INTRODUCTION
Wavescape Media CC runs www.wavescape.co.za - South Africa’s oldest and largest surfing and marine forecasting website offering extreme sport and board culture news, videos and slideshows. We publish surf reports and marine analyses to coastal dwellers and surfers. We run the Wavescapes Surf Film Festival, Wavescape Surfboard Charity Art Auction and provide DSTV, Quiksilver, O'Neill and Mr Price with surf forecasts. CEO Steve Pike (aka Spike) is the author of the book Surfing in South Africa.
KEY FACTS
- Aimed at top LSM - decision makers with active lifestyles and large disposable incomes
- Wavescape Ocean Watch provides national ocean forecasts and analyses
- Syndicated beach forecasts to DSTV, Quiksilver, Red Bull & mobi platforms
- Mobi site at www.wavescape.mobi (includes content feeds and SA marine reports)
- Founder and sender of the famous "Spike" surf report
- In business for 12 years
Stats and Demographics (effectivemeasure.com)
- 220,000 monthly page impressions
- 25,000 unique visitors per month
- 5,200 newsletter subscribers (email newsletter 3 x week)
- 3,500 Facebook Likes and 2,250 Twitter followers
- 97.2% of our audience reside in South Africa
- 81% audience is male
- 47.2% earn R25,000 to R69,999
- 14% earn more than R70,000
- 12% aged 15-24
- 56.88% aged 25-44
- 25.68% aged 45-60
- 77% have internet access at home
CONTENT
- Surfing features and news, photo galleries and slideshows, videos and environmental alerts and stories, blogs, and Twitter feed
- Brand-sponsored (Spot the Spot, Pick of the Month, Wavescape Ocean Watch, Slideshows) competitions and prizes
- Automated SA marine forecasts (swell, wind, tide, sun, moon data) updated 4/ day (animations, tables, charts, widgets)
- Surf report email 3 p/week to 5,200 with links to news, video, photos and clients
- Mobile-friendly website, XML data feeds to clients using mobi channels
- SMS subscription services
Please contact us or check out our
Wavescape Rate Card 2012.pdf
Effective Measure_demographics.pdf
This is where the unique power of Wavescape lies, in our audience.
Also talk to us about sponsorship opportunities of specific sections of the website (top slideshows and our proudly South African automated marine forecasting system Wavescape Ocean Watch or WOW - see an example) as well as other partnerships, including sponsoring our Film Festival, syndicating feeds, white labelling marine forecast widgets or developing content synergies.
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