Dribbbling on The Deck

For the past year, we’ve sold our own advertising on Dribbble. It put food on the table as we became a company, was a tremendous learning experience, and allowed us to work with some fantastic, like-minded companies, helping them gain exposure in front of the community. But it was also a tremendous amount of work. Our tiny team would prefer to focus on efforts that directly affect the app and the community.

Toward that end, we’re pleased to announce that starting June 1, Dribbble will be joining The Deck: the premiere ad network of creative, web and design culture. This will free us up to focus on Dribbble itself, while still serving high-quality, relevant ads to the community. Going forward, if you’d like to advertise on Dribbble, contact the friendly folks over at The Deck. Your ad will also appear on dozens of other wonderful sites.

We’d also like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank anyone who’s ever advertised on Dribbble. It’s because of you that we’ve been able to bootstrap Dribbble and continue to grow the community. We will forever be grateful for that.

Advertise on Dribbble in April

April 1st is just around the corner and we have some limited space still available for advertising. Our traffic and community continue to grow (12M+ impressions served last month) and with prices starting at $295 for a monthly spot, it’s a fantastic way to promote your business to our vibrant creative community. Visit dribbble.com/site/advertise or contact [at] dribbble dot com for more info.

Advertising on Dribbble in 2011

We are now booking ads for January, February and March of 2011. There is a 10% discount for booking all three months up front.

We’ve revisited our advertising offerings and created more, smaller traffic blocks to open up additional slots. We’ve also added a new type of ad that runs for one week at the top of our most popular pages, which is great for promotions and product releases.

Learn more about the new prices and types of ads: http://dribbble.com/site/advertise

Whether your ad appears on Dribbble on not, have a very happy 2011!

Win Big from Veer

Dribbble has always had a healthy balance of work and play, and the rebound feature has fueled some amazing creativity. Take a look at a few of the past rebound playoffs to get a sense of how amazing this community is.

In order to foster and give more visibility to rebound exchanges, iteration from multiple players and playoffs themselves, we’ve just added a brand new Playoffs tab that’ll collect recent playoffs and their associated rebounds.

In celebration of the unveiling of this new tab, we’re also announcing an incredible featured playoff in association with our friends at Veer. The Veer Rebound Playoff kicked off at 2pm today, and for the next week Dribbble players can rebound their way to fabulous prizes. The Veer MVP (chosen from the 10 finalists) will win one of everything from the Veer merch store. Yes, you read that right. This is the Big Game, folks.

Voting ends on Wednesday, October 13th, at 2pm EST and the winners will be announced later that afternoon. Time to lace up those high-tops and show the world what you got.

Ads on Dribbble: New Prices Starting at $250

We recently changed our ad pricing and are now booking ads for July. Details can be found here:

http://dribbble.com/site/advertise

We tinkered with prices and traffic blocks in hopes of increasing appeal to smaller businesses, particularly those that want to experiment at a lower price point to see if their ads on Dribbble are effective. In addition to the new prices, here are some known knowns:

• Dribbble has high volume traffic and is growing; we’ve already served more ad impressions in June (2,791,170 through the 23rd) than May (2,567,313) with still 7 days remaining in the month.
• Dribbble has high quality traffic; a ridiculously talented, savvy audience of designers and other web professionals frequent the site.

With our growth, audience and new prices, we think advertising on Dribbble is a slam dunk. At $250, it’s now easy to find out for yourself.

- Posted by Rich

A Commercial Break

Have a product or service you’d like our vibrant, focused community of designers, developers and creatives to check out? We’ve published new rates and traffic data from our first two weeks of being publicly viewable, and we’re lining up advertising slots for May. Book a spot today.

Also, a big thank you to all of our current advertisers, who’ve taken a leap of faith with us during our inaugural month. You’re helping us continue to make Dribbble awesome.

Advertise on Dribbble

Looking to reach a vibrant, focused community of designers and other web creatives?

Dribbble is offering a rotating sidebar advertising module that houses a standard, 120×90 image plus a short line of text. We’re gearing up for our upcoming public launch by lining up advertising slots this week.

WHY BUY A SPOT NOW?

We’ll be putting all the marketing wheels in motion to promote the launch on the following channels:

• simplebits.com ~100,000 unique visitors per month
• twitter.com/simplebits 19,100+ followers 
• twitter.com/dribbble 3,162+ followers 
• twitter.com/wrycoder 400+ followers (Yeah, baby! :) 
• Right here at blog.dribbble.com

Interested? Email contact [at] dribbble dot com for more info.