Dear Marketing Team,

Mix The Groove (www.mixthegroove.co.uk), a successful feature rich house music website, are looking for advertising partners.

We are already affiliated with over 40 companies include Apple GB, iTunes, Dolphin Music, Butlins, Vista Print, Real Networks, O2, T-Mobile, 3G, Reebok to name a few.

Mix The Groove is proving to be a great marketing resource if you have a product, service, or event that appeals to the dance music industry or its consumers. 

To wet your appetite I have listed at the foot of this page a few of our publication statistics, such as readers age, gender, and location.  Check out the statistics below to see if you agree we share the same target audience. 

In addition we can also collect data on areas such buying trends and product popularity for our sponsors. As an example, we have recently surveyed our customers to help identify popular mobile phone networks and consumers alcoholic drink brand preferences.

I have included a case study below on one of our recent clients, Butlins Holidays, based in the UK. Butlins are hosting an event in October 2007 to accommodate 4,000 clubbers and a weekend of dance music.  Please see below for how we have worked with Butlins to market their 'United Kingdom of Dance 2007' weekender.

If you have any additional questions or would like to become an advertising partner, then please email me at admin@mixthegroove.co.uk.

Best wishes,

Darren Campbell

Mix The Groove House Music Network

Visit our Website / Radio Station

www.mixthegroove.co.uk

 

Client Case Study: Butlins "United Kingdom of Dance 2007"

We have recently worked with Butlins Holidays in the UK to offer a sponsored competition, e-marketing campaign and editorial to our visitors.  This has provided Butlins with a great way of reaching their target audience and marketing their United Kingdom of Dance 2007 Weekender, a weekend long non-stop dance party, held in Bognor Regis October 12-14 2007. 

As well as a free competition for our readers to win 4 all inclusive tickets (worth £99 each), banner advertisements were placed in our publication, and e-mail marketing campaigns sent to our readers. Visitors also had the option to buy tickets directly for the event from Butlins, within our featured editorial, competition entry pages, emails etc, by following the appropriate links. 

Effectively this means that every visitor that read the email or visited the website were only 1 click away from buying a ticket. 

To put this in perspective, we are on track to achieve 1.8 million pages read this month, and that's before we include our subscriber newsletters readership. 

These are just some of the reasons why Butlins chose Mix The Groove as one of only three online resources to market this event.  Affordable. Targeted. Advertising.  

 

Website Performance Statistics

www.mixthegroove.co.uk

 

Targeted Readership for September 07:

 

1.8 Million

So what is Mix The Groove?

Mix The Groove (www.mixthegroove.co.uk), a successful feature rich house music website, radio station and TV channel.

We were first published in 2004 by founder Darren Campbell.  Mix The Groove is a community orientated publication that offers interactive features such as Chat Rooms, Radio Broadcasts, Interviews, Events, Music Downloads and Competitions to the end user when they visit! Month on month we are smashing our own records for readership and popularity.  On our 24/7 radio broadcast, we host shows by over 35 dj's from around the world including 2 past Grammy Nominee's! See our roster www.mixthegroove.co.uk/home/schedule.html for more information on our radio dj line up! 

Our Mix The Groove radio broadcast is very unique; We synchronize selected time zones so that the radio shows are broadcast at the correct time around the world and that in our opinion creates our own 'niche'.  Ok let me explain a little more........ If we have a dj in London (GMT) broadcasting his show at 9pm, this would usually mean listeners in New York City (EST) would need to tune in at 4pm their time.  Not the best way to work is it?  Who wants to listen to a pumpin' dance dj set at 4pm, whilst still at work? Not many. Yet this is the way many of the biggest commercial radio stations around the world broadcast, effectively isolating listeners simply because they are not listening from within the same time zone.  This is where Mix The Groove is different; We have synchronized our radio schedule for the most popular time zones / locations of our listeners, based on the Global Readership statistics detailed above meaning you listen to the show at correctly listed time....

Now that's what we call cool........

Ok, so what else do we do?...

We could spend all day explaining everything! We appreciate though, you are probably very busy so here is an overview of the best features of Mix The Groove;

# Radio Broadcast 24/7 (also offering commercial advertising opportunities and show sponsorship)

# On-Demand Music TV - The only TV channel solely dedicated to underground dance music.

# Chat Room - A place to come listen to listen to our dj's and meet like minded people from around the world!

# Music Downloads (both free promotional downloads and purchased downloads)

# Merchandising & Retailing for cool, independent dance music record labels

# Studio Tips, Tricks and Editorial from some serious big industry record producers

# Reader Competitions - Free to enter and great chances to win BIG prizes! Very Popular.......

# DJ Mailing Services - DJ's sign up and are then kept upto date with the latest music mp3 downloads

# Retail DJ & Studio Equipment - We offer a growing inventory of DJ equipment & studio gear as partners with Dolphin Music

# Since 2004 we have held dance events (clubs, bars, festivals) & music showcases (retail stores, shopping malls etc)

# We run our own independent record label Sounds of Subway Recordings and are supported by some of the biggest dj's!

 
That really is just the tip of the iceberg - We're on tour of the West Coast, US, December 13th - 24th 2007, and hosting 3 massive Mix The Groove parties......... plus much more...... contact Darren Campbell at admin@mixthegroove.co.uk to see how we can help market your products and services to our audiences. 

How can i advertise my product or service?

Ok there are a few ways that we can help market your products or services.  Firstly, check our website statistics above.  Do we share the same target audience?  Age? Gender? Locations?  If you answer yes to these questions its worth advertising.  As our network is built to support a community, 'our scene', we offer very affordable advertising packages. 
 
The most popular (used by both small independent record labels and events, as well as our corporate partners) is our Ad Space.  Mix The Groove Ad Space (www.mixthegroove.co.uk/home/partners) allows you to sign up and register for a partners account, choose and pay for your advertising package (based on banner size and number of views by our readers) and then monitor real time the success of your advertising campaign.  You can see how many people have viewed your advertisements, how many people have clicked through to visit your website, what days this has happened on and so forth.
 
Mix The Groove Ad Space is just one way we offer to reach your audience.  We listen to your business needs and your purpose for marketing and then build a bespoke campaign (such as in our Butlins case study above) to work within your budget.  This may include email campaigns, website banner advertisements, competitions, event sponsorship, radio show sponsorship, plus much more.  The list of possibilities is endless. Email us today to discuss your needs and the type of marketing campaign you desire. 

How much does it cost to advertise? 

 

Mix The Groove offers industry leading advertising rates.  Not only will you find it difficult to locate an online music publication that is worth advertising with, Pay-Per-Click campaigns are usually priced at around 2p per click.  Our cheapest entry level package is priced at only 0.7p per impression, on a sliding scale down as low as 0.5p per impression the bigger the package you purchase!  Now that, im sure you will agree, is both affordable and offers great value for money!

 

Here's the really interesting bit; When you sign up what you actually purchase is 'Credit'. This credit can then be used and divided between as many marketing campaigns as you like. So for example, you could purchase 10,000 impressions and then either run 1 x huge 10,000 impression campaign OR 10 x small 1,000 impression advertising campaigns!

 
As the saying goes, the choice is yours!    
 
Ad Space prices are calculated simply on the following package prices; 

 

150px x 250px  Side Banner Package

(Displayed on the side columns of the website)

1000 Impressions For £ 7

5000 Impressions For £ 30

10000 Impressions For £ 60

20000 Impressions For £ 100

 

300px x 250px Middle Centre Banner Package

(Displayed in the centre column of the website)
1000 Impressions For £ 10
5000 Impressions For £ 40
10000 Impressions For £ 75
20000 Impressions For £ 150

349px x 83px  Bottom Middle Banner Package

(Displayed in the centre column of the website)
1000 Impressions For £ 5
5000 Impressions For £ 25
10000 Impressions For £ 50
20000 Impressions For £ 75 

350px x 500px Events Banner Package

(Displayed in the centre column of the website for each category, and the events page)
1000 Impressions For £ 10
5000 Impressions For £ 40
10000 Impressions For £ 75
20000 Impressions For £ 150

728px x 90px Header Banner Package

(Displayed as the top header on the website and in the chat room)
1000 Impressions For £ 20
5000 Impressions For £ 75
10000 Impressions For £ 100
20000 Impressions For £ 200

 

You can sign up for an Ad Space partners account at www.mixthegroove.co.uk/home/partners.

Can you design my advertisement creative? 

We most certainly can! If you are not lucky enough to have your own in house graphic designers or marketing team, don't worry as we are happy help you! Any graphic design work undertaken for one of our partners is charged at a very nominal rate of £10 p/h to try and keep it affordable for smaller businesses. 

 

Sign up for an Ad Space account and then mail us adspace@mixthegroove.co.uk with your requirements and we can help design the creative for your marketing campaign.

 

Convinced? Try it TODAY!

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Still need persuading?

 

You really are hard work! 

 

Joking aside, we take our business seriously and we believe in the tools we offer. In our humble opinion, Mix The Groove is one of the the best marketing resources in the dance industry today.

 

Call +44 (0) 7921 552 048 (Darren) advise me of your needs and let me demonstrate how Mix The Groove can work for your business.   

 

 

 

 

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