Category Sponsorship

Category Sponsorship is a specialised tool devised by Africa Business Pages to provide targetted audience promotions for various business sectors. The Africa Business Directory is divided into various business sectors that are regularly visited by users involved with those particular sectors. We offer your an opportunity to advertise your products under the relevant category to reach your targetted audience.

The sectors we have chosen in the Africa Business Pages are for those products and services that are in high demand in African markets. So if you are a suplier of Computer Hradware, it is advisable you sponsore the 'Cumputer Hardware: category to reach your targetted audience.

The Section Sponsorship provides the advertiser with the exclusive top banner positions in the category including all sub-pages within the selected category.

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Categories available for Sponsorship:
The following categories are available for sponsorship on the Africa Business Directory section:

• Agriculture
• Apparel & Fashion
  
• Automobile Parts
  
• Building Materials & Hardware
  
• Chemicals
  
• Computer Hardware
  
• Construction & Real Estate
  
• Electronics & Electrical
  
• Foodstuff & Beverages
  
• Gifts and Novelties
  
• Handicraft Items
  
• Health & Beauty
  
• Heavy Machinery & Equipment
  
• Home & Office Furniture
  
• Home Appliances
  
• Industrial Supplies
  
• Lubricants & Grease
  
• Mobile Phones & Telecom
  
• Perfumes & Cosmetics
  
• Plastics, Packaging & Paper
  
• Security & Protection Services
  
• Stationery & Paper Items
  
• Tours, Travel & Cargo
  
• Tyres & Batteries
  
• Used Car Dealers

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Pricing
Category Sponsorship banners on Africa Business Pages are sold on an annual basis. However, the creative within the section can be changed/updated monthly if required. The price of sponsoring a category on the Africa Business Directory section and all its sub pages is US$ 3,500 per year.

Placement
Your banner will appear on the top of the Category main page and all pages under that category and subcategory.

Click-Through Reporting
Banner advertisements served through 3rd party agency/banner network will generate their own statistics and Africa Business Pages will (in such cases) not provide daily impressions statistics.

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Technical Specifications - Full Banner   File Width 468 pixels     Height 60 pixels     Maximum File Size 25 kb     Alt Text Limit 50 characters     Loop Limit Unlimited within 20 seconds     Formats GIF, JPEG, SWF     All Creative must have a 1 pixel border that distinguishes the advertising content from editorial content. All clickable advertisements should open into new browser window (target=_blank). All Creatives must include Destination Click-through URL and ALT text (Alt Text maximum of 50 characters). Maximum Animation loop limit within 20 second is unlimited.

Africa Business Pages (www.africa-business.com) is one of the oldest and well-established top level domain in Africa. In fact, if you use the search terms 'africa business' on any popular search engine you will find that this site, Africa Business Pages, features in the top of Google results from 324 million sites!

• Africa Business Pages was established in 1996.

• It is a widely acknowledged entry point for people anywhere seeking business information on Africa;

• Africa Business Pages has high traffic volumes. As many as 40,000 visitors come to Africa Business Pages every day!

• It has a high search engine profile – appearing at various places within the top 5 search results of major search engine in various business categories

Africa Business Pages currently receives over 40,000 page impressions per day from 133 countries. The African and international split is currently 47% local and the balance international visitors.

We don't make tall claims... just try searching for "africa business" in any major search engine... and you'll know where we stand!

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Clients

• Emirates Airline
• Arabian Jerusalem Company
• ADNOC Lubricants
  
• Al Halabi Referigeration & Steel
  
• Evergrow International
  
• Super General Company
  
• V.V. & Sons
  
• Blue Stream Environment Technology
  
• Bristol Fire Engineering
  
• Corodex Industries
  
• Al Shirawi Enterprises
  
• Berger Paints
  
• Al Yousuf Motors
  

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For more information please contact:
International Advertising Department
Ph: +971- 50-6940602
Fax: +971-4- 2692151
Dubai - United Arab Emirates