FPL Website Sponsorship

To help raise the funds required to continue the development and promotion of the FIX Protocol, FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) offers a set of advertising and sponsorship opportunities to the FIX community.

One such opportunity is the "FPL Site Sponsorship program", which is a FPL member only benefit that allows supporting firms to bid for a sponsorship spot on the FPL website.

On each page of the FPL website there is a designated area for site sponsors. Within this space permanent logos appear to all visitors of the FPL website towards the bottom of the left hand menu under the "FPL Services" section.

To ensure that the logos displayed within this space receive maximum exposure, the number of firms able to advertise at any one time is limited to three. Additionally, to help drive traffic back to the sponsoring firm's website these logos are hyperlinked to the firm's chosen location.

As interest in this opportunity is often greater than the number of sponsorship spots available, starting in December 2007, all FPL member firms will be given the chance to bid for one of the three spaces available for each of the four quarters for the following year on an annual basis. In this manner firms are able to incorporate FPL website sponsorship into their overall marketing plans for the coming year and maximise on the opportunity to drive additional traffic to their website at key points throughout the year.

To ensure that a fair price is bid for each of the three spots available each quarter, there is no minimum or maximum price set and all bid prices will remain confidential.

The winners of the 2008 site sponsorship opportunities will be able to display their logos for the following time periods:

Quarter 1: Monday, January 7th - Friday, April 4th 2008

Quarter 2: Monday, April 7th - Friday, July 4th 2008

Quarter 3: Monday, July 7th - Friday, October 3rd 2008

Quarter 4: Monday, October 6th 2008 - Friday, January 2nd 2009

To enable placement of the logos on the FPL website the winning bidders will need to provide the following:

1. Company logo (Pixel size: 139 wide and 30 height - This is a strict max size requirement) - Please note that the logo must be static and not include animation.
2. The URL that the winning firm would like the logo to link to

If your firm is interested in bidding for the opportunities available in 2008, please contact the FPL Program Office for more information by emailing or telephone +1 212 652 4469 / +44 (0)207 936 9334.

Please note the deadline for 2008 site sponsorship bids is Tuesday, December 18th 2007

If you would like to find out more about the commercial governance of FPL and non-membership revenues please visit www.fixprotocol.org/corpgov.