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Sarah Novotny is a contributing editor at Adotas. Sarah grew up in San Jose, California. Her educational and professional career have taken her to both Los Angeles and New York City where she received a B.F.A. from NYU. As a writer, Sarah has free-lanced for various publications focusing primarily on traditional advertising and media reviews. When not writing and editing for Adotas, Sarah is continuing her acting career in various theatrical and film/television productions.

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IGN.com

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Feb 1, 2006 
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What they do: Founded in 1996, IGN Entertainment and its network of websites covers nearly all aspects of digital entertainment from video games to movies to lifestyle, and provides interactive and community-building services. IGN focuses on the 18-34 year-old demographic. Their holdings include gaming and technology site IGN.com, multiplayer gaming site GameSpy, movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, video game download site Fileplanet, and Xbox gaming site Team Xbox. In addition to their web sites, IGN also offers in-game advertising solutions and gaming metrics research services.

Why you should buy: The IGN Network attracts 31 million monthly unique visitors, mostly in the 18-34 demographic. IGN’s audience is over 90% male, across al their sites, except Rotten Tomatoes, which is split evenly males/females. Visitors to the main site, IGN.com, reportedly influence the game purchases of 5.8 people per month

Format/How much (contact for rates):

IGN offers too many different ad formats to list. Most of them are site-specific. Offerings include:

300 x 600 half pages

728 x 90 leaderboards

300 x 250 rectangles

600 x 400 interstitials

750 x 600 interstitials

550 x 480 pop-unders on exit

120 x 120 rectangles

300 x 100 count-down units

468 x 400 showcase rectangles

160 x 600 skyscrapers

468 x 60 banners

240 x 180 masthead videos

728 x 400 windowshades

They also offer video, rich media ads and newsletter sponsorships. IGN’s in-game advertising SDK is available to developers and is used by companies like Activision and Electronic Arts.

Contact:

GameAdSales@ign.com

ConsumerAdSales@ign.com

EntertainmentAdSales@ign.com

RetailAdSales@ign.com





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