Sponsor the site for professional business news in surf, skate, and snow

Reach action sports industry execs

Shop-eat-surf.com has quickly become the go-to site for professional business news about the action sports industry.

Shop-eat-surf.com is read every business day by executives, directors, entrepreneurs, and aspiring entrepreneurs at leading and up-and-coming apparel and footwear manufacturers and retailers for surf, skate, and snow.

Shop-eat-surf.com is growing fast:
  • Our readership keeps rising: nearly 9,500 unique visitors in December, up from 7,500 in October. We recorded more than 120,000 impressions for sponsors' banners.
  • Our audience is expanding: An average of 120 new readers a month ask to be added to our free email alert, sent every business day to more than 1,650 subscribers.
  • Our readers are engaged: They spend nearly 3 minutes on site per visit.
  • Our readers are loyal: Every business day, more than 76 percent of readers are return visitors and nearly 80 percent return within three days of their previous visit.
  • Like the action sports industry, our readers are concentrated in Southern California, yet are global: 62 percent of our audience is in Southern California and we have readers in all 50 U.S. states and 85 countries.
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Our sponsors say ...

Joe Shaefer, Partner
Innovative Systems
Great exposure, great business

“We are very excited to be a part of such a great site. We have had a big flux in sales calls since our ad was posted. ...

“Wow – the growth numbers are staggering!  It is also great exposure for me.”


Rich Anderson, Managing Director, Moss Adams Capital; Frank Kaufman, Partner, Moss Adams LLP

Greatly appreciated

moss adams“Congratulations on your first year! You have identified a need for, and are delivering, a daily dose of useful news and content to the Action Sports community.  Your readers greatly appreciate your focus and the quality of your reporting. No spam. Just relevant content transmitted in a concise and efficient manner.”



Our readers say ...

Toby Bost, CEO, The La Jolla Group
Toby Bost, CEO, The La Jolla Group

Relevant news source

“As the surf industry continues to move at an ever increasing pace, having a resource that provides real-time and relevant news is crucial. Shop-eat-surf.com is that resource, and has become an informative part of my business day.”


Fernando Aguerre, co-founder, Reef
Fernando Aguerre, co-founder, Reef

Every day reading

“Tiffany’s site brings amuch needed combination of real news and insightful interviews with key players. I log in every day.”


bob mignognaBob Mignogna, M+A consultant, former ‘Surfing’ publisher
My daily routine “A ‘must read’ every day for myself and many action sports industry executives!”


duke edukasDuke Edukas, Co-owner, Surfside Sports
Number one source “Tiffany has brought a new dimension to the action sports industry. She knows, and has many influential contacts in, the surf, skate, and snow business. She has become the number one source of information in our business.”

SPONSORSHIPS

PROGRAMS TO MATCH YOUR PLAN
Our sponsorships are branding opportunities. We offer three programs: sponsorship banners, enhanced sponsorships, and sponsored links.

PROMOTE YOUR BRAND WITH A SPONSORSHIP
Keep your business name in front of our growing, influential audience every business day. Align your business, products, and services with the multi-billion, global action sports industry. Basic sponsorships include banners in a variety of sizes and placements, shown to the right. They run in the left and right margins of the home page and story pages, adjacent to the content. They are a mix of images and words that sell your brand and direct readers to your website for action.

ADD A DAILY EMAIL ALERT
Add your message to our email alert, and direct our opt-in subscribers to your website every business day. We sent an alert to more than 1,200 industry leaders every business day and we add about 100 subscribers a month.

TELL YOUR STORY
Sponsors can now write an article every month for our Business Development channel. These 250-word pieces are a perfect opportunity to reinforce your expertise, tell your story and share your business knowledge with industry leaders.


TRY A SPONSORED LINK
Our low-cost option to put your message in front of our audience. These 3-line messages run at the bottom of the home page and each story page, and let readers click to your site for more information. They include a headline, then  two lines of text, each at 35 characters.

TERMS
Twenty-six week (six-month) minimum commitment, with 13-weeks paid in advance of publication. Checks and  electronic payments accepted. We do not publish flash or animation at this time. Contact Andrew Horan for rates and a media kit.

OUR SPONSORS
We offer sponsorships to companies serving the action sports industry, but we do not accept sponsorships from brands or retailers in the sector, to avoid potential or perceived conflicts between sponsorships and stories on the site.

ABOUT US
Click here to read more about site founder and CEO Tiffany Montgomery and why she launched Shop-eat-surf.com in August 2007.

SIZES

Sponsorship Top 200
This 150p x 200p banner includes guaranteed placement at the top of the banners, in the left or right margin on the home page and story pages.
Sponsorship 600
This 150p x 600p banner runs in the second position, directly below the top-spot banner ads in the left and right margins. We also run IAB Standard 160x600 banners here.

Perfect for eye-catching imagery and a longer message.
CaboPalmtree
Sponsorship 200
This 150p x 200p banner runs below the 600p banners and rotates with other same-sized banners.
Sponsorship 150
This 150p x 150p banner runs below the 200p banners and rotates with other same-sized banners.
Sponsorship 100
This 150p x 100p banner runs below the 150p banners and rotates.