Spittle & Ink has the ability to reach 6.5 billion people worldwide. The potential readership of this site represents every age group, every income level and every sexual orientation on the planet.

Until we get internet directly wired into every human being's brain, however, this site only reaches the portion of civilization that best deserves the title: civilized, educated and well-to-do internet-savvy readers of only the highest caliber political persuasion.

And we're not even hitting all of them yet. In fact, when you think about,  S + I 's potential market is so vast, so untapped, so potential, you'd be stupid not to take advantage of it right now.

In order to ensure total global domination of the blogosphere, S + I is glad to take your advertising dollars, in exchange for prominent placement on our website (now) and in our government's cabinet (later).

During our initial launch period, from October 2005 through April 2006,  S + I will be accepting reduced rate advertising for select... erm, advertisers. Rates are as follows:

 

 Top level banner ad: $200,000 per week. Rotates with up to four other ads, equally distributed against page hits. Appears on all pages within the site, except for front entry page. Banner size is 168 x 60 px, animation OK.

Topmost right plug spot: $10,000 per week. Plug size is 75 x 115 px, animation OK.

Secondmost right plug spot: $7500 per week. Plug size is 75 x 115 px, animation OK.

All other lower right plug spots: $5000 per week. Plug size is 75 x 115 px, animation OK.

 Front entry page banner ad: $1 Billion per week. Appears on front entry page only. Does not rotate. Plug size is 75 x 115 px, animation OK. Other sizes OK if agreed in advance.

Blog entry banner ad + text: $50 Gwajillion per entry. RSS news aggregators strip sites of ads. To defeat this, these unique banner ads are placed inside a custom blog entry, with appropriate text, so that RSS feeds pick up the ad. Aggregators that display graphics will also display the banner. Banner size is 168 x 60 px, animation OK. Number of ad-based blog entries is limited at the decision of S + I management. Blog entry remains in archive permanently, or until advertiser requests removal. Includes "open thread" comment board; content of comments is not subject to advertiser control.

Comment window mini-banner: $150,000 per week. Appears in all comment windows for the week. Regular banner size (168 x 60) is scaled to fit. Content of comments is not subject to advertiser control.