Advertise on Christian.com

You can promote your church, ministry, business or event with self-serve ads on Christian.com. Start at /ads on www.christian.com, or go to ads.christian.com, which takes you to the same page. Write your ad, choose where and to whom it shows, prepay a budget by card, and our team reviews it before it runs. There's no membership needed.

Set up your advertiser account

1. Go to /ads and click Start a campaign.
2. The first time, you'll see Set up your advertiser account. Enter the Advertiser name your ads run under. It appears beside the Sponsored label.
3. Click Continue.

The advertiser account belongs to the organization you're acting as.

Create a campaign

1. On Your ads, click New campaign.
2. 1. Your ad: enter a Campaign name (only you and our team see it), a Headline, Body (optional), Image (optional) and the Link (https://) the ad opens. Check the Preview.
3. 2. Audience: tick Categories (optional), or leave them all unchecked to run in every category. To show the ad only near you, add a Zip code (optional) and a Radius (miles).
4. 3. Placements: choose where the ad appears. Each placement shows its price as [price] CPM.
5. 4. Budget and dates: enter your Budget (USD). The minimum is $25, paid up front. Add a Start date (optional) and End date (optional) if you like. You'll see about how many impressions your budget buys.
6. Click Pay [amount] and submit for review, or Save draft to finish later.

Review and results

Our team reviews every ad before it runs, usually within a business day. Your campaign shows as In review, then Running. It runs until the budget is spent, the end date passes or it's paused, then shows Finished.

If we can't approve an ad, it shows Not approved with the reason, and the unspent budget is refunded to your card.

Your ads lists each campaign with its Status, Budget, Spent, Impressions, Clicks and CTR.

Where ads appear

Each ad is labeled Sponsored. You choose from these placements:

• Home page: between sections of the Christian.com home page.
• Category pages: above the listings on a category page, such as churches, shop or events.
• Search results: above the results of a search on a category page.
• Event pages: beside the details of an event.
• Listing pages: beside an organization's listing.
• Partner sites: on approved partner sites, such as WaveTix.

If you add a zip code, the ad shows only to people within your radius. If you tick categories, it shows only on those categories.

Rates

You pay per 1,000 impressions (CPM), from the budget you prepaid. Clicks are free. Current rates for each placement are on /ads under Rates.

Good to know

• Drafts can be deleted with Delete draft. Paid campaigns can't be deleted.
• ads.christian.com is live. It opens /ads on www.christian.com, and links like ads.christian.com/campaigns open the matching page, so either address works.