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Place your ad today! Call 815-408-0140 or email sales@roscoenews.com

Get your business seen in farthest northern Illinois! Advertise on Rockton-Roscoe News

• Farthest northern Illinois's first daily news outlet since 1835. Serving Roscoe, Rockton, South Beloit, Shirland, and Harrison.
• Owned and run by Roscoe residents, not by out-of-state corporations
• Pageviews per month: 70,000-120,000
• Newsletter open rate: 45%
• Click-through rate: 10%
• 99% of our subscribers live and work in the Stateline area.

By the Numbers

• Email: 2,250 subscribers
• Unique visitors per month: 35,000-100,000
• Social media
  • Facebook: 7,200 following
  • Instagram: 1,050 followers
  • Twitter/X: 170 followers
• Market size: 42,500 population
• 77% mobile, 20% desktop, 3% tablet

We have no paywall on our website (though paid subscribers receive bonus content) and subscriptions to our daily email newsletter are free. Non-profits and paid subscribers in the Rockton-Roscoe area can register on our website to post an event, a comment, opinion, local alert, question, news tip, classified ad, lost & found, or recommendation. Add a photo or image! All ads and posts are subject to our Terms of Service.

Rockton-Roscoe News is supported both by contributions from our readers (as little as $10 a month) and from advertising. Wouldn't your business benefit from a leaderboard ad, a standard ad, a sponsor notice, a featured event, or sponsored content? Keep reading.

You can advertise on the website, in the daily email newsletter, or both. Email has a higher response rate because it reaches people who actually signed up for it. While they are reading your email, they have your complete attention - and we only show one ad per day.

Ad sizes in the newsletter are:

• Leaderboard ads - 1200 x 310 pixels (4:1) ($100 per day)
• Medium rectangle ad (MPU) - 300 x 250 pixels (6:5) ($100 per day)

Ad sizes on the website are:

• Leaderboard ads - 1200 x 310 pixels (4:1) ($200 a month)
• Medium rectangle ad (mobile) - 300 x 250 pixels (6:5) ($200 a month)
• Standard banner ads - 728 x 90 pixels (8:1) ($175 a month)

The medium rectangle size (MPU) may also be used in narrow formats/mobile views for leaderboard and banner ad packages.

Members of elev815 are eligible for even deeper discounts: $200 a month includes 30 days of leaderboard ads on the website and one ad per month in the email newsletter.

For more information about advertising, contact us at 815-408-0140 or sales@roscoenews.com.

We get you noticed precisely where your customers are - in Rockton, Roscoe, and South Beloit - because that's where virtually all our readers are. If you want to advertise in Rockton and Roscoe, we don't force Delavan or Freeport on you. No other media is more local than us - we're hyperlocal. That saves you money.

We do precision advertising too. When our readers click on your online ads, they will see your precise offer or call to action. (As you've noticed, customers can't click on print or radio ads to reach your website.) All our daily email subscribers have opted in to receive our newsletter, so they expect and want it.

If you like, we can find a designer to help you create advertising graphics (what customers click on) and landing pages (where customers go when they click). If you want, you can create your own ads, changing your graphics and landing page whenever you want.

 Ads appear in different sizes depending on the size of the screen. Basically, that means a narrower version of the ad appears on mobile phones, so we design two sizes for each ad.

Ad positions rotate among all the advertisers. For example, when people read an article, they see one leaderboard ad at a time, at the top of the screen.

We also offer group discounts and special rates, as well as sponsored content. For example, if you're a realtor, you could feature a "House of the Week."

For advertising questions, contact us at 815-408-0140 or sales@roscoenews.com.

Note: if you need to place a public notice/legal notice, by law it must be published in a print newspaper (made from trees), such as The Herald, so you should email them at legals@rvpublishing.com or call them at 815-654-4850 to place those ads. We would be happy to publish them too, at no charge.

Special Print Newspaper Ad Prices and Sizes

Full page: $500 - 10" x 14"

1/2 page: $300 - 5" x 14" or 10" x 7"

1/4 page: $150 - 5" x 7" or 10" x 3.5"

1/8 page: $100 - 2.5" x 7" or 5 x 3.5"

1/16 page: $50 - 2.5" x 3.5" or 5" x 1.75"