SHOOTonline.com & The SHOOT>e.dition Digital Platforms

SHOOT's Digital Platforms are ideal for FYC Advertising.  Banners, Interstitials & Custom Email Blasts are all popular options. 

SHOOT Magazine, ideal environment for FYC Ads

SHOOT's annual 16-part "Road to Oscar" Series contain interviews with and profiles of artisans involved in films generating Oscar buzz. A past installment had director & cinematographer insights into "The Danish Girl," "Spotlight," "The Big Short," "Concussion," "Sicario" & "Bridge of Spies".

SHOOT Magazine Print Issues

A past spread Ad: SHOOT Print Issues (with bonus PDF version) provide ideal audience & environment for FYC Ads

Expect Top Director, Editor, Production Designer POV's
Over the years Martin Scorsese, Steve McQueen, David O. Russell, Jay Cassidy, Judy Becker, Jeffrey Karoff have discussed their films with SHOOT and it's influential audience.  This kind of behind the scences perspective makes SHOOT the perfect environment for winning FYC campaigns on The Road To Oscar.
Awards Voters Appreciate the Deeper Understanding of Award Quality Filmmaking SHOOT Provides
Year after year SHOOT provides in-depth behind the scenes insights into film generating Oscar Buzz; past coverage included Beasts of the Southern Wild, Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Life of Pi, Silver Linings Playbook, Asad, and ParaNorman.
Expect Indepth Reflections On And By Awards Shows Nominees
Stephen Frears, Joe Walker, Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Philippe Le Sourd, et al discussed their work
and collaborators last year with SHOOT and it's influential audience. This kind of behind the scences perspective makes SHOOT the perfect environment for winning FYC campaigns on The Road To Oscar.
Funny How The FYC Campaigns in SHOOT Lead To Noms & Wins Again & Again

You can't argue with success... SHOOT Digital and Print Platforms provide an ideal environment in which to promote prior to nominations to garner noms & then nominated films and artisans through final voting leads to wins.

Funny How The FYC Campaigns in SHOOT Lead To Noms & Wins Again & Again

You can't argue with success... SHOOT Digital and Print Platforms provide an ideal environment in which to promote prior to nominations to garner noms & then nominated films and artisans through final voting leads to wins.

SHOOTonline.com Site Traffic Stats

For Year 2020 SHOOTonline.com (the site) PAGE VIEWS YTD thru the end of April were up 22.80% to 883,207+-, as compared to 719,207+- for the same period in 2019.  Average per month PAGE VIEWS YTD thru the end of April were up at 220,802+-, as compared to 179,802 +-  for the same period in 2019. VISITORS (users) to the site, YTD thru the end of April, were up 27% to 270,014+- as compared to 212,617 for the same period in 2019.  Average per month VISITORS (users)  YTD thru the end of April, were up at 67,504+- as compared to 53,154+- for the same period in 2019. 

SHOOT's “Road To Oscar” series puts the spotlight on the producers, directors, documentarians, cinematographers, writers, editors, production designers, visual effects & animation supervisors & artists, composers and other artisans in the running during Academy season for Guild and Industry Awards along the Road to Oscar, right up to the Academy Awards.

Along the Road to Oscar SHOOT will cover the award season’s festival circuit (Venice, Toronto, Telluride, Palm Springs et al) and Guild & other industry Award Shows (including the  ACE, ADG, Annie, ASC, CAS, CDG, DGA, PGA, SAG, VES and WGA Awards, BAFTA, Golden Globes, Gotham Awards, Independent Spirit Awards)--and their implications for the Oscar derby and what evolves into this year’s field of nominees and eventual winners. Extensive coverage--including the October preview feature. all of the Award Shows leading up to the Academy Awards and “The Road To Oscar” series-- provide insights into the artists and the artistry behind the latest crop of lauded films. artisans and Oscar-related news and information that we’ll be covering for the months leading up to the Academy Awards.

  • Click Here for PDF of the 2023/2024 SHOOT "Road to Oscar" series calendar. 
  • Click Here to see digital version of past "Road to Oscar" features.

"FYC" Marketing Opportunities...
SHOOT Digital and Print Platforms provide an ideal  environment in which to promote prior to nominations & then nominated films and artisans through final voting.  Separately or in combination, each offers the ideal environment in which to promote your films and artisans to an audience of  industry above-the-line and below-the-line decision-makers, including AMPAS and all major industry Guild members.  The SHOOT audience includes creatives, executives, producers, directors, cinematographers, writers, editors, vfx artists & supervisors, composers & other music execs, production designers, etc.  

Build Awards Season Momentum
While not every film may be in the running for an Oscar, there are still many good business reasons to promote them. There are many Guild and Industry award shows leading up to the Oscars that recognize award-worthy work that can set your film and talent apart from the crowd.  SHOOT readers and followers are members of multiple guilds and unions.  (Right now is also ideal timing for networks to promote their Shows and Programs to Guilds with television award categories.) 

Judge Us By The Company(s) We Keep; Join the growing list of SHOOT "FYC" Advertisers...
A24  Films, Amazon Prime, Amazon Studios, Annapurna Pictures, Apple TV+, CBS Films, Disney, Dreamworks, ES Studios, Focus Features, HBO, HBO Max, HBO Studios, Hulu, IFC Films, Lionsgate, Marvel Studios, MGM/UAR, Miramax, Netflix, Open Road Films, Paramount Pictures, Peacock, Regency Films, Roadside Attractions, Searchlight Pictures, Sony Pictures, STYX Films, Summit Entertainment, Sundance Selects, Tristar, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. and TWC are some of the studios and networks that have placed FYC marketing with SHOOT.
Some of the films promoted with SHOOT during the 2022/2023 Awards Season...
All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar:The Way of Water, Bones And All, Empire of Light, Elvis, Fire of Love, Glass Onion, LePupille, Pinnocchio, Thirteen Lives, TILL, The Banshees of Inisherin,Turning Red, Women Talking
Some of the films promoted with SHOOT during the 2021/2022 Awards Season...
A Hero, Being The Ricardos, Belfast, CODA, Cyrano, Don't Look Up, Dune, Encanto, ENCOUИTƎЯ, House of Gucci, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Loki, Macbeth, Mary J. Blige's My Life, My Name Is Pauli Murray, Nightmare Alley, No Time To Die, Respect, The Boy from Medellín​, The Power of the Dog, The French Dispatch, The Hand Of God, The Lost Daughter, The Tender Bar, The Velvet Undergroundtick, tick...BOOM!, Uprising, Val, West Side Story.
Some of the Series promoted with SHOOT during the 2021 Awards Season...
Bel-Air, Flack, Girls5Eva, Harlem, Joe vs Carole, Loki, LuLa Rich, Only Murders in the Building, The Amber Ruffin Show, The Wheel Of Time, The Underground Railroad, Uprising, With Love
Some of the films promoted with SHOOT during the 2020/2021 Awards Season...
All In The Fight For Democracy, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Da 5 Bloods, Judas And The Black Messiah, Mank, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Nomadland, One Night In Miami, Promising Young Woman, Sound Of Metal, The Midnight Sky, The Trial Of The Chicago 7, The United States Of Billie Vs. Billie Holiday, The White Tiger, Time, Uncle Frank
Some of the films promoted with SHOOT during the 2019/2020 Awards Season...
Chasing Happiness, Dolemite Is My Name, Ford v Ferrari, Harriet, Honey Boy, I Lost My Body, Invisible Life, Joker, Les Misérables, Little Women, Marriage Story, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, One Child Nation, Rocketman, The Aeronauts, The Irishman, The Report, The Two Popes
Some of the films promoted with SHOOT during the 2018/2019 Awards Season... 
2018/19: 22 July,  A Quiet Place, A Star is Born, Avengers 300, BlackKklansman, Black Panther, Cold War, Crazy Rich Asians, First Man, Green Book,  If Beale Street Could Talk,  Mary Poppins Returns,  Mary Queen of Scots,  On the Basis of Sex, Roma,  The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Vice  

FYC Marketing options include:

►  SHOOT Magazine All Digital PDF Issue with Digital Distribution (50,000 unique monthly visitors) and Digital Distribution to 40,000 custom email blast list!
Live Link to your FYC site is embed in PDF version of your Ad!
SHOOT also promotes each Issue with a banner Ad in the SHOOT>e.dition email newsletter drawing more readers to it.
Click Here for Ad Rates
Click Here for Ad Specs

The Next SHOOT Magazine FYC Issue coming up...

Feb/March 2024 "FYC Phase 2" Issue 
(PDF Issue posted online 2/16, Issue email alert sent on 2/19)
This issue will have the Road to Oscar, Part 15 feature plus other Awards Season content - an important issue specifically timed after nominations are out to keep your films, documentaries & programs top of mind before & during final voting 2/22-2/27.
Final Space Reservations by 1/29
Final Ad PDF Files Due:by 2/9

Click Here to see PDF version of 2023/2024 Season's FYC Issue One
                   Click Here for Email Alert sent out about the issue
Click Here to see PDF version of 2022/2023 Season's FYC Issue One
                   Click Here for Email Alert sent out about the issue
Click Here to see PDF version of 2021/2022 Season's FYC Issue One 
                   Click Here for Email Alert sent out about the issue
Click Here to see PDF version of 2021/2022 Season's FYC Issue Two 
                    Click Here for Email Alert sent out about the issue
Click Here to see PDF version of 2021/2022 Season's FYC Issue Three   
                    Click Here for Email Alert sent out about the issue
Click Here to see PDF version of 2020/2021 Season's FYC Issue One 
                   Click Here for Email Alert sent out about the issue
Click Here to see PDF version of 2020/2021 Season's FYC Issue Two 
                    Click Here for Email Alert sent out about the issue
Click Here to see PDF version of 2020/2021 Season's FYC Issue Three   
                    Click Here for Email Alert sent out about the issue

 
►  SHOOTonline.com website
The deal cornerstone for your campaign!
Highly targeted production/post industry website with 50,000+ unique visitors per month.  
Click Here for SHOOT Digital Ad Rates
Click Here for SHOOT Digital Ad Specs
Major Benefits to FYC Advertising on SHOOTonline
#1
 When you purchase a banner it runs on the Home Page and all pages throughout the site - and there are thousands of them--a key benefit as while thousands of users enter the site via the Home Page, thousands others enter through links in articles from one of our 3 email newsletters so they are entering the site on all different pages and your banner will be wherever that is! 
#2 Banners also rotate up & down on pages where there are multiple slots of your size. Sometimes it will be on top of page, sometimes middle or bottom and even sometimes will be in multiple slots on the same page; always while appearing on all different pages at the same time.
#3  Mobile Friendly! you'll be able to provide additional size banners for mobile at no extra cost so your banners appear perfectly on all mobile devices!
Banner sizes include regular & expandable banners, interstitials and non-standard formats. 7-day to 30-day runs can start any day of the month. 
Traditional Sizes
Billboard:970x250    Large Leaderboard:970x90    Leaderboard: 728x90
Side Half Pg:300x600   Med Rec: 300x250   Mid Horiz:468x60
Biggest/Splashiest High Visibility Sizes:
>Wallpaper/Skins: 1110x250 with right & left 300x1250s
   Wraps all around top and sides of site.
>Interstitial: 600x500 up to 800x550
  Click Here to see recent sample Interstitial.  First thing users see when they go to the site, it opens on black background.
>Catfisher/floor: 970x90 or 970x250
  Click Here to see sample Catfisher 970x250 banner from this Academy Season Phase 1 for "Ferrari" double lick on play buttom to see how it remains static as screen scrolls.
  Sits right above bottom of screen---as readers scroll down, banner remains there so it's always seen.
>Expanding Large Leaderboard
   970x90 expands to 970x415
Click Here for a few samples of above special sizes.
Click Here Digital Banner Specs - Files accepted: JPEG, GIF, Animated GIF, Flash, HTML5, javascript, and third party serving. SHOOTonline is DFA and Jetpack certified.

 

►  The SHOOT>e.dition email newsletter
Published every Friday to 22,000 opt-in subscribers, containing abstracts/links to all of the articles, columns, interviews, videos published on SHOOTonline.com & releases published on the SPW during the previous week.  Great addition to SHOOTonline.com banner advertising - as readers of the >e.dition click back and forth to the site they will see your site banners that appear on the Home Page and all throughout the site. 
File formats: JPEG, GIF, Animated Gif - max file size: 100K. Banners/tracking tags can be provided 2 days prior to start date. 
Banner sizes include Top Leaderboard 468x60, Side 180x150, Skyscraper 180x600, Bottom 468x60 & 595x250
SHOOT>e.dition Phase 2 dates: 1/26, 2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23
Click Here to See web version of a recent SHOOT>e.dition:
See additional >e.ditions: 1/28/22    1/14/22    1/7/22    12/17/21    12/3/21
See web versions of a few SHOOT>e.ditions from 2020/2021 Season:
4/16/21    3/5/21    1/15/21 
    

►  The SHOOT Dailies
Published daily Monday-Friday, the Dailies go to 3,500 opt-in subscribers, containing abstracts/links to all of the articles, columns, interviews, videos published on SHOOTonline.com & releases published on the SPW that day.
We recommend the Dailies for added reach in conjunction with a SHOOTonline.com or SHOOT>e.dition schedule; not as a stand-alone buy.
File formats accepted: JPEG, GIF, Animated Gif.  Banner sizes include 728x90, 180x150, 180x600- max file size: 100K. Banners/tracking tags can be provided Friday prior to start date. 
Here's sample of  the Dailies for week of 3/7/22
M-F: 3/73/83/93/103/11
Here's sample of the Dailies for week of  12/6/21
M/F: 12/6, 12/7, 12/8, 12/9, 12/10

 

►  SHOOT Custom Email Blasts
Click Here
for Custom Email Blast Rates/Specs
You choose the date & time for your custom email blast to be sent out to SHOOT database of 40,000. Hugely popular for FYC messages/screening announcements.
To utilize SHOOT's Custom Email Blast Service there is a minimum buy requirement of a two-week banner on SHOOTonline.com.
Click on name of film to see web version of some of the SHOOT Custom Email Blasts from the last few Guild Awards/Academy Seasons:
2022/2023 Acade,u/Guild Season

All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar:The Way of Water, Bones And All,
Empire of Light, Elvis, Fire of Love, Glass Onion, LePupille, Pinnocchio,
Thirteen Lives, TILL, The Banshees of Inisherin, Turning Red, Women Talking
2021/2022 Acadeny/Guild Season
 
A Hero, Being the Ricardos, Cryano, Don’t Look Up, Dune, Encanto
ENCOUИTƎЯ, House Of Gucci, Licorice Pizza, King Richard,
Mary J, Blige’s My LifeMy Name Is Pauli Murray, Nightmare Alley,
No Time To Do, Respect, The Boy from Medellín​, The French Dispatch,
The Lost Daughter, The Power Of The Dog, The Tender Bar,
tick, tick..,BOOM! VAL, West Side Story

Past Seasons...
All In The Fight For Democracy   Borat, Subsequent Moviefilm   Da 5 Bloods 
Judas And The Black Messiah   Mank    Mulan    Nomadland   White Tiger
My Octopus Teacher  On the Rocks  One Night In Miami   Promising Young Woman   
Sound of Metal   The Midnight Sky  The Trial Of The Chicago 7  Uncle Frank    

The Irishman  Honey Boy   The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel     Ford v Ferrari     Fleabag    
Joker  Marriage Story   Joker   The Report  The Irishman   Little Women 
The Two Popes  I Lost My Body   Modern Love  
First Man   Cold War   A Star is Born   
Roma     Black Panther     BlackKklansman     A Quiet Place   Green Book   Lady Bird    
All the Money in the World    Mudbound    Okja  
Dunkirk    Wonder Woman    
The Big Sick    Darkest Hour    LA LA Land    Manchester by the Sea    
Hidden Figures    Zootopia    Fences    Arrival    Deadpool    The Big Short     
Bridge of Spies    The Revenant

SHOOT Marketing Links....
Click Here for SHOOT Magazine Ad Sizes/Specs
(When you place a print Ad, the PDF version runs with live link to FYC site at no extra charge in PDF version of the issue that is posted on our site for readers to view/download.)
Click Here for SHOOTonline Banner specs
For more information, rates and space reservations, please contact SHOOT Publisher, Roberta Griefer at 203/227-1699, ext 701 or via email.

Annual Road to Oscar Series
SHOOT is pleased to present our Annual The Road to Oscar 16-week Series leading up to the Academy Awards.  We’ll talk to Producers, Directors, Cinematographers, Writers, Editors, Production Designers, Visual Effects and Music & Sound artists, gaining insights into the challenges they faced on their Guild and Oscar-nominated films. Preview articles: assessments of Oscar prospects for nominees, as well as a look at trends in this year’s competition. Coverage of the winners will appear on SHOOTonline immediately following the Academy Awards. All installments will be published  on SHOOTonline.com (website with 50,000 unique visitors,) The SHOOT Dailies (daily email newsletter,) and The SHOOT>e.dition (weekly email newsletter going to 22,000 opt-in subscribers every Friday.  Several parts will also apper in  SHOOT Magazine (9,000+ highly targeted print readers) PLUS PDF version of issue emailed to 22,000 SHOOT>e.dition email newsletter opt-in subscribers.  PDF version wil be posted on site for additional readers to view/download. SHOOT will promote the PDF version with a banner Ad on the SHOOT>e.dition for 6 weeks after the issue is published to bring extra attentio to the print advertisers.

For more information, rates and space reservations, please contact SHOOT Publisher, Roberta Griefer at 203/227-1699, ext 701 or via email.

We look forward to working with you this Guild & Academy Season!