Advertise On EquityGroups.com Stock Message Boards
Get your message in front of thousands of active investors with options like:
Advertising Overview
Through EquityGroups, advertisers can directly reach the most pertinent investors in their industries every month. EquityGroups has created a unique advertising network that allows investors and companies to link together. We provide more than advertising placement and sponsorship opportunities; we also help build relationships by enabling investors to learn more about your brand through innovative marketing products.
Half-Page Ad
Sizes available: 336x800, 300x800 or 250x800
The ad’s size and premier placement on the webpage immediately attract and maintain a user’s attention. Marketers view this ad as the most effective advertising tool available.
Full-Page Overlay
A full-page ad is displayed for several seconds before the entry or on the EquityGroups homepage. This ad is typically used with other ad placements throughout the site. (Also known as a takeover ad, intromercial, webmercial or belly-wrap).
Video Ad
Pixels available: 336x280
EquityGroups can convert a company’s television ads into streaming online ads. Video ads have become more effective as television ads have become less so. A video ad can be embedded in the EquityGroups site or within a new window when a banner or button displayed on the site is clicked on by the user. There are three play features: click-to-play, auto-play or play-on-mouse-over.
Big Box
Pixels available: 336x280, 300x300 or 250x250
This ad is strategically placed on the top right corner of the homepage of EquityGroups as well as at premier ad spots throughout EquityGroups.
Skyscraper
Pixels available: 120x600
A vertical ad is presented throughout EquityGroups as well as on the homepage.
Standard Banner
Pixels available: 344x60
This ad is located on every EquityGroups page.
Rectangular Banner
Pixels available: 120x60
This smaller ad promotes brand awareness as it is placed strategically throughout several EquityGroups pages along with the EquityGroups homepage.
Micro Button
Pixels available: 88x31
This ad provides a great fixed branding opportunity. Not only is the micro button placed in the header of every EquityGroups page, but it also has unique sponsorship opportunities.
Header Text Link
Up to 34 characters in length
This link is can be placed on every EquityGroups page or solely on the EquityGroups homepage.
Embedded Text Link
Up to 55 characters in length
This link is strategically placed in desired sections of EquityGroups.
Leaderboard Ad
Pixels available: 728x90
Twice the size of a standard banner, this ad can be placed on the top of every EquityGroups page. For a more effective impact, this horizontal ad can be employed with a skyscraper ad.
Roll Over Expandable Ad
This floating ad can be either a standard banner (468x60) or skyscraper (120x600), which then expands into a larger unit when the mouse cursor is placed over it. This ad is effective as it grabs a user’s attention and then provides more detail without needing the user to click on it.
Pop-Under
Pixels available: 640x300
A pop-under ad appears in a smaller window behind the current webpage window. It can be viewed when the top window is minimized, resized, moved or closed. The pop-under ad can be uninitiated by the user, have a frequency limit and cannot appear on the EquityGroups homepage.
Transitional Ad
Pixels available: 640x480
A transitional ad materializes when a link is clicked on and before the content of the site appears. This ad can last up to 10 seconds and captures the complete attention of the user (Also known as an interstitial).
Audio Banner
EquityGroups can convert a company’s audio clips into streaming audio ads. An audio banner allows audio to stream with the online advertisement.
Site/Content Sponsorship
EquityGroups will dedicate a section of the site to your company. This section will embody the characteristics of your brand. The company logo will be placed in the EquityGroups header, as well as in exclusive ad spots.
Section Sponsorship
EquityGroups will create a new section in the navigation bar for your company. The navigation bar appears on every EquityGroups page so a user can easily access the new section. The section header will have the company’s logo. Within the section, you have control of the content integration and filling of ad units, which can support high impact Run of Site (ROS) ads, such as Skyscrapers, Banners and Big Boxes.
Web Poll
120x60 pixels or 55 character sponsor text
Located on the EquityGroups homepage, the web poll allows you to be part of the interactive component of the site. This tool is particularly powerful as it allows you to engage users and collect invaluable market information, such as product feedback and consumer purchasing behavior.
Email List
Our email list helps increase the readership of your press releases; the program distributes them to more than thousands of investors, who ask to receive information on small to mid-sized public companies. Email list disseminates only two of these emails a day to avoid having them be deleted as junk mail.
EquityGroups NewsBlasts
The NewsBlast is one of EquityGroups’ most effective products as it is emailed to all our investors. A NewsBlast is an email that exclusively features your company. The content can include anything that you feel investors should know about the company, such as financial services and products, important news, management biographies and special offers.
This product is powerful as it reaches a targeted audience, creates brand awareness and drives traffic to your website. In addition, the NewsBlast will be personalized to each EquityGroups member, who can conveniently click a link to request more information.
Limited to five per week, a NewsBlast is extremely effective. In addition, its custom HTML format allows you to:
Present your company's profile with attention-grabbing graphics
Alert investors of important news, analyst reports and services
Drive traffic to your website or EquityGroups company forum
Create a database of potential investor leads, which can be discussed in a EquityGroups forum
EGfn @ The Bell Sponsorship
EquityGroups sends daily market wrap-ups that highlight important financial news to our active investors. In these emails, up to six clients are able to feature their news in the sponsorship section.
SmallCap Executive Broadcast
EquityGroups allows you to innovatively communicate with investors through streaming audio. Each broadcast allows you to talk about your own company so that investors can learn more about your company through you. The interviews are conducted by responsible reporters who ask the questions posed by both potential investors and shareholders.
In addition, each broadcast will include a company profile, executive biography and a form to request more information. Every broadcast will be available indefinitely so that new and old investors can always listen to the interview.
SmallCap Executive Broadcast is heavily advertised on the homepage and other pages of EquityGroups.
Industry Feature Supplements
Every 8 to 12 weeks, each industry-feature supplement profiles a select number of companies in its industry. A supplement is extremely effective because it reaches investors who are specifically interested in making investments in the industry that is being covered by the supplement.
In the supplements, EquityGroups daily updates industry-specific news and exclusive editorials that talk about investments that can be made. Investors can follow these leads by reading the profiles of the currently featured companies which are written by a professional financial writer. In addition, the investors will also be able to request more information on the companies they are interested in.
Company Showcase
This program focuses on your industry group by highlighting important news and developments. Small and mid-cap sized companies featured in the Company Showcase are categorized by their industries. In addition, these companies have their own profiles that describe their specific businesses, provide their website links along with a form to request more information.
Each company in every sector will receive rotating exposure as the Featured Company, as well as on the EquityGroups homepage.
Featured Press Releases
EquityGroups can feature your news story on the homepage so any user, such as an investor who needs to log into the site or a passing visitor, will see it. A brief description of the news will be under the story headline with a link to a forum dedicated to your company. On the forum, investors can share their opinions, which will generate more interest in your company and increased traffic to your website to gain more information. Furthermore, investors can opt to receive email alerts to your company’s forum so a dialogue can be continued.
Sponsored News Article
Your advertorials will appear weekly in the “Top Stories” section of the EquityGroups homepage. As a result, your company’s logo, website link along with an advertorial caption will also appear on the EquityGroups homepage.
Category Sponsorship
EquityGroups will create an industry targeted category and feature your company Access to categories is available from every page on EquityGroups site. Featureing a company logo, link to web site, stock forum, and ticker information is also available.
Local Marketing Programs
This program enables you to reach investors who are located within a certain city or province. Our investors are the most pertinent people in their industries. They are affluent, well-educated and constantly seeking new investments. This already niche audience can be an even more focused target audience.
Our members participate in EquityGroups to find the best investments in trading; however, they also seek to make the best investments in their lifestyles through fitness, education and leisure. If you are able to help our members, EquityGroups wants to help connect you with them.
