Advertisers

Affordable Local Advertising

The Queen West App is targeted at local residents, employees, students or regular shoppers
in the Neighbourhood. Take part in this opportunity to connect with them.
Contact us today to learn more.

Why Advertise in the Neighbourhoods Apps?

There are a myriad of online solutions for mobile users to get local information, but many of these cause “friction” to the user.
People must check multiple sources (websites, apps, free newspapers/magazines) to try and locate what they want or find out what is going on in the neighbourhood.
Many of these sources are not "mobile optimized" or have easy search functionality to help the user "find" you.
Plus many of these sources offers steep ad rates so local small to medium sized businesses are not represented.

We have created a simple and easy-to-use mobile app with
ad pricing levels for all types of budgets.

Three advertising options for local businesses, event creators/organizers:

Permission-based pop-up image ads
Time-sensitive, text-based ads or alerts
Special Offers screen with current offers
Storybook Ads with custom home screen button and support for multi-screen content

Text-Based Ads

Simple text-based ads or alerts that run on the Main app screen and can be connected to an image ad. This is a easy, low-cost solution to engage with local customers and to offer short-term deals.

Pop-Up Image Ads

We built our advertising system to be a "permission- based" meaning that pop-up ads display when the user has paused their activity (hopefully avoids annoying users) and the ads link to the business directory and map for further information.

Storybook Ads

TBD

Compared with other vendors, your ads in the Neighbourhoods Apps will be shown many times per day increasing engagement with local customers. Monthly advertising packages start as low as $20 for text-based ads and $100 for image ads.

Unique Features

The app enables businesses and advertisers to offer short-term and time-limited specials or discounts to drive business throughout the day or night. Through the use of text ads and the ease of submitting ad content via text message or e-mail, we offer businesses an opportunity to connect with local customers any time.

Social Media

Advertising in the Neighbourhoods Apps includes sharing the ad through our social media channels as well as monthly "favorites" reporting.

Our goal is to offer businesses of all sizes a cost effective, real-time mobile advertising platform, supporting both image and text-based ads, that enables them to attract and reward local customers and build loyalty.

We plan to work with some of the 81 Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) within the City and the Toronto Association of BIAs (TABIA) as an umbrella group that represents over 40,000 businesses. The BIAs are of many different sizes and budgets and work in various ways to improve commerce and attract residents and visitors to stay in the Neighbourhood and #ShopLocal, #EatLocal, #DrinkLocal.