SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL WINE COMPETITION
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HOW TO ADVERTISE ON THE SIWC WEBSITE

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1. PLACEMENT & ACCEPTABILITY
   The product or service you wish to advertise must be relevant to our website's audience and acceptable to Competition Management. If so, it will appear, randomly, at the top of most pages of our website.
    
2. TRAFFIC VOLUME
   For the past twelve months, our website has averaged over 40,000 wine/food interested log-on visitors per month, and more than 500,000 visitors for the year. Visitor numbers are rising.
    
3. APPEARANCE FREQUENCY
   There will be a banner change every 12 seconds whilst a site visitor remains on any particular page. The banners will be drawn randomly from the banner database. To ensure you of regular exposure, only 30 banners will be accepted for appearance on our website at any given time.
    
4. STYLE
   Your banner will normally be created as a teaser with the invitation to click on it to link the visitor to more comprehensive information about the advertiser. Very commonly, the link will take the visitor to the advertiser's own website.
    
5. TECHNICAL
   
   • Banner must be created in GIF format.
   • Size - a maximum width and height of 468 pixels x 60 pixels, limited to not more than 40 KB.
   • Time - a maximum duration of 12 seconds
   • Panels - a maximum of three panels, each panel timed for equal exposure during the Banner’s 12 second exposure.
   • Changes - Creative may be changed every three months, as above, without additional charge.
      
6. BANNER ADVERTISING FEES
   3 Months $120.00. 6 Months $180.00. 12 Months $240.00 equivalent to $20.00 per month. (All include 10% GST). A Tax Invoice will be issued upon Banner's style and content being accepted for publication, payable before launch.
    
7. FIRST STEP
   Your first step will be to phone or email as above to check [a] if the product or service you wish to advertise is likely to be acceptable and [b] that there is space available. If so, your advertising banner can then be created either by your own marketing/advertising people, or by the Competition's Graphics Designer. Phone or email Competition as above to discuss your requirements.
    

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