Sponsorship & Advertising Opportunities

Sponsorship & Advertising Opportunities

Overview: Invest in Your Success
Milestones & Statistics
Sponsorship Opportunities
Advertise With Us

Overview: Invest in Your Success

We understand the difficulties involved with running a business, and adding additional tasks like promoting your business or product can be a daunting task. After all, we're business owners too. By leveraging our technological, marketing, event production, and risk management backgrounds, our team has developed a unique service that focuses on community development, conservation awareness, events, media coverage, and content distribution, effectively bridging the gap between industry members, local retailers, and the consumer or hobbyist.

Based on our achievements, we consider ourselves trailblazers in the industry of online marketing in the realm of aquatics. Chances are, having seen what we have accomplished since mid-2013, you probably do too. Our team thrives on thinking outside of the box and utilizing our unique, individual talents to our advantage. Let's create some synergy between our organizations that promotes positive growth and create something amazing together!

Milestones & Statistics

Overview
- 32,249 follow us on social media (88% local to Florida)
- 825 newsletter subscribers (94% local to Florida)
- 3rd party service utilized for all statistics (Google, Cloudflare, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc)
2015
- Statistics
  - Website
    - Record: 12,000/day peak unique visitors
    - Average: 40,000/mo unique visitors
    - Average: 360,000/mo pageviews
  - Facebook
    - Record: 1.1 million/wk organic reach
    - Record: 635,000/wk organic reach
    - Record: 275,000/day organic reach
    - Record: 115,000/wk active engagement
    - Record: 247,000/wk external link clicks
    - Average: 100,000-300,000/wk organic reach
- Programs
  - Continuation of Immersed Aquaculture Art Gallery Exhibit program
  - Continuation of Community Calendar program
  - Continuation of Best of Central Florida: Aquarist Edition recognition program
- Giving Back
  - 100% of net proceeds from Community Calendar pre-order sale donated to Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation
  - 25% of proceeds from Immersed donated to CityArts Factory / Downtown Arts District of Orlando
  - Sponsor and continual support of the Jenny Albert Sea Turtle Foundation
- Events
  - Sponsor and online marketing partner of Florida Frag Swap
  - Immersed Aquaculture Art Gallery Exhibit
  - Aquatic Terrarium Workshop at Immersed
2014
- Statistics
  - Website
    - Record: 10,000/day peak unique visitors
    - Average: 12,000/mo unique visitors
    - Average: 80,000/mo pageviews
  - Facebook
    - Record: 375,000/wk peak organic reach
    - Record: 160,000/day peak organic reach
    - Average: 100,000-200,000/wk organic reach
  - YouTube
    - Milestone: 1-million views
- Programs
  - Launch of Lionfish Awareness Campaign: Gulf Coast Lionfish Coalition & ZooKeeper “Lionfish Containment Unit”
  - Launch of Immersed Aquaculture Art Gallery Exhibit program
  - Launch of Community Calendar program
  - Launch of Best of Central Florida: Aquarist Edition recognition program
  - Launch of REEF Project educational program
- Giving Back
  - 100% of net proceeds from Community Calendar pre-order sale donated to Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation
  - 25% of proceeds from Immersed donated to CityArts Factory / Downtown Arts District of Orlando
  - Sponsor and continual support of the Jenny Albert Sea Turtle Foundation
  - Donated aquatic supplies/plants to Charlotte High School in Southwest Florida
- Events
  - Sponsored the grand opening of Fancy Tail Fish Farm
  - Sponsor and guest judge of the Aquatic Terrarium Competition
  - Sponsor and guest judge of Growl-O-Ween
  - Sponsor and marketing partner of Florida Frag Swap
  - Frozen Fish Food Workshop
  - Immersed Aquaculture Art Gallery Exhibit
  - Aquatic Terrarium Workshop at Immersed
  - Planted Tank Challenge
  - Meet Ricou Browning (Creature from the Black Lagoon) & Pat Carroll (Ursula/Little Mermaid)
- Media Coverage
  - Crystal River Mall Aquarium
  - Global Pet Expo
  - Fintastic Charlotte, North Carolina
  - Wet Pets Gastonia, North Carolina
  - The Fish Room, North Carolina
  - The Fish Tank
  - SeaLife Aquarium
  - Living Reef Orlando
  - Sea in the City
  - Nolan's Aquarium
  - Fishy Business Aquarium
  - Top Shelf Aquatics
  - Cichlid Express/ Daytona Aquarium
  - Koi Corner
  - Seminole Aquarium
  - Fancy Tails Fish Farm
  - West Coast Cichlids
  - Alaska SeaLife Center
  - Vancouver Aquarium
  - Seattle Aquarium
  - Georgia Aquarium
  - SEA LIFE Orlando Aquarium
  - Miami Seaquarium
  - Theater of the Sea
  - Key West Aquarium
  - The History of Diving Museum
  - KeyZ Charters
  - St. Augustine Aquarium
  - Living Color Aquariums / Mat Roy – Fish Tank Kings
  - ATM Acrylic Tank Manufacturing / Tanked
  - The Cowfish Sushi Burger Bar Orlando / The Cowfish North Carolina
  - SeaWorld Orlando
  - Florida Frag Swap
- Welcome Corporate Sponsors
2013
- Services launched (Website, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, etc)
- 24,000 hobbyists on Facebook received our content (period: three weeks)

Sponsorship Opportunities

We are always on the lookout for new opportunities to establish strategic partnerships with innovative industry members. We request that all of our curated sponsors provide our organization with an annual allotment of complimentary product for review, use, and distribution. In return, our organization will provide product reviews and/or articles about the product, hands-on demonstrations during specific events, and inclusion of your brand/logo on our website showcasing your organization as an official sponsor. Understand that by providing complimentary products to our organization, you are engaging in a marketing campaign, not a charitable contribution. We gauge our promotional content for each brand based both on the individual value of a product, and the accumulated annual allotment value received. In short, the more prizes we have made available by you for our subscribers, the more exposure your brand or product will receive.

If you have any special requests, or are ready to proceed, contact us so we can grow together!

Advertise With Us

It is through your generous support that we are able to provide outstanding content and events to members. We offer several campaign options to suit your needs:

Website
- Sponsored articles
- Product reviews
- Ad space/banner ads
- Press releases
Social Media
- Custom marketing campaigns
- Product release/promotion
Events
- Promotion
- Coverage
- Production/coordination
- Staffing

Have you been burned on website ad space before? Banner ads aren't dead; they are simply being blocked by ad-blocking software. By leveraging custom code that constantly detects and adapts, we are able to ensure successful delivery of all promotional content featured on our website, yielding exceptional results.

Our statistics are published regularly, and ad-space pricing is available for our sponsors and advertising partners to review. Due to the intricacies involved with social media campaigns and events, we can provide a custom quote once we have had the opportunity to review your request.

Once you are ready to proceed, contact us so we can grow together!

Central Florida Aquarium Society

A Fusion of Aquaculture, Ingenuity, and Art!