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Advertising Overview

If you aren’t interested in advertising with the Inkspot, consider becoming a Friend of the Inkspot and donating to our award-winning program.

Publication Overview
The Inkspot serves as the official student-run and student-produced news publication of Normal Community High School, a four-year secondary school with an enrollment of over 2100 students and 180 staff members.

In its 79th year as the official news source of Normal Community, the publication aims to represent the diverse interests and perspectives of NCHS students. Writing and reporting with a focus on school and community news, the Inkspot aims to cover the stories and issues that concern the high school demographic, emphasizing the NCHS student perspective in our reporting.

Today, the Inkspot is primarily a multimedia publication, updated multiple times a week at NCHSinkspot.com.

Through the website, the staff offers livestreaming coverage of athletic events, school assemblies, and select concerts and performances.

Additionally, the Inkspot produces a minimum of two full-color newsmagazine issues a year.

The award-winning publication has an active social media presence on Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and YouTube at the handle of @NCHSinkspot.

Advertising Revenue
Advertising revenue helps to support the journalism education process at Normal Community High School. Ad revenue is used to cover reoccurring costs such as: attending local and national journalism competitions and conventions; purchasing and maintaining equipment; covering the cost of web-hosting and the printing cost of the newspaper.

Since the Journalism program is self-funded, this money allows students to compete in the IHSA Sectional and State tournaments–where, in 2023, three students medaled, showing their talent as some of the best student journalists in Illinois.

Circulation & Audience Reach
In the last year, NCHSinkspot.com reached over 17,000 unique viewers and over 127,000 page views.
The Inkspot social media accounts directly reach is just shy of 3,000 subscribers/followers daily.

Advertising Options and Rates
Prices for advertising packages are included below.

We are willing to customize any package to fit your needs.

Additional Support Options
If you would like to support the Inkspot but are not interested in an advertisement, we gladly accept donations and contributions. Your generous support would be recognized on our Friends of the Inkspot page.

For more information or to purchase an ad contact:

Brad Bovenkerk, Inkspot Advisor
email. [email protected]
email. [email protected]
phone. 309.336.6127
fax. 309.557.4540

Advertising Options: Rates & Placement

WEB ADS

For advertisements on NCHSinkspot.com, we offer three online ad sizes and placements, each at $30/month:

Header -728×90
Footer – 728×90
Sidebar – 300×250

The above prices reflect full color advertisements that will be a direct, one-click link to your business’s website.

Web ads that run on NCHSinkspot.com can be purchased here.

PRINT ADS

Specifications
The following prices are for full-color advertisements in the Inkspot newsmagazine.

Rate/Price
• 1/9th page – 2.4×3.1 in. – $25
• 2/9th page – 2.4×6.6 in. – $50
• 1/3rd page – 2.4 x1 0 in. – $75
• 2/3rd page – 5 x 10 in. – $150
• Full page – 7.6 x 10 in. – $225

Special Placement

Back Cover – $350
Inside Front Cover – $300

Advertising buys of $200 or more and get:

Free advertising on NCHSinkspot.com
Free advertising during Livestream commercial breaks
Complimentary Inkspot newsmagazine subscription

DIGITAL ADS

The following are advertising options for the Inkspot’s live sports broadcasts.

Commercial Sponsor (per season, included in each broadcast) – $50

Image, tagline, contact info will be displayed during commercial breaks of livestreaming events.
Minimum of 1 live read of ad copy per broadcast

Scoring Sponsor (per season) – $300

Logo and sponsorship read with each indicated action (touchdown, interception, dunk, etc.)
Image, tagline, contact info will be displayed during commercial breaks of livestreaming events.
Minimum of 1 live read of ad copy per broadcast

Presenting Sponsor (per game, one broadcast) – $300

Presenting sponsor indicated with logo and tagline at open/close of broadcast and quarter/half breaks
Image, tagline, contact info will be displayed during commercial breaks of livestreaming events.
Minimum of 2 live reads of ad copy per broadcast

For more information, to discuss package deals, options not listed or to purchase an ad contact:

Brad Bovenkerk, Inkspot Advisor
email. [email protected]
email. [email protected]
phone. 309.336.6127
fax. 309.557.4540

If you aren’t interested in advertising with the Inkspot, consider becoming a Friend of the Inkspot and donating to our award-winning program.