More About Postings to www.akimbo.ca
- having your content posted to www.akimbo.ca is smart - the site gets 4.4 million hits, 484,000 page views and 62,000 unique visitors per month; that’s a lot of traffic and potential viewers of your information
- with the introduction of RSS feeds to www.akimbo.ca, people who subscribe to them will access your information through downloads directly to their desktop and handheld, no emails involved. RSS feeds available from Akimbo include: Today's Events, Exhibtions, Call for Submissions, Jobs, Workshops, Publications and Akimblog. Akimbo rss feeds get 130,000 reads per month - that's in addition to our website hits and emails read by our 7,400 subscribers!
- your event, opening, exhibition, publication, lecture, performance, screening, launch, job posting, call for submissions, etc. gets posted to our website for the duration of the event, exhibiton or until its deadline
- your content is guaranteed at least one page dedicated to full information on your event or info
- depending on what it is, your content could be posted to multiple locations on the site
- the site reaches a broad arts audience in Canada and all over the world - our site visitors come from Canada, the U.S., Germany, the U.K., France, Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Switzerland, Poland, Spain and many more countries. 60% of our subscribers are in Toronto.
Book a Posting to www.akimbo.ca - What you do / What we do:
1. Send copy:
- Send an email with your copy to info@akimbo.ca. Please note that we do not take bookings over the phone.
- Indicate in your message that the content is for Posting Only - not for email broadcast.
- Send it at least 24 hours in advance of when you want it posted. Give us 24 hours to get it posted.
- Copy should be sent in body of email or as a word attachment. Do not send copy as pdf. Don't embed images in word documents.
- Existing client billing information: send name, address, phone, email of person to be billed
- New client billing information: you must prepay online before we will post your content. Contact us first with name, address, phone, email of person to be billed and we’ll tell you how.
- Word limit is strictly a maximum of 1,000 words
- Make sure to include in your copy:
- Name of organization/gallery
- Name of artist /event/show
- Dates/opening reception/hours
- Location/address including city
- Contact name and phone number/email address MUST be included in the copy to be posted.
2. Send Image:
- 2 images (including your logo) may be included and each must be 72 ppi jpgs no larger than 80Kb sized to approximately 5"x6".
- Please email it to us as an attachment, not embedded.
- Postings do not include sponsor logos.
3. Proof:
- We will send you a link to your page on the site for your approval.
Billing and Payment:
- Include your billing name, address, phone, fax and email in your correspondence with us.
- New clients must prepay online through PayPal or Interac Email Money Transfer. Contact us by email at akimbo@ca.inter.net and we'll tell you how.
- Invoices are emailed to existing clients within 1-3 weeks of booking. Payment due upon receipt by cheque or online through PayPal or Interac Email Money Transfer. We do not take credit card information over the phone.
- Multiple bookings are billed upfront.
Rates:
For current rates, please email us at info@akimbo.ca and we'll email you the rate-sheet.