Hi all,

Firle has just released Commando Xenidis (hope the spellings right) and one of the things he'd like is more exposure for the title.

I'm sure we're not alone in running on a very tight budget where we have an advertising budget of 0. So, we as a collective have a couple of options open to us.

Print Advertising
We could get some money together between us and purchase some ad space in a gaming mag. The ad could then be sgemented up and each party involved gets a portion of the space to do with what they will... hey presto, we get some print advertising on a budget that would ultimately be more affordable than buying the ad ourselves.

This is a great idea, but it still requires money up front. So, we have to consider an alternative.

Banner Advertising
This option is possibly the most appealing. It essentially costs nothing apart from a little bit of time. The general idea is this... we (Outer Reaches Studios) already have a banner ad server setup and serving ads to the sites related to our game. We have in our rotation mainly affiliate program ads along with one or two of our own.

I'm prepared to setup a PGD rotation and provide the code peeps must drop into their sites to use the ads from our system. All you have to do, is include the code on your site, provide a banner that is standard 486x60 (I think) and thats it. Our server will do the rest.

The key here is site traffic. I doubt that any us get exactly the same visitors (except for other PGD members), so theres a good chance we will get a nice increase in traffic and that can only be a good thing.

You're probably wondering what the catch is... there isn't one. I'll stick a banner in for our game, you send me your banners and I'll send you the code etc. to serve only the PGD rotation. The rotations on our sites will continue to serve a mix from our other rotations. There will be no other ads in the plan, just ads for our games. Btw, if you don't have a game, but are up for putting the rotation on your site, feel free, let me know and I'll mail the code.

If enough people come on board, we could all benefit. The only requirement is that you host the banners yourself.

Comments please :-D