Advertising

The Medicine Hat News website offers a wide array of advertisement zones that can be used to advertise your business. These ad zones are sold by both impressions and time frames. For example, if you purchased 50,000 impressions for your ad to be served during a 2 month period, our advertisement delivery service will dish out your ad 50,000 times during those 2 months. The cost for this is based on the prominence of the advertisement zone which any Sales associate from The Medicine Hat News can help you with. The offered advertisement zones are IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) standard and are as follows:

• Leaderboard (728×90)
• Big Box (300×250)
• Sticky Leaderboard (728×90)
• Interstitial (1500×800)
• Long Leaderboard (970×90)
• Rectangle (300×100)

In addition to these IAB standard ad sizes, your advertisements can be targeted to specific pages for you to get the most advertising possible for your business. For example, if you have a local sports business, simply request your advertisement be applied to only the Local Sports section of The Medicine Hat News website. This effectively targets your advertisement specifically to visitors who have both an interest in local sports and are reading about local sports on The Medicine Hat News website. Alternatively, maybe you want to serve an ad to users viewing the website on their smartphones, The Medicine Hat News can do that!

Average traffic statistics and mobile usage for The Medicine Hat News website can be found below.

Advertisement Zones and Prominence:

View our PDF infographic for average browser resolutions and homepage ad zone placements (31mb)

Homepage

Above the fold:

• Leaderboard
• Big Box
• Interstitial
• Sticky Leaderboard

Below the fold:

• Long Leaderboard
• Rectangle
• Big Box

Pages & Categories

Above the fold:

• Leaderboard
• Big Box
• Interstitial

Below the fold:

• Rectangle

As some ads are too large to be viewed on mobile devices, the following ads are hidden on the following devices:

• Tablet: Interstitial ad is hidden.
• Smartphone: Interstitial, Leaderboard and Long Leaderboard ads are hidden.

Average Traffic Report:

The Medicine Hat News website receives a huge amount of traffic and this can translate into revenue for your business. Consider the following while taking into account the ad zones which are offered.

Average traffic report for a 30 day period (November 2013)

• 98,316 unique visitors
• 521,997 page views (unique visitors who return multiple times)

Top 5 most viewed pages & traffic

• Index page: 136,935
• Obituaries: 36,265
• Local News: 16,940
• News: 6597
• Ticked Off & Tickled Pink: 5538

Top 5 ways people find The Medicine Hat News & Traffic

• Google search: 74,921
• Direct Link: 39,805
• Facebook (Mobile) Referral: 26,742
• Facebook (Browser) Referral: 14,384
• Twitter Referral: 6372

Device Overview & Traffic

• Desktop & Laptop: 117,588
• Smartphone: 50,836
  – Apple iPhone: 33,084
  – Samsung GT-I9300 Galaxy S III: 3261
  – Samsung GT-I9300 Galaxy S IV: 1728
• Tablet: 28,174
  – Apple iPad: 24,898
  – BlackBerry PlayBook: 580