Five days a week, MinnPost.com offers news stories and features of interest to people who care about Minnesota. With dozens of contributing journalists, our aim is to ensure that everything you see at MinnPost.com includes solid reporting, thought-provoking insights and excellent storytelling. 

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MinnPost.com offers news and features of interest to people who care about Minnesota. Our aim is to ensure that everything you see at MinnPost.com includes solid reporting, thought-provoking insights and excellent storytelling. MinnPost.com has an average of 200,000 monthly unique users delivering an average of 700,000 monthly pageviews.  And, to increase response and add value for our local advertisers, your banners are targeted exclusively to local readers, unless otherwise requested.

Quick Pick packages

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Quick Pick packages are advertising options ideal for shorter campaigns.

$800 GOLD Package

• 30 Days, 50,000 ad impressions, Run Of Site
• One banner size: Square, Top Leaderboard, Wide Skyscraper, or Medium Rectangle

$480 SILVER Package

• 21 Days, 30,000 ad impressions, Run Of Site
• One banner size: Square, Top Leaderboard, Wide Skyscraper, or Medium Rectangle

$360 BRONZE Package

• 14 Days, 22,500 ad impressions, Run Of Site
• One banner size: Square, Top Leaderboard, Wide Skyscraper, or Medium Rectangle

Package Guidelines

• Purchase as many packages as you wish.
• One banner size per package please.
• Packages must run in defined time frames.
• Banner tracking and reporting provided at conclusion of flight.

Homepage Sponsorships

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A great  way  for  businesses  to  align  themselves  with  MinnPost.com and  its  readers  is  to  become a  Homepage   Sponsor.   These exclusive, highly  visible  sponsorships  are    featured  on  the   MinnPost.com homepage, and on every page where the sponsored content appears.

E-mail Newsletter Sponsorship

Daily email:  summary of daily content on Minnpost.com.
Skyscraper banner. Monday - Friday, 28,500 weekly emails (5,700 daily opt-in subscribers).  $430/week.  Limited availability. Please contact us for details.

This Week in Minnesota email:  highlights stories of interest to Greater Minnesota.
Skyscraper banner. Delivered Tuesdays, 2,500 subscribers/week, 10,000/month. $100/week.

Content Section Sponsorship

Target your message with a content section sponsorship (e.g. Region, Politics). Availability is limited. Please ask for details.

Deadlines and Specs

Web site banner formats: Square: 250x250, Skyscraper: 160x600, medium rectangle: 300x250, top leaderboard: 728x90, content section sponsorship banner: 160x220. Banners must have borders. Expandable banners must protect content and must be user-initiated. Animation must stop after 8 seconds. Maximum looping 2x. If you submit a Flash file, please send a backup gif or jpg and make sure your SWF uses a clickTAG for tracking purposes. MinnPost.com uses 24/7 Real Media: OpenAd Stream to serve its banners and allows third-party serving.

All creative/tags, URL(s)  must be sent to Brian Perry (cc: Sally Waterman) at least 3 business days before banner needs to be live on MinnPost.com.

Files accepted:  SWF, GIF, HTML, JPEG

Max file size: 50k