If your consumers are tech savvy, independent thinkers who enjoy traveling, HipsterTravelGuide.com is the right site to reach them. Our readers see the world as their playground and aren’t afraid to open up their wallets when the right product comes their way or the right trip presents itself.

Through savvy marketing, social networking and unique daily content, HipsterTravelGuide.com has shown growth every month – in every metric – since its inception in July 2009. Now is the best time to join  HipsterTravelGuide.com as a sponsor and be part of the site’s growing reach.

Traffic: (updated 5/03/2010)

Social media

Twitter: 1,500 followers

Facebook: 290 friends – reaching another 15,000 people directly

In May*

Number of visitors: 18,061

Page views: 524,835

Website hits: 823,116

We have used an organic approach to growing our numbers. This idea is to not worry about tricking spiders or doing anything else other than creating good content that people want to come back and read.

Growing:

We are only 10 months old and have demonstrated growth every month since the site was established. The same is true for next month. We have an aggressive marketing plan that relies on daily original content, word of mouth referrals and plans that we’re happy to discuss with you (once you sign a nondisclosure form). We also have additional marketing plans in place to help our continued growth online and through other media outlets.

Advertising packages

While most online sites offer you 125 x 125 ads, we offer 160 x 160 ads for the same price – already you’re getting more digital real estate for your money. (It’s mostly because our column widths are more and we want all ads to still provide a clean look to the site. We can also work with 125 x 125 ads if needed.)

Types of ads

468 x 60 Banner Ad: High visibility and effective way to reach readers.

468 x 60 Rotating Banner Ad: One of six rotating ads through the banner. Ad appears for 10 seconds and then rotates to the next ad. Changing ads help draw readers attention and a programmable system ensures your ad is always in the mix.

160 x 160 Top Ad space (if available)

160 x 160 Ads – Above or below the fold.

160 x 600 Ads – Cannot start at the top but provide more space and great for dramatic effect.

500 x 60 End of story strip ad.

Category placement: Will include ads in specific categories, every time a story runs for a total of 10 stories.

Ad sizes range from 150 x 150 to 300 x 300

Exclusivity: We offer sponsors a chance to be an exclusive sponsor for one month for your particular type of business – exclusive categories include but not limited to: Exclusive Airline, Exclusive Travel Gear Supplier, Exclusive Resort, Exclusive Travel Website and Exclusive Hotel.

All ads will include the exclusive recognition provided by HipsterTravelGuide.com.

Please note, exclusivity packages do not have any bearing on editorial direction – which is selected solely at the staff’s discretion.

Pricing

Please contact us at Scott@hipstertravelguide.com for a complete pricing guide. All pricing is determined for the upcoming month on the 22nd, based on monthly projections of readership.

Additionally, we currently charge set rates based on CPM or unique visits. We do not sell click through ads, mostly because those ads suck.

What you get for your money

• One-on-one service and immediate responses to any queries.
• Only travel related content by award-winning journalists.
• An audience eager to spend money on trips and travel related products.
• Daily updates to the website, creating more opportunities to draw more readers.
• A second month at the same price. Even though our readership is growing every month, we allow sponsors a chance to lock in the previous month’s rates if sponsorship is uninterrupted. (Though a three month package would be much more cost effective.)
• A 15 percent discount for three-month advertising contracts. See, we told you.

To find out more about our pricing or other deals on a sponsorship, please contact the site’s publisher, Scott Burgess, at Scott@hipstertravelguide.com.

You can also reach him via snail mail at:

Hipster Travel Guide LLC

29854 Adams Drive

Gibraltar, Mich.

48173

To pay for advertising

We have created a PayPal account to assist you in quickly play for and having your ad appear on HipsterTravelGuide.com. These are monthly rates and the quantity in the PayPal form represents the number of months you’d like the ad for. Other prices are negotiable only with written authorization from a representative of Hipster Travel Guide LLC.

*Stats measured by Awstats. 

We reserve the right to reject any ad for no other reason than you’re being a douche or we’re offended by your ad or we think your ad inappropriate for our site. But it’s got to be pretty bad for our site, have you read some of the stuff we’ve printed?