Marketing Packages

included with FQJ Annual Sponsorships

Welcome! We appreciate your interest in becoming an annual sponsor of French Quarter Journal. As part of our community team, you’ll be supporting a unique local journalism and documentation project while reaping a wide range of marketing benefits for an exceptionally reasonable cost.

You’ll find our journal’s basic metrics in the drop-down boxes below, with marketing packages for each level of sponsorship spelled out beneath. Please let us know if you have any questions.

  • ~ ​French Quarter Journal focuses on the Quarter as a community.  While the Quarter certainly knows how to throw a party, what makes it an international treasure is its historic – and continuing – role as a cultural cradle.

    ~ Our mission is to explore our neighborhood’s hive of creativity that offers some of the most interesting architecture, history, food, art, and music in the country. Everyone, wherever they are, deserves the opportunity to experience a French Quarter state of mind from time to time.

    ~ We shine a light on the committed residents, feisty entrepreneurs, long-time businesses, and cutting-edge writers, artists and musicians who make the community both magical and memorable.

    ~ Our digital journal publishes up to three new features every week, each diving deep into local culture and history.

    ~ Our team is made up of top-notch freelance writers, photographers and editors. While many are seasoned professionals with decades of experience, we also feature work by talented emerging writers.

  • ~ In 2023, our site had 122k unique visitors who hailed from every state and 82 countries.

    ~ We’ve also built a strong local and drive-market readership in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama and Georgia.

    ~ Many ex-pats and repeat visitors around the country are loyal readers because of our great insider stories. New Orleanians love them too.

    ~ Search engines favor fresh, original content like ours, so our stories often pop up at or close to the top. For instance, Google “Tennessee Williams French Quarter.”

    ~ Our publisher founded one of the first digital lifestyle magazines in the Gulf-South in 2011 (the Bay St. Louis-based Shoofly Magazine, sold in 2022) and thousands of those regional readers also follow FQJ.

    • Our FB page - 29k+ followers. Facebook is consistently rated as the most effective platform to promote events.

    • Our Instagram – 13k+

    ~We’ve grown this dynamic audience organically, with numbers increasing steadily.

    ~Our stories, photos and images often receive thousands of social media reactions.

    ~ For example, one recent FB post reached 56k people and had 5,900 engagements in two days, far outstripping most area publications, even ones with many times our number of followers.

    ~Our bi-monthly newsletters reaches 5k+ very engaged subscribers and the list is growing every week.

    ~ Our newsletter open rate is consistently 45 - 60%, again, far above industry standards.

    ~ Check out a typical newsletter!

  • ~ FQJ is entirely funded by Annual Sponsors and our Readers’ Circle donations. This allows us to offer readers all over the world the opportunity to read and share our stories without a subscription. And our elegant presentation allows for a focused reading experience that engenders confidence and loyalty.

    ~ We don't have a sales staff to support. Instead, we form long-term relationships with community partners. So our sponsorship rates are extremely reasonable – the lion’s share of our budget goes toward paying our creative team.

    ~ You’ll find more details on our dedicated How It Works page.

  • In addition to the individual sponsorship benefits listed in the packages below, we offer:

    ~ Sticky content. In 2023, the average time readers spent with our stories ranged from 3:35 to 8:52 minutes. Across all industries, the average time spent on a page is only 52 seconds. In fact, for one of our most popular recent stories had a total of 450 hours of reading time (or 19 days).

    ~ No frustrating firewalls. That means readers can easily share our French Quarter stories with friends, family and business associates around the world.

    ~ Fresh content and consistent outreach to give your brand more exposure. Our experience shows that subscribers often forward our emails to friends, family and clients across the country, while social media shares for stories are rapid-fire.

    ~ We play favorites. While we never sell content to anyone and will cover good stories for non-sponsors as well as sponsors, we're always on the lookout for opportunities to give our sponsors exposure.

    For example: If you're involved in a newsworthy event, we'll help get the word out. Or we might use your location for a photo shoot and tag you on social media.

    ~ A long shelf-life. Our top-notch writers and photographers produce work readers love to share and share again. This rich, original content gives French Quarter Journal pieces great search engine (SEO) rankings (meaning our articles tend to come up toward the top in online searches).

    And since each of our stories is archived and easily discoverable, you'll get additional exposure with every read - far into the future.

Sponsorship Rates and Details

French Quarter Journal offers two types of sponsorships and a special category of Community Cornerstones. These exceptional marketing packages are available to businesses, organizations and individuals.  Click on the arrows below to view a full list of benefits in each category.

  • ~ Prime Sponsorships are limited to 32 for maximum exposure. You will also be purchasing an exclusive in most business categories. One month free with annual payment.

    Marketing

    ~ Exceptional event promotions, including sharing on social, newsletters and featured as "Don't Miss" happenings on our popular French Quarter Events page (value up to $1200 per event).

    ~ Announcement on social media and newsletter when sponsorship begins ($600 value).

    ~ One free ad per year in our newsletter ($250 value). 

    ~ One free Instagram post per year, shared to our 23k FB followers ($500 value).  

    ~ One feature story about your organization every 36 months, angle of partner’s choice ($1200 value). These have excellent SEO and will keep working for you for years to come.

    ~50% discount on our Limited Edition Ads

    Branding

    ~ Your logo appears on the footer of every page – even archived articles. 

    ~ Your live-link logo and a 50-100 word description of your business are featured on the Sponsors page.

  • ~ $100 - 200 a month, depending on column. Some column categories, like our New & Noteworthy business profile stories, run quarterly. Others, like our popular Storyboard photo galleries, run monthly.

    ~ To maximize brand exposure, we have only one sponsor per column. One month free with annual payment.

    Marketing

    ~ Exceptional event promotion for one event a year, including sharing on social, newsletters and featured as "Don't Miss" happenings on our popular French Quarter Events page (value up to $1200).

    ~ Announcement on social media and newsletter when sponsorship begins ($600 value).

    ~ One free ad per year in our newsletter ($250 value). 

    ~ One free Instagram post per year, shared to our 23k FB followers ($500 value).  

    ~25% discount on our Limited Edition Ads

    Branding

     ~Your logo linked to your website embedded in "your" column.  

    ~ Your live-link logo and a business description are featured on the Sponsors page.

    ~Your business name (linked to your website) also appears on the footer of every page, even archived issues and current articles.

    ~Every column goes into our very popular Archives so the value of your sponsorship accrues automatically with every new article.

  • To maximize brand exposure, we only offer five Community Cornerstones partnerships. UPDATE 8/2024: Only one is still available. Paid quarterly or in full at signing.

    Marketing

    ~ At least two feature stories about your organization every 12 months, angle of partner’s choice ($2400 value).

    ~ Exceptional event promotions, including sharing on social, newsletters and featured as "Don't Miss" happenings on our popular French Quarter Events page (value up to $1200 per event).

    ~One photo feature of event every 12 months, event of partner’s choice. ($800 value)

    ~ Announcement on social media and newsletter when partnership commences (value $600).

    ~Two free ads per year in our newsletter (value $500).

    ~ One free Instagram post per year, shared to our 23k FB followers ($500 value).  

    ~Discounted rates on FQJ Limited Edition ads (50%).

    Branding

    ~ Your live-link logo and a 100 word description of your business are featured at the top of our Sponsors page.

    Your logo appears on the footer of every page – even archived articles. 

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