The Blog of Death Advertising Kit

(Updated May 2008)

Thank you for your interest in advertising on The Blog of Death. Our Website features obituaries of the famous, infamous and previously unknown.

Jade Walker, the New York City-based author of The Blog of Death, has always had a passion for obituaries. As the overnight editor/producer of The New York Times on the Web, she published the Obits section and spent a year working on the Portraits of Grief, a collection of obits for the victims of the Sept. 11th terror attacks. When she was the editor of Inscriptions Magazine, Walker compiled the hugely popular R.I.P. section of writer obits. Now she spends her days commemorating the dead on her popular Weblog and her nights working the graveyard shift as an online editor/producer for Yahoo! News.

Since its debut in June 2003, The Blog of Death has published 1,500+ obituaries and 25,000+ tributes. The site has been featured on the BBC Radio and in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Sacramento Bee, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Washington Post, The Morning Call, The Houston Chronicle, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Poynter Online, Quietpoly Magazine, Yahoo! Picks and CBSMarketwatch.com.

SITE STATISTICS

ADVERTISING OPTIONS

The Blog of Death strives to serve your Internet advertising goals. We offer three ad options: paid death notices, links to tribute pages and banner ads.

Paid death notices appear on the left and right side of the homepage. Month-long campaigns receive priority placement. Images of the deceased are published for no extra charge. Please keep images (formatted as .jpgs or .gifs) under 150 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall, and less than 16KB. All inappropriate ads, or ads containing images of people who are still living, will be rejected.

Have you lost someone special and commemorated their life on the Web? Promote your page with a tribute ad on The Blog of Death. Links to tribute pages appear on the left and right side of the homepage. Month-long campaigns receive priority placement. Images of the deceased are published for no extra charge. Please keep images (formatted as .jpgs or .gifs) under 150 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall, and less than 16KB. All inappropriate ads, or ads containing images of people who are still living, will be rejected.

Banner ads appear on the left and right side of the homepage. We publish ads in four sizes:

* 125 pixels wide by 125 pixels tall - Large
* 120 pixels wide by 90 pixels tall - Medium
* 112 pixels wide by 70 pixels tall - Small
* 88 pixels wide by 33 pixels tall - Button

Please keep images (formatted as .jpgs or .gifs) under 16KB. We only accept advertising that's appropriate to our topic (death/loss/funerals/memorials/etc.).

ADVERTISING RATES

Paid death notices and links to tribute pages are sold at the following rates:

With Photo:

1 week ($20)
2 weeks ($25)
1 month ($30)
3 months ($55)

Without Photo:

To purchase a paid death notice, or link to a tribute page, click here.

Banner ads are sold at the following rates:

1 week ($30)

2 weeks ($45)

1 month ($60)

CURRENT ADVERTISERS/AFFILIATES

Amazon.com
PersonalCreations.com
FromYouFlowers.com
TreeGivers.com
PushinDaisies.com
BlueLips.com
UndergroundHumor.com

If you have any questions, please contact Jade Walker at submissions@blogofdeath.com.