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Online Sponsorship
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IR Magazine
Internet Retailer delivers maximum value to subscribers and advertisers through award-winning editorial content, diversified circulation and competitive pricing. Internet Retailer boasts the largest circulation of any retail business magazine with 44,060 first year direct request subscribers. IR's subscribers reach the top ranking executives across all retail channels. IR print offers a variety of ad sizes to meet any budget or initiative.
- Published Monthly
- Subscribers: 44,061

Top 500 Guide
The acclaimed Top 500 Guide is the most widely used and quoted resource in the e-retailing industry. The 448 page guide includes exclusive profiles and proprietary ranking of the 500 largest e-retailers in the U.S. based on current online sales, in addition 160 other facts. Advertising in the Annual Top 500 guide is sure to get your company noticed!
- Published annually in May
- Estimated copies sold: 12,000, bonus distribution at IRCE

Guide to Search Marketing
This research report will analyze all aspects of search marketing in the E-Commerce Industry, including search engine optimization, paid search marketing and site search. Retailers in all merchant channels will learn what sales marketing techniques are most effective in expanding online sales and what technologies and resources are available to help them achieve that! This is a great guide for providers of search marketing solutions to reach their target market.
- Published annually in July
- Estimated copies sold: 4,000

Guide to Mobile Commerce
The very hottest topic in e-commerce today is the explosive growth in mobile commerce applications. It's a whole new e-commerce market with its own rules, designs, parameters, and marketing. In this inaugural edition, the 352-page Internet Retailer Guide to Mobile Commerce provides research, insight, analysis, profiles and case studies that teach why M-Commerce has suddenly exploded, where it is going and which e-retailers and e-marketers are leading the way.
- Launch in September
- Estimated copies sold: 5,000, bonus distribution at MCF

Guide to Retail Web Site Design & Usability
This guide is the premier source for exclusive research on the proven design principles and newest practices used in the design of E-Commerce web sites that sell. In addition, the guide contains design case studies profiling web sites noted for design leadership, case studies on performing sites detailing successful design characteristics as well as the largest database of web design solutions and resources. If your company provides these solutions, enhance your solutions to this dedicated and targeted audience.
- Published annually in December
- Estimated copies sold: 5,000, bonus distribution at IRWD

Web Site Advertising / internetretailer.com
Welcome to the newly redesigned and smart user centric InternetRetailer.com - where delivery of practical e-commerce news and analysis has been taken to a new level, with the addition of reader comment, video and other high-impact graphics, blogs, interactive social media and personalization. IR recognizes the importance of our web site - it is the core of our enterprise - and have built the site to be not only the portal for online retailing content, but also the source of applications designed to create a community atmosphere within the e-commerce industry. The design communicates our powerful brand and delivers a personalized web experience that will keep our 150,000 unique visitors frequenting the site on a daily basis. We offer a variety of advertising positions in many price points, contextual advertising on key categories, content delivery and lead generation as well as a superior Vendor Directory.
- Unique visitors: 150,000
- Monthly Impressions: TBD

Web-site Advertising / top500guide.com
The #1 data directory in e-retailing is now a powerful web-site offering robust report functionality, profiles, ranking and editorial content on our top 500 online retailers. This subscription based web-site has more than 2,000 subscribers with each visit averaging more than 12 minutes and including access to more than 15 pages per visit. The subscribers to this site are the most dedicated followers of our e-retail rankings and detailed reporting, and our insightful analysis of growth and other industry trends. Executive is likely to be a great influence on purchasing and recommending e-retailing strategies and e-commerce purchases. Place your ad on this site and gain valuable impressions and leads.
- Subscribers: 3,000
- Monthly Impressions: TBD

Newsletter Sponsorship - IRNewslink
IRNewslink is relied on to deliver daily news to more than 38,000 e-newsletter subscribers. The demographics of our subscribers are similar to that of Internet Retailer and the news has a different concentration each day, Monday - IRNewMakers includes profiles and news on e-commerce executives and company trends. Tuesday is IRN News Edition and includes the week's staff written news stories on e-retailing and press releases. Wednesday is our Top 500 Watch and Thursday is topic focused on a particular technology or service or Industry event. Get recognized on a daily bases by targeting your companies solution in our Newsletter sponsorship opportunities.
- Subscribers: 38,000

Newsletter Sponsorship - E-Commerce Technology Report
This is our newest a new e-mail newsletter delivering timely, practical and compelling reports on developments in e-commerce technology each week for retail, manufacturing, travel/hotel, pharmacy, healthcare, financial, event ticketing, government, internet solution providers and other relevant e-commerce businesses. Each newsletter will highlight new product introductions, contracts awarded and vendor financial reports; company names will be hyper-linked to stories on the web site.
- Subscribers: 3,000

E-Mail Promotion
With 38,000 current opt-in e-mail addresses, IRNewslinks subscriber base is the largest e-mail list of e-retailing executives in the world. Promote your new technologies, white papers, webinars and offerings to this influential group of e-commerce executives.

IRCE 2010
The 2010 Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition, which is being held June 8-11 at Chicago's McCormick Place West, is the world's largest e-commerce event with 175 speakers, 6,000 attendees, and more than 400 exhibiting companies. While all exhibit and sponsorship opportunities for this event were sold out in May, prime exhibit space and sponsorships are still available for the seventh annual IRCE 2011, which will be held next June 14-17 at the San Diego Convention Center.
Sold Out for 2010
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Mobile Commerce Forum 2010
October 11-13, 2010, marks the launch of Internet Retailer's third annual conference - the first annual Mobile Commerce Forum, which is expected to draw 800 e-commerce professionals who will hear presentations from 35 experts on all aspects of the sprouting mobile commerce market and visit exhibits of 35 solutions providers offering a variety of new mobile commerce applications. The show will be held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, the site of the inaugural meeting of IRCE six years ago.
Prospectus Coming Fall 2010
- 2010 Contract

Web Design & Usability Conference 2011
The fourth annual Internet Retailer Web Design & Usability Conference is expected to draw a record 1,000 e-retailing professionals to hear 50 speakers highlight the latest practices and tools for designing retail web sites that sell. The three-day event, to be held at February 14-16, 2011, at the Hyatt Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando, will also feature 50 exhibiting companies displaying a variety of solutions to enhance the design and usability of retail web sites.
Contract Coming Fall 2010
Prospectus Coming Fall 2010