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(last updated Apr 2012)

  • Our website presently averages more than 13,000 page views per month
  • We have sold more than 105,000 copies of our print booklet The Guide to Ethical Supermarket Shopping since Feb 2008.
  • We have sold more than 25,000 Shop Ethical! iPhone apps since Feb, 2011
  • We have more than 3,800 products and 1,600 companies in our database
  • We send our monthly ‘Ethical Update’ e-bulletin to more than 3,000 recipients
  • We conducted over 160 ‘Shopping with a Conscience’ workshops since 2007 reaching more than 2,500 people

All of these sales and activities bring people to our website — people who are actively interested in purchasing ethical products. We keep our product information up to date, as well as information regarding number of visits to the website, and the number of clicks taking people to your website. Many individual people and not for profit groups use our website regularly as a reference.

Offers

We are still determining the way advertising on the new site will function. Ad size is 245px by 245px. Please contact us below to discuss other propositions.

Screen

We only accept advertisements from companies that pass our ethical screen. The Ethical Consumer Group’s screen for commercial advertising is based on the following criteria:

  • organisations that have no criticisms from our selected sources and have either
    • praises (‘tick’ rating) or
    • outstanding products with significant ethical/ sustainable features (‘outstanding product star’)
  • organisations whose products do not fall into a product type category that receives an ‘industry alert’, unless these products receive an ‘outstanding products star’ noting significant ethical/ sustainable features that address the particular concerns.
  • organisations that are not multinational
  • a focus on small organisations promoting sustainable practices and / or products
  • a focus on Australian-owned organisations

The rationale is that we focus on and promote the presence of small companies with good track records and products with positive features, rather than than the few big ones who already have marketing power.

Interpretation of this commercial screen and agreement for adverting is at the discretion of the Ethical Consumer Group.

Pricing

Banner pricing & specifications subject to change. Please enquire below.

Specifications

File Types: JPG, GIF, Animated GIF, Flash (SWF).

File Size: It is in your own interests to make your banner files as small as possible while maintaining acceptable quality. A fast loading banner is a good banner. We maintain the right to re-optimise images if we deem them excessively oversized.

Dimensions: 245px by 245px

Bleed: N/A

SWF Links: For href links in SWF banners, please use the standardised ‘clickTAG’ method and add the following ActionScript to your Flash file;

on (release) {  	
	if (clickTAG.substr(0,5) == "http:") {  		
		getURL(clickTAG);  	
	}  
}

For more information on this visit Adobe’s official guide;
http://www.adobe.com/resources/richmedia/tracking/designers_guide/

Categories

Premium advertisers can choose from the following categories in the guide. Advertisements will be included for all product types under that category.

  • Alcohol
  • Baby
  • Baking & Cooking
  • Breads, Spreads and Cereal
  • Dairy & Soy
  • Drinks
  • Frozen, Canned & Easy
  • Health Foods
  • Household
  • Office
  • Personal Care
  • Pets
  • Sauces & International
  • Snacks

Advertising Terms

Banner ads are independent of content within this website and guide.

Organisations listed do not necessarily endorse information on the website or in the guide.

Organisations have entered into an agreement whether paid, in-kind, reciprocal or sponsorship.

This agreement does not affect or influence the information on the website or in the guide.

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