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Site Sponsorships - no more?

Five years ago, Site Sponsorships were launched. It had its share of problems and bugs, but all in all the sponsored sites did show logo of their sponsor and all was fine. However, now out of the 12 ...
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Sponsor logo takes over a second to appear and shifts the entire page

Sponsor logo takes over a second to appear and shifts the entire page. This messes up one's clicks if the page shifts while clicking. E.g., if often messes up my click on "Ask Question". ...
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Can the "Sponsored by AWS" message be made smaller (less annoying)?

Looking at Ask Ubuntu, the "Sponsored by AWS" is... large on mobile. For reference, this is how it would look on an iPhone 12 (I'm using device emulation for the screenshots hence why I'm ...
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Can Stack Exchange please inform non ♦ moderators about site sponsorships at least a week before they start?

Let's take a look at some data regarding site sponsorship announcement date and start date. Site Announcement date Start date Time gap (approx.) Salesforce June 29, 2021 July 1, 2021 1 day Database ...
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What goes into site sponsorships on SE?

In 2018, we introduced site sponsorships as a revenue stream to generate income that would go back into Stack Exchange. Now that we’ve been doing this for a while, and in response to Community ...
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Can communities object to their sites being sponsored?

On Super User, it was announced that the site would be sponsored by Amazon Web Services beginning September 27. I can see the announcement wasn't popular (it had a score of +3/-9 at the time this was ...
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Which Stack Exchange sites have dedicated sponsors?

Some Stack Exchange sites have a 'sponsored by' logo just under the top bar: Which sites in the network are/were sponsored, by which company/organization/product and when did that start?
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What does a site sponsorship require from the sponsor?

Two sites, Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence, have or had corporate sponsors (Strangeworks and IBM, respectively). This is part of a pilot program to increase community engagement. From ...
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How long will Strangeworks sponsor the Quantum Computing site?

I read this blog post about quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com. Per Robert Cartaino♦ comment reply in this Q&A about sponsorship generally @benisuǝqbackwards Since this is being administered ...
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Site Sponsorships — Bringing Resources BACK to Stack Exchange

As our devs continue to work on features like Talent and Channels (now called Teams), I've been anxiously looking for ways to increase engagement in our current Stack Exchange sites to help assure ...
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Branded Stack Overflow Sites [duplicate]

Possible Duplicates: Introduce sub-communities (or “Portals”) to prevent fragmentation Is the Stack Exchange engine available? I've been through all the FAQs and whatnot, and can't seem to ...
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