“I’ve advertised with multiple high traffic sites, but it was zenhabits that brought in the major traffic. For about the same cost as some even bigger blogs, I regularly received about 5 times the traffic from zenhabits (no exageration). It is hands down the best place to bring your product, service or idea into the spotlight.”
- Eric Hamm, former advertiser, of frugaltheme.com

Become a premium sponsor and have your ad seen by hundreds of thousands of readers trying to improve their lives by becoming more productive, more organized, healthier, fitter, calmer, saner, better off financially, and happier with their families.

Exclusive ad policy: Zen Habits now only sells one (1) ad each month to a single exclusive sponsor, in the right sidebar. The size of this exclusive ad is 150×150 pixels.

Zen Habits is viewed by hundreds of thousands of readers every month, is viewed more than 1.5 million times a month, and has well over 125,000 subscribers who read it daily. Zen Habits readers are genuinely trying to change their lives in many ways, and would be open to opportunities from advertisers to do just that.

As a result, advertisers can reach a large, motivated audience very quickly and cheaply.

1. Top 100 in Technorati’s Popular Page
2. Nearly 2 million page views a month
3. 125,000+ daily RSS subscribers
4. Named No. 9 on Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs for 2009
5. One of the fastest-growing blogs on the Internet

Ads cost $2,500 per month (price subject to change). As there are almost 2 million pageviews on Zen Habits each month, this comes to about $1.5 CPM!

Next available ad slot: February 2010. To buy, click on the Buy Now button below, and after purchasing, send the ad image and url to zenhabits+ads@gmail.com.

Frequently asked questions:

Q: Can I buy a banner ad to run across the top of Zen Habits? How about a skyscraper ad?

A: Ads sold are 150×150 banners only, to run exclusively in the sidebar. Only one ad is sold each month.

Q: Can anyone advertise?

A: Advertisers will be carefully screened. Only products and services that meet the high standards of Zen Habits will be accepted. No payday loans, pornography ads, or anything shady will be accepted. That said, if your product or site or service is reasonable, I probably won’t turn you down.

Q: Can I buy a link ad to run within your posts?

A: No. I don’t sell ads within the posts – especially not link ads. I only sell the 150×150 banner ad in my sidebar.

Q: Can I sponsor Zen Habits and get a post written about my company, product or service?

A: Absolutely not. Zen Habits does not allow sponsored content. I only sell the 150×150 banner ad in my sidebar.

Q: When is payment due?

A: Immediately. The ad is not reserved until you pay via the Paypal button above.

Q: I’d like to rotate a variety of ads in the spot during the month I purchase … is that possible?

A: I’m working on setting up a service that will automatically rotate ads, but at the moment I don’t offer that. I can change the ad once or twice a week if you like.

Q: Do you offer stats to show the effectiveness of your ads?

A: Working on that. Don’t have it at the moment.

Q: Do you offer discounts to smaller bloggers or companies?

A: At one time, I quietly did this, but now that I only sell one ad a month, I can’t afford to do it.

Q: Can I run an affiliate ad, so that you make money via your affiliate share of sales of my product rather than a flat fee?

A: No, I only accept payment of the fee quoted above.