Advertising Information
If you are a Macintosh software developer looking for a great way to get some buzz, this is the audience you've been looking for. My visitors are composed mainly of highly active Mac users, always on the lookout for cool new shareware apps to download, and on my part, it is my mission to keep them interested with high quality blog content.
Over its first year, PhillRyu.com has racked up over a million unique hits and has been featured extensively in the Macintosh and tech media, including such popular sites as Digg, Slashdot, MacNN, MacMinute, MacBytes, Download.com, Engadget, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), Kottke.org, eWeek and LifeHacker among many, many others.
Advertisement Options
Currently, there are two options available. One is a sidebar slot, of which there are up to three with random rotations. This spot can be purchased for $250/month, with 31 days counting as a month, or $100/week, with 7 days counting as a week. The image size for these is 160px * 200px.
There is also a banner slot available between the first and second post on the main index and above comments, with rotations when more than one advertiser is present (up to three at most), and this spot can be purchased for $400/month, with 31 days counting as a month, or $150/week, with 7 days counting as a week. These are sized 475px & 90px.
For each spot, a discount of 25% is available for purchases of more than one month at a time, and additional spots (to increase rotation frequency) can be purchased for 50% of the aforementioned prices.
| Spot | Size | Ad Slots | Per Page | Days | Price |
| Banner | 475px x 90px | 3 | 1 | 7 Days | $150 |
| 31 Days | $400 | ||||
| Sidebar | 160px x 200px | 9 | 3 | 7 Days | $100 |
| 31 Days | $250 |
To keep the aesthetic standard that my readers appreciate intact, all advertisement images must meet approval before being accepted.
If you are interested in advertising, please email me here with subject: "Advertising Request" and I will get back to you within 24 hours.
Testimonials
"We've never had much luck with advertising in the past, but after seeing the amazing growth of phillryu.com in the first few days we decided to give it a try. It was, far and away, our best choice with advertising yet. Per dollar we're getting more value than you could expect from an ad in a major Mac publication and it's looking like we'll be on board for a long time to come."
- Austin Sarner, AppZapper
"Phill asked me to write a testimonial about the effectiveness of advertising with him. I guess he chose me since in addition to advertising on PhillRyu.com, I've also been a long-time advertiser on his MacThemes.net. Phill was probably expecting me to give the typical blah-blah about click-throughs, conversion rates, and all that other fun jazz...
Instead I decided to provide some insight about the real benefit to associating with Phill... he's, as Malcolm Gladwell puts it, a natural Connector, and one of the most effective ones in the Mac community. Anyone who's anyone in the Mac world is likely just a degree or two of separation at most from Phill... he's the Kevin Bacon of the Mac realm!
Since knowing Phill, I've seen my business grow exponentially and there's no slowing-down in sight. Instead of working in a vacuum as I did for the first couple of years running Inventive, through Phill, whether directly or indirectly, I've become connected with tons of influential people... and it's really helped put my company on the map. Moreover, all the great people working for me (currently 4) have come in as a result of knowing Phill.
So, other introversive Mac developers take note: hook-up with Phill and it may be the turning point of your business like it was with mine.