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NATIONAL RATES
National banner ad rates for Metro Interactive/SC Metro Web sites are based on a CPM model with sites ranging from $16 to $27 per thousand page views.
Per click banners are sometimes accepted. In all cases, however, per click campaigns are subject to a $250 minimum guarantee by advertiser.
All national advertiser campaigns are commissionable to recognized agencies and must be paid on a monthly basis, within 30 days of each monthly run.
Our advertisers have included Sprint, Excite, AT&T, McGraw-Hill Home Interactive, Infoseek, Disney Online, Atlanta Bank, Lands End, Bay Insider, Cox Interactive, Mind Food Media, Planet Direct, Cyberian Outpost, and many others.
Our Web sites have been named "Best of the Net," "Top 5% of the Web," "Must See," "Best of the Year," or rated 4 or 5 star by Yahoo, Excite, Snap Online, Webcrawler, Lycos/Point, PC Computing, Net Guide, and Internet Underground.
Available sites, for individual or combination buys, include BizDay, CityCentral, Kid City, Entertainment Network News, High School Central, City Kids, Magnet Business & Funding, Kidsurfer, Teen City, Rock World, Cyber Week, SF Bay Interactive, Backstage Access, Sixties, Youth and Children Net, City Women, CWEB Campus Central, ParentDex, Get-It, City Sports, US Male, NY Central, LA Central, as well as our new Kids, Teens and College Student ad Web networks.
Our City Central, City Kids, BizDay, and City Women Web sites are also available on a regional basis.
LOCAL RATES
Several kinds of advertising/sponsorship are available on the various sections of the award-winning METRONEWS ONLINE Web site. Rates listed are weekly, monthly, and by the year to give relative cost. Banner ads are available for a minimum of 4 months at a time; classifieds for a 3-month minimum; and bold listings, links, and full Web pages are available for a 12-month minimum. Rates are gross rates, and all except classifieds and listings are commissionable to recognized agencies.
Banner ads and Web page rates are introductory and subject to a 50% increase after April 1, 1998. Sponsorship of $350.00 or less is payable in advance. Ad buys of over $350.00 may be paid 50% in advance, 50% after 30 days by arrangement.
All advertising/sponsorship net proceeds benefit Bay Area Streetcats Foundation for at-risk youth projects and the National Children's Coalition.
| ADVERTISING OPTIONS | PER YEAR | PER MONTH | PER WEEK |
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| BANNER ADS on our Home Pages, Business, or Kid's Pages |
$380.00 | $39.00 | $10.75 |
| BANNER ADS--2nd Page |
15% discount |
15% discount |
15% discount |
| BANNER ADS on our Community/Neighborhood Pages (including a FREE bold face page listing) |
$275.00 | $30.00 | $10.50 |
| BOLD LISTING only or CLASSIFIED |
$89.00 |
$12.50 |
$3.90 |
| BOLD LISTING with a logo |
$139.00 |
$20.00 |
$6.00 |
| BASIC WEB PAGE |
$150.00 | $18.00 | Not Available |
| DELUXE WEB PAGE, LISTING AND PUBLICITY |
$225.00 |
$26.00 | Not Available |
| BASIC WEB PAGE, BANNER AD and LISTING |
$390.00 | $46.00 | Not Available |
| DELUXE WEB PAGE plus BANNER plus LISTING & DELUXE PUBLICITY package |
$425.00 | $53.00 | Not Available |
| For additional information, please email us at ycn5@yahoo.com or call us at 1 510 464-4677 in California, 1 800 778-9077 outside California |