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Sponsorship
Sponsoring GDUSA puts you inside the juried record of American design, not beside it. Published prices, labeled placements, and a reader who is here to study the work.
The gallery’s readers are the trade: working designers, in-house teams, and firms researching award-winning work and the tools, papers, and presses behind it. They arrive to study what wins, and they leave with names: the studio, the printer, the software.
Audience report available on request.
$500 to $1,500/mo per category
"Packaging, presented by you." Your name sits on the discipline hubs your buyers already browse: the category landing pages where designers study the winning work in packaging, digital, in-house, and the rest. Every placement is labeled as sponsorship and measured, with impressions, clicks, and engagement reported to you.
$1,000
A how-to or trend piece on your area of expertise, written in GDUSA’s editorial voice, clearly labeled as sponsored, and published at a permanent URL you can link and share for as long as you like.
$1,000
An editorial series carrying your name as presenter: think "Five AI tools that accelerate design." GDUSA picks the subject and writes the piece, clearly labeled. The writing stays independent; you get the association with editorial that readers choose to read.
$500 to $50,000 per pool
Fund award entries for your customers or your community. You receive a grant code, and every redemption links back to your vendor profile. Pools start at $500 (7 sponsored entries) and run to $50,000 (250 entries plus 125 publication fees).
The funnel, stated plainly: sponsored entries are judged blind, exactly like every other entry, and most entries do not win. Work you sponsor is featured in the gallery, credited, and linked back to your vendor profile only when it wins and the winner publishes. Publication is $280 per piece and is included only in the larger pools.
Display placements in the gallery, always labeled “Sponsored.” The reach we quote is measured, viewable impressions — a unit counts only after at least half of it has been on screen for a full second — not page views. New positions read “measuring” until they carry 28 days of data. One campaign can run these positions and gdusa.com’s together, with one combined delivery report.
| Position | Size | Where it runs | Est. monthly viewable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Header leaderboard strip | 728×90 | Homepage (header band above the broadsheet) + /archive (above the grid) + every project page (top band) | 14,626 |
| Band above the site footer | 728×90 | Every public page (rendered by the global footer) | 1,336 |
| Repeating tile in the archive grid — every 12 cards (~3 rows), advertiser varies per repeat | 300×250 | /archive | 1,500 |
| Repeating tile in the hub grids — every 12 cards, advertiser varies per repeat | 300×250 | SEO hubs: /category/* /year/* /city/* /best/* /tag/* /school/* | 1,601 |
| RETIRED from the page (2026-09-19 Ledger/Sheet rebuild) — rows kept for history | 300×250 | None (was: every project page) | measuring |
| Tile inside the Winning Work grid | 300×250 | Every firm profile (~4k) | 392 |
| Tile inside the Gallery Contributions grid | 300×250 | Every designer profile (~22k) | 582 |
| Tile in the winner grid (flat contests); band between the 2nd and 3rd category sections (tiered) | 300×250 | Contest results pages (/contest/*) — never inside the podium/tier/editor’s-choice sections | 938 |
| RETIRED from the page (2026-09-19 — Related Work is one clean row) — rows kept | 300×250 | None (was: the Related Work grid) | measuring |
| Above the fold: top of the edition aside (right rail) | 300×250 | Homepage, every edition variant | 486 |
| Fact-rail rect #1 (desktop sticky rail); first of the mobile duo | 300×250 | Every project page (~16k) | 2,234 |
| Fact-rail rect #2 (desktop sticky rail); second of the mobile duo | 300×250 | Every project page (~16k) | 1,562 |
| Sponsors row (three 300×250s) under "From the Magazine" | 300×250 | Homepage, every edition variant | 807 |
| Fourth cell of the "Featured vendors & schools" row — in-row peer of the maker cards | 300×250 | Homepage (editions showing the makers row) | measuring |
| Header leaderboard at the top of the page, below the navbar (Kyle 2026-09-19) | 728×90 | /contests · /firms · /designers · /best-design-schools · /badges · /people-to-watch/<year> | 314 |
| Header leaderboard at the top of the page, below the navbar (Kyle 2026-09-19) | 728×90 | /trends + /resources | measuring |
| Mid-article unit, ~40% through the body; SUPPRESSED on sponsored articles (one commercial voice per page) | 300×250 | Published articles (/trends/*), bodies of 5+ blocks | measuring |
| Tile in the project-results grid (never among directory/people results) | 300×250 | /search (results view) | 318 |
| Tile inside the Winning student work grid | 300×250 | School profiles (/school/*) | measuring |
| Closing tile of the honors roster grid (honorees lead, the ad takes the last cell) | 300×250 | /people-to-watch/<year> | measuring |
Ask for the combined GDUSA kit to run the same creative across gdusa.com and the gallery.
Both GDUSA properties — gdusa.com and this gallery — record delivery into one shared measurement ledger, so your report is one sheet with one standard behind it:
Viewable impressions only. A unit counts after at least 50% of it has been on screen for one continuous second (the MRC display standard) — never on page load.
Invalid traffic never counts. Declared crawlers and non-browser clients are excluded. On top of that, automation forensics screen every event: headless and disguised browsers (clients whose claimed identity contradicts their protocol fingerprints), scripted clicks, and views in background tabs are dropped before they reach your numbers, and per-viewer frequency caps damp replay traffic.
Impressions cannot be forged. Every event carries a server-issued cryptographic token proving that unit was genuinely rendered on a page — third parties cannot inflate (or pollute) an advertiser’s delivery by calling our measurement endpoint.
You can verify independently. Clicks land on your URL with your own tracking parameters intact, so your analytics can be reconciled against our report — and a per-advertiser delivery export (both properties, viewable impressions, clicks, CTR, flight dates) is available with any invoice.
The sponsored article, the bundled editorial, and the starter entry pool are fixed-price: you can buy them right now by card. Category sponsorship and larger pools are scoped to you, so those start with a conversation.
Sponsored surfaces are always labeled. Readers can always tell editorial from advertising, on every page, every time.
Judging is blind to payment source. Jurors never know whether an entry was sponsored. No sponsorship, ad, or entry pool changes a score.
The award record is never for sale. Winner pages, credits, and badges are computed from results alone. Spend never enters the math.