Advertise on Citizen Kane
Reach the people who live in Kane County: the calendar, the Monday Digest email, and our Facebook and Instagram.
Boosts are free for local events during our beta. These are the prices once it ends; we'll announce the date in the Monday Digest well ahead. Organizers from outside Kane County can submit now, and their events go up once we start taking payments online.
Events
| Kane County event | Event outside Kane County | |
|---|---|---|
| Post an event | Free | $15 per event |
| Boost: your event's week (the full Feature) | $20 | $40 |
| Boost: each Coming soon week before it | $10 | $20 |
- You pick the weeks, up to 6. A festival might take its own week plus two Coming soon weeks: $40.
- Local nonprofits, schools and churches Boost at half price.
- “Local” goes by where the event happens. Fredonia, Hatch and the Arizona Strip count as local.
- Public notices and civic meetings are always free and never featured.
What each level gets
| Free post (local) | Paid post (outside) | Boosted: event week | Boosted: Coming soon week | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event page: flyer, tickets, Going/Interested, map, add to calendar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| On the calendar and in search, with Google event listings | ✓ | ✓, with its town | ✓ | ✓ |
| In the Monday Digest's day-by-day list | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Day-before reminder to everyone who tapped Going or Interested | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Featured badge, pinned at the top of the calendar and homepage | — | — | ✓ | In “Coming soon” |
| A red spotlight with your blurb in that Monday's digest | — | — | ✓, in red in its day | ✓, under “Coming soon” |
| Listed first, in red, in our Monday and daily Facebook and Instagram posts | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Facebook and Instagram Stories | — | — | “Featured this week” and “Tomorrow” | One “Coming soon” |
| An Instagram Story with an @mention and a link, a few days before | — | — | ✓ | — |
How a Boost works
- Post your event, and tick Boost this event on the form (or Boost an event you already posted from your account).
- Pick the weeks, up to 6: your event's own week, and any Coming soon weeks in the 8 weeks before it. Festivals and ticketed shows do best with a couple of Coming soon weeks.
- Write a two-sentence blurb for the digest spotlight.
- We review it like any event. Nothing is charged until it's approved, and a declined Boost is refunded in full.
Each Monday has 3 spots for events that week and 2 Coming soon spots, so a Featured spot stands out. When a Monday is full, the form shows it.
Businesses
- Kane County businesses: a free directory listing (name, hours, phone, map, website, description, your events).
- Featured listing: $9 / $19 / $35 a month by company size (1–3, 4–9, 10+ employees). It adds specials and news (on your page, our Specials page and to your followers), Featured job posts at no extra cost, the full monthly report (calls, website clicks, directions and Google searches), the Featured badge, first place in your category, and a photo gallery.
- Businesses from outside Kane County don't get a free listing: listings start at $18 a month.
- Hiring? See job post prices.