Advertise with Granite Citizen
Local people, reading local news, in the towns you sell in. Every price below is what you pay — no agency rate, no minimum term beyond a month, and we will tell you honestly if we think something is not worth your money.
Banner advertising
Each banner position carries 10 advertisers a month. Every time a page loads, one of the 10 is shown — so a share is worth about a tenth of that position's views. If fewer than 10 sell, the ones that did get more: we sell it as at least a tenth, never less.
Homepage and articles
$150 a month for a tenth
Or $1,500 a month to take the whole position — all 10 shares, every page load, no one else.
- • Homepage - below the lead story 970×90
- • Article - end of the story 728×90
- • Article - below related stories 728×90
- • Section front - top 970×90
Community boards
$100 a month for a tenth
Or $1,000 a month to take the whole position — all 10 shares, every page load, no one else.
- • Community boards - top 970×90
- • Inside a board - top 970×90
- • Inside a thread 728×90
- • Community boards - bottom 970×90
Scoreboard
$50 a month for a tenth
Or $500 a month to take the whole position — all 10 shares, every page load, no one else.
- • Scoreboard - top 970×90
- • Scoreboard - a game page 728×90
Whole calendar months. Buy a month partway through and it runs to the end of it. You can have one edition or every edition — across the network a share is counted separately in each, so it costs the same per edition.
You will know what you got
We count every time your banner is shown and every click it earns, and we will tell you both — alongside the total for that position, so you can see what share of it was yours. Known search-engine crawlers and our own staff are left out of those numbers, which means they are lower than a raw traffic figure and closer to being people.
Featured events
Top of the events calendar for a week, and a place in the Thursday events email — which is when people plan their weekend. Three events are featured each week, so you are one of three.
$25 a week — or $20 a week if you take 3 or more.
Put your event on the calendar first — it is free to list — then choose your weeks from the event's own page. Cancel a week before it starts and we refund it.
The business directory
Every business in the area can be in the directory at no cost. Two upgrades sit on top of a free listing.
Enhanced listing
$100.00/yr
Up to eight photos and a deal readers can use.
No limit — any business can have it.
Featured listing
$250.00/yr
Top of your category, the ring around your card, and everything in Enhanced.
Only 3 per category, first come.
Classifieds
Not open yet. For sale, help wanted, rentals, garage sales — by the week, with photos. If you want to be among the first, say so and we will come to you when it opens.
Email sponsorships
The Monday news roundup and the Thursday events email each carry one sponsor — your artwork and a short paragraph in your own words, at the top, above the stories. One per issue, so you are not sharing the space with anybody.
Monday roundup
$50/issue
The week's news, to people who asked for it.
First issue available: Monday 9 November
Thursday events
$50/issue
What is on this weekend, read on Thursday when people are deciding.
First issue available: Thursday 5 November
Everything in the email is labelled “Sponsored”, including yours. We think that is why people keep reading it. Book ahead of the morning an issue goes out, and we will tell you what the list looks like in your town.
Talk to us
One person reads this inbox and it is the person who decides, so you will get a straight answer quickly.
Granite Citizen is published by 618 Digital, Inc., PO Box 26, Edwardsville, IL 62025.