Ontario Visited
Website Information
Ontario Visited Websites are owned and managed by Festival & Event Services Inc. and have been operating since January 2007. The first festival visited was the Elmvale Maple Syrup Festival (April 2007), followed by the Spring Toad Festival at the Toronto Zoo. Since then Festival & Event Services Inc. owners, Gary and Judi McWilliams, and their Festival Nomad Correspondents have visited over 500 festivals, event, communities, fairs, heritage sites and events and attractions. We are dedicated to discovering, visiting and promoting Ontario’s communities and their unique events.
What’s inside our websites?
CONTENT RICH ~ VISITOR EXPERIENCES, DISCOVERIES & ADVENTURES
ü Over 700 Ontario Visited Website Pages
ü Over 300 current Visited Articles on Ontario Visited Websites
ü Complimentary THE INSIDER e-Newsletter has been continuously published since December 2007
ü Our Ontario Visited Adventures & Visited Articles contain “Visitor experiences” presented through various platforms ~ Article Pages you can enjoy YouTube Videos, photos and short stories
SOCIAL MEDIA
ü Our informative INSIDE SCOOP Blog, produced and written by Judi “Scoop” McWilliams, contains interviews with many industry leaders and celebrities … NOW with YouTube Video Interviews and Photographs
ü Original Content TWITTED out over 9,800 TWEETS, promoting hundreds of Ontario festivals and events.
ü FACEBOOK, active since the beginning of 2015, is now sending out hundreds MESSAGES per week, including many fun and informative videos
ü Our YOU TUBE Channel currently contains over 200 exclusively produced videos
ü Over the past 10 years, our ONTARIO EVENT NEWS page has posted thousands of information releases for events and communities. Each month, we receive hundreds of information and press releases from across Ontario.
ü Our OH CANADA EH! GAME offers visitors to our websites unique and fun questions about CANADA. Each Oh Canada Eh! Game video is “shot” on location, starting in July 1, 2015, ongoing weekly YouTube Videos
ü Instagram now attracting “followers” with timely great PHOTOGRAPHS sharing in our discoveries and adventures
GEOGRAPHICAL
ü Our Festival Nomad Correspondents have visited and written about communities and events in all Ontario Regions, including the Northern Ontario Region
ü Our current Ontario demographic (Visitors reading more) are ~ SOUTHWEST REGION 21% ~ HAMILTON-NIAGARA REGION 29% ~ GTA 11% ~ DURHAM-YORK REGION 11% ~ KAWARTHAS-NORTHUMBERLAND REGION 11% ~ SOUTHEASTERN REGION ~ OTTAWA VALLEY (includes Northern areas) 11%
ü Our Global Audience includes visitors to our websites coming from Asia, Europe, Russia, South America and the United States. Our current demographic percentages are ~ CANADA 46% ~ UNITED STATES 25% ~ OTHER 15%
ü Audience Reach ~ At October 2016 (10 Months) over 3.8 Million “Page Views”; over 8.6 Million “Hits”; average 65,000 “visits” per month
WEBSITES
SERVICES
ü Ontario Festivals Visited Twitter
ü Ontario Festivals Visited Facebook
ü Ontario Festivals Visited You Tube Channel
PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
ü Ontario Event News Submissions (COMPLIMENTARY)
ü Ontario Event Directory Listing (COMPLIMENTARY)
ü Ontario Festivals Visited Twitter Tweet Submissions (QUOTES ON REQUEST)
ü Ontario Festivals Visited Facebook Message Submissions (QUOTES ON REQUEST)
ü Oh Canada Eh! Game! Program (QUOTES ON REQUEST)
ü Visited Article Program (QUOTES ON REQUEST
ü Ontario Festivals Visited You Tube Channel Videos (SEE MARKETING CAMPAIGNS)
ü INSIDE SCOOP Interviews (SEE MARKETING CAMPAIGNS)
ü Ontario Event Directory Marketing Campaigns (SEE MARKETING CAMPAIGNS)
ü Display Ad Marketing Campaigns (SEE MARKETING CAMPAIGNS)
ü Slider Photo Marketing Campaigns (SEE MARKETING CAMPAIGNS)
“Let us help you promote your community, festival, event, fair, museum or heritage site. We’ve got the perfect audience!”
