AnimeCons.com Ad Swaps for Anime Conventions
If you run an anime convention, getting the word out to anime fans in your area isn't always the easiest thing to do. Although getting listed on AnimeCons.com certainly helps, sometimes you just need to take it a step further. That's why we're offering ad swaps. The more you help advertise AnimeCons.com, the more we'll advertise you!

Anime conventions can earn up to 3 months of banner advertising:

  • Online Banner ads
    Run an AnimeCons.com banner on prominent pages on your convention's web site for the month before your convention (or more) and earn one month of banner advertising on AnimeCons.com.
  • Program Guide ads
    Agree to print an AnimeCons.com ad in your convention's program guide and earn one month of banner advertising on AnimeCons.com. If your program guide is 7"x8.5" or larger, the ad must be at least 1/4 page. If your program guide is smaller than 7"x8.5", the AnimeCons.com ad must be at least 1/2 page.
  • Physical Banner
    Agree to hang our 6'x2' "AnimeCons.com" vinyl banner in a prominent place at your convention and earn one month of advertising on AnimeCons.com.
    The 6'x2' vinyl banner option is only available to conventions at which AnimeCons.com staff will be attending. We are very protective of this banner and will not ship it out to other conventions. Any convention agreeing to hang the banner must also agree to take adequate responsibility for preventing vandalism and theft of the banner. (Hanging it out of reach of attendees is strongly encouraged.) In the event the banner is lost, stolen, destroyed, or vandalized, the convention must pay a $125 replacement fee.

As part of the ad swap, you will get an account on our advertising server which you can use to monitor your ad's impressions and click-throughs.

AnimeCons.com Ad Swap Policies

  • Ad swaps are only for conventions listed on AnimeCons.com and must therefore qualify under our AnimeCons.com Policy on Listed Events.
  • Ad swaps are only available for non-profit or college-based anime conventions. While for-profit conventions may be listed on AnimeCons.com, they do not qualify for ad swaps.
  • Ad swaps are only available for anime conventions and not sci-fi conventions or comic conventions. To be considered an "anime convention", a plurality of the programming and events must be anime-related. If the convention has guests, at least 20% must be connected to anime or anime-style art.
  • Conventions that qualify may only run ads for that convention and cannot run ads for other conventions or businesses.
  • An event running AnimeCons.com advertising prior to being approved for an ad swap in no way obligates AnimeCons.com to commit to an ad swap with the event.
  • Running an AnimeCons.com banner ad on the convention's site for more than one month will not earn the convention more than one month of display time on AnimeCons.com.
  • The convention's name must appear somewhere in the banner ad.
  • All AnimeCons.com advertising must be provided by AnimeCons.com and may not be edited.
  • The convention may provide 728x90 (top) or 120x600 (side) ads. If multiple ads are provided, they must all be the same dimensions. (Contact us to check availability of each size.) If you submit multiple ad creatives, they will run alternating in the same ad slot and the overall frequency of your ads will not increase.
  • All ad swap ads are run at the same priority. Ad swap priority is lower than that of paid advertisers, but higher than that of house and remnant advertising.
  • Failure of an event to run AnimeCons.com advertising will result the removal of that event's ads from AnimeCons.com and may eliminate the possibility of any future ad swaps.
  • All other advertising policies still apply.
  • In the event the convention is cancelled, the convention's ads will be removed and the convention will be considered free of all reciprocal advertising obligations. In the event the convention is postponed, the convention's ads will be put on hold until such time that a new date is announced.
  • Advertising may be refused to any convention for any reason, including inavailablity of advertising impressions on AnimeCons.com to offer for swap.

Contact us to arrange for an ad swap with your convention. Please mention if you are interested in an ad swap when you contact us.