Advertising you to Greater 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?
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.
£62.8 billion
(GVA) 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
Millions of reasons to advertise with I Love MCR
After unprecedented reach on social media and brand awareness in outdoor media, our positive platform has generated a massive audience by caring about our people and standing by the reputation of our beloved city.
By sticking to brand values, we’ve boosted the local economy by harnessing the power of the community through social and digital media.
Whether it’s online advertising, digital marketing or 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.
Reach out to our online audience
60m+
Website impressions per year
(and growing every year)
400k+
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.
Read our full Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.
Drilling down our online audience
Your advertising depends on our consistent traffic numbers and our ever-expanding demographic.
60,000,000
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%
Add a listing
I Love MCR will, quite literally, put your business on the map.
Create a free Manchester listing to put your place of business, charity, offer, event or property on the Manchester map and get noticed.
What’s more, you have the option to promote your company above all other (free) listings to maximise your Manchester profile. It’s only £100 per year = which is less than £9 per month.
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 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...
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 advertisers 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. 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."
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
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.
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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
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…
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
£550
£695
£995
£1495
£1995
