July 13, 2008

Brazilian Senate pays US$30.000 a MONTH for a 160×61 banner

Filed under: Local Nonsense — Cardoso @ 3:26 pm

The amount sums an outrageous yearly US$350.000, and the banner is this one:

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No, this is not a Internet-wide marketing campaign. It´s a SINGLE BANNER in a not-that-popular website, www.paraiba.com.br, with a meek 208.667 Alexa ranking.

It´s not the first time, last year they aired the banner, too. But charged ONLY US$25.000,00 A MONTH for their trouble.

The entire transaction is online:

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Link to the details of the operation - Brazilian Senate Website, translated by Google.

Oh, it´s not the only contract, looks like the R$48.000,00 monthly fee is standard to the Brazilian Senate: http://www.senado.gov.br/sf/contratos/empresaContratada.asp?o=1&e=R%C1DIO+E+TV+PARAIBANA