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Put your brand where people look when something breaks.

People open Down US when something they depend on stops working, and they share it on WhatsApp, LinkedIn and X to tell others. Sponsored slots put your brand in front of that attention, clearly labelled, beside the statuses and never inside them.

Four ad types, each made for its place

Every type fits one kind of place and has its own shape, so your ad always looks right where it runs. There are four types, and each comes in three formats: an image, a video or text. Book online on the Book an ad page: it shows a live mockup of your ad as you fill it in.

Type 1

Banner

One 1600 × 200 image or video that fills the space edge to edge, or a text banner the site draws at the same shape. Runs at the very top of the homepage, above the navigation, again just before the homepage footer, and on service pages under the status and uptime figures.

Image: 1600 × 200 px, up to 500 KB. Video: 1600 × 200 px MP4, up to 15 seconds and 8 MB, with a poster still. Text: logo, headline 70, line 160 and button 24 characters. Keep words big: on a phone the banner is about 360 × 45 px.

A banner at the top of the homepage on a phone
Homepage, above the navigation
A video banner on a service page
Service page, under the status
Type 2

Category listing

Your ad takes the place of a service card in a category's list, with a small “Ad” tag. A card-shaped image or video fills the whole card; a text listing shows your logo, brand name, headline, a line of text and a button. Book every category, or only the ones your customers check.

Image: 1200 × 1000 px, up to 500 KB. Video: 1200 × 1000 px MP4, up to 15 seconds and 8 MB, with a poster still. Keep words away from the edges: the card can trim a little on some screens. Text: logo 400 × 400 px; brand 60, headline 70, text 160, button 24 characters.

A listing ad beside a network’s card inside a category
Inside a category
Type 3

Share-card strip

A strip along the bottom of the picture shown whenever someone shares a status on WhatsApp, LinkedIn or X: as text (your logo, brand name, headline and a button) or as a 1200 × 96 image. The status stays on top at full size.

Image: 1200 × 96 px, up to 200 KB. Video: a 1200 × 96 MP4 and its still; a share card is a picture, so the still shows with a play mark. Text: logo 400 × 400 px, headline (about 50 characters fit) and a button.

A share card with an ad strip along the bottom
On a shared card
Type 4

Email alerts

Your ad sits inside the alert emails people sign up for, under the list of services that went down, had problems or came back. These are people who asked to be told, so the email is opened when it matters. One ad per email, never next to a service in your own category that the email reports as down.

Image: 1200 × 400 px, up to 300 KB. Video: a 1200 × 400 MP4 and its still; email apps can't play video, so the email shows the still with a play link that opens your video on our site. Text: logo 400 × 400 px, headline 70, line 160 and button 24 characters. A view is an alert email sent with your ad: we use no tracking pixels.

Rules that protect the statuses

  • Never inside the outage box, a status, a ranking or an alert.
  • Never shown next to a service in your own category while that service is having problems. A bank ad never sits on a bank's page during its outage.
  • In a style that can't be mistaken for a status, an outage warning or a site message.
  • Booked ads carry a small “Ad” mark, and every category listing carries an “Ad” tag.
  • Served from this site: no ad network, no ad cookies, no tracking of individual visitors. You get daily totals of views and clicks.
  • Buying an ad never changes a status, a ranking, an alert or how fast we report an outage.
  • We don't accept betting, forex signals, unregistered lenders, crypto investment schemes, political ads, or anything illegal in the US.

Booking

Slots are sold by the week or the month, island-wide or for chosen states and categories, with a report of views and clicks at the end. Book online: choose your slots, dates and format, and upload your files. Each file is checked against our sizes and rules as you add it, and you'll hear from us with rates within 2 working days.

Book an ad

Your ad runs only after we approve it, on the dates you choose, and stops by itself when they end. When no booked ad is running, the slot shows our own ads.

Other ways to work with us

Verified uptime badge. Show your independently measured uptime on your site, app store page and ads. It updates itself and can't be paused during an incident.

Claimed profile. Post official incident updates on your card, clearly labelled as your words, beside our measurement.

Alerts and data. Alerts when services you depend on degrade, such as partner banks, PG&E or mobile networks, plus history for your reporting.

These are in development. Register interest through the contact form.

Advertising terms and conditions

Read the full terms

Last updated 9 October 2026

These terms apply to every sponsored slot booked on Down US (down-us.extrafemi.com), a service of Extrafemi Labs ("we", "us"). By booking, the advertiser ("you") agrees to them.

  1. Booking. A booking is confirmed when we accept it in writing and receive payment. It sets out the slots, dates, states, categories and price. If a booking and these terms differ, the booking wins for that item only.
  2. Payment. Prices are in Turkish lira (TL) and are paid in full before the start date, plus VAT where it applies. Unpaid bookings don't run.
  3. Approval of material. You supply the ad in one of the formats and sizes on this page, with any approval your sector needs. We may ask for changes, and we may refuse any ad, before or during a booking, that breaks these terms, the law or our rules on this page.
  4. Your promises. You confirm that the ad and its landing page are accurate, are not misleading, comply with US law (including the Consumer Protection Law and the Personal Data Protection Law) and any rules of your regulator, and that you own or are licensed to use everything in them. You are responsible for your landing page and what happens there.
  5. Not accepted. Betting and gambling, forex or crypto investment schemes, unlicensed lenders, political or election ads, adult content, weapons, unlicensed medicine, and anything illegal or that attacks a named person or company.
  6. Editorial independence. Ads never affect a status, a ranking, an alert or our reporting. We don't show your ad next to a service in your category while it has problems, even if your booking would otherwise allow it. You can't buy changes to how any service, including a competitor's, is shown.
  7. Delivery. We show your ad in the booked slots for the booked dates, shared with other ads booked for the same slot by weight. We don't guarantee a number of views, clicks or results. Traffic rises and falls with outages.
  8. Downtime. If the site is unavailable for more than 24 hours in total during your booking, we extend the booking by the time lost, or credit it to a future booking if extension isn't possible.
  9. Reports. Within 5 working days of the end of a booking, we send daily totals of views and clicks for your ad. These are counted as described in our privacy notice. We don't collect or share data about individual visitors.
  10. Cancellation. Cancel more than 7 days before the start date for a full refund. Cancel within 7 days of the start for a 50% refund. Once a booking has started it can't be cancelled. If we remove your ad because it breaks these terms, no refund is due. If we remove it for any other reason, we refund the unused days.
  11. Licence. You let us display, resize and crop your material for the booked slots, and show it on this page as an example of past ads, unless you ask us not to. We let you use our name and screenshots of your ad in your own reporting.
  12. Indemnity. You cover us for claims, fines and costs that arise from your ad, your landing page or your breach of these terms.
  13. Liability. Our total liability for a booking is limited to the amount you paid for it. We aren't liable for lost profits or indirect loss. Nothing here limits liability that the law doesn't allow to be limited.
  14. Events outside our control. We aren't responsible for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control, such as network, power or platform outages. The downtime clause above still applies.
  15. Changes. We may update these terms. Changes apply to bookings made after the update date.
  16. Law. These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, where Extrafemi is based, and the courts of Lagos State have jurisdiction.
  17. Contact. Questions and notices about bookings go through our contact form.

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