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If you want to advertise on Joy o' Kanji, you need to create an advertiser's account. We'll walk you through it. First, we'll present some information about advertising on the site. If you're eager to get started, you can move to the last section of this page.

Whom You'll Be Reaching with an Ad on Joy o' Kanji

Typical visitors to Joy o’ Kanji want to immerse themselves in the world of kanji. They would also like to deepen their knowledge of the Japanese language and culture. They tend to be educated, committed, and of course refined in their tastes! On the Testimonials page you can get a sense of which aspects of Joy o’ Kanji excite and interest them.

People have registered on Joy o’ Kanji from 76 countries! They are as follows:

Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, the Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and Vietnam!

How Advertising Works on Joy o' Kanji

We sell ad space in three ways:

Impressions basis, also called a CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions) basis: You purchase a certain number of page impressions, and we run your ad until you reach that point. When it expires, you can buy a new set of impressions. Note: If a site visitor lingers on a page and sees your ad there twice during that visit, it counts as just one impression.

Time basis: You can run your ad for whatever length of time you wish (i.e., 10 days, 20 days, or 50 days), regardless of the number of impressions.

Monthly auto-renewal: You can keep running your ad without going through the payment process repeatedly. The ad will renew every 31 days—at a significant discount.

Things to Keep in Mind

• Running multiple ads will bring you closer to your sales goals.

• To assess the performance of your ads (i.e., the number of impressions and click-throughs), you can review the statistics right on the Joy o’ Kanji site.

• After you select an ad shape, we’ll place it on every page that can accommodate that ad, bringing it to the attention of a maximum number of viewers.

• If you want your ads to run on a limited number of pages, just let us know.

• Ads sharing the same space (e.g., the right sidebar) will rotate constantly.

Ad Placement

Nearly all Joy o’ Kanji pages can accommodate ads. There are two types of pages for advertising: pages that can take narrower ads in the left and right sidebars, and pages that can take wider ads in the center of the page, directly beneath the main content area.

Sidebar Ads: These can go in both the left and right sidebars on many pages. The width of the sidebars varies by page type. 

Full-Width Ads: Radical Notes pages can accommodate full-width ads.

Learn More

To learn more or to start the process of buying advertising space on Joy o' Kanji, you can read a PDF.

Create an Account

To start the process of buying advertising space on Joy o' Kanji, read and agree to our Advertising Policy.

Joy o’ Kanji’s mission is to inspire people to learn kanji and to help them in doing so. To support this mission, we accept advertising on our website (hereafter known as "the Site"). The purpose of this policy is to explain the types of advertising that we accept, as well as the limitations that we impose on this advertising.

1. Joy o’ Kanji recognizes and maintains a separation between advertising content and editorial content. Advertisements on the Site are clearly labeled as such. The presence of an ad on the Site does not imply endorsement of the advertised company or product.

2. Joy o’ Kanji has sole discretion over the types of advertising and promotion that will be accepted and displayed on the Site.

3. Joy o' Kanji strongly prefers advertisements with some relationship to kanji or Japan. We believe that such ads will perform the best on the Site.

4. We reserve the right to refuse any advertisement that we believe is incompatible with the Site’s mission. We also reserve the right to refuse any advertisement that we believe is not in good taste or that may negatively affect our site visitors or our relationship with them.

5. Joy o’ Kanji will not accept advertising that in our opinion:

• Is for illegal or objectionable products or services

• Is offensive to any individual based on age, color, national origin, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability

• Is not factually accurate or contains false or misleading claims

• Promotes betting, gambling, pornography, or violence

• Advocates a political, religious, or controversial public position or candidate for public office

• Implies an endorsement or partnership with Joy o’ Kanji (if such a relationship does not exist)

6. Joy o’ Kanji reserves the right to cancel or remove any advertising from the Site for any reason at any time. We will provide reasonable notice to the advertiser upon cancellation or removal of any advertising, and we will give appropriate credit for unused impressions.

7. Joy o’ Kanji reserves the right to determine the appropriate placement of the advertisement on the Site.

8. Joy o’ Kanji has sole discretion with respect to the interpretation of this policy and all other issues associated with advertising on the Site. Joy o’ Kanji may change this policy at any time in its sole discretion. If Joy o’ Kanji makes changes to this policy, the updates will be posted here.