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» What is Windfinder.com?

Windfinder.com provides wind, waves & weather worldwide and in real time as well as weather maps, webcams, weather stations, tide calendars, an address directory, weather widgets, mobile weather and news to mainly windsurfers, kitesurfers, surfers and sailors.

» Media Stats (according to Google Analytics)

Page views per month: 18,500,000 (July 2009)
Visits per month: 4,250,000 (July 2009)

» Target groups

Windsurfing, kitesurfing, surfing: Windfinder.com is used by windsurfers, kitesurfers and surfers worldwide to check the wind, wave and weather conditions at their favorite surfspots or to plan the next surf vacation. The age of this target group is mainly between 16 and 50 years old. Many of them do other fun sports like snowboarding, skiing, mountainbiking, skateboarding. Most people who do these sports have an above average income available.

Sailing: Many sailors between 18 and 65 years of age use Windfinder.com to get the forecast for their sailing trip on their cellphones, to check the forecasts online at sailing competitions or before sailing out on the local lake! Many sailors have a clearly above average education, are self-employed or (senior) executives and have an high income at their disposal.

» Targeting

At Windfinder.com you can reach windsurfers, kitesurfers, surfers and/or sailors with advertising banners 1) globally on all pages (run of site), 2) on certain wind, wave and weather maps e.g. wind forecast map Canary Isles (map targeting) and/or 3) on one or several certain spots/locations wind/weather reports or forecasts e.g. wind forecast Tarifa (local targeting). You can combine all 3 options with geo targeting, which means that an ad banner is shown based on the physical location of the user, e.g. the banner is only shown when the user is located in France.

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» Banner advertising

Windfinder offers Fullsize banners (468x60 Pixel) and Skyscraper banners (120x600 Pixel) for every target mentioned above, news publications (text + images) in the Windfinder blog, news publications in the Windfinder e-mail newsletter,

Full size468 x 60 Pixel Banner positions File size: max. 25 Kbyte
Skyscraper120 x 600 Pixel Banner positions File size: max. 35 Kbyte

» Banner prices (in Euro)

Banner prices (in Euro) Impressions
Banner type/format Dimensions 50.000 100.000 250.000 500.000 1.000.000
Fullsize 468x60 Pixel
Fullsize with geo targeting 468x60 Pixel
Skyscraper 120x600 Pixel
Skyscraperwith geo targeting 120x600 Pixel

Just choose one of the packages above and let us know over which period of time you want the ad impressions to be delivered (1 months, 2 months, 6 months, 12 months). The shorter the time period the higher the banner frequency! For each banner campaign you can track the number of banner views and clicks online and in real time. Banners can be exchanged quickly (for special sales promotions, etc.) and you can run several different banners at the same time (rotation).

» News Blog/Feed

Publish news + images/videos in the Windfinder news/blog + news feed, which has about 15000 page impressions/month.

» Newsletter

Each quarter year Windfinder sends an English newsletter to 23.000 windsurfers, kitesurfers and surfers worldwide with a focus on German/European subscribers.

» Nearby Surfshops / Surfschools on local weather pages

Windfinder lists nearby windsurfing, kitesurfing & surfing schools and shops for each local weather page. Example: The nearest surfshops and schools for Kahului/Maui are listed on the corresponding wind report and forecast page on the left under Surfshops and Surfschools. Each listing has a link to a map with the exact location of the shop/school. We can turn your listing to bold font, move it to the top of the list and make the link to your website (instead of the map location). If you want to reach your target group this easily and with little financial effort just make a payment via Paypal to oliver@windfinder.com and your site will be linked on all nearby wind report and forecast pages when we receive the payment.

» Best Board / Best Sail / Best Kite

On each page for our more than 2900 real time wind graphs you can have your kites, windsurf sails or boards displayed in the correct size according to the current wind speed. If you click on the Best Kite, Sail, or Board you'll be redireted to the site of the advertiser. see example.