Starting today we are opening our doors to Catholic website publishers. Join us in creating an outstanding, faithful online advertising network!
Paid Catholic ads won’t start running until April 5th, but in the meantime you will be able to run non-paid ads for promoting faithful Catholic organizations and the ad network.
We are limiting the number of Catholic websites that are allowed to sign up, so don’t delay signing up if you are interested!
Have questions? Contact us!
Starting this Friday website publishers will be able to sign up to run Catholic ads on their websites from Catholic Media Group’s online advertising network!
Many of you have been waiting for this for months, so thank you for your patience as we built up the best behind-the-scenes systems we could and reached out to as many Catholic advertisers and Catholic website publishers as possible.
We will send out an email to all website publishers who are on our email notification list on Friday with more specific details.
Giving Cart is an online service that allows you to support your local Catholic parish, school or charity just by shopping online like you normally would do.
By starting your shopping at Giving Cart’s website and selecting from the online retailers that Giving Cart has partnered with every time you make a purchase anywhere from 1% to 36% (!) or your purchase price goes to Giving Cart. Giving Cart then returns 80% of your purchase to the Catholic parish, school or charity of your choice. The small amount that Giving Cart retains is used to pay for the expenses of running this service, which is free of charge to you.
This is a wonderful way of supporting your Catholic parish, school or charity just by shopping online like you normally would.
Giving Cart can be found at their website and on Twitter.
From a wonderful blog post by Msgr. Charles Pope of the Archdiocese of Washington titled The Church Must Be Willing to Be A Sign of Contradiction:
“That world hates us is not necessarily due to the fact that we have done anything wrong. It is often a sign that we have done something precisely right for it is often our lot, as the Body of Christ, to be a ?sign of contradiction.? That is to say that we must announce the Gospel to a world that is often and in increasing measure, stridently opposed to it. St. Paul admonished Timothy to preach the Gospel, whether in season or out of season (2 Tim 4:2). Increasingly now it is out of season and the world hates us for what we say. But we can do no other, for if we are faithful, we must speak.”
Catholic Media Group now has a Facebook page. If you believe in what we are doing, please become a fan!
“This has to do with a nonnegotiable teaching of the church. You can’t compromise on an issue like the protection of unborn life. It’s a compromise that takes you out of the realm of what can arguably be described as Catholic.”
~ Deal Hudson – director of insidecatholic.com
Software development and testing is coming along nicely for our first round of features for our Catholic Online Advertising Network. We are targeting February 2010 for our initial launch. Contact us if you are interested in joining as a charter website publisher or charter advertiser. We have special deals for each that we’ll let you know about if you get in touch.
With our first release we will be focusing on Exclusive Ads. Exclusive Ads are where a website publisher sells all impressions for a specific ad spot to an advertiser for one month for a flat fee. The ad runs continuously for one month. The website publisher earns a flat fee per month for each ad spot an advertiser purchases.
The first release, tentatively scheduled for February 2010, will feature the ability for you to sell these Exclusive Ad spots on your website to advertisers. And you have complete control over the size of the ads, the positioning on your website of each ad, and even the amount you want to earn for the ad to run on your website. After all, we’re just the ad network. We aren’t trying to control your website. You know better than us how to position ad positions within your content to produce great results (if not, we’re working on some great material to help you learn).
Each publisher that runs Exclusive Ads through our network will be listed in our Website Directory for potential advertisers to review. Instead of you trying to seek out advertisers, your site will be in front of advertisers looking to promote their company, product, service, or mission on a Catholic-focused website.
Advertisers can target the specific website and ad spot they want. For our Exclusive Ad option you purchase one month of ad space for a flat fee. There is no variable cost such as charges per click or per thousand impressions to worry about blowing your budget. Instead, you get a month of impressions for one rate.
We’re also planning the following services to assist our website publishers and advertisers.
The best way is to spread the word about our Online Advertising Network for Catholics. Talk with website publishers and advertisers who may be interested. Tell them about our website and our blog. Follow us on Twitter. Email us. Interact with us. We’ll talk back.
After all, behind all these machines are real, live humans bringing Christ’s light to the world one person at a time.
The Family Catechism is a wonderful resource – it provides video explanations of all the basics of Catholic theology including cross references to Papal documents, the Catechism and Scripture.
I love Cardinal Arinze’s sense of humor while addressing a very delicate and serious subject of pro-abortion Catholic politicians recieving the Holy Eucharist. He pretty much sums it up as well as anyone else could.
