Internet advertising and promotion - technical data

Arts in Leicestershire is a good place to advertise your business

2nd February

Visits hit new high

Visitors to this web site - Artsin Leicester/shire Magazine - hit a new high in January with 22,431 people viewing it over the month of January.

The statistics show that our magazine continues to attract readers, making it an important source of news and information about the arts. Readers in January looked most at the coverage of the obsUnplugged shows, our page on dates of rock gigs and continued to get information about the Glastonbudget Festival, from the feature articles we have about this key local music event.

Our listing of shows, concerts and entertainment - on our events page - also continued to attract a high number of visitors. Our page on the Leicester Live Photographic Exhibition also attracted a large number of readers.

News, music and bands also figured in the top ten areas of the magazine that readers went to.

Editor Trevor Locke said "This is a really good result. It proves that our work is valued by the arts community, not just in our locality but across the UK.

"We hope these figures will convince businesses that our magazine is a seriously good place in which to advertise. "

2nd February

Artsin ramps up its web design service

New staff have allowed Artsin Productions Ltd. to beef up its web design offering. Back in October, Artsin Productions, the company that runs this magazine, took over the long established business called B2B Web Consultants.

Now, new staff at Artsin Productions means that our web design service is capable of taking on not only more work but also new areas that were not previously a strength.

Artsin Productions staff can now offer coding and development work of a high technical specification.

Artsin Productions also runs its own web server and can host websites.

We have special packages for bars, restaurants, clubs, gift ideas, concerts, gigs, parties ... if you need to get customers in ... talk to us first.

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We can place graphical adverts in the middle of pages

Stats about Artsin's social networking accounts

Audit of our social networking contacts made on 1st December 2011

Facebook friends = 1,945 (mainly in the Leicester/shire area)

MySpace friends = 6,953 (UK wide and some international, mainly music related)

Twitter followers = 702 people following our Tweets

A fuller list of accounts is shown on the About Us page.

Visitor numbers have been increasing steadily throughout recent months. Local readers account for around 60% and the rest come mainly from other parts of the UK.

What does this mean?

Artsin has invested a lot of time in building up its internet presence. So when we promote or advertise an act, artist, show or venue, we have access to tens of thousands of contacts, both in Leicester/shire and nationally.

These are carefully chosen contacts that are there for a reason. We do not add people randomly. Nor do people add us without reason.

Social networking allows us to shout about things that interest us and to work some magic for the artists or venues that we represent.

Find out more about Artsin Productions | Visit the Artsin Productions company web site

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We can place banner adverts on our pages.

These banners can linked to a client's web site.

We can place such banners at the top, bottom or in the middle of a page.

We can make eye catching graphical banners and link them to your web site.

If you already have standard sized banner graphic, we can place that for you on those pages that attract the right readers for your advert.

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We make the banner for you and this is included in the price. Each banner is a standard size. Full banners are 468 x 60 pixels.

These are normally linked to the advertiser's web site or they can show a telephone number for customers to call.

There is no pay per click rate. The rate is for making the banner and placing it on the page for the agreed period of time.

Vertical (skyscraper) ads

These are graphical blocks placed on the right hand side of selected pages. All pages have an advertising column on the right-hand side. Each banner is linked to the advertiser's landing page on their web site.

There is no pay per click rate.

Banner can be a maximum of 200 pixels in width and what ever height is suitable for the advert, relative to the height of the chosen page.

Simple banners are either jpgs or gifs or can be animated gigs. Flash banners can be also be supplied but there is an additional charge for creating the Flash movie artwork.

In page advertising

Graphical banners can be placed at any point on the page, including in the middle of text on feature article pages.

We can also design attention grabbing graphical images to be inserted into our listings, such as the gigs list or the events list.

We can write a feature article about your bar, restaurant, hotel or business. The feature article can have your advertising banners placed in it.

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