SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE BAR HARBOR STORY
SPONSOR US, REACH THOUSANDS OF LOCAL READERS, AND DO SOMETHING REALLY GOOD FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
The Bar Harbor Story is a local newspaper by locals and for people who love our area. Our newsletter goes into the inbox of thousands, with articles and breaking stories almost every day. Our two sites combined have a reach of 20,000 on social media.
How your sponsorship looks:
The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.
We’re About More Than the News.
We’re About the Community.
Since being founded in July 2022, our reputation for high-quality journalism and community-focused features has spread throughout Hancock County and beyond. Almost every day, we get people asking us to cover their town, their meeting, their event.
Our readership includes magazine editors and national news outlets, local wait staff, government officials on the local, state, and federal level, some cool guys at Bar Harbor public works, business owners, teachers, artists, firefighters, philanthropists, teens, retirees, and many more interesting humans.
By partnering with us as a sponsor, you will be able to speak directly to our audience — readers who care about Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island, and its community, and our mission. You will also be associated with a brand that stands for kindness, trust, and timely quality writing and reporting and photography.
Your campaign with us will:
Increase awareness about your business or nonprofit;
Ensure that local people know that you care about supporting them, their community, and their ability to have the news.
To speak to us about our sponsorship opportunities, please email sfarrar86@gmail.com and he’ll set up a call.
Our amazing readers
We have some pretty cool humans reading the Bar Harbor Story.
Here are things advertisers like to know:
A local emailing list of digital subscribers that’s over 3,000;
A 60-70% open rate for our daily posts;
Over 370 paying subscribers (not counting donations) even though all our stories are free;
A combined social media reach of approximately 20,000;
Our websites were viewed over 1,855,000 times in the past year. This is increasing all the time, for example . . .
Our October 2024 monthly visits were over 230,000, for more than 57,000 views a week.
Bar Harbor Story is read across 44 US states and 28 countries.
Our retention rate is 94% each year.
Most of our readers read the Bar Harbor Story because they trust us to try to get them all the facts and information, to cover meetings in an in-depth manner, and to promote and celebrate the good in our community, not just lean into and sensationalize division.
They also read it because they want to know what’s happening quickly, what other people are doing, and because they want to celebrate the good in our town, our island, and our national park.
And then there’s kindness: We’re a local paper and we aren’t going to shirk away from controversy, but we will always remember that the people who make the local news are just that: people. They aren’t ways to get clicks or up our numbers or something to sensationalize.
To speak to us about our sponsorship opportunities, please email Shaun at sfarrar86@gmail.com.
A FEW RECENT TESTIMONIALS
