Mini Sprout is an ad network exlcusively for Mac developers.
Ads provided by Mini Sprout

Overview

Mini Sprout positions your product in front of thousands of Mac users every single day. Advertise anything — Mac apps, widgets, templates, iPhone apps, screensavers, iWork templates, iMovie plugins, Preference Panes or icons — and everything in between. Reach groups of Mac users when they’re actively seeking new products like yours. And you can find out exactly how many people are seeing and clicking on your ad, whenever you want, instantaneously. Perhaps best of all, Mini Sprout lets you do this without sacrificing time you would normally spend developing.

Watch your ad stun an audience

You don’t have to wait to see the results. All advertisers receive a Mini Sprout account to access their metrics online in realtime. It’s the numbers of marketing, uncrunched.

For a group who thinks differently

Mac users take note when they come across a gorgeously designed product. In fact, they may be the only group of people who have that intuitive sense of whether or not a product was designed with them in mind. And we know you have that sense, too.

Mini Sprout brings that group of people to your product. Show them what you’ve created. Show them you love great performing (and great looking) products. Show them that you love the Mac as much as they do. Build a product Mac users will love, and we’ll bring them to you.

Less is more. So much more.

It’s no surprise that many of our advertising partners on the Mini Sprout network take a simple, aesthetic approach to design. And maybe that’s why people who see the Mini Sprout ads don’t consider them ads at all.

To help you grab the attention of Mac users and potential customers more effectively, Mini Sprout only serves one, 150 pixel by 100 pixel ad on any webpage at a time. Many Mini Sprout ads run “above-the-fold,” sometimes in the most premiere space on the page, to avoid forcing people to hunt and scroll in order to see your ad. Throw in a line of text as well to compliment your ad. The position and the lack of clutter are each designed to put your app where it belongs: front and center.

So much for so little

You have big dreams for your product. But what if you don’t have a budget to fit? Many of the most promising Mac developers and designers simply don’t have the resources to launch a national advertising campaign.

And that’s exactly why Mini Sprout is both efficient and affordable. A campaign with Mini Sprout places your product directly in front of thousands of Mac users who are eager to try new apps. Ads should measure 150 pixels by 100 pixels, and a text ad of 75 characters (including spaces) may run along side your advertisement. The ad itself should feature the product’s logo or icon, and animation is strictly prohibited.