Rakista.com is a website dedicated to promoting Philippine music. It gained prestige last year by being one of the finalists in the Community and Portal category of the 8th Philippine Web awards. It is designed to cater to a broad range of Filipino music lovers both here and abroad. It provides forums, articles, interviews, a chat room, music downloads, and other features which help Filipino bands promote their music and allow listeners to connect with artists and fellow music lovers through a vibrant and active online community. In addition to the features of the website, Rakista.com also holds the monthly Rakrakan Series. These are gigs which showcase and promote the site’s registered bands while also providing a venue for the members to interact with each other.With our active and growing community of thousands of music lovers, Rakista.com is a great place to connect with your target market.
ONLINE ADVERTISING
As a premier music portal and community, Rakista.com provides extensive and maximum exposure for your online advertisements. Filipinos and foreigners alike are guaranteed to see your ads in a clear and eye catching manner, without any hassle. Moreover, we will make sure that your ads get the right results.
With our active and growing community of thousands of music lovers, Rakista.com is a great place to connect with your target market. Be among the first to take advantage of this new great opportunity. We will ensure that your ads work for you.
Why you should Partner with us
Rapidly Growing Target Audience
As mentioned in the statistics above, for the month of March 2006, Rakista.com has had a total of 16500+ active users with an increasing amount of new users registering daily. This is a place for artists and members to start their Internet adventures and a place for fans to discover new music by using the power of the internet. The rapidly growing and active Rakista.com community serves as a perfect audience where we can promote your products. Advertising in our website can help build both brand consciousness and recall that will strengthen the promotion of your products and services. Rakista.com is officially partnered with NU107-the one and only rock station in the country; rakista.com is announced everyday over the radio.
Excellent Website Service and Maintenance Rakista.com is maintained daily and is always kept up to date. As we speak, more features are constantly being developed and added to the website to further improve the services and benefits for both members and artists. Such efforts have been getting positive feedback not only from bands and users but from organizations as well. In fact, we are proud to say that Rakista.com has had the prestige of being chosen as one among the five finalists in the 8th Philippine Web Awards this 2005. This is a notable accomplishment considering the website was barely a year old prior to selection.
Using the Internet for Advertising Gains Positive Results
The internet has become an essential aspect of modern life, becoming a highly commercial and widely used medium for advertising, brand building, and online sales and services. Rakista.com is an effective venue where you can communicate with your target market and promote your products. This is because the website caters to a broad range of people, both youth (teenagers) and adults alike. The website has a little bit of everything to cater to the music enthusiast both here and abroad.
Site Statistics Rakista.com is very new and its members are increasing rapidly. During our first few months alone we have established an active online Filipino community which is our primary source of internet traffic in terms of page views and unique visits. Our latest Statistics as of March 31 are shown below:
Statistics as of March 1 – March 31 '06
Total Registered Artists:
180
Total Active Members:
17,500++
New users per day:
50 - 150
Registered logged-in users per day:
(excluding guests and members that didn't log-in)
300 - 700
Average unique visits per day
3,493
Average hits per day
512,863
Bandwidth (September 1 - 30)
145++ gig (Gzip enabled)
For the month of March 1 to March 31, 2006 Rakista.com had an average of 3,493 visits each day or 108,290 visits for last month, an average of 512,863 hits per day (views per day) or 15,898,767 hits per month, and a total of 145++ Gig of data transfer with GZIPenabled. Please be noted that month from January to March, GZIP technology is enabled. GZIP is a technology used to compress data between server and browser; this cuts down the bandwidth required to deliver pages to web browsers and results in remote users getting a much faster response from the server. This reduces bandwith by 30% to 50% which means that Rakista.com had a total of more than 230 Gig of data transfer if GZIP is disabled. The chart above shows that these statistics are increasing rapidly per month.
The chart above shows that these statistics are increasing rapidly per month.
We offer more than just the traditional form of online banner advertising. The display of each ad per channel is guaranteed, with certainly no randomly shown ads.
A channel is a term used to indicate where we shall display your products or services. Channels available at Rakista.com are shown bellow:
Channels
Homepage
Forum pages.
Main artist pages
Other categories (Extremes, Genre, etc.)
Topic pages
Band topic pages
Other topic pages
Posting pages
Profile pages
Public
Base info
Groups
Home profile
Registering
Profile
Your Profile
Preferences
Avatar
Signature
Groups
Registering
Memberlist
Friends list
Ignore list
All the member
Private Messaging
Inbox
Outbox
Sentbox
Savebox
Music pages
Music main page
Artists' music pages
Artists' song pages
Rate pages
Comment pages
Upload music pages
Album pages
Album main page
Artists' gallery pages
Artists' picture pages
Rate pages
Comment pages
Personal gallery pages
Upload picture pages
Chat
Calendar pages
Calendar main page
Per month/day scheduler pages
Search pages
Groups pages
Groups main page
Groups inside pages
Blogs (soon)
We have different ad formats for all your advertising needs. All ad materials will be linked to your website. Rakista.com will happily design your banner for use in your campaign FOR FREE!! How generous are we?! See ad formats below:
Ad formats (click links to see actual ad format sizes)
200 x 60 pixels | 170x 60 pixels | 120 x 60 pixels
STANDARD MONTHLY RATE: Based on your BUDGET, with guaranteed views on your selected
Channel and no randomly shown ads (24/7).
Every Channel and Ad format size has a corresponding price. We have the cheapest online advertising packages in the market. Build brand awareness and share your message via the Philippine website that reaches out to a large online audience. Partner with Rakista.comONLINE ADVERTISING.
So build brand awareness and share your message in the Philippine website that reaches out a large online audience. Partner with Rakista.com and make things happen today. Our price is very cheap and affordable, to get it all started, kindly email webmaster@ rakista.com with the following information:
Name:
Job Position:
Contact Nos :
Email:
:
Company Address:
Website:
Budget per month in pesos or in dollar:
Description:
Please provide any information on your campaign such as services, products, sections interested in, etc.
Others:
RAKRAKAN SERIES GIGS SPONSORSHIP
The RAKRAKAN SERIES is a regular set of gigs exclusively for the registered bands and members of the Rakista.com online community. By holding these gigs we aim to help bands promote their music and strengthen the Rakista.com online community by giving the members a chance to interact with the bands and with fellow members. These gigs serve as a venue for registered bands to perform and for the members to listen to them up close. The Rakrakan Series is open to non members as well. Here’s a summary of the details regarding how the Rakrakan Series operates:
Armedwiththe theme “Bands and Community United”, Rakista.com seeks to take the lead in encouraging all bands (both signed and unsigned) to be united in one community to perform alongside other bands and not to negatively compete with each other.
For more questions and details, kindly email webmaster@ rakista.com and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. We will be more than glad to accommodate your inquiries and all your advertising needs.
Privacy Policy
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