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ABOUT SMASHING MAGAZINE Founded in September 2006, we have established Smashing Magazine as the #1 resource for web designer and developers. Through delivering quality articles and tutorials since over a decade, we are helping thousands of product and UI designers, developers, and managers to get better at their profession, and made Smashing an incredible and reliable resource for everyone who works on digital products, interfaces and apps. How can we help you? Let s have a look over the next few pages! Monthly pageviews 2,500,000 Unique monthly visitors: 1,700,000 Twitter followers: Our Metrics Thank you for your effort and the great articles you provide to us. The articles I read here nearly every day have improved my skills a lot. This is one of the reasons why my adblocker has a green thumbs up on SM. Simon Wermuth Thank you Smashing Magazine for taking the time to address this important issue in a caring and thorough way. Robert Cagna All I really intended to say, is that I really love SM publishing, you are the best <3. Ivan Saveliev 1,030,000 295,000 I cannot express in words how much admiration I have for your team in accomplishing this. A huge feat and worthy of acclaim. Subscribers to our RSS Feed: Dave Thackeray Facebook friends: 258,000 Newsletter subscribers 217,000 02/08
SMASHING FACEBOOK POSTS To start educating our readers about your service, we recommend a combination of social media ads, plus an on-site ad and an editorial sponsor in our Smashing Newsletter, all of which have a combined reach of 4.3 million unique subscribers and magazine readers. 01 NATIVE FACEBOOK POST We ll propose a copy that fits with our editorial tone and voice. For higher engagement rates, we recommend not to use tracking links we ll be happy to send you the metrics afterward. List price per post: USD 1,000 Number of posts: 1 Publishing date: TBD Facebook Fans: Fan page: www.facebook.com/smashmag 295,000 example post 03/08
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