Advertising Guidelines
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Consider KreweCentral.com.
Krewe Central (Etter Ventures, LLC.) is the Internet’s leading authority on the social and civic organizations known as Krewes, as well as the parades and festivals that they participate in across the United States, and around the world. Our KreweCentral.com web pages provide the most comprehensive list of Krewes and events in existence. KreweCentral.com provides Krewes and Krewe members with a wide variety of information on Krewe related products and services. Find out how KreweCentral.com can fit into your marketing plans and budget, no matter how large or small.
General Advertising Guidelines
1) All advertising creative must perform acceptably on KreweCentral.com and adhere to these guidelines. Krewe Central reserves the right to reject or to suspend any creative that is deemed by Krewe Central, in its sole discretion, to disrupt site service or performance or is reported to negatively affect user experience.
2) The advertising content must be clearly identifiable as an advertisement.
- The Advertiser must fulfill the advertised offer as stated in the advertisement, including without limitation, not altering any offer periods, product offers or prices that are stated in the advertisement unless Advertiser has obtained Krewe Central's prior approval.
- Advertisements cannot mislead the user. For example, they may not mimic or resemble Windows/Mac/Unix dialog boxes, error messages, or the like.
- Advertisements cannot resemble KreweCentral.com content.
- Advertisements cannot solicit or collect, or appear to solicit or collect, any personally identifiable information from KreweCentral.com visitors without their knowledge.
- Advertisements associated with politics will not be accepted.
- Advertisements cannot contain graphics that simulate interactivity (i.e. dropdown menus, search boxes etc.) without that functionality actually existing.
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Advertisements cannot mimic news headlines in design, tone, third person sentence structure, or topic.
3) Krewe Central, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to reject any creative for any reason.
4) Up to 65 characters of image alt text are permitted.
5) Audio Events:
- must be initiated by user click
- must include a clearly labeled button or link to stop audio
- audio clips cannot loop
6) Additional specifications that amend or supercede these general guidelines may apply for individual ad products.
Scheduling Lead Time and Creative Refresh
- GIF, JPG creative require a lead time of two to three business days, upon receipt of creative, for review and implementation.
- Rich Media and third party creative require a lead time of five to seven business days, upon receipt of creative, for testing and implementation.
- Krewe Central has established these lead times to ensure that sound technical creative are delivered to our users. While Krewe Central strives to process ad creative as quickly as possible, this lead time provides the opportunity to identify, address and resolve creative issues before implementation. Lead times may be extended if significant or numerous issues must be resolved before implementation.
Click-through URLs
- After clicking on any ad unit, users must be able to return to KreweCentral.com by clicking on the browser's back button. Any destination URLs that result in a trap door effect (i.e. the user cannot return to KreweCentral.com by clicking the browser's "Back" button), are not permitted.
- User clicks cannot launch stand-alone video/audio players or otherwise display content outside the standard browser window.
- User clicks on ad creative may not result in the launch of multiple browser windows.
- Ad creative cannot launch windows when served.
- Ad creative can launch a new browser window upon user click.
IAB (Internet Advertising Bureau) Standards
Krewe Central specifications for standard and rich media creative comply with the standards established by the Internet Advertising Bureau.
Number of Creative per Placement
- Up to ten total creative may be submitted for each targeted placement
- Up to five rich media creative may be submitted for each targeted placement
1. Advertiser's advertising environment must be appropriate in the context of KreweCentral.com on which Advertiser's advertising content shall appear. The Advertiser's site must include a privacy policy that is clearly posted.
2. Krewe Central must approve all advertising content prior to posting on KreweCentral.com, in Krewe Central's sole discretion. Once advertising content has been posted on KreweCentral.com, Krewe Central shall have the right to remove previously approved advertising content from KreweCentral.com if Krewe Central later determines that Advertiser's advertising does not meet Krewe Central's standards.
3. Below are guidelines regarding advertising materials.
General advertising guidelines
- The advertising content must be clearly identifiable as an advertisement.
- The Advertiser must fulfill the advertised offer as stated in the advertisement, including without limitation, not altering any offer periods, product offers or prices that are stated in the advertisement unless Advertiser has obtained Krewe Central's prior approval.
- Advertisements cannot mislead the user. For example, they may not mimic or resemble Windows/Mac/Unix dialog boxes, error messages, or the like.
- Advertisements cannot resemble KreweCentral.com content.
- Advertisements cannot solicit or collect, or appear to solicit or collect, any personally identifiable information from KreweCentral.com visitors without their knowledge.
- Advertisements cannot contain graphics that simulate interactivity (i.e. drop down menus, search boxes etc.) without that functionality actually existing.
- Audio Events:
- Additional specifications that amend or supercede these general guidelines may apply for individual ad products.
What is clearly not appropriate:
- Direct business competitor of Krewe Central, Inc.
- Unauthorized or unapproved use of Krewe Central's creative assets (such as, talent, logos, characters, etc.)
- Gun advertisements (firearms, bullets, etc.)
- Pornography advertisements (sex sites)
- Potentially slanderous or libelous content
- Bad language, body parts, proxies for bad language (i.e., X@#%!)
- What may be considered inappropriate and will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis:
- Involves an advertiser in a category where Krewe Central has previously granted exclusive rights to another party
- Unreasonable or highly unlikely product or service claims
- Double entendres
- Tobacco advertisements (cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco, etc)
- Illegal drug advertisements (marijuana, etc.)
- Graphic violence In addition to Krewe Central's terms described herein, the terms of the applicable Advertising Agreement, including the Specifications and Submission requirements, apply to each such insertion order. All sponsorship sweepstakes sites shall include an "opt-out" box adjacent to the entry fields.
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