the page above the fold. You will also receive three text links in our RSS feed. Each RSS sponsorship link can be comprised of up to 32 characters.

• Exclusive sponsorship:
  Status: Not available until October 2007
  As an alternative to the above three options, you can choose to exclusively sponsor KernelTrap for $8,000. At this discounted price, you will receive all ten slots in our block rotation, and all 9 text links in our RSS feed. Contact us if you're interested in an extended exclusive sponsorship.

No advertisements will be displayed on the KernelTrap webpages during the month of September, only the sponsorship blocks and RSS links described above. If any sponsorship slots remain unfilled, they will be filled by KernelTrap advertisements seeking sponsorship for October.

October 2007 Sponsorship Opportunities
KernelTrap is aiming to raise $10,000 through sponsorship for the month of October. We offer three levels of sponsorship, listed below.

• Sponsorship level 1:
  Status: Available now

• Sponsorship level 2:
  Status: Not yet available [2]

• Sponsorship level 3:
  Status: Not yet available [2]

• Exclusive sponsorship:
  Status: Available now

Other details:
It is important that the sponsorship image blocks and RSS links are relevant to KernelTrap readers. Images must be static (animated gifs are not permitted) and measure 175 pixels wide by 125 pixels high. Text RSS links must be 32 characters in length or less.

KernelTrap sponsors will be provided with live statistics showing how many times their sponsorship blocks and RSS links have been viewed and clicked.

For more information please contact jeremy@kerneltrap.org or call 503-880-3294.

Previous sponsors:

September 2007
Sponsor block: RSS sponsor link: rsync.net - Offsite Unix Backups rsync.net - Secure Offsite Data laclinux.com - Linux ThinkPads Linux ThinkPads for Scientists Linux ThinkPads for Academics
August 2007
Sponsor block: RSS sponsor link: rsync.net - Offsite Unix Backups rsync.net - Secure Offsite Data

Note 1: Statistics were generated by running "awstats" against the KernelTrap Apache access_log. The full awstats output will be made available to potential sponsors upon request.

Note 2: Sponsorship levels 2 and 3 are not available until after we've filled sponsorship level 1. This is to allow the opportunity for an exclusive sponsor.