Thank you for your interest in advertising on Metro Parent Magazine’s PDX Kids Calendar!

Founded in August of 2010, Metro Parent’s PDX Kids Calendar has become the go-to resource for families looking for fun activities in Portland, Oregon. We have the most comprehensive listing of kid-friendly events in Portland/Vancouver – not to mention reviews, giveaways, and many other valuable resources for local parents and families. We also publish twice weekly newsletters and garner over a hundred thousand page views each month.

Advertising with us online, your ad will reach your target market every time. Our readers are families looking for fun and exciting opportunities to experience Portland with their children. They are parents and caregivers of children who live, play, eat and shop in their community. They are invested in “living local” and are up on everything happening around the Portland/Vancouver metro. In other words, they are an ideal audience for local businesses who wants to reach Portland families.

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CURRENT SITE STATS (as of May 2013)

Newsletter subscribers: over 10,300 (with an average open rate of 30%)
Facebook fans: over 6,400
Twitter followers: over 1,200
Monthly Page Visits: over 34,000
Unique Visitors: over 19,875 (~44%)
Monthly Page Views: over 130,000
Average time spent on site: over 2:30
Average pages visited: 3.80 pages

Here’s a snapshot of our readers (survey taken January 2012):

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RATES

Website Advertising Opportunities
Sponsored Giveaways
Sponsored Dedicated Posts
Events Calendar Inclusion
Fun and Resourceful Guides
Newsletter Advertising
Ad Design

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WEBSITE ADVERTISING

Website advertising is a great way to reach our readers – who visit the site all the time looking for things to do in Portland with their families!

The large square and rectangle ads all appear rotating in 10 spots along the right side of all pages of our site (all visible all the time). Banner appears in rotation along top, in the masthead (one visible at a time).

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SPONSORED GIVEAWAYS

As you know we are doing giveaways all the time – and our readers LOVE them! Here at PDX Kids Calendar we offer businesses wanting to donate their product or service for giveaways to our readers and get “out of the box” promotion of their product or service our “Sponsored Giveaways.” Giveaways are great because you are giving our readers an opportunity to interact with you – they get lots of information, a visual and an opportunity to visit your website and interact with you via social media!

The cost of these giveaways is a flat rate of $195.00 (on top of what’s being given away), and includes:

1. Featured post for duration of giveaway (5-6 days). Post will include details up to 2 paragraphs and a graphic (720Wx379H) – provided by you
2. Inclusion in newsletters while giveaway is active (Wednesday and Sunday)
3. Social media pushes (at our discretion)
4. Option to include liking your page on FB, following you on twitter or subscribing to your enewsletter for entry.

All of our giveaways are run the same way. We use a widget called “Rafflecopter” which gives us lots of options to get our readers to interact with your business! Generally we give entries for liking our Facebook page, following us on Twitter, subscribing to our newsletter – with the same options available to you. We also give them entries for liking the post on our page or giving out compliments (about you or us). You can see examples of our giveaways here. Giveaways run Wednesday to Monday, or Sunday to Thursday.

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SPONSORED DEDICATED POST

500-700 words of text plus images and large feature image (720Wx379H). Will be featured on landing page of site for one week then remain within the posts archive. $195 per post. Example here.

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EVENTS CALENDAR INCLUSION

Perhaps you’d like to gain some exposure for your event, sale, open house, class etc, and it falls outside of our guidelines for free inclusion (details here) on the Events Calendar. In general we are still happy to include your event. Event will be included as “Sponsored: Name of event” for a charge of $45/day for each event.

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FUN AND RESOURCEFUL GUIDES

We publish several guides throughout the year – and offer opportunities for free or low-cost inclusion.

Basic Listing = FREE
Inclusion in guide with the name of your business or event, URL link and short description (up to 50 or 100 characters depending on guide) – provided by you.

Comprehensive Listing (More robust listing of information. Flat rates noted below)

Top of Guide advertising = $80/month
Graphic to appear in rotation (one visible at a time) at top of guide (650Wx80H)

Here are the guides we publish. To be included, simply click on the Submission Form link and complete all information requested.

School Open House Guide – 2013 (comprehensive listing $35/month)
School Open House Guide Submission Form

Seasonal Fun Guides
- Easter Egg Hunts (around Easter)
- Summer Fun (April – August)
- Fourth of July (June/July)
- Fall Fun (August – November)
- Holiday Fun (end of October – December)
Seasonal Fun Guides Submission Form Here

Camps
- Spring (Jan – March) – comprehensive listing $90 flat rate
- Summer (Jan – August) – comprehensive listing $250 flat rate
- Winter (October – December) – comprehensive listing $90 flat rate
- After School/Day Camps (July – May) – comprehensive listing $250 flat rate
Camps Submission Form Here

Please note: If applicable, all listings (above the basic level) will only be posted upon full receipt of payment.

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NEWSLETTER ADVERTISING

Reach your target audience with an ad in our twice weekly newsletters.

1. “Weekly Happenings” goes out Sunday evening. Expect to see information on fun events happening during the week, some events to look forward to, and highlights of what’s been going on on the site, including giveaways and such.
2. “Weekend Updates” goes out Wednesday evening and is focused on events picks for the weekend.

Ad rates are for inclusion in one newsletter(Sunday or Wednesday)
Banner Ad along top of newsletter (360W x 75H): $95 each
Square Ad along left side of newsletter (175×175): $65 each
Featured Event Pick = $65 each (includes catchy headline, small graphic, short description, as well as pertinent details of event – when, where, who and URL link for additional information)

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AD DESIGN

Need help designing your ad? We can help! Contact us at advertising(at)pdxkidscalendar.com for details and pricing.

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Curious about what our advertisers have to say about us? Click here to read a few quotes.

We are always interested in cross promotion, trade and barter! If you are looking to promote an event, product, business or other kid-friendly organization – let us know your idea and let’s talk! Additional discounts available for Metro Parent print advertisers. Contact your rep for details.

For more information, please contact:
Westside/Outside Metro Area/National: Debbie Dille, 503-997-4044, debbie (at) metro-parent.com
Eastside/Vancouver/Washington: Ali King, 503-331-8184, ali (at) metro-parent.com

We look forward to working with you!

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THE FINE PRINT

Discounts available for Metro Parent print advertisers. Contact your rep for details.
All ad packages include periodic social media shout-outs, reasonable freedom to post to our Facebook page.
All ads are placed upon receipt of written (email is fine) commitment and payment received.
All rates are subject to change without notice.
All materials must be received 4 days prior to publication. Last minute additions will be considered, but may incur an additional fee.