Advertising
Now 3000 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
Note: These prices are per week for 3000 copies distributed.
Classified Advertising
(Free, at our discretion for non-commercial ads and ads unrelated to realestate, rentals or recruitment)
50 pesos - up to 3 lines text - 10 pesos per line after this.
Box 1” high - 175 pesos (35mm x 25.4mm)
Box 2” high - 300 pesos (35mm x 50.8mm)
White on black + 50%
Main body of paper
1/32 page - 200 pesos (44.5mm x 31mm)
1/16 page - 350 pesos (93mm x 31mm)
1/12 page - 500 pesos (93mm x 47mm)
1/8 page - 600 pesos (93mm x 63mm)
1/6 page - 850 pesos (93mm x 94mm)
1/4 page - 1200 pesos (93mm x 126mm) - 1/4 page color - 1800 pesos
1/3 page - 1600 pesos (190mm x 84mm)
1/2 page - 2200 pesos (190mm x 126mm) - 1/2 page color - 3300 pesos
Full page mono - 4000 pesos (190mm x 254mm)
Full page, color - 6500 pesos
Back Page Color - 9000 pesos
Color subject to availability. Color inside is usually on inside cover, but no positioning placement can be guaranteed or implied. Quality of color reproduction is not guranteed.
Inserts - 1 peso per copy - We can insert your own flyers for
distribution only in the areas you want them, e.g. just Cabarete, or just Costambar.
Front page
Box 37mm x 43mm color - 600 pesos
Box 74mm x 43mm color - 1000 pesos
Banner 190mm x 20mm color - 1400 pesos
Banner Advert on Website from 200 pesos
All prices exclude ITBIS @ 16%
10% discount when 4 weeks prepaid.
Ad Submission Deadline:
Advert and full payment must be received by the
Thursday before to appear in the following Thursday.
We do not guarantee acceptance of any ads. Ads that do not
appear will be refunded.
Please note: Prices are not negotiable.
Page Size is US Lettersize (8.5 x 11 inches)
Print run 3000 copies per issue
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 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 3000 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 3000 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 office.
Sosua - Mel Tours, Beachway Plaza, nr Checkpoint Bar. 809-571-2057
Sosua - Banker Trust, C/Pedro Clisante #25, Marina Plaza.
809-571-4622
Option 3 - Ask us to visit you
For ads costing more than 1000 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
"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
