About

The Sun is Northern Santa Barbara County's news and entertainment weekly, aiming to educate, inform, and delight readers looking to learn the latest in local government, business, sports, arts, and more. Since its founding in 2000, the paper's staff has committed to reporting timely stories with a local focus.

The Sun is published every Thursday for your enjoyment and distributed to more than 40,000 readers in Northern Santa Barbara County and Southern San Luis Obispo County. It's available free of charge, limited to one copy per reader.

Visit www.santamariasun.com to access the current issue, exclusive content, archives, and a current community calendar of events and listings.

Capabilities
  • Desktop Display
    • Brand Integrations
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    • Sponsored Posts
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    • Native Ads
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    • High-Impact (Takeovers, Billboards, Overlays, Sliders, Skins)
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    • Rich Media (Expandable & Non-Expandable)
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  • Mobile Display
    • Mobile Rich Media (Including Interstitials & Expandables)
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    • Tablet Traffic
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    • Native & Custom Mobile Executions
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    • Requires SDK Integration
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  • Email
  • Social
  • Desktop Display, Mobile Display, Email, Social
  • CPM
  • Web Publisher
  • Headline:
    Northern Santa Barbara News and Entertainment Weekly
  • Self / Managed Service:
    Managed Service
  • Industries
    Food & Beverage, Sports
  • Key Differentiator
    The Sun is Northern Santa Barbara County's award-winning weekly with a circulation of 18,000 papers weekly throughout northern Santa Barbara County to more than 53,000 residents, visitors, and college students. With controlled placement at 450 locations in racks and outdoor boxes, hotels and motels, retail stores, shopping centers, restaurants, and nightclubs, as well as Hancock College, and area chambers of commerce, wide readership and high visibility are maintained. The Sun is published every Thursday morning. Ad insertion orders and copy are due at 4 p.m. on Friday before publication. Ad proofs are available for corrections only, not for changes. Ad cancellations cannot be accepted after 5 p.m. the Friday prior to publication.
Site Traffic
  • 2264138 Global Rank
  • 474761
    United States
  • 37.9 K Estimated Visits
Traffic Sources
  • Search
    73.51%
  • Direct
    24.03%
  • Mail
    1.84%
  • Social
    0.61%
  • Display
    0.00%
  • Referrals
    0.00%
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Alexa Traffic Data
Global Rank 967,102
153,593
United States Rank 50,552
122,982
United States Page Views 97.4%
2.4%
Top Countries
Top Search Keywords
  • Santa Maria
Santa Maria Sun advertising reaches 37.9k visitors across desktop and mobile web, in countries such as United States. Pricing models they offer are CPM on channels such as Display, Mobile, Email, Social Advertising on Santa Maria Sun will allow you to reach consumers in industries or verticals such as Food & Beverage, Sports.

They are headquartered at San Luis Obispo, CA, United States, and have 2 advertising & marketing contacts listed on Kochava.

Santa Maria Sun works with Advertising technology companies such as Openads/OpenX, DoubleClick.Net, Google Adsense, Google Publisher Tag, Media Innovation Group, Google AdSense Integrator, FLoC.