We love running competitions and have consistently got excellent response rates

If you do want to run a competition with us please email Ashley. However we do charge a fee of £500 for running the competitions. We agree the wording of the competition with you.

To maximise the impact of the competitions we would advocate using one of our sponsored posts slots to promote it

Sponsored posts are a highly effective way of a brand being able to integrate their message within a website.

These are available in two different slots

1 As a highlighted 5th post on the home page - with a box under the main story on the story page

2 As a rectangular box (MPU) on the home page with a box under the main story on the story page

For our five premium sites (TechDigest, Shiny Shiny, Bridalwave, Shiny Style, TV Scoop) these cost £2000 per month

If you want run something on the smaller sites (Hippy Shopper, iPhonic, HDTVUK etc) then please get in touch

If you just want to run a sponsored post on its own then this will cost £500. It will be clearly marked that it is a sponsored post - here's an example of how this works

We can embed the video in one of two places

As a standard sponsored post - for which we charge £500

Or as a video player in the right hand column sponsored post slot - this cost £2000 per month

If you want to send us a press release then use the following addresses

TechDigest - Gerald Lynch

Shiny Shiny - Anna Leach

Shiny Style - Andrea Petrou

Bridalwave - Andrea Petrou

TV Scoop - Mof Gimmers

For all others sites info@shinymedia.com

We have five key sites and several smaller ones

TechDigest - One of the UK's longest established and most read consumer electronics/gadgets/technology sites. Tech Digest attracts over 400,000 unique tech-obsessed readers each month

Shiny Shiny - A mainstream technology website that looks at both new gadgets and online innovations and apps in a unique way. It has a much higher percentage of female readers than most other technology sites. It has a readership of around 300,000 each month

Shiny Style - Our flagship fashion website, Shiny Style covers high street and celeb fashion in a fresh and innovative way. It has 150,000 readers each month.

Bridalwave - Our most read fashion website Bridalwave is a mine of information about weddings from galleries of the latest dresses through to tips on how to make the big day run smoothly. It has 340,000 readers each month.

TV Scoop - Written by people who are passionate about TV for people who are passionate about TV, TV Scoop is one of the biggest TV focussed websites in the UK. It attracts 250,000 readers each month

We also have the following smaller sites

HDTVUK - A site that focuses on high definition TV from a UK perspective
Hippyshopper - Our green fashion site
Brandish - Men's lifestyle website
iPhonic - Smartphone website

Overall we have around 1.7 million unique readers each month of which over half are from the UK

Here's a quickie guide to Shiny Media for anyone in the PR industry

We cover

1 Which sites Shiny Media runs

2 Who to send press releases to

3 How we run competitions

Over the last couple of months we have been busily working on redesigns for all of our sites. The latest two to adopt the new template are TechDigest and Bridalwave, both of which will go live this week.

We have left them until now as they are our two biggest websites which boast a very large number of stories and the highest number of unique users (TechDigest attacted over 400,000 users in November while Bridalwave had 320,000).

We have attempted to keep the designs as clean and simple as possible. The four key stories with images at the top of the page is something I have wanted to add to the Shiny sites for over a year now. They have worked very well for other sites I have been involved with like Anorak.

In the side bars now there is space for long tail/feature type content, something Shiny site haven't really had before.

This is however very much stage one on our journey. There are two major design tweaks for most of the sites which will go live in early 2009 that we are very excited about.

February 2009 will also see the relaunch of Brandish (as a men's lifestyle website) and iPhonic.