Daily News Sri Lanka - Online Advertising Information For The Daily News in Sri Lanka

The largest newspaper company in Southeast Asia is The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited, which is also known as ANCL. They publish many newspapers: three daily papers, three weekend papers, five weekly papers, two monthly papers, and three annual papers. The Sri Lanka Daily News is one of their daily papers. It’s also only published in English. Other papers are published in Sinhala and Tamil. The Sri Lanka Daily News has been Sri Lanka’s national newspaper since 1918. It was also the first newspaper in Sri Lanka to be published online. At the present time, two other Sri Lanka newspapers are also available online: Silumina and Budusarana. For advertising information on the Daily News in Sri Lanka, please see below.

If you’re going to advertise online with any publication, you’re going to want to know as many details as possible, including statistics, costs, and possible discounts. This is even the case with a paper as popular as the Sri Lanka Daily News. The online version of this newspaper averages 400,000 hits and 25,000 visits per day. A banner ad will have 100-pixel width, 50-pixel height, and a weight less than 12k. Gif animation will be 1 to 3 frames. A jpg will be a single frame. Flash movies are a possibility. If you have artwork, it must be sent in three business days prior to the ad running.

You are required to pay one month upfront for all ads in the Sri Lanka Daily News. It is possible to receive discounts. If you pay for three months upfront, you will receive 5% off. If you pay for six months upfront, you will receive 7.5% off. And if you pay 12 months upfront, you will receive 10% off. Regardless of whether or not you’re paying upfront, all checks must be made out to: The Associated Newspapers of Ceyon Limited. A banner ad will cost 18,000 LKR and a HTML ad will cost 16,200 LKR. Conversion rates are regularly updated on the website: dailynews.lk. To contact someone in the advertising department, call 94.11.242.9326. The fax number is 94.11.242.9429. The e-mail address is webmarketing@lakehouse.lk.

The layout of the online Sri Lanka Daily News is impressive. The home page offers up-to-date world news. Across the top are tabs for ten separate categories: news, editorial, business, features, political, security, sports, world, letters, obituaries. On the right-hand side of the page are 10 ads, which often blink and grab a reader’s attention. A large banner on the top right corner is also available.

The Sri Lanka Daily News is a publication that will only grow from this point on. If you’re looking to advertise in this paper, consider getting in early so you will have the potential to lock in low rates.