Advertising and Sponsorship

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femaleSOCCER - one of the UK's fastest growing markets - is more than a sport, it's a lifestyle and here at femaleSOCCER we aim to promote well-being and a healthy, active life. We believe that we've been instrumental in changing the perception of women's football to make it an attractive, glamorous offering accessible to all ages.

We've designed our services to cater for advertisers of any type and size of business. Here are some key facts:

registered users

3.2 million hits per month and growing

Thousands of daily visitors

Thousands of e-mail subscribers

Thousands of team web pages and sites

Custom advertising packages

Design / development service included

Multiple sites available

Proven results

femaleSOCCER is more than a website. Our range of services include:

Editorial content

FREE team websites

Events and tournaments

Sponsorhip opportunities

Lifestyle

Competitions

femaleSOCCER.net was launched 3 years ago. Nowhere on the Internet can you find as much information about girls and women's football.

More information is provided below, however, if you'd prefer, simply contact us to discuss your requirements.

femaleSOCCER

femaleLIFESTYLE

Our Audience

Girls and women's football is the fastest growing sport and the most popular female participation sport in the UK.

femaleSOCCER is a trusted, professional, glamorous lifestyle brand run by Web Briefcase Ltd - a Halifax, UK company providing a wide range of services for girls and women's soccer teams, players and supporters.

The femaleSOCCER.net web site provides the most comprehensive coverage of the girls and women's football game worldwide, is updated daily and is visited by a large audience (thousands of girls and women's soccer enthusiasts daily), approximately 25% of whom are male, and 75% female.

	There are at least 131,000 girls and women players in England.
	There are more than 9,600 girls and women's football teams in England.

Although we quote England figures - our visitors include English speaking football enthusiasts from around the World. Clearly, there's massive market potential.

Independant

Trusted

Professional

Glamorous

Lifestyle brand

Comprehensive

Worldwide

Daily

Large audience

110,000+ players

7,500 teams

Massive potential

Editorial Coverage

femaleSOCCER.net provides coverage of girls and women's football at all levels including:

UK-wide - not just the national women's premier league;
World football including FIFA World Cup and the Olympics;

People looking for information about girls and women's football will usually encounter the femaleSOCCER.net web site - since our website is well liked by most major search engines. Furthermore, when you place an advert with us, anyone who searches for the advertised product can encounter your site through ours.

Sponsorship

Have you considered sponsorship?

Sponsor a section

If your company is in a particularly field - e.g. vitamins - you can sponsor a section for that field. Your landscape banner will be placed at the top of the page, and a description of your products and services, along with general information about your field (e.g. a list of the vitamins and their properties).

Sponsor a team web page / site

Do you already sponsor a team? Why not add your banner and a advertorial panel to the bottom of the team's page on femaleSOCCER.net?
For further information or a quote, please contact us: e-mail support@femalesoccer.net.

e-Mail Campaigns

We have thousands of registered e-mail addresses in our database and issue an e-mail newsletter every 2 weeks. Space in the newsletter is very popular, and booked by advertisers in advance.

In accordance with our Registration procedure Terms and Conditions we won't sell e-mail addresses from our database on to third parties, however we can run a campaign to collect contacts for you, perhaps with a competition or giveaway.

Advertising options

Our advertising campaigns will include one or more of the features listed below. However, don't be co:

Advertorial - advertising editorial feature
Affiliates
Animation
Banners / buttons - see: Images
Competition / giveaway
Custom feature
Design services
Editorial feature - see: Advertorial
e-Newsletter entry
Features page - see: Advertorial
Hyperlink (text or banner)
Interstitial
Link exchange
News article - see: Advertorial
Page sponsor
Pop-over
Pop-up
Skyscrapers
Sound
Supplier Zone entry
Surveys
Voting panel

Have we missed something? Contact us.

Advertorial

What is an Advertorial?

An advertorial, is an advertising news article. It introduces our visitors to your products and / or services and can include:

A description of your offering including its features and benefits. This description can be supplied as a Word document, PDF, or better still: HTML text to ensure the formatting appears as you like it. No stylesheet please.
A thumbnail image for the preview.
Up to 5 additional photos, each up to 700 pixels width and 700 pixels height. If you don't have suitable images, you may find some on Pixabay.
Links to: your website, e-mail address, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more
Other calls to action, e.g. a survey, form, buttons, etc. Our in-house development team can provide bespoke and custom solutions for excellent visitor engagement.

Where are advertorials shown and for how long?

Advertorials are shown in the following places upon request:

Where	How long / how often?
femaleSOCCER.net Home Page	Advertorials appear for a minimum of 3 days. They will then be automatically shifted down and off the page as new advertorials are added, so they may appear for long than 3 days. An advertorial can be pinned to the page (by femaleSOCCER) for a pre-defined duration, e.g. a week, month, etc.
	We will issue at least one tweet mentioning the advertorial via @femaleSOCCER. You can request additional Tweets (for a nomimal fee) at any time.
	We will share the advertorial on the femaleSOCCER facebook page at least once. You can request additional shares (for a nominal fee) at any time.

Campaigns can also be tailored for advertorials to appear on femaleLIFESTYLE, our sister site.

Search Engine Friendly

Search engines crawl the femaleSOCCER.net daily, because it changes daily. Adding your advertorial to femaleSOCCER.net results in your product / service being added to the search engine quickly. People searching for your product / service will see the advertorial, often on the first page of search results.

Affiliates

We will present adverts from a select few affiliate platforms at our discretion - primarily Amazon and those presented on Affiliate Window. It is very unlikely we would consider other affiliate schemes unless they are of a similar scale (to Amazon and Affiliate Window). If you operate such a scheme, please consider instead the other alternative advertising options presented on this page.

Animation

To greatly improve on your chances of visitors noticing, then clicking on your banner, we strongly recommend that you use an animated GIF. If you don't have such an image available, please consider using our image manipulation service. We can create an animated GIF from images you supply.

Images

Images including banners / buttons and photos

In general, our sites are split up into zones, each zone with a specific purpose.

Banners for Supplier Zone and page sponsorship particularly, must be 120 pixels width to fit the advertising strip on the right of the page.

When you discuss options with our commercial staff, we use the following terms and standard sizes:

We can feature .jpg or .gif format

Advertising Image Sizes

Page sponsors, Supplier Zone

Width: 120 pixels

Single height: 60 pixels, Double height: 61-120 pixels, Long / skyscraper: >120 pixels

Advertorial

For wraparound text - Width: <=150 pixels, Height: <=200 pixels

To wrapround text - Width >151 pixels

Header zones and header banners

Location

The Header Zone is found at the very top of the page to the right of the site / page logo. It's reserved for page and site sponsors and run-of-site header banners. Header banners can also appear at the bottom or even (but rarely) the middle of the page.

Dimensions

It's usually the largest image on the page and is therefore, particularly when animated - the most eye-catching.

Standard: 480x60 pixels
Maximum: 480x100 pixels

Who are they for?

Header banners will often be featured in a page / site sponsorship package. They're suited to people looking for high click-through rates, but are also great for pure brand promotion.

Side Banner

Side banner

A side banner appears on the left (under the menu) or the right of any page on the site. It must be 120 pixels width, but can be almost any height (standard is 60 pixels). It can be animated to attract attention.

Side banner

Advertising Image Sizes

Page sponsors, Supplier Zone

Width: 120 pixels

Single height: 60 pixels, Double height: 61-120 pixels, Long / skyscraper: >120 pixels

Advertorial

For wraparound text - Width: <=150 pixels, Height: <=200 pixels

To wrapround text - Width >151 pixels

Side Banner

Side banner

Shop Entry

Don't have e-commerce on your website? Use the femaleSOCCER Shop.

The femaleSOCCER website has been integrated with the secure WorldPay on-line payment solution for accepting card payments over the Internet. We have a custom e-commerce engine designed to be very flexible with requirements. We can add your products and services into the femaleSOCCER Shop and sell them for you - accepting payment, then forwarding cleared payments onto you.

You can for example offer your club / team memorabilia, replica kit, training materials, season tickets, etc.

Survey / competition / giveaway

We will only run surveys, competitions and giveaways as part of an advertising package.

Giveaways

Giveaways are a great way of collecting names and contact details for your future marketing activities. The product / service you're giving away needn't be particularly expensive. Bio-Synergy recently gave away Bio-Synergy Sports Water bottles - which proved to be very popular and resulted in them collecting hundreds of contacts for their address book within a week. You could also consider giving away a discount that's exclusive to our visitors.

Surveys and Competitions

If you're considering releasing a product or service and don't have the time or resource to undertake market research - why not use our websites? As an incentive, offer the people who participate free entry into a prize draw competition. We can quickly put together voting panels, web forms and place them in an advertorial to appear in the features section of a site and issued out with the e-newsletter.

Voting Panel

Our customisable voting panel can be tailored to suit you needs, allowing you to ask our audience almost any question in any format. We can then collect and collate results for you to include in your marketing analysis. The results can be public or private to suit you.

We can link the voting form to data collection (e.g. contact details) forms, features, competitions and special offers to encourage visitor participation.

The voting form can be placed anywhere on our sites, including run of site and run of group (all sites) for maximum coverage.

Vote

Q: Is it important to wear kit designed specifically for the female form?

Yes

Development services

We have advanced in-house web development service, and can put together any feature you may require, including web forms, e-commerce solutions, surveys, etc. Simply tell us what you need and we'll provide you with a quote. If the development work is minimal, we'll even do it for free.

Our web sites are hosted on dedicated servers using industry standard web applications and programming languages, including an SQL database.

Design Services

Some of our advertising clients don't have dedicated design resources available, or find it a pain or too costly to use a design agency to produce something quickly for a short campaign. Perhaps you'd like to use an animated banner but only have static banner available. We are able to put together any web-based solution including simple image manipulation. Simply discuss your requirements with our Commercial Team.

Exclusivity

We have 2 types of exclusivity available:

Advertiser exclusivity - yours is the only advert on the page
Space exclusivity - yours is the only advert in a particular space

If you haven't discussed space exclusivity, we reserve the right to sell the adverising space used by your banner to other clients and to present multiple banners in that space either on a random basis, or rotating content basis. A prime example of non-exclusisivity is with a Supplier Zone entry. Your banner will appear randomly in the Supplier Zone throughout our websites - but only a certain number of banners will appear in the Zone.

Terms and Conditions

Payment and credit

When you have accepted our quotation, we will request a purchase order number / order reference, and we'll issue a pro-forma invoice. The pro-forma invoice must be paid in full before any work will start. No credit terms will be offered.

Booking

Your booking starts from the date that you accept your order, or from a date agreed with our Commercial Staff. It is your responsibility to provide any content, artwork and payment in a prompt fashion.

Cancellations and Refunds

You have a right to cancel your booking within 14 days of your order being placed. To cancel your booking you must write to: support@femalesoccer.net.

A refund will only be offered for cancellations made within 14 days of the order being placed.

If we have undertaken any agreed work upon booking cancellation, we reserve the right to charge you at our standard rate for that work.

Changes to these Terms and Conditions

We reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions without prior notice, however, the Terms and Conditions in force at the time of you placing your order will remain in force for the duration of that contract.