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As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.

What are Community Promotion Ads?

Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.

Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?

This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:

  • the site's twitter account
  • useful tools or resources for the mathematically inclined
  • interesting articles or findings for the curious
  • cool events or conferences
  • anything else your community would genuinely be interested in

The goal is for future visitors to find out about the stuff your community deems important. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are relevant to your own community's interests, both for those already in the community and those yet to join.

Why do we reset the ads every year?

Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.

The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.

How does it work?

The answers you post to this question must conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored.

  1. All answers should be in the exact form of:

    [![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]

   [1]: http://image-url
   [2]: http://clickthrough-url

    Please do not add anything else to the body of the post. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.

  2. The question must always be tagged with the magic tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.

Image requirements

  • The image that you create must be 220 x 250 pixels
  • Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)
  • Must be GIF or PNG
  • No animated GIFs
  • Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB

Score Threshold

There is a minimum score threshold an answer must meet (currently 6) before it will be shown on the main site.

You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats here.

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I got fed up with seeing that twitter ad, so I'm playing around with some different ideas... – cormullion Jun 5 at 22:11
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Good ideas for all 3! I think I'll delete the twitter one, since it isn't all that useful and increase the odds for the other ads. Btw, please also share these in chat — you'll easily get 6 votes (which is when the ad starts being shown on the main site) that way (see for example all the 10+ votes on the WRI ads here and in the old post) – rm -rf♦ Jun 8 at 13:03
Good plan - I don't think there are that many keen twitterers here (I'm not one either)... This one has +6/-1... – cormullion Jun 8 at 15:29
This has +5/0... you must've looked at the Chemistry one by mistake – rm -rf♦ Jun 8 at 17:58
Oh yeah. Cat walked on my iPad... :) – cormullion Jun 8 at 18:16
Wouldn't be the first time a cat was involved... ;) – rm -rf♦ Jun 9 at 2:52
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P.S. I'll update this roughly every 10 days or so... – rm -rf♦ Dec 10 '12 at 17:26
Currently it's only 415 and decreasing, thanks to several people's efforts ;-) – Szabolcs Feb 13 at 20:55
I'm wondering if something similar to this can be applied here? – rcollyer Jun 25 at 0:22
@rcollyer From what I understand, it uses a loophole in the system (like our uploader) and gets it to serve an image not from i.stack.imgur. Kyle runs a service on something like Amazon EC2 that regularly checks the API and regenerates the image. I remember asking Kyle about it a long time ago, but he refused to tell me how he did it (I understand, because you wouldn't want everyone doing it as well for possible hundreds of other causes). – rm -rf♦ Jun 25 at 7:29

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