Website Advertising

Site Skin Takeovers

Go big and bold with our site skin takeovers. Be the first thing our audience sees when they visit the Book Riot site.

Display Ads

SKINAvg. ImpressionsAvg. CTRDuration
US Skin Takeover ($1,500)200,0000.20%24 Hours
Run-of-Site ($5 CPM)Customizable per quote0.20%1 month standard
Canada Skin Takeover ($500)85,0000.20%7 Days

Themed Content

Interested in a themed post but want to get genre-specific? We now offer our sponsorship placement for our genre-themed posts, all of which include a newsletter push to the corresponding genre lists. It’s truly the best of both worlds when it comes to reaching your targeted audiences.

Themed Post Newsletter List
Custom Themed Post ($700)Best of Book Riot
YA Themed Post ($850)What’s Up in YA
Mystery/Thriller Themed Post ($700)Unusual Suspects
Romance Themed Post ($550)Kissing Books
Sci-fi/Fantasy Themed Post ($700)Swords & Spaceships
Comics Themed Post ($550)The Stack
Horror Themed Post ($600)The Fright Stuff
Non-fic Themed Post ($500)True Story
LGBTQIA+ Themed Post ($600)Our Queerest Shelves
Historical Fiction Themed Post ($550)Past Tense
Children’s Lit Themed Post ($600)The Kids Are All Right
BIPOC Themed Post ($500)In Reading Color
Librarian Themed Post ($750)Check Your Shelf
*Bestseller Sponsored Post ($250)N/A
*Newsletter push not included with placement

Themed Takeovers & Video Sponsorship

If you’re looking for a high-profile product for your title, we offer day-long and week-long themed takeovers of the website. With these products, you’ll get a little bit of everything, all created around a theme created by our team of editors.

Our video products include sponsorship of a themed bookish video created by our editors, promoted on both the Book Riot Instagram and TikTok accounts.

The Featured Trailer product is an on-site sponsorship promoting book trailers.

Themed TakeoversSocial Video Sponsorship
Themed Day Takeover ($5,500)Featured Trailer ($350)
Themed Week Takeover ($7,500)Sponsored Social Video ($500)
“Best of” Sponsorship ($5,000)

Giveaways

Our on-site giveaway is a low-effort product that requires minimal creative and lives on-site for 7 days. The opt-in rate is over 50% for all of our giveaway lists. Once your giveaway concludes, our team sends you a file with the opt-in emails and the winner(s) of your giveaway. The client is responsible for prize-fulfillment.

GiveawaysEntries/Opt-in RateSubscribers
On-site Giveaway ($1,750)1,027/59%185K
Canadian On-site Giveaway ($400)322/58%8K
Kid-lit Giveaway ($500)542/59%22K
Instagram Giveaway ($600)N/AN/A
Email Acquisition Campaign – $2 per email, $5,000 (2,500 emails) is the minimum spend.