So you want to advertise on Seattle Bubble?
Excellent choice. Seattle Bubble is the Puget Sound’s most popular online resource for real estate news, discussion, and analysis, and is visited daily by thousands of intelligent, local individuals that are well-qualified for the products and services you sell. Our advertising rates are highly affordable for such a targeted medium, and run between $75 and $350 per month, with bulk discounts available for orders of 3 or more months.
However, before you make a decision to advertise on Seattle Bubble, we would like you to take a few minutes to get the complete picture of what you’re getting into.
Reasons you should not advertise on Seattle Bubble
That got your attention, didn’t it? There are some reasons that maybe Seattle Bubble isn’t right for your company:
- Honesty: We don’t pull punches. If it’s a bad time to buy a home, we say so.
- Persistence: Our community will find you out and call you on it if you try to pull a fast one.
- Freedom: Conversations on Seattle bubble are not moderated – participants are free to express whatever opinion they want, including negative opinions about the market or even specific advertisers.
If you are looking for a place to advertise where people will just blindly accept a pie-in-the-sky sales pitch, Seattle Bubble is not for you. We have built a dedicated community based on honesty, openness, and a dogged commitment to finding out the real story in the local real estate market. People trust Seattle Bubble because we don’t just tell them what the real estate industry wants them to hear, we tell them what is really going on, for better or worse.
When you spend your advertising dollars on Seattle Bubble you are not buying influence over the content of the site or the community discussions. The focus, substance, or tone of the conversations at Seattle Bubble will not be affected by any advertiser’s interests. If want your ad to run alongside stories of sunshine and puppies, there are plenty of places for you, but Seattle Bubble is not among them.
Reasons you should advertise on Seattle Bubble
On the other hand, there are compelling reasons that Seattle Bubble is a great place to advertise:
- Targeted: Active readership with a high interest in real estate
- Volume: Over 70,000 visits and 240,000 pageviews per month (Mar-08)
- Growth: Readership grew 6.7% per month through 2007 (average)
Seattle Bubble is a community of individuals that are actively interested in the local real estate market. They are intelligent people that are looking for straight answers about today’s real estate market. Homeowners, renters waiting to buy smartly, and real estate professionals are all among the regular participants. Over the past year, readership of Seattle Bubble has grown an average of 6.7% per month, with January 2008 seeing over twice as many visits as January 2007, and nearly four times as many pageviews.
Seattle Bubble has also been featured in a variety of local media outlets as a leading source of honest news about the local housing market. We have appeared or been quoted in the following:
- KING 5 News
- KOMO 1000 News
- NPR’s Morning Edition
- The Seattle P-I
- The Dave Ross Show on 710 KIRO
- The Bryan Suits Show on AM 570 KVI
Click here to watch and listen to some of Seattle Bubble’s media appearances.
Even as the real estate market itself enters a slump, Seattle Bubble is poised for continued growth as the best source for news, discussion, and frank analysis about Seattle’s real estate market.
Contact us for more information
If you have considered the pros and cons of what Seattle Bubble has to offer, and you’re ready to place your advertisement in front of tens of thousands of interested, intelligent people, then send us an email to request details about rates and ad specifications.
