This page is usually visited at the moment when the banners are already made, the designer got the money, and here we understand that the banners are rejected by the traffic manager for one simple reason: no one read the technical requirements.

300×600 Width: 300 Height: 600 Size: < 100 Kb CPU usage: < 8%

800×200 Width: 800 Height: 200 Size: < 100 Kb CPU usage: < 8%

Banners must comply with generally accepted moral and ethical standards and not violate the laws of the Russian Federation.   In other words, banners can't contain libel, insults, violate privacy,   violate the secret of correspondence, telephone conversations, postal, telegraphic or other communications, violate copyright and related rights, infringe inventive and patent rights, incite ethnic, racial or religious hatred and abuse the state emblem of the Russian Federation or the national flag of the Russian Federation.

One of these things can become a reason of your banner's denial:

• bright and flashy, annoying animation
• lame fonts, stupid colours and pictures
• way too sexy pictures
• scripts that automatically open a website
• scripts connected to third party websites (unless the script is approved by PROMODJ)
• pictures emulating the OS menus and buttons
• anything that can annoy PROMODJ users (if our tech support gets few complaints on your banner, you will need to make a new one)
• some other things that we might not like. We will let you know as soon as we see your banner.

In the case where audio or video banner is placed, sound and video should be disabled by default and must be activated only after a certain user action.

We are civilized and highly cultured people,    so we hope that you understand that all materials must comply with generally accepted moral and ethical principles.

Some advices on your press releases:

• volume: 1500..3000 characters — by the way, our editorial board retains the right to cut and edit your text;
• laconism, grammatical correctness and nice professional style are necessary;
• please try to keep the emotional background of the text as neutral as possible: don't praise your event too much, don't critisize your competitors;
• any third party products advertisement is unacceptable;
• please don't merge few events into one, make separate announcements for them;
• first, specify the event name and describe it's concept;
• welcome a competent, short, description of the achievements of the participants of the event,           but at the same time, don't think that our users are stupid:           believe, here some one quote Wikipedia, some people have — 40 centimeters,           and one (which is really hard to believe) even had breakfast with Kant;
• the editor-in-chief turns into a ninja when detecting parts of the text typed in upper case, except of those cases, when you really can't do without it;
• don't make your text too bare, it should be interesting for different people after all;
• would be great if your text is written by a professional journalist, not by some illiterate redneck;
• finally, it would be great if the text and graphic part would look as a whole, thereby attracting the attention of the audience and creating a unique atmosphere.

For perfect promotion PROMODJ will require two artworks in JPG, PNG or GIF (not animated, of course) format:

1. 500×200 and 300×500 (no more than 100 Kb) is used in the publication and special section called «Events»;
2. 800×200 (no more than 100 Kb) looks great at the main page;

Few advices:

• when creating, follow the simple values: will you choose the azure of the sea coast or the retro-futuristic red-orange Soviet constructivism — this is only your decision, but illustrations must be pleasant;
• due to the fact that without the font and information, artwork becomes a faceless picture, choose a good font and no less a good way to use it to properly and harmoniously show information to users;
• since the size of the artworks is not that big try to leave the space for the most important information only;
• the line up, or at least the list of headliners should be published on your artwork;
• artworks with white background usually look nice, but please don't use any frames with them;
• please do not use any sponsor or partner logos in advertising materials that are made for PROMODJ. On the other hand would be really nice if you put a banner with our logo on the DJ table at your party;
• if your headliners, promo group or club are registered at PROMODJ then we would love to link up the artwork to the page;
• please, without explicit content: we have a great self-spoiling generation of underage DJs and musicians, therefore, you don't need to accelerate entropy by your actions;
• we can refuse to place immediately if we don't like something, or aftervavwhile,          if something don't like our audience, but this should not happen if you have read the requirements.

For the successful realization of the competition, we will need а two blog posts from the one who makes the competition (from the artist or from the company), in Russian and English, in which you will describe in detail the conditions of the competition.

These blog entries will be attached to the remix contest that will be placed at the special section. By the way, please take a look at the previous contests to get more impression and knowledge of what this is all about.

These are things that have to be mentioned in the contest rules:

• brief information about the artist and the company. Please keep it short and don't hype yourself up too much;
• photo of an artist or company logo or release artwork;
• contest rules that will briefly and clearly tell how the whole thing works and what kind of work do you expect from the artists;
• pay special attention to the item about the prohibition of downloading contest works for all: it will be necessary if you collect           the remixes for the release that you plan to sell;
• the original version of the track has to be uploaded to the artist/company page (we will post it as an embedded player). Sample pack will be posted as a link to RAR archive;
• precise list of prizes and their shipping;
• contest dates and precise date and time of publishing the results.

In addition to blog posts, we need a short description in Russian and English, which will be displayed in the list of the contests and the link to the uploaded on PROMODJ photo, that will be placed to the left of the short description.

Here is a nice example of the brief contest description:

Open Gate Record and "Sound Government Group" and PROMODJ presents: Richard Durand «Wide Awake».

Don`t forget to change the names to yours when you will copy this example ;)

On the day of the announcement of the results of the contest you must provide us the links on the blog post in two languages, where the winners of the contest will be indicated. Don't forget to include the links to the winners pages.

The bad news: you'll have to listen and filtered out a serious amount of weak works (the situation will be changed when we complete the Automatic Detection System for Music Geniuses, but for now      it's not ready :)

Good news: there will be some good entries for sure too and you will definately get what you want.

Prizes are determined by the concept of the contest: for example, in remix contests on strictly commercial tracks, a good option would be the same commercial prize     in the form of crisp banknotes.

At the same time, the history of PromoDJ knows the contest, with prizes in the form of touching to the depths of the soul honey jars,      handed to the winners from the same project;)

It’s also good practice to bring in theme stores as sponsors.

Apple products (iPad, MacBook, iPhone, iMac etc), DJ equipment (turntables, mixers, midi controllers) and music hardware (soundcards, monitors, headphones etc) are definately the best stimulating prizes.

Another option for the prize may be the ability to communicate or work with the great professionals: for example, someone would be happy to agree to a joint project with Moby or work in The Prodigy studio.)

Don`t scant because there is nothing worse then insulting your potential contestents with some cheap cup or t-shirt. ;)

PROMODJ supports every remix contest by giving out Premium-accounts to all the winners.

Usually PROMODJ support the contests with banners, but there can be exceptions.

Technical requirements for beauty and conceptual banner with size 300×600 for your contest— is  here.

Сreate an application for remix contest on this page, and let the belief in unknown geniuses from music does not leave you ;)

• branding — the image in  a format JPEG, PNG or GIF, not larger than 1 Mb (optimally — 300–500 Kb, if less — then it is better);
• we recommend you to use Progressive JPEG, it works better on the slower channels;
• maximum image size is 2000 x 5000 px, but usually it is 2000 x 1000;
• we recommend to fill in the invisible part (the one that goes under content part) with a background colour to save some space;
• since PROMODJ pages are usually taller then branding images please make your picture blend to a solid background colour in the lower end;
• branding image sticks to the top edge of the page and centers, so as the content part;
• please remember that 20% of the world's internet users are using small screens (1024x768) and will only see the top part of your branding, so you might want to put all the important information in there.

Download PSD and take it as a basis, it will be easier ;)

Branding must comply with generally accepted moral and ethical standards and don't violate the laws of the Russian Federation.   In other words, branding can't report slander, insults, violate privacy,   violate the secret of correspondence, telephone conversations, postal, telegraphic or other communications,   violate copyrights and related rights, violate inventive and patent rights,   incite national, racial or religious enmity,   outrage the State Emblem of the Russian Federation   or the National Flag of the Russian Federation.

These things may become a reason of your branding denial:

• way too bright, annoying colours;
• lame fonts;
• way too sexy pictures
• pictures emulating the OS menus and buttons
• anything that can annoy PROMODJ users (you will need to remake your branding if we get few complaints about it);
• some other things that we might not like. We will let you know as soon as we see your branding.

For event support branding there are few limitations:

• you can not use more then one sponsor logo;
• you can not name any websites in any branding related texts.

We recommend you to use light colours for the branding, of course you don't have to do that but would be great if your picture fits the PROMODJ colours.

• DJ RICH-ART
• Alexey Sonar
• X-Killer
• Alex Kafer