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RiverfrontTimes.com:

• The most comprehensive entertainment listings  
• Exclusive film reviews, articles and interviews
• Over 600,000 unique visitors per month
• Over 2.7 million page views per month
• Breaking news
• St. Louis city – lifestyle coverage 
• Photo slideshow

RiverfrontTimes.com Blogs:

• Daily RFT - News
• Gut Check - Food
• RFTMusic - Music

Riverfront Times Online Media Kit 

[Click here for digital media kit]

Online Ad Index
All display ads running in Riverfront Times print edition can be found on the riverfronttimes.com Online Ad Index each week. Initially there will be no charge for this. 

Online Display Ad W/Hotlink
Make your ad hot with a direct link to your website. Paid links will be listed at the top of each section alphabetically, followed by the rest of the ads. Click on “view ad” then click anywhere on the ad pop up to click to your website directly.

Ad Index Tower
These special towers provide quick links to your print ads and your website.

Restaurant Tower Locations: On right side of all restaurant, movies & best of pages.

Club Tower Locations: On right side of all entertainment, music and promotions pages.

Tower Sponsorshihip

Your company logo is prominently placed in the Ad Index Tower and will receive up to 100,000 weekly page views with a direct link to your website. (One sponsorship per tower type)

Sponsorshihip Fee: $50 per week. Riverfront Times promotes the Ad Index with aggressive online and print campaigns with over 5 million monthly page views and ongoing weekly print ads in Riverfront Times to ensure maximum results. 

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Weekly Editorial Newsletter

Get your message across in the weekly email versions of Riverfront Times.

The Weekly Fix

Be an exclusive sponsor of our Weekly Fix.  It's a great way to feature your event, concert, CD release, movie premiere, grand opening or happy hour specials.  The possibilities are endless!

Promotions Newsletter

For those who want to know about STL entertainment & exclusive offers from Riverfront Times.

 Dining Newsletter

As cyberspace becomes an increasingly powerful resource, Riverfronttimes.com continues to stay ahead of the trend.  Our dining newsletter can deliver your message on a weekly basis to thousands of opt-in recipients who are interested in receiving information about restaurants.

Music Newsletter

For those who want to know about the music scene including new music and upcoming shows.  St. Louisans who want to stay ahead and be informed about music look here.

 Riverfronttimes.com - The Most Comprehensive Entertainment Listings

• Exclusive Film Reviews, Articles & Interviews
• Calendar Listings
• Restaurant Guide
• Slide Shows
• Promotions & Free Stuff Giveaways
• Music Reviews
• News, Music, Food & Sports Blogs

Your web banner advertising buy will include:
• Visitors to riverfronttimes.com
• Visitors from the St. Louis DMA (Designated Market Area) to the Village Voice Media family
of web sites.

Research has shown:
• The most effective promotion for a web site is to be visible where the target audience is located.
• A web site greeting its visitors based on their location or displaying relevant offers, depending on their location, is sure to generate more clicks and garner a higher conversion rate.

Benefits of Geo-Targeting:
• Online businesses can present targeted ad content to the user based on his/her physical location.
• Allows businesses to target relevant local consumers and realize maximum return on investment.
• Plays a vital role in creating a level playing field for both small and large businesses. Small businesses with a local flavor (and smaller budgets) can achieve greater results with geo-targeted aad buys.
• No additional charges to geo-target on our sites - our only goal is to maximize return for advertisers.

TEXT ALERTS

Target your message directly to consumers via Riverfront Times Text Alerts. 

Estimated Subscriber Numbers:

 Clubs: 747

 Food: 1,202

 Film: 2,097

 Insider: 3,178 

 Music: 1,116

 Deals: 206

 Happy Hour: 742

Benefits:

 Immediate call to action

 Reaches consumers on the go

 Consumers can refer back for multiple impressions

 84% of Americans say wireless is their communication tool of choice

 Consumers have already expressed an interest in receiving your information

 A typical mobile subscriber sends/receives 357 test messages a month, compared to 204 phone calls. 

Why Utilize Riverfront Times Food Text Alerts:

 Reach the spontaneous active St. Louisans

 Align yourself with food critic Ian Froeb

 Promote upcoming events, specials, menu changes, etc.

Use Text Alerts to: 

 Drive Traffic to your event/venue/store

 Promote exclusive sales

 Offer discount cover charges

 Capture the attention of club goers while they are already out

 Advertise pre-sale offers

 Boost concert ticket sales

 Promote VIP events

To sign up for Riverfront Times Text Alerts:

 Clubs: Text the word RFTCLUB to 61721

 Food: Text the word RFTFOOD to 61721

 Film: Text the word RFTFILM to 61721

 Insider: Text the word RFTINSIDER to 61721

 Music: Text the word RFTMUSIC to 61721

OR click here to sign up online.

Message and data rates may apply. To opt out at anytime, reply STOP to 61721. For help, text HELP to 61721, call 1-877-291-1751 or email info@phaz2.com. View our privacy policy.

Riverfront Times MOBILE

The growth of these mobile sites has increased consumer use of smartphones, which expects to account for 45.5% of all mobile phone sales in 2013, up from just over 9% in 2008.

• The way users have embraced smartphones, especially the iPhone, coupled with a rise in flat-rate data plan pricing, signals that a fundamental change is underway in how consumers interact with high-end devices.
• Our mobile-friendly site has seen great growth as we continue to add new features, from 4,327 per month in March 2009 to 40,311 per month in January 2010.
• Our growth in social media, particularly Twitter, has helped with the rise inmobile pageviews, and will continue to do so.

Available Positions:
All spots are fixed positions. Pricing based per month. (Minimum 2 months)

• Top $450/month
• Bottom $250/month
• Both for $500/month

Free Happy Hours Mobile App

Riverfront Times Happy Hour powered by GoTime.com locates all the food and drink specials going on around your area. Consumers access details such as photos, specials, menus, location, amenities and even reviews. It is free to download for iPhone, Android and Blackberry. 

Advertising opportunites are available to reach customers directly from the application. These include Featured Venue premium positioning, sponsorship logos and banners.

RFT Free iPhone App

RFT Free Best of...St. Louis App!

UrbanSpoon.com is a leading online local restaurant guide that aggregates restaurant reviews from across the web, from newspapers, professional foodcritics to bloggers and diners. Available online or via its popular iPhone application, Urbanspoon provides reviews for restaurants throughout theUnited States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.

St. Louis Data:

• Unique Visitors 18,588
• Monthly Page Views 181,723
• Age 18-49 68% 
• Household Income 60K+ 63%

Why Urbanspoon? Urbanspoon presents reviews not just by users, but also pulls together the opinions of trusted local sources - reviews from newspaper critics and food bloggers - to help diners find a great place to eat.

Site Features:

• Voting system allows users to vote on restaurants and leave comments - creating their own reviews.
• Restaurant Slot Machine helps you pick a restaurantwhen you can’t decide where to eat.
• City at Night shows each of St. Louis’s 3,695 restaurants as a point on the map.
• Dinner and a Movie lets you choose a movie theater, then shows you a list of near by restaurants.
• Round Table allows you to personalize your homepage and compile a buddy list, to compare favorite places with yourfriends.
• Talk of Town tracks the hot new restaurant openings in the city.

Minimum Investment: 10,000 impressions per week (minimum 13 weeks) Combination of skyscraper & rectangle ads only.

• 13x - $11cpm
• 26x- $10cpm

CheckOutMyInk.com is a free tattoo-centric, community-driven web site that offers the world a chance to stock, share and flaunt their tattoos.

• Over 186,091 page impressions and over 93,346 visits each month from the St. Louis Direct Market Area
• Traffic sources: 60% search engines
• 21% referring sites
• 19% directon

• 4x - $15 cpm
• 8x - $13 cpm
• 13x - $11 cpm 
• 26x - $10 cpm