Advertising Opportunities

 Outdoors Network is an established advertising medium, providing dynamic and interesting content on a variety of vertical interest topics since 1988,.beginning on what is now AOL/CompuServe and later on the Microsoft Network, and now our  award-winning site provides a unique opportunity to advertise your product or service to a upscale audience. We offer standard banner advertising, site sponsorship advertising, and multimedia advertising. See below

Current vertical interest sites within Outdoors Network include:

• BASS - site devoted to all aspects of the popular sport of bass fishing.

• Birding - everything to do with bird watching. Great images.

• Camping - Covers all aspects of camping, from backpacking to RVs.

• Earth - Protecting the environment is the topic.

• Firearms - Everything related to the legal use of guns.

• Fishing - General salt and freshwater fishing content.

• FlyFishing - Site features great content and images, featuring Lefty Kreh.

• Hunting - Features, images and other content for hunters.

• Outdoor Writers - Issues related to the professional writer.

• Photography - Focus on film and digital photography.

Advertising Options

Standard Banner Ads

Your advertising message, linked to your web site, is delivered via banner ads that users see while browsing. 

Run of All Sites/Top of Page: Banners are industry standard 468x60 pixels, and must be less than 12K in size - GIF or JPG; animated banners are accepted. Cost: $15 per 1000 banner impressions; 30,000 impressions minimum per month.

Individual Site/Top of Page: Banners are industry standard 468x60 pixels, and must be less than 12K in size - GIF or JPG; animated banners are accepted. Cost: $20 per 1000 banner impressions; 30,000 impressions minimum per month.

REPORTING: Each advertiser has access to data on impressions and clicks. 

TERMS: Payment monthly, prior to banner delivery. We accept checks or credit card payment. 

BANNERS: Customer supplied, or we can design a banner at a cost of $250. 468X60 pixels - 12K or less in size (or as detailed above).

Site Sponsorships

We also offer individual vertical interest site sponsorships. Here's the deal. Become a site sponsor and have your company's logo (or text link) displayed on the right side of nearly every page in that site. Site sponsorships are limited to a total of five and all five of the sponsor buttons or text links are displayed on the pages.  Links can be directly to your web site, or to a series of pages that highlight your goods or services as advertorial content with links to your site within the advertorial content We do the design.

Cost? $200 per month, 3 month minimum. $100 discount on 6 months. $400 discount on 12 months. Get a 10% discount on multiple site sponsorships. 

Multimedia Advertising

A 320x240 pixel slide show about your product or service with music and/or voice over description. Up to 15 minutes playing time. These are an alternative for ad delivered by the site sponsorship links and/or the banner ads. When user clicks on the banner or site sponsor link the multimedia presentation is automatically displayed. Presentation can include link to your site. Cost is same as banner ads or site sponsorship above, with an additional one-time fee of $500 to create the multimedia presentation. Note that the multimedia presentations are designed for delivery at modem speeds as low as 28.8.

If you would like to become a site sponsor or are interested in banner advertising within ForumsAmerica, please send email to

mall@outdoors.net