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Now 2500 copies distributed for free every week in supermarkets, shops & bars in Sosua, Cabarete, Puerto Plata, Costambar & Cofresi.

To see where it is distributed, visit Distribution

Advertising Prices

~~1750~~ 2500 copies distributed every week

Note: These prices are per week for 2500 copies distributed.

Main Body of paper

Full Page mono - RD$3500 (size 190mm x 254mm)
Full Page color - RD$5500 (size 190mm x 254mm)
Half Page mono - RD$1900 (size 190mm x 127mm)
Third 1/3 page mono - RD$1500 (190mm x 84.5mm)
Quarter 1/4 page mono - RD$1100 (size 93mm x 127mm)
1/6 Page mono - RD$850 (size 93mm x 94mm)
1/8 Page mono - RD$600 (size 93mm x 63mm)
1/12 Page mono - RD$500 (size 93mm x 47mm)
1/16 Page mono - RD$350 (size 93mm x 31mm)
1/32 Page mono - RD$200 (size 44.5mm x 31mm)

Classifed Ads

Classified Ad (Business or Real-Estate related) - 50 pesos - up to 3 lines
Classified box 1” high - 175 pesos (35mm x 25.4mm)
Classified box 2” high - 300 pesos (35mm x 50.8mm)
White text on black background - add 50%

NOVEMBER 14 *****

Ask us about our special discounted pricing on full color glossy ads, inside and on the cover!!

Front & Back page

Front page - Box 37mm x 43mm color - 900 pesos

Back Page Full Color - RD$9000
Additional colour, e.g. red as well as black - add 1000 pesos to price of ad
Full colour, add 2000 pesos to price of ad

If you would like to see all the ad sizes available - please view the PDF price list

Discount of 10% when 4 issues booked and paid up front

Note: Ad sizes cannot be guaranteed as slight changes may occur during the printing process.

All prices exclude ITBIS @ 16%

Page Size is US Lettersize (8.5 x 11 inches)
Print run 2000 copies per issue

Ad Submission Deadline:

Advert and full payment must be received by the Thursday before to appear in the following Thursday.

"The North Coast's favorite newspaper in English"

We do not guarantee acceptance of any ads. Ads that do not appear will be refunded.

Please note: As our advertising rates are so low, there is no room for extra discounts, aside from the 10% when 4 ads booked and pre-paid.

Web Advertising

Banner Advert on Website (shared 1 of 4) from 200 pesos per month
Main Banner Advert on Website from 500 pesos per month

The Adscene is the most read English print newspaper on the North Coast and the entire Dominican Republic.

"The Adscene is the best way to promote your business"

The Adscene is the Number One publication covering the North Coast of the Dominican Republic.
An 1/8 page (approx 3½ inches by 2½ inches) ad costs just 600 pesos, less than US$20. For that, your ad will get seen by at least 2500 people. That means it will only cost you around half a cent for each person who sees your ad – cheaper even than photocopying.
There is no other method of reaching 2500 people each week that compares in price
In most cases, gaining just one extra customer will more than pay for the cost of your ad.

emails received from our advertisers...

"thanks to the ad I will not be needing another one! I have found a buyer!"

Luis in Cabarete who sold his villa with a small ad in the classifieds section of the Adscene. - May 2009

“I must thank you for the great article and the extra business it has brought in. I really appreciate it!”

Judy - Las Canas (Sosua) - Aug 2009

"At Prestige Realty we have been very satisfied with the results of our regular ads. Our business is mainly with expats who speak some English so we feel we are reaching our targeted audience. The week after an ad is run in the Adscene we will get calls and make some good contacts. Often the older copies end up laying around for months and that also brings in a good response."

WIlliam Oosterman PRC Owner/Broker Prestige Realty Cabarete - Aug 2009

How to place your ad and make a payment

Option 1 - Online

You can submit your ad immediately online here or by e-mail: ads @_TheAdscene._com
You can also pay immediately online using a credit card or Paypal here

Option 2 - Visit the Adscene payment points

If you would rather pay in person, you can visit the following offices.

Sosua - Banker Trust, C/Pedro Clisante #25, Marina Plaza. 809-571-4622
Sosua - Mel Tours, Beachway Plaza, nr Checkpoint Bar. 809-571-2057

Option 3 - Ask us to visit you

For ads costing more than 400 pesos, call us on (1) 829-876-1151 and we can arrange to visit your business and discuss your advertising needs.

Advertising Works

Do I really need to advertise?

"Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does."
- Stewart Henderson Britt, advertising consultant, quoted in Rhodas Thomas Tripp, The International Thesaurus of Quotations, 1970, New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, p. 18.

"Advertising is totally unnecessary... Unless you hope to make money."
- Jeff I. Richards (2000), Chairman of The University of Texas Advertising Department.

"The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business."
- Derby Brown, quoted in John P. Bradley, Leo F. Daniels & Thomas C. Jones, The International Dictionary of Thoughts, 1969, Chicago, IL: J. G. Ferguson Publishing Co., p. 13.

"Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time."
Anonymous

"Advertising is the most sure way to grow your business"

"A good ad which is not run never produces sales."
Leo Burnett

"there is more money wasted in advertising by underspending than by overspending. Years ago someone said that underspending in advertising is like buying a ticket halfway to Europe. You've spent your money but you never get there."
Morris Hite

"Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising. "
Calvin Coolidge

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."
- Mark Twain

"The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are."
- Henry Ward Beecher, quoted in Rhodas Thomas Tripp, The International Thesaurus of Quotations, 1970, New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, p. 18

"No company that markets products or services to the consumer can remain a leader in its field without a deep-seated commitment to advertising."
- Edwin L. Artzt, CEO of Proctor & Gamble, "Grooming the Next Generation of Management," A.N.A./The Advertiser, Spring 1992, p. 69.

"To advertise when trade is dull
Is useless, don't you see?
I advertise each day, and trade
Is never dull with me."
- Printers' Ink, (January 9, 1895), vol. 12, p. 44.

"The codfish lays ten thousand eggs,
The homely hen lays one.
The codfish never cackles
To tell you when she's done.
And so we scorn the codfish,
While the humble hen we prize.
Which only goes to show you
That it pays to advertise."
- Author unknown, quoted in Bruce Bohle, The Home Book of American Quotations, 1967, New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, p. 5.

"he who has a product to sell
and goes and whispers in a well
is not so apt to get the dollars
as one who climbs up a tree and hollers"
- Author unknown