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iirc I once also saw advertisements inside the floating user banner footer once.

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 Wikia offers free {{tag|MediaWiki}} hosting for a community to build a wiki-based website, in return for the display of ads.  Some users complain that they have little say over the placement or content of advertisements their website displays.
-Logged-in users don't have to see the advertisements unless they choose to.  Users may set their preferences to see advertisements on Wikia in order to see how a page looks to logged-out users.  A prominent advertisement is placed at the top right hand side of most pages, but when there is also a picture on the top right hand side of a page the layout for users who see the advertisement can be poor especially on short pages.  Logged in users may not realize this when they add pictures.
+Logged-in users don't have to see the advertisements unless they choose to.  Users may set their preferences to see advertisements on Wikia in order to see how a page looks to logged-out users. A prominent advertisement is placed at the top right hand side of most pages, but when there is also a picture on the top right hand side of a page the layout for users who see the advertisement can be poor especially on short pages.  Logged in users may not realize this when they add pictures.
+Wikia ''currently'' uses the following types of ads on pages:
+* A banner at at the top of the page.
+* A large square ad in the sidebar which may often be a video advertisement.
+* On large pages a tall skyscraper ad is placed inside the end of the sidebar.
+* On large pages two large (or 3 slightly smaller) square ads at the end of the page before the footer.
+* On various content pages Wikia also sells "Sponsored links" which are a section of links that look like an "External links" page content section but are placed below the category bar.
+* ''Occasionally Wikia may make use of take-over ads which replace the background image.''
+* ''They rarely show up but Wikia has tried placing [[Wikipedia:In-text advertising|in-text advertising]] in page content occasionally.''
 Wikia is worth an estimated $8.11 Million USD to the advertisers with a daily page view of 3703703, since all three have exactly the same figures it must be for the whole of Wikia.