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JUST IN! October 2011 sets a record as the first month with more than 1 million WSB pageviews – 1,081,362 total (Google Analytics).

In October, WSB also won the KING 5 “Best of Western Washington” vote for the second consecutive year. In June, WSB won the citywide Best News Website award in the Seattle Weekly Web Awards, following May’s honors for “Best Online Community Engagement” in the Pacific Northwest Society of Professional Journalists awards. THANK YOU!

(WSB everywhere! iPad photo courtesy Christopher Boffoli

JOIN THE SPONSOR TEAM ON WEST SEATTLE’S #1 NEWS SOURCE – WEST SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUSINESS OF THE YEAR (2009)!
(e-mail patrick@wsbsales.com)

**NEW: CURRENT LIST OF SPONSORS HERE, IN DIRECTORY FORMAT**

With 35,000+ homes/businesses visiting at least once weekly – including 10,000+ that visit at least once daily – West Seattle’s only 24/7 news source is also West Seattle’s #1 news source.

**Info below is being updated in June 2011 … thanks for your patience … lots has happened in the interim!**

WSB readership/participation just kept growing in 2010. Final count 9,335,465 pageviews (per Google Analytics) – up 12% from 2009, and six times the traffic we had in 2007, the year we first started selling advertising – but our rates have remained the same, so our fellow local businesses can affordably and effectively market themselves while the economy gets back to growing.

WSB’S GOT THE BUZZ!

NEW! National Online Journalism Award for “Community Collaboration,” Oct. 30, 2010
NEW! KING 5 “Best of Western Washington” Best Neighborhood (Site), October 27, 2010
NEW! WSB featured in TIME Magazine, August 2, 2010
NEW! Seattle Weekly readers’ pick for best neighborhood-news site
NEW! Swept both applicable categories in Seattle Weekly’s “Best of the Web” Awards
NEW! WSB editor Tracy Record featured in Seattle Woman Magazine; WSB featured in Seattle Business Magazine

ALSO: When Google released its year-end “Google Zeitgeist” list of the most-searched terms for 2009, for the entire city of Seattle – West Seattle Blog ranked #5 on the list – the ONLY news website among “most-searched local terms” (see the list here - the top 5 also included the Sounders and Seahawks!). WSB gets you citywide attention, not just your (spectacular-as-it-is) backyard. Hailed in a citywide Top 10 list for our work on Twitter – another place we publish West Seattle news (including lots of business info), with links that bring thousands of tweeters each week right back to the WSB site to read the stories.

EARLIER: Groundbreaking journalistic collaboration with the region’s largest news organization, the Seattle Times (announced 8/09). … Voted best blog-format neighborhood news site by Seattle Weekly readers, for the second consecutive year. Credited in citywide media – TV, online, print – for breaking major story on reservoir-waterproofing failure (WSB story 7/13/09). Recent national and local media coverage: WSB editor Tracy Record interviewed for NPR’s “On the Media” and Seattle Magazine. Several appearances on KUOW’s “Weekday,” “The Conversation” to talk about West Seattle and White Center stories and events.

WSB IN THE COMMUNITY

2010, co-sponsored by WSB:
Special Olympics Polar Plunge
West Seattle 5K
West Seattle Garden Tour
Fundraising brunch for Nature Consortium
Instruments of Change benefit for West Seattle Food Bank
Taste of West Seattle benefiting West Seattle Helpline
Admiral Neighborhood Association’s Summer Concerts at Hiawatha
2nd annual West Seattle Junction Car Show
Morgan Junction Community Festival
WestSide Baby “Stuff the Bus”
West Seattle Outdoor Movies
West Seattle Summer Fest

Also
Holy Rosary HEART Auction program advertiser
Seattle Lutheran High School basketball program advertiser
Continuing sponsor, West Seattle Volunteer Recognition

2009:
Co-sponsor, Winter Movies on the Wall, Summer Outdoor Movies on the Wall, Hometown Holidays; co-sponsor and tabler, 2nd annual Sustainable West Seattle Festival; co-sponsor, West Seattle Summer Fest; co-sponsor, Admiral Neighborhood Association Summer Concerts at Hiawatha; co-sponsor, WestSide Baby “Stuff the Bus“; co-sponsor, 2nd annual Junction Car Show; co-sponsor, Beer Church Turkey Bowl fundraiser for West Seattle Food Bank; co-sponsor, Eat Local Now; co-sponsor, Lafayette Elementary Walk-a-Thon 2009; presenter of 5th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day; also tabling to meet the community at Gathering of Neighbors, Delridge Day, Morgan Community Festival, Westwood Village Street Festival

2008 honors included Seattle Police Citizen Appreciation Award, “Seattle Magazine Readers’ Choice, Best Neighborhood Blog” (after November 2008 issue honored WSB editor TR as one of the city’s “Power 25″), Seattle Weekly “Best Neighborhood Blog” chosen by both the Weekly staff and the Readers’ Poll!

Grow your business by being part of the site that has the buzz — the news — the information — the community. We offer 2 types of ad opportunities: First, in our sidebar, which currently appears on every page of the site. Also available, inside-page-sponsorship banner opportunities.

Want to talk about growing your business with sponsorship exposure on WSB? Call WSB’s business-development director Patrick Sand @ 206/293-6302 or e-mail patrick@wsbsales.com — thank you!

AGAIN – CURRENT LIST OF SPONSORS IS NOW HERE!

(WSB advertises too … here’s our banner sponsoring the King County Water Taxi 2008-2009)

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