A million reasons to advertise with us

I Love MCR® has grown together with the city and become a trusted symbol of civic pride.

After unprecedented brand awareness in outdoor media and reach on social media, our positive platform has generated a massive audience by caring about the reputation of our beloved city and simply sticking to brand values.

Together we’ve boosted the local economy by harnessing the power of community through social and digital media.

Whether it’s online advertising, digital marketing or outdoor media you’re looking for, I Love MCR® is a positive and influential voice which can connect your business to a captive audience within the UK’s second-biggest economy and beyond.

Our heart’s in the right place.

Choose love, Manchester.

Choose I Love MCR®

Why advertise in Manchester?

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.

The UK’s second-biggest economy, 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.

There are many ways to advertise in Manchester but we believe we’ve got them all covered under one (much needed) umbrella. Read on and enquire about advertising today.

£628 billion+

The local economy has tripled in size since 1996

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 £59.6 billion to the local economy.

2.7m+

Greater Manchester population

115m+

Visitors per year

1.3m+

People in employment

99k+

Manchester students

What they say...

"In order to identify safe and effective vaccines to protect everyone from COVID-19, the NHS has needed to urgently raise public awareness about opportunities to be part of clinical trials taking place in Greater Manchester. The team at I Love Manchester helped our "call to action" reach a wide, local audience via their variety of platforms - including social media, website content and adverts and newsletter mail-outs. All of the messaging directed people to our NHS online registry and the number of sign-ups visibly surged during the time our campaign was running. The team helped us choose a package that was suitable for our needs and was a pleasure to work with."

Clinical Research Network Greater Manchester National Institute for Health Research

"As a new start up brand and small local business, our marketing budget was minimal and even more so during these uncertain pandemic times! 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 even by the end of day 1! 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 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.

Sarah Pietro Manuka

“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.”

Tim Bacon Living Ventures

“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…”

Deepak Yadav Asha's Restaurant

“Great work, great team! We’ve been working with I Love MCR for years now and not only has our group of hotels benefited hugely, they are delightful to work with. Thanks guys!”

Gillian Maitland Eclectic Hotels

“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.”

Will Beckett Hawksmoor Restaurants

“We have used I Love MCR for Parklife. I always point people towards their App. 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.”

Sacha Lord Night Time Economy Adviser

Reach out to our audience

16m+

Website visitors per year
(and growing every day)

370k+

Social media followers
(and growing every day)

60k+

Email subscribers
(and growing every day)

*Email subscribers are segmented by direct mail and interests, in compliance with GDPR.
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Drilling down our analytics

50 million

Average impressions on Google per year

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%

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.

Appy Days!

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 to a targeted, mobile audience. An audience that is captive, responsive and impulsive. We took this feedback on board, did the research and decided to develop the I Love MCR App.

The app features a handpicked range of Manchester’s best deals, experiences and events as well a newsfeed of our Manchester features.

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

Be seen out of home

Be seen on a digital billboard 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.

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.

And we guarantee to beat, if not match, any other Manchester advertising rate pound for pound.

Package Prices

An advertising package can offer you a sustained campaign (packages minimum of three-months) to build momentum on reach and engagement and save you some money, too. Prices per calendar month…

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