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Advertising on this site
We welcome and encourage advertising here. Income from advertising ensures that access to site content will always remain free.
There are two styles of advertisements.
300x300 pixels
This is the style for the body of pages. The ads will be interspersed between article summaries on the front page and the first page of categories (news, sport, community, etc). There can be up to four of these advertisements on any page and they will be displayed for a week. The image will be linked to either a larger version of the advertisement, your web page or a full-page ad or brochure as mentioned below.
Price: $150 per week with a 10% discount on the entire bill for multiple ads in one week or ads spread over multiple weeks and paid in advance.
900x120 pixels
This style of advertisement will appear at the top of the home page for the site, below the masthead and menu. There is also the option to have the ad appear on every page of the site at extra cost. Again, the image will be linked to either a larger version of the advertisement, your web page or a full-page ad or brochure as mentioned below.
As this will be the first thing that a site visitor sees it's a little more expensive. $200 per week for a single front page ad or $600 for an ad at the top of every page. Again, a 10% discount applies for multiple weeks paid in advance.
A full page advertisement can contain up to 500 words and two photos. A brochure (similar to an insert in a printed publication) can be any size and must be in PDF format. In both cases a fee of $50 per week will apply in addition to the cost of the display advertisements that link to it.
What a full page advertisement might look like.
GST does not apply to these prices until enough money comes in to justify (and legally mandate) registering for GST.
Things you need to know:
- Deadline for submitting artwork is 1pm on Tuesdays, with payment due by 5pm on Wednesday. If you have a problem with either of these then
- Each ad will have a link to either your web site, a larger and more detailed copy of your advertisement, a full-page ad or a brochure.
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Artwork should be submitted as JPG image files or in PDF format and we will
create the advertisements from the content of the larger ads.
Preferred image sizes are:
Square in-page ad - 300x300 pixels
Top of page ad - 900x120 pixels
Full size ad for linking - 1000x1400 pixels - Competing products or services will not be advertised near each other on the same page.
- Advertisements attacking or criticising competitors will not be accepted, neither will any ads for illegal products, gambling or anything which might expose Oberon Matters to legal action.
- If requested, clickable telephone numbers can be included in advertisements.
- Please
- Also, be aware of Oberon Matters' position of total neutrality.
There were plans to produce a printed newspaper reflecting the content of the web site. It was hoped that the first printed paper would come out early in 2025, and work was done on costing and other concerns.
Unfortunately, a print competitor surfaced in late 2024 offering an inferior product (three pages of Oberon news a fortnight against a proposed 8-12 pages a week for Oberon Matters) but with a significant financial advantage. As the competitor would be adding Oberon coverage to a quite large already existing circulation, someone with experience in estimating printing costs suggested that the cost for the competitor to enter the Oberon market would be about one sixth of what Oberon Matters would have to pay for printing and distribution. They will also soak up advertising revenue as apparently they can afford to pay someone to sell space. Disappointingly, the competitor has the support and backing of Oberon Council.
Plans for a print edition have been put on hold. One day, maybe.
Visitor statistics
November 7, 2024 in General News
Here is what has happened around this site over the last three months
| Month | Unique visitors | Most read page in the month |
| August | 1519 | What's happening at (to?) the Oberon RSL Club? |
| September | 1469 | Meet the candidates |
| October | 1714 | Sad and sorry Sodwalls Road |
"Unique visitors" counts IP addresses that have connected to the site at least once during the month. It doesn't include search engines, but even if it did Google and Bing (who index the site at least once a week) would only be counted as one visitor each. It is the equivalent of "Circulation" for print media.
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