Advertising Opportunity
RateDesi offers a great advertising opportunity for desi websites, event promoters, and media/entertainment outlets. Visitors of RateDesi are more interested in their own culture than the average desi and hence are highly interested in visiting desi websites, attending desi events, and watching/listening to desi media.

For those promoters who are looking to advertise their parties/events, RateDesi is the ultimate website to do so. The desi party websites attract the same users over and over again. RateDesi attracts the partygoers as well as the users who normally don't visit the desi party websites. The only way to grow your events is to find new customers. RateDesi is the perfect medium to do so.

RateDesi attracts a high number of younger users. These younger users are the ones that will be driving your business in a few years. Get them hooked early, or your competition will get their business for years to come.

Fun Facts

• RateDesi is the first result on google for the search term "desi".
• RateDesi was started in January of 2003.
• RateDesi is the world's largest desi youth website.

Traffic Statistics

Daily Pageviews: 500,000
Daily Uniques: 16,000 - 18,000

Users By Country (top 3)
USA
UK
Canada

Users By State (top 10 within the USA)
New York - 20.5%
California - 15.0%
New Jersey - 9.0%
Texas - 9.0%
Illinois - 8.0%
Florida - 5.5%
Virginia - 4.5%
Georgia - 3.0%
Pennsylvania - 2.5%
Maryland - 2.0%

Users by Age

Alexa Ranking
According to Alexa.com, a site which extensively samples all Internet traffic and produces a daily updated list of the most popular websites, RateDesi is the 14,380th most popular website on the net as of Feb 12, 2005. In comparison, every other desi youth website has a worse ranking (a few popular ones are listed below. Stats are from Feb 12, 2005):

• Desi-planet.com - 24,715
  
• Desiparty.com - 39,521
  
• Desiclub.com - 60,080
  
• Teenstation.com - 62,355
  

More importantly, over 50 out of each one million web users visit RateDesi. Comparatively Desiclub.com only attracts 16 out of each one million web users. In other words, three times as many people visit RateDesi as do Desiclub. It would be a mistake to only advertise on the desi party websites while ignoring RateDesi.com. The following graph illustrates the difference:

Ad Formats & Placement
RateDesi has all kinds of advertising options available. We offer standard banners as well as other creative solutions. One of the most popular options is to send an internal "private message" to all RateDesi users. This method of advertising is especially effective because users are inclined to check their private messages and will take notice to the actual content of the message. Below is a screenshot of the RateDesi homepage with some available advertising spaces, the second screenshot is of a received private message, and the third screenshot is of a profile page (view.php).

Home Page Ad

Private Message Ad

Profile Page Ad

The three above screenshots are just a representative sample of possible advertising locations on RateDesi. There are several other pages with advertising possibilities. We will work with you to find the right placement and size for your ad. We offer:

• Home Page Ads - both 300x250 and 468x60
• Side Menu Ads - these are the ads shown in the right column. They are displayed on every page
• Profile Page Ads - Display your 468x60 ad directly above a person's "main picture"
• Private Message Ads
• Email newsletter

For your special promotions, we can place ads in unusual attention grabbing spots. Contact us (email: advertise AT ratedesi.com) to work something out. For example, the RateDesi homepage can be changed to a special splash page just for your promotion.

Ad Pricing
To discuss ad prices, please contact us at advertise AT ratedesi.com. We typically offer a flat fee per ad (ie per week or month etc). We also offer discounts for longer running ads. Typically, the minimum price to run a campaign on RateDesi is $100.