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You rock.
Fast facts about TexasGigs
- Established 2002 as a local music site, focusing on Dallas, Fort Worth and Denton
- 2006 Dallas Observer Best Music Website
- Complete multimedia site.
- Winner of Editor and Publisher's 2006 Eppy Award for best Entertainment Site.
- More than 1,200 local bands with professionally-edited multimedia profiles
- More than 650 local venues with professionally-edited multimedia profiles
- The most complete and accurate database of local concerts -- more than 800/week.
- More than 1,500 local mp3's
- Hundreds of streaming radio stations
- Over 350 podcast episodes, including interviews, complete live concerts and videos
- Continually updated with new news stories and blog posts every day.
- Users can comment on all content
- Custom playlists
- Google Maps on all events and venues
- Email and cell phone reminders
- Yahoo!Widget
- Mobile edition for cell phones
- Expanding in June to cover happy-hours, movies, performing arts, art galleries and museums.
Captivated users want what you have to offer
- Averaging more than 7,700 unique visits per day
- More than 1.4 million pageviews/month
- Average visit: 6 minutes, 31 seconds and 6 pageviews
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Average of 23 user-posted pieces of content/day
- Average user age: 37 (range from 14-62)
- 69% male / 31% female
- 88% live in DFW area
- Go to 3+ concerts/month
- 1/3 are musicians
- 95% opt-in for email notices
Who should try to reach our users?
- Anyone with products/services for a large audience of active and engaged DFW residents
- Live music venues of all genres
- Bars and nightclubs
- Retailers
- Festivals
- Restaurants
- CD stores
- Musical instrument stores
- Performing arts organizations
- Movie theaters
Your most effective and efficient advertising solution
- Pay only for actual pageviews (instead of print publication copies that may or may not be read)
- By genre
- By day of week and even time of day!
- Display ads ($250-$5,000/month)
- Audio/video ads ($50-$5,000/month)
- Custom podcasts
- Targeted emails-- To our users, to local musicians, to local clubs
- Mobile edition
- Custom sponsorships -- Got a crazy idea? We'll probably try it!
- Complete reporting on your ads -- Know what works and what doesn't!
- Access to our complete site statistics -- Know what bands and venues are drawing a crowd
- We won't annoy our friends
- No interstitials, pop-ups, pop-unders, unrequested sounds, or ads that obscure content. Don't even ask. We mean it.
- Sell user data.
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Contact Brad Williamson.Or call 214-764-9663
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