Advertising Information

Advertise Your Dog Related Business On TorontoBarks.com

TorontoBarks.com is a social networking and online community web forum for dog owners in the southern Ontario area. Torontobarks.com features monthly articles on health and training and behavior topics, a directory listing of local pet products and service providers, blog, audio podcast, message forum and more...

Our site is a unique tool allowing dog owners and pet professionals to interact with each other in an informative online community. Our site fosters repeat site visits which means your company WILL be seen by our site visitors.

Site Stats Details
Torontobarks receives over 10,000 visitors each month with an average of 50,000 page visits each month. The average site visitor views 5 or more pages of our site each month.

Advertise Today And Be Seen By Toronto Area Dog Owners
Increase your sales and brand recognition. For less than a dollar a day you can advertise your company on a web site targeted at over 250,000 dog owners in the City of Toronto and surrounding areas who are looking for your products and services.

To learn more about various advertising opportunities, click a link below:

Directory Listings

Banner Advertising

Site And Online Contest Sponsorship

Audio Podcast Sponsorship

Email Marketing

To provide our advertisers with maximum exposure we offer bundled options allowing you to get your company noticed through our site pages.

Directory Listings

Our resource directory features both a listing directory and map location directory. Both provide an equal amount of exposure on our site. Our dual listing directory provides a unique interface for our site users to locate product and service providers in their local area. In other words, we allow them to find your business in two ways - that means more exposure for your business.

Our directory listings feature:

Company Logo
Company Name & Contact Person
Complete Address
Telephone, Fax & Toll Free Contact Numbers
Email Link
Web Site Link
Expanded Text Description of Your Products and/or Services - just like having a micro-website on TorontoBarks.com
Up to 10 images in a photo gallery
An exclusive coupon or discount offer
A dynamic location map

Sample of a directory listing:
Directory Listing Example

We allow you to maintain your own listing so you can update it as often as you like.
Our resource directory includes a dedicated advertiser login facility which allows our advertisers to maintain and update their listing information any time they choose. In addition to the features outlined above, all directory listings include a company profile web page. More than just a directory listing, it's your own web portal within our site to advertise your products and services.

Click here to view an example listing

Local Dog Community Groups, Rescue organizations and Charities are listed free of charge.

Banner Advertising

Get noticed and be seen by Toronto dog owners with banner advertising on TorontoBarks.com. Each page of our site features banner ads on both the top and right side of each page. Banner ads can be provided to us as rotating JPG’s or Flash banners. We can also feature your banner in specific sections of our site.

In addition to banners on web site pages, we can also post banner advertisements on our Dog Blog, Message Forum and Monthly Email Newsletter.

To inquire about banner advertising costs, please click here to complete our advertiser application form.

Site and Online Contest Sponsorship

Get maximum exposure for your company on TorontoBarks.com. As a site sponsor your will receive:

Your banner add will be featured at the top of the home page and the top of monthly newsletters.
Your company name will also be mentioned on Audio Podcasts
2 Direct Email Marketing Advertisements sent to our list members.
Your logo will appear on all printed advertisements promoting the TorontoBarks.com site.

Site Sponsorship term is a minimum of six months.

As a contest sponsor your will receive:

Banner add at at the top of all contest related web pages
Logo and name featured in all printed advertisements and press releases on contest
Mention in an Audio Podcast
Included with all Email Blasts promoting online contests

To inquire about becoming a site and/or contest sponsor, please click here to complete our advertiser application form.

Audio Podcast Sponsorship

TorontoBarks.com’s audio podcast, The Dog Cast, is Toronto’s only audio dog podcast featuring news and dog related issues on health, training and behavior. Each episode also features interviews with some of Toronto's top dog product and service providers. Our goal is to help dog owners learn about the various products and services available for their dogs in and around the greater Toronto area.

Advertisers receive audio (spoken or recorded) advertisements on their product or service during our podcast episodes. It’s like having an audio endorsement of your product or service.

To inquire about becoming a podcast sponsor, please click here to complete our advertiser application form.

Email Marketing

E-mail marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail (email) as a means of communicating a message(s) to an audience.

Avoid the high costs of printing brochures and paying for mail postage. Email marketing is faster and cheaper and often times - more effective.

Let us feature your company information to over 1000 Toronto dog Owners.
Our site members have been pre-screened with op-in permission to receive advertisements from our site advertisers. With Email Marketing services from TorontoBarks.com we can send a dedicated advertisement or message to our registered site members who want to learn about your business.

This means your message is sent to a focused target audience. Your advertising efforts will be more effective and inexpensive with TorontoBarks.com’s Email Marketing.

To inquire about our email marketing services, please click here to complete our advertiser application form.