Opportunities

Targeted Placements

Channels: Health & Medicine, Mind & Brain, Technology, Space, Human Origins, Living World, Environment, Physics & Math

Blogs: 80beats, Bad Astronomy, The Intersection, Science Not Fiction, The Loom, Cosmic Variance, Visual Science, Not Exactly Rocket Science, Gene Expression, Discoblog

Campaign Options

ROS:  your ad(s) appear throughout the website, including the homepage.
Master/Companion:  your ads appear at the same time on a selected channel or blog for a specified amount of impressions and time frame.
Roadblock/Takeover:  your ads appear at the same time on a selected channel or blog. 100% Share of Voice for a specified time frame.
Sponsorship:  your ads appear at the same time on a selected channel or blog. Plus, your logo is placed on the targeted channel or blog. 100% Share of Voice for a specified time frame.

Ad Specs

Medium Rectangle: 300 x 250 pixels
Leaderboard: 728 x 90 pixels
Wide Skyscraper: 160 x 600 pixels

Additional Promotion Opportunities

Interactive visitor polls, user-generated video contests, promotional sweepstakes

“Vital Signs”, DISCOVER’s popular medical podcast on iTunes

“Star Talk”, DISCOVER’s popular podcast that bridges the gap between pop culture and pop science available on iTunes.

Preroll video opportunities throughout site

Photo Gallery Sponsorships

Custom Landing Pages

User-Generated Video

Interactive Polls

Educator’s Guide

Third party serving by approved vendors only and will be evaluated and authorized on a case-by-case basis. We reserve the right to remove creative at any time if we encounter performance problems.

E-Newsletters

The DISCOVER E-Newsletters are sent on a regular basis to opt-in subscribers. In addition to an all-encompassing weekly science news-based newsletter, we offer monthly topic newsletters covering: Technology, Health & Medicine, Living World, and Physical Science.

Weekly Distribution
Discover NEWS:  sent every Thursday to 80,000 subscribers

Monthly Distribution
Technology:  sent on the first Tuesday of each month to 16,000 subscribers
Health & Medicine:  sent on the second Tuesday of each month to 23,000 subscribers
Living World:  sent on the third Tuesday of each month to 13,000 subscribers
Physical Science:  sent on the fourth Tuesday of each month to 20,000 subscribers