2010 Advertising
Advertising with MechaCon�
Bridging the genres of Anime and Transformers with Japanese cultural exhibits, panels and presentations, MechaCon� has spent the last five years growing into an amazing anime convention experience. With a large number of our attendees choosing MechaCon� as their very first convention experience, MechaCon� offers advertisers a virtually un-tapped market of potential customers eager to partake in your wares and/or services.
Previously located in Louisiana�s �Hub City�, Lafayette, on the I-10 corridor between New Orleans, Louisiana and Houston, MechaCon� became immensely popular and outgrew its home city in just five short years. For our sixth annual MechaCon�, we are proud to declare that MechaCon has found a new home in New Orleans, Louisiana. Being a convention held in the �Crescent City�, MechaCon� is easily accessible for fans joining us from not only south, central and north Louisiana, but east Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. With confirmed attendees joining us from across the country and even from Mexico and Canada, it is easy to see why MechaCon� promises to continue to be a well-attended event from all fronts.
Our confirmed guest line-up for 2010 offers a diverse convention appearance combination, including voice actors, ADR directors and industry professionals. Guest information can be found here. Our 2010 guests are seasoned veterans in the fields of Anime, television and film work who have proven to be large fan-draws at previous Anime events.
In 2009, MechaCon� saw approximately 2,500 attendees (paying and non-paying participants included) in Lafayette. We surpassed our projected goal and, now that we are located in New Orleans, we expect to exceed 4,000 � 5,000 attendees this year due to the overwhelming positive response from our attendees, exhibitors, and our other professional guests.
Now is your chance to have your name associated with this unique event! Placing an ad in the official MechaCon� Program Book will help introduce our attendees to your store, service, business, or company. Even if you cannot attend the event, ads are a great way to show support for our local effort. Your business need not be local, although while in town many MechaCon� attendees travel to various businesses represented in the program book just to see places of interest while in New Orleans. They want to shop, eat in restaurants, and do things they can only do here in New Orleans. Local fans learn about businesses new to them in their own neighborhoods, and can become loyal repeat customers. Some become mail order customers, once they are made aware of your goods or services.
For pricing and placement information, please download our 2010 MechaCon Advertising Packet.
This form is a PDF file and you will need Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader to properly display and print it.
Make checks payable to 'Sennin Productions, LLC' (NOT MechaCon).
Please do not staple your check or money order to this form.
Please note that there is a $25 fee for all returned checks.
Please mail the completed Advertising Contract and your check or U.S. Postal money order to:
MechaCon 2010
Attn: Advertising Department
P.O. Box 60873
Lafayette, LA 70596
Program Book
MechaCon�s� program book is 5.5 X 8.5" in size with a heavy stock, 4-color cover. The interior features convention information, guest biographies, photos, illustrations, and other information about local amenities. The program book is provided at no additional charge to all attendees while quantities last. It serves as promotional and reference material to fans, gamers, hotels, vendors, merchants, authors, artists, celebrity guests, other conventions, etc., long after MechaCon�s� convention weekend ends. Your ad will circulate for some time, and will be part of a book that many will consider a collectors' item!
How to Order an Advertisement
You must email or call us to reserve a spot in the book. You will need to inform us what type of ad you are placing, what size, how you will be submitting your ad, and what payment method you plan to use. For contact information, please refer to our 2010 MechaCon Advertising Packet or e-mail us at advertising@mechacon.net.
All reservations and ad materials must be received by June 1st, 2010. If you have not reserved an ad, your placement in the Program Book will not be guaranteed. All camera-ready ads and payment must be received by June 10th, 2010. Late ads will lose their spot in the program book.
Payment can be made by Check, Money Order or Cashiers Check, written out to "Sennin Productions, LLC�. Payment may also be made to our PayPal account, paypal@mechacon.com.
Advertising Specifications
Submission Methods
� Artwork and Ads must be submitted as PDF, TIFF or JPEG formats.
Any other formats will be immediately rejected.
� Please declare your specs and submission formats when making a reservation.
� Digital files can be submitted via CD, IBM PC Formatted.
� Digital files may also be submitted via Email or FTP, contact us for details.
� For best results, ads and artwork should be rendered at 300 dpi
� Ads must be submitted at the dimensions intended to reproduce in the program book.
� Color artwork must be rendered in CMYK. We do not accept RGB color files.
� Please send a hardcopy proof of your image.
� All physical materials should be mailed to:
MechaCon 2010
Attn: Advertising Department
P.O. Box 60873
Lafayette, LA 70596
Sizes and Specifications
� Full Page Ads - The visible area is 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Please include 0.125 inches of
bleed space on all sides. Your final submitted image should be 5.75 x 8.75 inches.
� Horizontal �-page Ads - The ad area is 4.625 x 3.667 inches.
Each �-page ad will have a 1pt border.
� Vertical �-page Ads - The ad area is 2.208 x 7.5 inches.
Each �-page ad will have a 1pt border.
� �-page Ads - The visible area is 2.208 x 3.667 Inches.
Each �-page ad will have a 1pt border.
MechaCon� and/or Sennin Productions, LLC� are not responsible for typographical errors or errors in publishing. MechaCon� and/or Sennin Productions, LLC� reserves the right to refuse to publish any ad that MechaCon� and/or Sennin Productions, LLC� determines is inappropriate.
