Advertise on Oakland Local!
Oakland Local is Oakland's daily independent news & community web site. As a local, grass-roots publisher, we invite local businesses to partner with us to reach over 70,000 local people a month, many of whom believe strongly in spending their money in the community.
We offer competitive rates and quick turn arounds--with lots of help on getting good results. And if you need artwork for your ad, we can help.
Contact Nyereris Britt, Advertising and Sponsorship Manager, at nye@oaklandlocal.com for more info on ad rates, sizing, and readership information.
Join the advertising and sponsorship team at Oakland Local, the most visited community news nonprofit in the East Bay and named One to Watch for 2010 by Mashable.com, most visited tech blog on the Web.
We offer
- Banner and badge ad placements throughout the site.
- Sponsorships of specific areas of Oakland Local.
- Ads for events - weekly ad placements for local events.
- Oakland Local's got the buzz!
- NEW: Oakland Local profiled as one of the Top 50 news sites list from the Columbia Journalism Review h
- OL featured in The Future of Social Media in Journalism, Mashable, Sept. 16, 2010
- Oakland Local featured in panel on Content & Community Engagement at Block by Block Conference, Chicago, Sept. 23-24, 2010
- New: Co-founder Kwan Booth's series on The Bay Areas Toxic Tour; West Oakland, funded by Newsdesk and Spot.us; wins 2009 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Awards for Journalism.
- New: Oakland Local co-founder Susan Mernit named one of the top 25 women to watch in tech by Always On
- Oakland Local highlighted as a success story in the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, annual State of the News Media report in March 2010.
- Oakland Local recognized in Mashable's New Media Trends for 2010, Dec. 23, 2009. According to the article, “With many traditional and regional news organization’s facing cutbacks in staff and in some cases closures, local and community-based models and startups will look to fill the gap in content.”
Also: WE'RE PROUD OF OUR ground-breaking journalistic collaboration to fund coverage of the Johannes Mehserle trial in Los Angeles by Thandisizwe Chimurenga, raising more than $3,800 to create coverage edited by Oakland Local and distributed to numerous local media and community news sources, including New America Media, KALW, The Black Hour, The Bay Citizen, Mission Local, The Campanil, California Beat. Ninety-eight people donated to fund the coverage (which got more than 90,000 page views on Oakland Local along.)
Oakland Local gets you citywide attention - our distribution partners include SF Gate, The Bay Citizen, KALW and New America Media.
OAKLAND LOCAL IN THE COMMUNITY
Joyce Gordon Gallery 7 in September 2010 Festival
Lower Bottoms Playaz performances
Ella Baker Awards 2009 and 2010
Fall Phat Beets Farmer's Markets
Just Food/Ashoka Youth Ventures fundraiser
Oakland Word events
Grow your business by being part of the site that has the buzz — the news — the information — the community. We offer three types of ad opportunities:
- Ads for events - weekly ad placements for local events.
- Ad placements throughout the site.
- Sponsorships of specific areas of Oakland Local.
- Want to talk about growing your business with exposure on Oakland Local?
Get started now by contacting Nyereris Britt, Advertising and Sponsorship Manager, at nye@oaklandlocal.com. Thank you!
NOTE: OL believes in supporting local communities. We pledge to donate 5 percent of our profit to local nonprofit and community causes; we will reach out to our community to help identify and select for funding.
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