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.
Page views per month: 18,500,000 (July 2009)
Visits per month: 4,250,000 (July 2009)
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.
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.
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,
File size: max. 25 Kbyte
File size: max. 35 Kbyte
| 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).
Publish news + images/videos in the Windfinder news/blog + news feed, which has about 15000 page impressions/month.
Each quarter year Windfinder sends an English newsletter to 23.000 windsurfers, kitesurfers and surfers worldwide with a focus on German/European subscribers.
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.
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 redirected to the site of the advertiser. see example.
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