Hi Matthew,<div><br></div><div>We&#39;re reserving the international website for international sponsors and partners (which will not be a huge number though). If they would agree to sponsor an international prize as well, we could of course add them as such. </div>

<div><br></div><div>It will be good to realize though, that the vast majority of the traffic will go to the national websites. That is where the banner will lead to. So the visibility on <a href="http://wikilovesmonuments.us">wikilovesmonuments.us</a> will actually be much bigger than on <a href="http://wikilovesmonuments.org">wikilovesmonuments.org</a> - even if that sounds counterintuitive :) As an idea: the European websites together caught some 7.5 million hits in September last year (that is excluding Italy and the UK, and Russia only half a month). You can probably get a ratio on that and guess how much you can expect from the US. </div>

<div><br></div><div>Hope that helps,</div><div><br></div><div>Lodewijk<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/7/27 Matthew Roth <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mroth@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">mroth@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;</span><br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Barbara and Lodewijk,<div>We had a question from a recent WLM-US meeting about prize sponsors. If we reach out to a place like Canon or Nikon in the U.S., and they agree to sponsor, can we list them with logo on the international site? I&#39;m trying to figure out what kind of incentive we can offer the prize sponsors that would give them a reason to provide good prizes, but I wanted to check with you the protocol for that. If a marketing/events person asks, &quot;What kind of visibility will we get in return,&quot; obviously the international site would be the biggest, I would think. I&#39;m not sure how much traffic <a href="http://wikilovesmonuments.us" target="_blank">wikilovesmonuments.us</a> will get. Any advice is helpful.</div>



<div><br></div><div>thank you,</div><div>Matthew<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><br><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style>Matthew Roth</span><br style>



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