eCatalina.com is a comprehensive guide to Catalina Island with extensive advertiser information available to site visitors. Before a visitor clicks through they have read about the business, seen an image and many times read advertiser's articles and watched a video. You get pre-qualified targeted traffic resulting in a lower referral bounce rate.

Stats

• eCatalina.com launched July 1, 2002.
• More than 1 million visitors browsed the site in 2007.
• eCatalina.com appears in the top results for the most popluar Catalina Island keywords on Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask and AOL.
• 2007 yearly click-through traffic averaged 18,000 for cross-channel carriers, 13,000 for hotels, 3,000 for activity businesses and 2,400 for restaurants.
• Based on existing video ad stats, cross-channel transportation and hotels may expect their videos to be watched an average of 12,000 times per year and restaurants can expect a yearly average of 3,000 views.

What You Get

• 100 words of ad copy
• Image or logo
• 2 minutes of streaming video
• Link to advertiser's website
• Packages and specials that you control
• Press releases published in the news section with links to articles from within the ad

Advertising Rates
$30/month - Dining establishments not serving alcohol, businesses listed only in the Community section, not-for-profits, musicians and artists.
$50/month - All others
Effective 9/1/08 Cross-channel transportation and hotels will increase to $80/month.

Payment Methods
Mastercard, Visa, Discover and American Express are accepted for monthly advertising payments. Credit card accounts are charged on the 1st of each month.

Required for advertising

• Signed advertising agreement.
• Image or logo that can be cropped to 150x150 pixels.
• 100 words of ad copy. Upper case, bold characters and excessive use of exclamation marks are not allowed.
• Website link URL.
• (Video is not required) - Video not exceeding 2 minutes. mov, avi, mpg, dv, dvi, ast, wmv formats accepted.

To begin advertising your business on eCatalina.com please email Lori@eCatalina.com.