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Lesbiru.Com and Out-Traveler.Ru Media Russian Lesbian Media Network media kit 1 2 Our main projects: • www.Lesbiru.com | Portal for Russian-speaking lesbians. • www.Out-Traveler.ru | Web-magazine about LGBT-travelling In total, monthly traffic on all of our network is about around the world. 80.000-100.000 unique visitors. • www.Parnok.ru | Sophia Parnok, great Russian lesbian poet We are not using any kind of of advertisement and SEO efforts and translator of XIX-XX century, friend of Marina Tsvetaeva. now, this is only good search and social media traffic, • Lit.lesbiru.com | News, critics and reviews of literary works on human mentions on other websites, and bookmarks. queer theme. 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Trends and “Best of the best” in gay-tourism. • Review articles about beach holidays, cruises, excursions, honeymoons, health care, travel for families with children. • Electronic travel guides for countries and cities: summary, sights and facilities, LGBT events, gay prides, clubs, hotels, restaurants&café and many more. With many illustrations and helpful links. • Big photo/video reports from annual gay prides worldwide. • Safety tips, tips for traveling, insurance, tickets and much more. • Market research and analytics. • Criticism. Personal experience reports. 4 Country/Territory Pages / Visit 2.27 1. Russia 63.86% 2. Ukraine 10.88% Avg. Visit Duration 00:02:35 3. (not set) 5.18% New Visitor 71.12% 4. Spain 2.20% Returning Visitor 28.75% 5. Belarus 2.10% Bounce Rate 62.96% 6. Kazakhstan 1.78% 7. United States 1.68% 8. Germany 1.25% 9. Israel 0.96% 10. Latvia 0.86% Town/City 11. Turkey 0.79% 1. Moscow 26.21% 12. Switzerland 0.68% 2. St Petersburg 7.55% 13. Moldova 0.65% 3. (not set) 6.30% Traffic Sources Gender 14. Estonia 0.62% 4. Kyiv 3.92% 1. google 74.95% 1. Man 43% 15. Thailand 0.54% 5. Yekaterinburg 2.08% 2. go.mail.ru 12.58% 2. Woman 48% 16. United Kingdom 0.49% 6. Rostov-Na-Donu 1.58% 3. yandex 11.17% 3. Not set 9% 17. Azerbaijan 0.42% 7. Novosibirsk 1.30% 18. Armenia 0.33% 8. Minsk 1.28% 4. conduit 0.34% 19. France 0.31% 9. Samara 1.21% 5. rambler 0.31% 20. Georgia 0.29% 10. Krasnodar 1.19% 6. bing 0.17% Sexual orientation 21. Lithuania 0.27% 11. Chelyabinsk 0.95% 7. babylon 0.14% 1. Homo 74% 22. Finland 0.24% 12. Barcelona 0.94% 8. yahoo 0.12% 2. Bisexual 15% 23. Italy 0.24% 13. Kharkiv 0.86% 3. Hetero 7% 24. Kyrgyzstan 0.22% 14. Kazan 0.84% 9. avg 0.09% 25. Uzbekistan 0.21% 15. Riga 0.79% 10. images.google 0.06% 4. Not set 4% 5 We offer you a comprehensive cooperation in the field of promotion of information about countries and cities for Russian LGBT. Sponsorship Of themes, country or all issues for 1 month and more. 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We offer a unique and exclusive product, targeted at Russian gay audience. 7 LESBIRU.COM, the first comprehensive national service for Russian-speaking lesbians, launched in August, 2001. It offers sharp graphics, original content and smart articles. The most special thing about it is that this site is created by lesbians on a strictly voluntary basis. • In contrast to other sites LESBIRU.COM, is geared to the social and leisure interest of a vast community of lesbians, it has no "adult" content and offers relevant issues including indepth, timely news (both Russian and international), events, personals, culture (music, cinema, literature, photography, life-style), society, health, family, money and careers, coming out, entertainment, message boards, humor, etc. • Visitors can subscribe to e-mail updates and express their opinions in regularly held polls. Our email database contains more than 15k person. • LESBIRU.COM was totally relaunched in 2011, use the new technical platform, have many social media channels. Now LESBIRU.COM is the wide media network, includes services and websites for LGBT (for lesbians mainly). • LESBIRU.COM helps to find useful information for lesbians, raise their self-esteem and self-consciousness, unite them and give advice on general and specific problems arising in their lives, families and work. For people interested in the topic, LESBIRU.COM, will make many things clear, help in understanding, decrease intolerance, and, consequently, aggression towards lesbians in the society. 8 Country/Territory Pages / Visit 2.27 1. Russia 71.29% 2. (not set) 9.23% Avg. Visit Duration 00:02:35 3. Ukraine 7.04% New Visitor 71.12% 4. Belarus 2.36% Returning Visitor 28.75% 5. Kazakhstan 1.61% Bounce Rate 62.96% 6. United States 0.95% 7. Germany 0.63% 8. Azerbaijan 0.61% 9. Moldova 0.55% 10. Armenia 0.49% Town/City 1. Estonia 0.46% 1. Moscow 21.54% 12. Latvia 0.45% 2. (not set) 10.45% 13. Uzbekistan 0.39% 3. St Petersburg 7.03% Traffic Sources Gender 14. Israel 0.35% 4. Yekaterinburg 2.25% 1. yandex 66.46% 15. Georgia 0.34% 1. Woman 74% 5. Novosibirsk 1.98% 2. google 27.53% 16. France 0.23% 6. Kyiv 1.95% 2. Man 11% 3. go.mail.ru 3.78% 17. United Kingdom 0.22% 7. Rostov-Na-Donu 1.79% 3. Not set 5% 18. Lithuania 0.19% 8. Krasnodar 1.45% 4. rambler 1.64% 19. Thailand 0.17% 9. Samara 1.42% 5. bing 0.18% 20. Kyrgyzstan 0.17% 10. Nizhny Novgorod 1.36% 6. yahoo 0.11% Sexual orientation 21. Spain 0.17% 11. Kazan 1.26% 7. conduit 0.10% 1. Homo 74% 22. Turkey 0.17% 12. Minsk 1.22% 8. ask 0.04% 2. Bisexual 15% 23. Belgium 0.14% 13. Chelyabinsk 1.00% 3. Hetero 7% 24. Finland 0.14% 14. Perm 0.99% 9. avg 0.04% 25. Canada 0.13% 15. Krasnoyarsk 0.90% 10. babylon 0.04% 4. Not set 4% 9 LESBIRU.COM, the first comprehensive national service for Russian-speaking lesbians, launched in August, 2001. It offers sharp graphics, original content and smart articles. The most special thing about it is that this site is created by lesbians on a strictly voluntary basis. We offer you a comprehensive cooperation in the wide field of promotion of information for Russian lesbians. Sponsorship Of themes, rubric or all issues for 1 month and more. Conditions will be discussed, please ask for details. Advertising campaign Includes editorial articles, photo/video/text reports, polls, quiz, direct mail, social media, etc. for 1 month and more. Price starts from $2.000. Articles and stories Includes editorial or/and ready text and photos. For one constant placement. Price starts from $300. Banners Includes banners of all format and sizes on main page, inside articles, on all pages. For 1 month and more. Price starts from $100. 10 Contacts: E-mail: [email protected] Volga, The Boss Editor`s personal blog: Facebook, LiveJournal. 11 .
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