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Our viewership soared again this past season, our 4th year in existence, as we proudly added almost 300,000 new visitors. Based on our numbers from this summer, that trend is continuing. This growth has been entirely through word of mouth - we have done no advertising of any kind. Your business can capitalize on our soaring popularity by showcasing your products and services to our very focused Long Island audience of players, parents, coaches, alumni, and fans - and at very reasonable rates!
What are my options? Our ad rates depend on the page and location of your ad. Click the page category that interests you to see rates and examples of ad placement.
PRIME PAGES See Rates and Ad Placement
Front Page -The page just about everybody goes to first! We will announce our 500,000th NEW visitor in the coming weeks!
Featured Articles - We will run a featured article approximately once a week starting in mid October. These articles appear on their own separate page, and are extremely popular. This season, we will feature articles written by famous Long Island basketballers reminiscing about basketball and life on Long island as they were growing up.
Sweet Sixteen Page - Our readership triples every Sunday when we publish the new Sweet Sixteen rankings of Long Island's best teams.
MOST POPULAR PAGES See Rates and Ad Placement
High School Page - Our second most popular page during the season.
Scoreboard - What can we say? Checked daily by most during the season, some fans check it half a dozen times a day and some even more!
Standings - Steady daily volume.
Can't Miss Games - People really get into this page. We get more mail on our choices for this page than for anything but the Sweet Sixteen Poll.
AAU Page - Neck and neck with the YOUTH PAGE as our second most popular page during the spring, summer and into the fall, its gets consistent visitors year round.
Youth Page - Neck and neck with the AAU PAGE as our second most popular page during the spring, summer and into the fall, its our fourth most popular page year round behind the Front Page, High School and Scoreboard pages and also our most consistent page year round.
ASK THE REF - Our most popular column
ASK THE COACH - A new column to be written by a D1 college coach. Will be very popular
ASK THE TRAINER - Also very popular
OTHER POPULAR PAGES CATEGORY See Rates and Ad Placement
NCAA Page - Steady during the season, readership explodes during the NCAA Tournament as readers tune in for for our unique Long Island perspective (We focus on the teams that are based on Long island, coached by Long Islanders, or have Long Islanders playing for them).
Pro Page - Follow Long Island's NBA players, the Knicks and our own Strong Island Sound.
Coaches Page - If you're a coach or parent looking for drills, plays, or pointers, you come here.
Players Page - News on high school players and articles on becoming a better player and other topics of interest to serious students of the game.
Team Pages (See below.) Team page ads are purchased for the season (Nov-Apr) . Same monthly rates apply.
SPONSORSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE (You or your companies name in the title of the award or page)
THE SWEET SIXTEEN POLL - This year, for the first time, we are making sponsorship of the weekly SWEET SIXTEEN poll available. The poll will now appear on a separate page. Cost is only $2500 for one year and an estimated 250,000 viewers!
ALL LONG ISLAND TEAM - $1000 - Huge volume the first few weeks after the announcement, and steady year round volume after that.
PLAYER OF THE YEAR - $1000 - Again, huge volume for a few weeks, then steady year round.
COACH OF THE YEAR - $500 - Big volume, but not quite like the two above. More than half though, so a good deal.
SCOREBOARD - $1000 - You want repeat visitors? This is the page!
TEAM PAGES $500 - Target specific communities. (See below)
STANDINGS - $500 - Another steady, high volume page. Everybody finds their way here - usually right after they check the scores!
SWEET 16 SCROLLING TICKER-TAPE - $1000 - These Sweet 16 scores brought to you by........... Runs non-stop 24 hours a day!
NCAA Tournament Contest - $500 - You know how popular these are!
One important thing:
After a successful test run last season, we are excited to introduce Team Pages. Any Long Island high school basketball team can have its own team page if it is sponsored or ads are purchased on it. On it you will find schedules, results, league standings, rosters, photos, news about players on the team, and community basketball news and event notices. As an advertiser, sponsoring a Team Page allows you to target the specific communities you serve or hope to serve, and not only demonstrates your commitment to those communities, but assures you that the basketball parents, coaches, players and fans from those communities know about you and know about your products and services.
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