Our power in numbers
14m+
Website impressions per year
(and growing every year)
435k+
Social media followers
(and growing every day)
150k+
Email subscribers
(and growing every day)
Advertising to Manchester and beyond...
I Love MCR has grown together with the city region of Greater Manchester and become a trusted symbol of civic pride and resilience reaching millions.
Why advertise in Manchester?
Voted best UK city to live in, Greater Manchester is the second most populous urban area in the country with a population of more than 2.799 million people. What’s more, total visitor numbers to the city region stand at 115 million which currently generates £74.85 billion billion to the local economy.
Manchester is the centre of the universe. It’s one of the fastest-growing cities in Europe with millions of residents and visitors as the UK’s second city.
Boasting the UK’s second-biggest economy – the largest city region economy outside London – with a gross value added (GVA) of £74.85 billion, Manchester’s enormous growth has been fuelled by its diverse industry base.
With internationally acclaimed organisations specialising in creative and digital technology, media and professional business services, and more besides, Manchester is an economic northern powerhouse.
The city centre itself is a diverse and cosmopolitan collection of retail spaces, theatres, galleries, museums, bars and restaurants, regularly drawing in its 2.7m urban population and the 115 million tourists visiting the city every year.
Manchester is the beating heart of our nation’s cultural enterprise and a reigning champion of social change, from The Suffragettes, to the trade union congress, and the LGBTQ+ movement.
We don’t just advertise Manchester to the world, we advertise brands and businesses to Manchester…
There are many ways to advertise in Manchester but we believe we’ve got them all covered under one (much needed) umbrella. And it’s affordable, too. Read on and enquire about advertising today.
2.8m+
Greater Manchester population
115m+
Visitors per year
1.3m+
People in employment
99k+
Manchester students
Millions of reasons to advertise with I Love MCR
I Love MCR is Greater Manchester’s most-loved brand.
After unprecedented reach on social media and brand awareness with outdoor media, our perpetually positive platform has captivated a massively engaged audience by standing by our people and caring about the reputation of our beloved city.
By incorruptibly sticking to brand values, and harnessing the power of the community through social and digital media, we’ve continuously helped boost economic prosperity across the city region.
Whether it’s online advertising and digital marketing or outdoor media and out-of-home advertising you’re looking for, I Love MCR is a positive and influential voice that can connect your business to a captive audience – which just so happens to be the UK’s second-biggest economy – and beyond.
Our heart’s in the right place. Choose love, Manchester. Choose I Love MCR.
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Our audience
Your advertising depends on our analtics. Our consistent traffic numbers and our ever-expanding demographic…
Traffic
Google / Organic 45%
Social media 35%
Direct 15%
Referral 5%
Device
Mobile 75%
Desktop 20%
Tablet 5%
Gender
Female 60%
Male 40%
Age
18-24 10%
25-34 30%
35-44 40%
45-55+ 20%
Promoted Listing
Got a venue, experience or event you want to shout about? I Love MCR will, quite literally, put you on the map.
Submit a free Manchester listing (free forever) or upgrade to promote your listing via our events calendar, email marketing and social media (from just £349).
Stories to inspire
Have a story to tell or a product to sell?
We like the good news, and Manchester has plenty of it. We can tell your story and promote your product to a wide audience, across Greater Manchester and beyond.
Social media interaction
Video creation
6 out of 10 people would rather watch online videos than television. (Google)
When we live in a city as magnificent as Manchester, it’s easy to capture on film.
Some of our videos have reached over 1M views. Video is now the highest engaging medium for marketing promotions. Video content is ranked highly on social media platforms and favoured by platform algorithms. The motion content we create will support your advertising campaign by bringing your story to life.
Email Marketing
We have an email database of over 150k people who subscribe to receive emails and newsletters on a weekly basis. We can send a targetted solus email to different groups of demographics and interests.
Ah, push it
The I Love MCR app is the ideal way to get savvy with Manchester’s truly mobile market. Many of our clients are keen to gain exposure and mobilise a targeted mobile audience with listings and push notifications. App subscribers who are responsive and impulsive.
The app features a handpicked range of Manchester’s best deals, experiences and events as well as a newsfeed of our Manchester news and stories.
Enquire now and let us prompt our app audience with push notifications…
We track everything.
We track the performance of your advertising campaign with various analytics tools before we send you full monthly statistical reports, so you can see exactly how well your campaign is going.
You're in good company
Some of the companies and brands that we’ve worked with in recent years…
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Event coordination
We’ve been positively mobilising groups of people across Greater Manchester for more than ten years. Getting people together for the cause is what we do.
We can:
♥ Book and coordinate a venue
♥ Organise food and drink operators
♥ Book entertainment
♥ List and advertise the event to build anticipation
♥ Invite the right targetted people
♥ Guestlistost and host
♥ Capture the event with video and photography
What our partners say...
“I Love MCR is great. While getting to know Manchester we used the site a lot to find out what’s trending. It’s a great guide to a great city – thankfully our restaurant received a lot of attention.”
“We have used I Love MCR for Parklife. They actually care about the city and support it, giving back to great causes. As an online food guide, I always look at it for recommendations. What sets them aside from some of their competition is that they actually get results for their clients! Great work. Great team.”
"The team at I Love MCR helped create a wonderful relaunch event for Browns Brasserie & Bar. So easy to deal with, they understood exactly what I needed and was helpful at every step. The team's energy, enthusiasm and deep knowledge of the local area was invaluable. They went above and beyond, hands on at the event, creating content, and ensuring that we had the perfect blend of local contacts on our guestlist."
"In order to identify safe and effective vaccines to protect everyone from COVID-19, the NHS needed to urgently raise public awareness about clinical trials taking place in Greater Manchester. The team at I Love MCR helped our "call to action" reach a wide audience. The number of sign-ups visibly surged during the time our campaign was running and the team were a pleasure to work with."
"As a new start-up brand and small local business. However, having researched who we were wanting to work with I LOVE MCR came up trumps, and I am so glad we dipped our toe in the water because it had made a huge splash and we had broken our target even by the end of day one! By the end of the month it was only natural to continue working with them to help grow our brand, increase sales and our customer base - not just locally but globally. And what's more they have an amazing team that works with you behind the scenes to ensure your needs are met. I would highly recommend them to anyone and everyone."
“I Love MCR is phenomenal. I’m a big Manchester supporter so it’s been good to see the brand grow with the city. It’s given our new and existing venues fantastic exposure.”
“Based on our own report data, I Love MCR gained us 192 covers in one month! Which, after tax, food cost and advertising cost gave us a good return on investment. We are pleased with how the campaign is working for us…”
"Browns were delighted with the coverage that I Love MCR generated for the restaurant and, as the event organiser, I was pleased with all the advice and support I received throughout the planning and blown away by the team's enthusiasm for our event and for the city - I Love Manchester certainly do LOVE Manchester!"
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Be seen on a digital billboard advertising in Manchester. With internationally acclaimed organisations specialising in creative and digital technology, media and professional business services, and more besides, Manchester is an economic powerhouse. I Love MCR is the facilitator of digital connectivity in the out-of-home aka outdoor media world.
So, what's the damage?
Whether you’re a start-up, an established business, or an industry leader, our digital and social assets put you in the right company, in front of a huge community who want to hear your story. Whether you’re looking for brand awareness, more sales or event promotion, we’ve got you covered.
An advertising package can offer you a sustained campaign to build momentum on reach and engagement, and save you some money, too.
What’s more, we guarantee to beat – if not match – any other Manchester advertising rate pound for pound. Prices per calendar month…
Listing
List your place, event
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Listing
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Newsletter Feature
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Social Media Interaction
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Promoted Event Listing
List your event, plus...
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349
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Featured Listing
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Newsletter Feature
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Social Media Interaction
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Small
Independent business
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Promoted Listing
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App Feature
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Social Media Interaction
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Banners
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Advertorial
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Newsletter Feature
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Email Marketing
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Photography
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Graphic Design
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Billboard Banner
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Video Production
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Out-of-Home Media
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Ambitious
Scalable business
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Promoted Listing
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App Feature
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Social Media Interaction
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Banners
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Advertorial
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Newsletter Feature
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Email Marketing
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Photography
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Graphic Design
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Billboard Banner
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Video Production
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Out-of-Home Media
Enquire now
T&Cs apply
Most popular
Go big
Having it large!
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Promoted Listing
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App Feature
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Social Media Interaction
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Banners
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Advertorial
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Newsletter Feature
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Email Marketing
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Photography
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Graphic Design
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Billboard Banner
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Video Production
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Out-of-Home Media
Enquire now
T&Cs apply
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Promoted Listing £100
We'll put your business on the map with a promoted listing, featuring photo gallery, social buttons and call to action (minimum 3 months)
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App Listing + Push Notification £100
Have your listing featured on our mobile app and we can send a push notification to our subscribers, too. Join the mobile movement!
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Square MPU Banner £300
An eye-catching square banner displayed on the sidebar of news and editorial across the website.
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Newsletter Feature £250
Your advertorial, banner or news bulletin featured in one of our weekly newsletters.
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Leaderboard Banner £350
An eye-catching wide banner displayed at the top and bottom of news and editorial across the website.
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Social Media Interaction £350
We'll regularly share and mention you on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to help you build followers #ILoveMCR
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Advertorial £250
A native piece of copywriting about with business including links, photo gallery and call to action.
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Solus Email Shot £350
Your own email marketing and message delivered to our audience of interested subscribers.
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Competition £295
Offering a prize (minimum value £100) is a clever way to build awareness around a product or service and generate engagement.
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Photography £250
We have a very talented photographer who will capture your workspace and products to use across our website.
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Graphic design £250
Our in-house graphic designer knows our website inside and out, and, more importantly, knows what what graphics work for the audience.
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Video Production £999
No other digital asset will showcase your business better than motion image.
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Billboard Banner £999
The biggest and most eye-catching banner ad we offer on our website.
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Out-of-Home Media POA
Out-of-home (outdoor) digital billboard banners across the city
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Event Coordination POA
Book, invite and completely organise your event
Assets
Promoted Listings
App Feature
Squared MPU Banner
Newsletter Feature
Leaderboard Banner
Social Media Interaction
Advertorial
Solus Email
Competition
Photography
Graphic Design
Video Production
Billboard Banner
Out-of-Home Media
