Media kit, prices & benefits
WHY CHOOSE AfricaHunting.com? - With over a decade on the internet, proven results, happy customers, real return on investment and trust from top companies it's hard not to choose AfricaHunting.com!
OUR GOAL - We want to help you reach your customer and increase sales!
The goal of AfricaHunting.com is to make the process easier for hunters to research and make decisions about a hunting safari from what destination and type of hunt best fits their goals to what products and services to purchase for their adventure and we want to put your company right in front of their eyeballs.
WHO WE ARE - The biggest and the best!
AfricaHunting.com, launched in 2007, has quickly become the largest and most active website in the world for international hunting enthusiasts, we're a site for hunters by hunters. This powerful online information source provides current news, great safari hunting deals, product reviews, thousands of articles and hunting reports, shot placement guide and up-to-date information on all aspects of rifle and bow hunting in Africa and the world in an ever evolving interactive community discussion environment. One of our most popular forum topics is firearms, ammunition and gear where lively discussion of the latest new products -- to the tried and true and everything in between, takes place daily.
It is an ideal environment to reach potential customers through targeted marketing and promotional editorial content. AfricaHunting.com can deliver access to our users instantly through banner ads and vast editorial, photographic and video content as well as through our email newsletter ads and email marketing blasts. Our site also gives advertisers the opportunity for engagement with the visitors in a rich social atmosphere to build brand and product awareness, and the chance to reach buyers during their research and decision making process.
Today more than 88% of consumers use the internet as their primary (sometimes only) resource to research, narrow the field and/or decide on what products and services to buy. AfricaHunting.com generates 71% of its’ traffic through search engines and routinely ranks near the top of the first page in search engine queries for thousands of keyword search terms used by and attracting interested in-market international hunting service and product buyers.
AfricaHunting.com reaches thousands of new, as well as returning, visitors daily who are hunters and gun enthusiasts alike. Many are in the market for a hunting safari (be it their first or their tenth) and are interested in the products and services that will be needed to embark upon their journey. Our niche focus and nature of our content effectively and efficiently attracts and resonates with an audience of sportsmen with high discretionary income.
We are committed to being ahead of the ever changing and evolving landscape that digital media and today’s technology present so that you do not have to. For this reason we have recently (August 2020) upgraded our platform once again (our seventh migration) and have fully optimized for mobile devices. Mobile users currently represents 61% of our traffic in 2020, as compared to a little under 50% in 2018, 33% in 2016 and less than 20% in 2014 and we expect that figure to continue to increase with general mobile use trends. Additionally, general research indicates that a mobile optimized site will generate longer and more frequent sessions among mobile and tablet users. In 2016 AfricaHunting.com launched our own mobile APP to great success. In 2020 the app has continuously been updated for faster connection in this ever changing landscape and has hundreds of five star reviews in both iOS and Android platforms.
ADVERTISING SPONSORSHIP - This is what you've been looking for!
Expose your company every month to over 560,000 visitors, over 87,000 registered members and 50,000 email subscribers (stats November 2023). We dominate the internet for hunting in Africa and just continue to grow as a site for hunters by hunters!
As you know a solid digital marketing presence on the internet is imperative today. Times are definitely changing and if you are not allocating a good percentage of your marketing budget to advertising on the internet, you are certainly not getting all the business you could be for the dollars that you are spending. The first place that hunters go is to the internet to do research for products and services they wish to purchase and we can help them find you.
Over the last 14 years 95% of our sponsors continue to renew because they're getting really great results selling and you could too. We are here to help and guide your company to be successful on the internet. We offer unrivaled full time support like no other media company. We contact you and help you to make the most of all of the benefits and privileges of being an advertising sponsor on AfricaHunting.com.
We are totally dedicated to building long lasting, rewarding relationships with our advertising sponsors because when you're successful we're successful!
BANNER POSITIONS, PRICES & BENEFITS - *Why not give it a try!
- TOP BANNER ADS US$5,250 per year
- UPPER RIGHT BANNER ADS US$4,250 per year
- MIDDLE RIGHT BANNER ADS US$3,250 per year
- LOWER RIGHT BANNER ADS US$2,650 per year
- BOTTOM BANNER ADS US$2,400 per year
ADVERTISING SPONSORSHIP INCLUDES BANNERS, BENEFITS & PRIVILEGES - You get so much more than just a banner!
More than just advertising banners as sponsorships also includes content based marketing. All sponsorships will automatically receive the following exclusive status as well as benefits and privileges on AfricaHunting.com in addition to their banners which will appear on nearly every page of the website.
- Banners with direct links to your website, including up to four different banners with different messages for your company.
- Commercial and promotional posting privileges reserved for sponsors of AfricaHunting.com.
- Added exposure in all of your posts to set your company apart as an advertising sponsor.
- Your avatar with the logo of your company.
- Your username in bold and highlighted in red - AfricaHunting.com SPONSOR and Since XXXX red ribbon status.
- Forum signature privileges showing your company name, tagline, telephone, WhatsApp, Skype, email, website address with a direct link to your website.
- Forum signature privileges showing your company name, tagline, telephone, email address, website address with a direct link to your website.
- Custom forum signature banner (600 x 100 pixels) which functions as an advertising banner at the end of every post you make with a direct link to your website.
- Privilege to interact with members.
- Privilege to include your company in the Resource section.
- Privilege to post and promote in the Deals & offers forum.
- Inclusion periodically in our newsletter emails promoting your company Deals & offers for additional exposure to over 50,000 hunters in our database.
- Privilege to post articles, stories, reviews, pictures and videos.
- Announcements such as sales, events and shows that you will be attending and booth numbers.
- AH advertising sponsors get the benefit to have support available to them via AH assistant for any assistance or help with their sponsorship and posting. AH assistant is there to assist you in many ways and can be contacted via email, telephone, text, WhatsApp or Skype.
- Private message notifications by AH assistant when member is looking for your product or services.
- AH advertising sponsors are granted access to a Sponsors Only forum that provides valuable information to make the most of your advertising sponsorship and help you better promote and sell more.
- We create an entire thread dedicated to your company at no additional cost. To see an example of what we create for outfitters click here and for manufacturers here.
OUR CURRENT SPONSORS - We increase our advertiser's sales!
Check out the companies who are already benefiting from being advertising sponsors of AfricaHunting.com by clicking here.
SOME STATISTICS - Reach your customer!
Over the last 14 years 95% of companies advertising on this site renewed their sponsorship because they're getting really great results selling and you could too!
We are the largest safari hunting website in the world with over 250,000 pages of content and our advertising sponsors appear on nearly all content pages.
We have over 87,000 registered members and email subscribers and we currently add several hundred new members monthly.
We are the most active site for hunting in Africa in the world and our popularity just keeps growing, generating more than 10,000 visitors daily and over 442,000 visitors per month.
Our average user stay on the site for over 5 minutes and views 5 pages per session and we generate 6 million monthly page views.
We have the largest collection of safari and hunting photos on the internet with over 300,000 photos and videos posted by members including our sponsors promotional content with nearly 50 million views.
Over 45% of our visitors return to the site at least twice during the month. More importantly, we have lots of high frequency users, 54% of our returning visitors will come back to the site from 10 to 201+ more sessions of use each month.
AfricaHunting.com comes up on the first page of Google, Yahoo and Bing search results for over 5,000 main keyword search terms. We get quality traffic and targeted daily exposure to hunters worldwide.
We stream over 1,000 hunting related YouTube videos on AfricaHunting.com and have our own YouTube channel with over 3 million views.
We have our own high quality targeted email database of over 50,000 hunters and industry professionals.
BENEFITS OF ADVERTISING - We want to help you increase your sales!
AfricaHunting.com is the largest website in the world for hunting in Africa and has become a force to be reckoned with since our launch in 2008.
We have a 12 year proven track record of excellence on the internet.
Expose your company to over 442,000 visiting hunters monthly (stats January 2021). Every day on every page hunters will associate your company with hunting in Africa and around the world.
Over 88% of today's consumers use the internet as the primary resource to research and decide on what products and services to buy. Hunting related online sales of products and services continue to experience massive growth. Magazines have lost ground to the internet as a decision making tool.
Hunters who attend hunting shows and are serious buyers are preselecting on the internet outfits they want to visit in person before they ever hit the show floor.
Hunters are bypassing hunting agents in favor of going direct to outfitters who they find on the internet because they feel confident in booking with them after checking them out online; they read hunt reports and reviews and call references. Hunters have become comfortable booking flights, researching hotels and travel destinations and this is the way that many hunters now book hunts through the internet.
AfricaHunting.com is completely FREE to all hunters. No costs such as membership fee, subscription charges, shipping cost, flights, hotels or entry fees. Subscribers must pay for every magazine issue and to attend shows and conventions.
No other website related to hunting in Africa comes close to the traffic and content that AfricaHunting.com provides.
AfricaHunting.com advertising is not expensive, you get much more advertising value for less cost. Magazine advertising is very expensive. Attending shows is very expensive.
Your company will be exposed to about 55 percent new visitors every month. With magazines you reach the same audience over and over. Online you will be seen by new hunters that never read nor subscribe to magazines.
Your company will be featured in prime locations on nearly every page with a link to your website. With magazines your ad appears only on one page with no interaction and no live links to your website.
Advertising limited to focus on hunting, there is no noise. No ads for male enhancement drugs, dating websites, no google ads, etc... nothing to distract the hunter.
We also reach hunters who are not affiliated with hunting organizations, hunters who do not attend shows or subscribe to hunting publications as well as those who do. Get exposed to a much wider audience, thousands of hunters that shows do not reach.
We can also give you more exposure by promoting and reinforcing your brand with product placement through articles, stories, pictures, videos and more. With magazines you get only one ad.
More hunters visit AfricaHunting.com each month than the Safari Club International convention or the Dallas Safari Club convention and their websites combined. We get greater annual visitors than all of the largest international shows combined. Go where the hunters are!
New media reaches younger and older hunters who desire instant information and entertainment. Old media such as magazines are missing out on younger demographic with static and dated format. This is the future of your business.
Average visitor comes to AfricaHunting.com once a week or more so they see your ad frequently. Readers may look at a magazine only once in a month.
PR and special announcements can be done in a very timely way while with magazines it can take months. Keeps hunters engaged with news from your company.
No international barriers, content can easily be translated into other languages. You can reach a global audience on AfricaHunting.com. A magazine is limited to the language it's printed in and by costly international subscription rates.
AfricaHunting.com reaches industry professionals who are influential. These key people influence decisions in your favor.
AfricaHunting.com reaches hunters who travel around the world to fulfill their passion. AfricaHunting.com is THE site most used by serious hunters.
Be seen on the first place where hunters go when considering hunting in Africa. First impressions are important. At AfricaHunting.com YOU will be seen first.
AfricaHunting.com is where hunters go NOW for their information, not print media. AfricaHunting.com continues to experience explosive growth due to most hunters doing their research online as they desire immediate information.
We reach hunters going to Africa in the near future. Turns advertising into profits sooner.
Available 24 hours a day every day of the year. Immediate gratification unlike print media, magazines comes only once a month or less.
AfricaHunting.com is a weekly habit for many hunters with our interactive community. It keeps hunters engaged and coming back unlike magazines that have no interactivity at all.
AfricaHunting.com is experiencing explosive growth, your company is seen by hunters. Magazines are loosing subscribers and advertisers.
Wealth of content available, over 250,000 pages and growing daily. Hunters use AfricaHunting.com for the ease of finding everything they are looking for in ONE place. Magazines have very limited content.
New content added daily for hunters. As they view new information your company is seen on every page automatically. Magazines content changes just once a month or less.
We can show videos of your products and services in action. Nothing sells like live action and product demos. Magazines have no video capability.
AfricaHunting.com is always as close as your computer or cell phone. Magazines get old and thrown out.
Promote your products and services through free giveaways. This feature keep hunters coming back for more.
Websites are good for the environment, no paper, no trucks. Hunters are conservationists and have been protecting the environment and wildlife long before it was popular. Print media is not environmentally friendly.
Why your company needs an advertising presence on the internet
Without a doubt hunters are increasingly turning towards the internet and away from traditional printed publications as their primary information resource. Every day more hunters are using the web as a research and decision making tool to fulfill many of their hunting needs. Whether it's learning about the newest products, choosing or purchasing the right gear, seeking expert advice, finding a hunting outfitter for their next adventure, socializing with like minded people or in search of entertainment or hot deals hunters can now find it all online at AfricaHunting.com! TIMES ARE DEFINITELY CHANGING and if you are not allocating a portion of your marketing budget to advertising on the internet, you are certainly not getting all the business you could be for the dollars that you are spending.
More bang for your buck on AfricaHunting.com
Advertising on AfricaHunting.com is the most cost effective way to promoting your products or services! It simply comes down to dollars and cents, you can reach more people for much less than costly traditional print advertising. Right now (stats January 2021) we have over 442,000 visitors every month and we continue to grow at an explosive rate. Since launch in October 2008 AfricaHunting.com has become the largest and most active hunting website specifically for Africa on the internet today and is traffic ranked among the top 1% of websites in the world (source Alexa.com an unbiased traffic ranking resource). Your business will see instant results as a AfricaHunting.com advertiser.
Reach your target market
Get immediate targeted exposure to internationally traveling hunters the upper echelon of hunters worldwide. You already have a targeted, pre qualified market here at AfricaHunting.com. That way you get the exposure to the specific customers you're after. No more wasted time buying print ads that you have no way of knowing who sees your ad. You have control over where your ad is placed. In print media you have no control over where you ad is placed unless you buy covers. You also have a way to immediately reach your audience here on AfricaHunting.com with our forum. With print media there is no way to reach your target audience. Our popular online community has over 56,000 members and 50,000 email subscribers.
Lots of eyeballs - traffic powerhouse
The AfricaHunting.com website is very sticky, meaning that visitors spend a lot of time here reading, participating in our community and visit many pages, which is all good news for our advertisers. Not only do visitors spend lots of time here, they also like to come back (22% come at least once a week and 45% come at least once a month). We have a very content rich website (250,000 pages and counting) which is kept fresh with new articles, forum posts, deals and offers on hunts, hunting reports and photos daily. You can literally find everything you need to know about hunting in Africa in one place.
Super quick and easy
We usually can get your advertising sponsorship set up and banner ads up and running in a few days. We generally have a 5 to 7 day turnaround if we are designing the banner ads for you as well. You can also make changes to or change your ads entirely at any time during the length of your advertising campaign which can be very powerful.
MAKE CONTACT NOW
Whether you're looking for a large advertising campaign or a smaller advertising package, we have the ability to custom tailor ads to fit your specific needs. You can interact with more potential customers in a shorter time period than ever before possible. AfricaHunting.com brings hunters together in a way no other form of advertising, print or electronic is able to provide. Our services go well beyond regular ad space advertising.
We are available at your convenience should you have any questions or wish to discuss your marketing plans in further detail. Please contact us and a member of our sales team will contact you as soon as possible.
AD MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS
- All advertising is subject to AfricaHunting.com approval and acceptance.
- Ad copy and/or images can be emailed to us.
- Name your ad by your company name.
- Provide ad images in .jpg or .gif format.
- File size needs to be kept as small as possible for quick loading.
- AfricaHunting.com assumes no responsibility for incorrect or omission of any advertisement.
PAYMENT
- Payment options 
We accept payment via our PayPal.com account by using our email address (You do not need to have a PayPal account to process a payment, you may pay with your debit or credit card as a PayPal Guest. We also accept bank wire transfer if online payment with credit card is not possible. Please contact us to request our bank wire information.
- No credit will be extended to advertisers.
- Prices are subject to change at the end of a each contract.
COPY AND CONTRACT PROVISIONS
All advertisements are accepted and placed on the website on the representation that the advertiser and/or advertising agency are properly authorized to place on the site the entire contents and subject matter thereof. It is understood that the advertiser and/or advertising agency will indemnify and hold harmless from and against any loss expense or other liability resulting from any claims or suits that may arise out of the ad placement of such advertisement.
TERMINATION
Once a sponsor terminates or fails to renew its' sponsorship, meaningful changes to the sponsorship account will be made including but not limited to username and sponsorship status change, removal of banner ads, avatar, logo, forum signature, forum signature banner, links, any contact information, any or all content created by Africahunting.com and any or all content posted about or by the sponsor.
RIGHTS RESERVED
AfricaHunting.com reserves the right to decline, reject or terminate any advertising for any reason any time without liability even though previously acknowledged or accepted.
For advertising opportunities, please contact us