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Smileonthetiles.com Advertising Spaces

All of the adverts shown below can be booked and purchased by calling us on 0845 370 0043 or email info@smileonthetiles.com

If you require something different in the way of advertising and marketting please do contact us for a chat. We are always open to new ideas.

Statistics from smileonthetiles.com

Smileonthetiles.com is the most popular independant website in the South West*. We rank 15,000 of all UK websites*. At least 90% of our traffic is UK based and the majority is localised to the South West. Our main demographic is 18-35.

We receive over 22,000 unique visitors a month - over 90% of which is UK based and the majority localised the South West.

We receive over 2.5 million page views per month - this indicated that our visitors stay and use our website - they are relevant visitors - not just passers by.

50% of our visitors stay on our site for longer than 5 minutes.

12% of our visitors stay for over 30 mins

5% of our visitors stay for over an hour.

What this means for you as an adveriser is that smileonthetiles.com is a highly effective marketing tool and offers one of the most effective internet advertising mediums available in the South West.

* Alexa April 2008

SOTT Gallery

The gallery has several "themes" that are used throughout. They all look the same but with subtle differences. Choosing to put your advert in a city theme will help to ensure a localised target audience as most of the visitors to that area will be from the specific city and surrounding areas.

The Gallery City theme is shown in the following areas:

The city page, which shows the subcategories "On the Street" and "Clubs and Pubs"

The "Clubs and Pubs" page, which shows the venue subcategories

The "On the Street" category and all albums and pictures within

All venue categories, albums and pictures within.

1. City Gallery Lower Top Banner: Cost £150 per month (includes design)

This is a 469x61px ad space. Adverts can be banner format i.e. .jpg or .gif, or text format (e.g. Google type ad). There are a maximum of 30 advert spaces available per month, which will be shown on a rotational basis of equal weighting.

2. City Gallery Left Skyscraper: Cost £200 per month (includes design)

This is a 121x601px ad space. Adverts must be in banner format i.e. .jpg or .gif. There are a maximum of 30 advert spaces available per month, which are shown on a rotational basis of equal weighting.

SOTT Gallery VENUE SPECIAL - only available to featured venues on Smileonthetiles.com

As a venue with photos featured on Smileonthetiles.com we can develop an advert space especially for your venue area.

Your special advert space will appear on all the albums and photos that are in your venue category The space will show a large advert that is specific to you and can contain multiple adverts on rotation that are all specific to you. Each advert can link through to the web location of your choice e.g. your own website.

You can currently see an example of this in the Kularoos Venue area and the Revolution Venue Area on the Plymouth Section of the site.

Cost: £200 per month (includes design)

SOTT Venue Category banner - only available to featured venues on Smileonthetiles.com

As a venue with photos featured on Smileonthetiles.com you can purchase a banner to display at the entrance to your category. This raises the visibility and awareness of your venue area. Banner is 469x61 px and will link through to the albums of photos taken at your venue.

Cost: £30 per month (static). This is now free of charge for all venues that support smileonthetiles exclusively. Includes free design.

SOTT newsletter advert inclusion

During the first week of the month we send out a monthly newsletter to our members. We are very careful to validate all the email addresses in our database and take significant measures to help ensure that our newsletter is not seen as junk or spam. We currently send the newsletter out to approximately 55,000 members validated emails (30.04.08). All of our members either live in, or have a connection to the geographical areas that we visit and are therefore extremely targetted in terms of marketing your product effectively. To maintain the integrity of the newsletter we will generally only ever send out one per month and will only accept a maximum of 5 graphic adverts and a further 5 text adverts per newsletter.

Two types of advert are now available for inclusion in the smileonthetiles newsletter.

1. Text - maximum 150 words. Links may be embedded amongst text and forward to your website or social networking area, etc. No images Cost: £75

2. Graphic and text - a graphic element of dimensions 525px width x 250px height plus max 150 words text to accompany. We recommend that the text covers the same information as the image - this is to ensure that your message reaches those that may have email settings to download images separately. Cost £150 (includes design)

SOTT card advert

Every month we take around 40,000 photos of people in Plymouth and Torquay. Each person that has their photo taken is given a small card detailing where and how to get their photos. This is OUR primary marketting strategy and we find it undeniably effective. People will take (and keep) the card in order to retrieve their photo when they get home or the next day. Unlike flyers, whilst some of our cards are disposed of on the floor we have found that the majority of our cards are kept. Because we change the design of our cards periodically we have found that some of our members have started to collect them. Periodally changing the design of our card also allows us the opportunity to offer the back of the card as an advertising space for businesses.

PLEASE NOTE: We do not accept advertisments from venues (or products/services that may present a conflict of interest) for our cards.

A print run of 5,000 cards : designed, printed and distributed: Cost £400

A print run of 10,000 cards: designed, printed and distributed: Cost £700

Updated 01.05.08