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 your business, viewed your photo or logo and many times read your articles and watched your video. You get pre-qualified targeted traffic resulting in a low referral bounce rate.

Stats

• eCatalina.com launched July 1, 2002.
• More than 1/2 million visitors browsed the site in 2008.
• The average time on the site is more than 6 minutes.
• eCatalina.com appears in the top results for the most popluar Catalina Island keywords on Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask and AOL.
• 2008 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.
• 2008 advertiser videos were watched more than 60,000 times.

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 without wait staff, businesses listed only in the Shopping or Community sections, not-for-profits, officiants, musicians and artists.
$80/month - Cross-channel transportation and Avalon hotels
$50/month - All Others

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. Yearly billing by invoice is also accepted.

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 .