Marketing opportunities on Designing Buildings
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About us
Designing Buildings is the construction wiki. It attracts more than 8 million unique users a year. That's more than well-known industry websites such as; Building, Building Design, Construction News, The Architects’ Journal, Construction Enquirer and Property Week.
Designing Buildings is a cross-discipline site, supported by CIOB, BRE, BSRIA, CIAT, IHBC and ECA. It attracts users from every part of the industry.
The breakdown of our registered users is shown below:
Designers | 30% |
Other consultants | 22% |
Students | 13% |
Contractors | 7% |
Others | 28% |
Publish your articles for free
Designing Buildings is open access, offering a unique opportunity for free content marketing. You can create an article, add your content and add your profile at the top, showing your logo, with a link back to your website.
Find out how to write an article.
Or click here to create an article.
Featured articles
You can boost traffic to your articles with pay-for promotions in our features sections, in our newsletter and on our social media channels.
Advertising
You can place adverts across the site and in our newsletter. Adverts can also be placed within specific subject categories, and even within single articles that match the subject areas you want to target.
Sponsorship
You can become a main sponsor of Designing Buildings. Your logo will appear at the top of every page of the site, linked back to your website, and we will create a tailored package to help you create and promote content and reach a new audience.
You can also sponsor a single subject category. You will get your own landing page with content that you can control, and your branding will appear at the top of ever page in the category.
To find out more contract Simon Baxter: [email protected].
Rates and specifications
Featured articles
Featured articles are posted on the home page, on more than 80% of other site pages, and in one newsletter.
Rate: £600 / week
Site-wide adverts
Site-wide adverts appear on the home page, on more than 80% of other site pages and in two newsletters.
Leaderboard | Header button | Sidebar MPU | Sidebar button | In-article |
728 x 90 | 300 x 50 | 300 x 250 | 300 x 50 | 728 x 90 |
£2,100 / month £525 / week |
£1,200 / month £300 / week |
£1,800 / month £450 / week |
£600 / month £150 / week |
£1,800 / month £450 / week |
Single category adverts
Single category adverts appear on every page in one or more subject categories.
Leaderboard | Header button | Sidebar MPU | Sidebar button | In-article |
728 x 90 | 300 x 50 | 300 x 250 | 300 x 50 | 728 x 90 |
£525 / month £130 / week |
£300 / month £75 / week |
£450 / month £110 / week |
£150 / month £40 / week |
£450 / month £110 / week |
Single article adverts
Single-article adverts appear within the body of specific articles.
Size: 728 x 90
Rate: £1 cpc (cost per click).
Find out more
Email Simon Baxter: [email protected].
“We have been advertising on Designing Buildings since 2019 and have achieved consistently high click through rates and quality leads. Designing Buildings work with us to create bespoke campaigns that target users who would benefit from our services and this generates a clear increase in sales.” Liam Curley, C-Link. |
“Designing Buildings has proved to be an effective medium to help the VELUX Commercial marketing team reach their target audience with their marketing communications, and provide a steady stream of prospects for the sales team to follow up.” Ellinor Birgander, Marketing Manager, VELUX Commercial. |
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