Disclosure of Advertising on artist-at-large.com

On this page: FTC Guidelines || How We Use Advertising || Affiliate Partners || Amazon Stores || Third Party Services Offered Through artist-at-large.com || A List Of Our Affiliate Partners

artist-at-large.com is about art, culture and travel. Good for both the trip researcher and armchair traveler, you will find travel stories, travel information, quirky survey questions, photos of the day, and listings for open studios, film festivals, and events in each region on the site. The stories and information presented on the site are written in a way that are meant to be valuable over a long period of time, like an art or travel magazine or guidebook that you keep by your desk and flip through when you need information, want to make your travel plans and reservations, or just want to daydream. The site also fosters online art education and promotes artists from around the world.

Statistics

The whole site gets about 150,000 +- hits per month and about 10-15,000 unique visitors during that same time period. The alexa rank is hovering under 290,000. On twitter, @artistatlarge is on over 125 lists and has over 1575 twitter followers that consist of travelers, artists, techies, galleries, museums, and friends. There are over 75 followers on the new-ish Facebook page. All posts to the site get pushed to both twitter and Facebook, There is only one person working on the site at the moment. We do accept writing from outside writers. The site has been online, and growing, since September 4, 2000. We're in it for the long haul. Need more information? Email us!

FTC Gidelines

... The revised Guides also add new examples to illustrate the long standing principle that “material connections” (sometimes payments or free products) between advertisers and endorsers – connections that consumers would not expect – must be disclosed. These examples address what constitutes an endorsement when the message is conveyed by bloggers or other “word-of-mouth” marketers. The revised Guides specify that while decisions will be reached on a case-by-case basis, the post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement. Thus, bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service. Likewise, if a company refers in an advertisement to the findings of a research organization that conducted research sponsored by the company, the advertisement must disclose the connection between the advertiser and the research organization. And a paid endorsement – like any other advertisement – is deceptive if it makes false or misleading claims. ...

How We Use Advertising

For a long time there was no advertising on artist-at-large.com. We thought of ourselves as more of a content site rather than a trip planning site. But circumstances led to a need for placing art, travel, and culture related advertising on the site in order to pay for things, like rent and web-hosting bills. Since we are now making the transition into becoming an online magazine, and the site has become a fulltime commitment for the founder, advertising has become more of an important necessity. We use banner ads, text links, and google AdSense advertising on the site.

If we review a product of any kind, it is because we have purchased it, liked it (or really hated it), and wanted to tip off our readers to something wonderful (or not). If we happen to have an affiliate relationship with someone who provides the product, we will of course add that link to the review or post. It may or may not be the vendor we bought the product from.

In the future, if a vendor would like to offer us a free-something in exchange for a review, that could probably happen. But it will also be noted in the review that the product was sent to us free of charge.

Having worked in the book publishing business, it is common to receive advance preview copies of books for review.

Press trips are noted on the About page on the regional blogs.

Whatever the case, our reviews are our honest opinions and we are not shills or PR people. We are interested in giving our readers information on quality products.

How google AdSense works

If you see a google AdSense text ad block on a page, and click on it, it brings money to artist-at-large.com. How much depends on how much the advertiser is willing to pay for their space on our site. Sometimes it is only a few pennies per click. Other times it is a few dollars. google keeps some, and artist-at-large.com gets a percentage. It is not wise to click on these ads unless it is something that really interests you. artist-at-large.com can be penalized and dropped from the program for false clicks.

Affilate Partners

Affiliate partners are those companies who pay us a percentage of an actual sale that come through our site. The affiliate partners are represented by banner ads and also by text links on the regional blogs, the travel resources page and the gift guide for artists and travelers page and on other pages within the site as well.

If you click through an affiliate's banner ad or text link, the affiliate will place a cookie on your computer. If you make a purchase anytime within a designated time period from first clicking on the link (in some cases it is 24 hours, or ten days, but it could be as many as thirty or forty-five days), artist-at-large.com receives a small percentage of the sale.

Some of the art images that we use to illustrate informational articles on museums or artists are obtained from our affiliation with art.com and allposters.com. Clicking through those images will take you to the product page on the affiliate site.

Affiliate links will sometimes contain advertising or PR text as part of the link.

A partial list of our affiliate partners is compiled below. Making purchases through these links help in supporting the site.

Amazon Stores

Our amazon storefronts are just that - store fronts that lead to sales on amazon.com. We get a very small percentage from your purchases only if the sale is made within 24 hours of clicking through from our site to theirs.

Third Party Services Offered Through artist-at-large.com

The images used on the site are made available for purchase through our professional Shutterfly account where we set our own pricing for the photographs.

We use blurb.com to produce our photographic books. We set the prices for the books, which in turn sets the profit we receive from each sale. Which is about ten percent of the purchase price.

We have site swag available at CafePress. Here too, we only receive a very small percentage of the total sale price.

Disclaimer

artist-at-large.com is not responsible for any actions taken by its readers, nor is it responsible for anything that happens to its readers while they are travelling, such as: loss of property, theft, sickness, and/or injury to self or others. artist-at-large.com is not responsible or liable for the products bought and sold through an Affiliate/Sponsor/Partner of artist-at-large.com.

A Partial List Of Our Affiliate Partners

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artist-at-large.com is about art, culture and travel. Good for both the trip researcher and armchair traveler, you will find travel stories, travel information, quirky survey questions, photos of the day, and listings for exhibitions and open studios and events in each region on the site. The stories and information presented on the site are written in a way that are meant to be valuable over a long period of time, like an art or travel magazine or guidebook that you keep by your desk and flip through when you need information, or just want to daydream. The site also fosters online art education in its ArtStudio and promotes artists from around the world in The Artist Directory.

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