Local Advertising on KidsOutAndAbout.com
Check out our 5-minute video of all of KidsOutAndAbout's advertising options:
KidsOutAndAbout Shares Your Story to Our Audience from Debra Ross, KidsOutAndAbout.com on Vimeo.
How KidsOutAndAbout Shares Your Story With Thousands of Our Readers from Debra Ross, KidsOutAndAbout.com on Vimeo.
KidsOutAndAbout.com tells your story to a local audience of thousands of parents and grandparents. Our 5-minute video above gives a quick overview of the following options:
- Post to our calendar (free)
- Newsletter paragraphs
- E-blasts
- Articles by or about you
- Image ads
- Upgrading your listing
- Top 20 Places to Take Kids ad
- Content ad on subject search results page
Feeling overwhelmed? We get it.
At the beginning, it's hard to know what will work best for your budget, for your goals, for your industry. We understand. We've been online since 2001, helping connect businesses like yours to this audience (85% parents, 15% grandparents, 82% women), so we can provide lots of advice without (ever!) any pressure to purchase. Click the button below to connect directly with the customer care manager for your area, and be emailed our current rates for the different options that we outline in more detail below. Most of our clients purchase a discounted bundle, though, so it pays to get in touch and find out what we can do for you.
FREE: Organization listing and posting to our calendar
The easiest way to advertise on KidsOutAndAbout.com is through a free organization listing. Free listings can be simple organization listings in which you simply list your organization on our site and it appears on KidsOutAndAbout's resource lists for whichever categories you indicate in the check boxes. You can also post events, classes, and camps to our three calendars absolutely free. Click here for instructions on how to list your organization and activities on KidsOutAndAbout.com.
Newsletter paragraphs
Each Thursday morning, we send an e-newsletter to thousands of parents in each local area. Those who are providing events, products, or services to our market can have a paragraph + graphic in this newsletter (subject to editorial approval) for $100. You can order a paragraph at any time "a la carte" by clicking here to access the paragraph order form. Usually, though, paragraphs are ordered within the context of a larger visibility package.
E-blasts
E-blasts are emails exclusively about your organization or one of your upcoming activities, sent as a special message from our publisher. They consist of 5-8 paragraphs plus graphics that you supply. We work with you to make sure that the wording is just right, then schedule the email for release to our list of weekly e-newsletter readers. We only send e-blasts a few times per month to keep readers from being overwhelmed, so we schedule these pretty far in advance. Contact your customer care manager to find out about open slots.
Articles by or about you
Got something interesting, informative, and timeless to convey to our readers? Our easy web publishing platform and one-on-one interaction with our strategic content editor, plus our ability to distribute your article to a local and/or national audience, make this the perfect opportunity to tell your story to exactly the people who need to hear it. It then becomes a permanent resource that you and we can both promote far into the future. Contact your customer care manager to find out how this program works.
Image ads
Leaderboard and Top Ad space
Leaderboards are offered on a monthly basis; appear at the top of every single page of KidsOutAndAbout.com, and is 728 x 90 pixels. "Top Ad space" is 450 pixels x 150 pixels and also appears at the top of every page. Ads can be in jpg, png, or gif format, including animated gif format. Leaderboard and Top Ads are typically sold exclusively on a monthly basis, and are great for both brand awareness and to alert readers of an upcoming event. No one will miss your message! Contact your customer care manager to find out the current rates for your area.
Square Ads
Advertising on our square ads is priced at approximately $100 for every 10,000 views. You supply an ad sized 223 pixels x 223 pixels in jpg, png, or gif format--including animated gif format. Click-through rates range from approximately .05% to 2.1% depending on what the ad is promoting. Click here to find out more.
Upgrade your listing
Organizations who offer resources or events can upgrade their free listing to an enhanced listing. By upgrading your free listing to a paid listing, you will:
- Appear in the top enhanced section of any listing in which you appear within KOAA
- Enhance your organization and event listings with logo, photos, detailed descriptions, font formatting, and more -- and manage it all at the click of a mouse
- Add social networking: Direct links to your Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds
- More benefits... find out more about upgrading by clicking here
- Upgrading is only $95/month... CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED!
Subject page content ads
For subjects that are of highest interest to our readers, we have special subject highlights page ads. These special pages have great visibility on search engines, for such subjects as birthday parties, fall fun, summer camps, summer fun, winter fun, special needs, indoor play centers, apple orchards, Halloween, pediatricians, preschools, private schools, martial arts, gymnastics, and others. You don't even need a graphic designer for content ads: You supply 100 words + a graphic, we post it at the top of the page, and send you a bill. Easy-peasy. Typically, having a content ad on the appropriate subject page for your business is less than $30/month, so for some businesses this is the best place to start. Contact your customer care manager to find out if it's right for your business.
National sales and pricing
For information about sponsorship and advertising on a national level, please download the PDF attachment below.
Click here for KidsOutAndAbout.com's 2017 National Media Kit
Refund policy and terms
Refund policy:
For coupons, giveaways, and newsletter listings, there is no refund as long as the item was executed properly. If the item was not executed properly, we will make reasonable effort to compensate (i.e., reissuing of the ad even more prominently) or will offer a refund. For image ads, if at any time in the course of the ad's agreed-upon life the advertiser decides we should remove the ad, we will do so in a reasonable amount of time (1 business day) and provide pro-rated credit for the remainder of the ad's life, minus a $50 processing fee. For upgraded paid listings, there is no refund for those paying month-by-month. For those who have paid for longer periods, upon being informed of the request to "downsize" to a free listing, we will do so in a reasonable amount of time (1 business day) and provide pro-rated credit for the remainder of the time paid, minus a $50 processing fee. For upgraded listings who may have received any free time as a result of pre-payment, that free time will be deducted from the time remaining on the listing.
Terms:
For new clients' first orders and for advertising requests under $500 that are to be executed immediately, we require pre-payment by credit card or check before the advertising is executed. Clients who have an established credit history with us may be billed Net 15. Discounts are based on pre-payment of the entire invoice. Other arrangements may be made by special request. Monthly billing of annual contracts are contingent upon having a credit card on file. We reserve the right to remove current advertising related to invoices that are overdue by more than 15 days.