About ApexSpeed

Beginning in late 2000, ApexSpeed has progressed from multiple individual class websites to the collective community for all amateur formula cars that it is today. ApexSpeed is home to every class of open-wheeled road race cars, including Formula Continental (FC), Formula Ford (FF), Formula Atlantic (FA), Formula 1000 (FB), Formula 500 (F500), Formula First (FST), Formula Vee (FV), Formula Mazda (FM), and Formula Enterprise (FE), as well as home to all vintage formula car classes and autocrossing, too.

Why Advertise with ApexSpeed?

ApexSpeed.com is the single largest audience of consumers of your products and services. We offer fast-moving and informative community discussion forums and a very active classified marketplace for users to buy, sell and trade their cars, parts and other racing-related items. If you want direct focused marketing of your company, you cannot get better exposure and visibility than with ApexSpeed advertising.

We are the largest amateur formula racing community on the Internet, and we are constantly growing. ApexSpeed has almost 9,500 registered users and this number is increasing daily. We independently serve over 220,000 page views and 6,400 unique agents per day, while averaging over 110GB of bandwidth in web traffic each month. We also receive over 14 million individual file "hits" monthly.

Currently, ad banners receive an average of 38,000 page impressions each month (per ad banner), with a 0.10% web standard click-through rate—and historically, our readership is very loyal to our advertisers. The new structure for advertising options in the 2009 version of ApexSpeed will only increase the footprint and visibility of your targeted marketing.

Site statistics as of August 2009:

Individual page views: 6,606,434

Data Transferred: 112 gigs per month

Individual file "hits": 14,426,152

Current registered users: 9,495

Total discussion threads: 34,307

Total individual posts: 223,106

Advertising Banners

Ad Banner Details

For 2009, ApexSpeed now offers ad banners in various sizes and campaign lengths to suit any advertising budget. From new larger and individually featured main banners to affordable quarter banners, there are plenty of options for your company's promotional needs.

• Full Size Header Banner: 468 x 70 pixels (animated)

• Full Size Left Side Banner: 120 x 240 pixels (animated)

• 1/2 Left Side Banner: 120 x 120 pixels (non-animated)

• 1/4 Left Side Banner: 120 x 60 pixels (non-animated)

Locatons and sizes for all banners can be viewed in their actual size and positioning on the new site layout by clicking on the graphic above.

Banner Specifications

Banners can be provided as GIF, PNG or JPG format (Flash also accepted, please inquire for more details of specific technical requirements), or we can produce a banner for you, if needed. Banners will run from the receipt of payment through the duration of the prepaid ad run—no exceptions. Ad banners can run for 1 month, 3 month, 6 month, or 12 month intervals, offering discounted rates for longer durations. See the Advertising Beneftis Matrix graphic—click here for a 1.8 mg printable PDF version—for all of the features offered with each individual banner campaign package.

All current advertisers are also allowed promotional and classified posts in the forums to promote, advertise and market to the ApexSpeed community (including our Business Classifieds forum). ApexSpeed advertisers are also offered custom user avatars of their company logo to identify themselves to the readership. All that is needed is a company logo that is larger than 100 x 100 pixels in size at 72 dpi.

ApexSpeed has an ad campaign that will fit your needs and budget. Please contact us for current 2009-2010 pricing. We look forward to working with you and creating a lasting, successful relationship for years to come.

Are you interested in being even more visible and a larger supporting component on ApexSpeed.com? We are also now offering a new opportunity for companies to sponsor specific class forums that would feature your banner and logo at the top of every single forum page for that class (or forum section).

(4) Company Representative users with 'ApexSpeed Forum Sponsor’ rights and corresponding title
Business-related sales and promotional posts allowed in any Classified forum
350px x 30px images in forum signatures
Increased PM Inbox capacity (1000 items)
Unlimited image upload capacity
Unlimited posts in Business Classifieds section
Ability to respond to retail requests with sales and marketing-oriented responses
Forum Sponsor Logo for one full year
Company logo in front of forum titles
Exclusive forum title graphic in forum of your selection
"Stickied" promotional threads that will always appear at the top of their sponsored forums

For those companies not wanting a graphic banner on ApexSpeed, and who would like to be eligible to post things for sale in the Classifieds, here's your chance to clear out some merchandise and maybe offer specials to forum members. For $10 a month, you have the ability to post Retail Classifieds for your company, and promote items, goods and services that are motorsports related in the Business & Retail Classifieds Forum.

How do you subscribe to the Business & Retail Classifieds? It's VERY simple and you can set it all up yourself.

First, click the link at the top of the page marked "User CP" to enter your personal user control panel. Next, on the bottom of the page on the left side under Miscellaneous, click the link for "Paid Subscriptions."

From there, you pull the drop down to reflect the 30-day subscription to the Business Classified section. The remainder of the ordering will be prompted through using PayPal as a payment system. Once completed, your user status will automatically be updated to "Business Classified Subscriber," and you will have posting access to that forum for 30 days from your purchase. You may only post your retail or company-oriented sales and offers in the Business & Retail Classifieds section, and you will only be able to create new posts in that section for the duration of your subscription.

 

ApexSpeed reserves the right to change, modify or adjust advertising rates at any time. ApexSpeed also reserves the right to refuse any advertiser for any reason, or cancel any active advertising campaign at any point.