Advertise on Ride the City

We’re all about promoting bicycling and supporting products that help people ride safely, carry gear efficiently, and look stylish in the process. If your company sells bike-related goods or services or is somehow related to bicycling, please feel free to contact us.

Our advertising system is simple: we charge you for each month your ad appears on Ride the City's site, and guarantee that your ads will be shown to users at least 95 percent of the time for the period you’ve purchased. (We say that to allow for random events and errors, but your ad will appear on virtually every page load.) For nonprofits that promote bicycling, we provide free advertising.

Advertise on the main page

• Size: 140 pixels wide x 64 pixels high
• Fee: $30 per month per city. (Currently we're in New York City, Chicago, Austin, Louisville, San Diego, and Seattle. We're adding new cities all the time.)

Advertise on the blog

• Size: 165 pixels wide x 100 pixels high
• Fee: $50 per month.

Ride the City traffic

For the rolling two-month period ending October 22, 2009, Ride the City averaged 1,300 pageviews per day across all cities and the blog. Users averaged about 6 minutes on the site per visit and generated more than 1,700 bike routes per day.

For more information, please contact sales@ridethecity.com

Advertising rates and sizes are current as of November 1, 2009