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For more information, please send an email to our advertising team. Please include your contact details and, if possible, your requirements. If you have Skype, and we are online, please feel free to phone us right away.

Why choose the AV Forums to promote your AV related brand/products/services?

• Relevant audience. Visitors to the AV Forums want to know about your AV products and services. They are often enthusiasts and early adopters and usually looking to upgrade their kit. The AV Forums is possibly the best website in the UK to reach such a relevant audience.
• Large audience. The AV Forums has millions of visitors and thousands of new members every month, making us the busiest home cinema forum in Europe. With such a large volume of traffic, we can guarantee that your message will be seen by thousands of people. Our Alexa ranking (shown in the graphic at the foot of this page) reflects our global popularity.
• Targetted advertising. Choose to display your advert only to people from certain countries. Or choose a specific area or town around your business if you wish.
• Experience in making adverts work. Having run the AV Forums since 2000, we have the expertise needed to help you get the maximum return from your investment in advertising with us.
• Easily updated adverts. Simply email us your new advert (new graphic, accompanying text and target address) and our team will make those changes for you.
• Live statistics. You can monitor the impressions (views) and clicks of your adverts via independent online reports. You can also choose to have the reports emailed to you on a monthly basis.
• Premium links listing. Advertisers get a premium listing in our links database and inclusion on our advertiser’s listing page giving you more visibility on the forums.
• Company details in signature. Should you wish to participate on the AV Forums, as an advertiser, you will be able to include your company contact details in your posting signature. This is facility is only available to advertisers.
• Safe to be seen. We have a strict code of conduct enforced by an excellent team of moderators. We ensure that forum members must always treat each other with respect and must never make libellous comments about any person or organisation. The AV Forums can be considered a ‘safe’ place for retailers, distributors and manufacturers to have a high profile.

Independent campaign reporting

We use a third party organisation Adtech to serve our adverts. This means that there is no doubt that the data you receive about your advertising campaign is 100% genuine.

If you are a manufacturer, distributor or retailer of home consumer electronics products or services then the AV Forums are the ideal place for your message to reach thousands of potential customers.

For more information including hit stats and costs, please contact us .

Here are some frequently asked questions.

Q1. How can we promote our brand/products/services on the AV Forums?
Q2. So how many people will see my banner?
Q3. What kind of people will see my banner?
Q4. How much does it cost?
Q5. How do I know how well my banner is doing?
Q6. Where can I advertise?
Q7. Can we change our banner part way through our advertising period?
Q8. Can you produce banners graphics for us?

Q1. How can we promote our brand/products/services on the AV Forums?

A1. These are five most common methods:

• Advertising banners. These banners appear in various locations either 'run of site' or in specific forums.
• Forum sponsorship adverts. These have exclusive placement within specific forums and can include 'ticker' (moving) information containaing, for example, the top ten most popular products. The information in the ticker can be updated automatically from an XML feed from your site.
• We can include your message within our newletter. This will reach tens of thousands of people in one hit.
• We place adverts in our popular fortnightly podcast. Click here to listen.
• We also run competitions and can provide custom entry forms to gather information with optional mainling list opt-ins for your marketing purposes.

Please contact us for more details.

Q2. So how many people will see/hear my advert?

A2. You choose. We sell banner advertising on a cost per thousand impressions basis (an impression is a 'showing' of your advert) so you can design a campaign to match your budget. Since it is preferable to show an advert once to 100 people rather than 100 times to one person, we can limit the number of times your adverts are shown to each person. Advertising in our Podcast will reach thousands of people over time. Statistics are provided on our podcast page.

Q3. What kind of people will see my advert?

A3. We have some demographics from our 2005 survey. Average age : 36, Sex : 97% male.

We know that visitors to the AV Forums represent a complete cross section of people interested in home consumer electronics. From beginners to experts, from small to very large budgets. The majority are enthusiasts who are usually in a regular cycle of upgrading their equipment. Many are early adopters.

The table right shows the top 25 origins of our visitors. If they wish, advertisers may choose to show their adverts only to visitors from specific countries.

Q4. How much does it cost?

A4. We can work together to create a campaign to suit your budget. Contact us to discuss your requirements.

Q5. How do I know how well my banner is doing?

A5. If you wish, you can receive a regular email containing details about your campaign.

Q6. Where can I place my advertising banners?

A6. Adverts can be placed within specific forums to target people interested in specific topics relevant to your business. You can even target specific threads if you wish. There are also special locations such as the home page. Please call our advertising team to discuss the most effective campaign.

Q7. Can we change our banner part way through our advertising period?

A7. Yes, advertisers may email the details of their new adverts to us and we will change them for you. This is part of the service at no additional cost.

Q8. Can you produce banners graphics/podcast/video adverts for us?

A8. Yes, there is a modest charge for producing both banner graphics, radio-style and video adverts. We aim to make the whole process as easy as possible. Click here to listen to an advert we produced for a client which was placed in our fourth podcast. Click here to listen to our Podcast demo.

For more information, please contact us.