Advertise on Mangawhai Directory

Why advertise here

Mangawhai Directory is the local-first business directory for Mangawhai, Mangawhai Heads, Te Arai, Kaiwaka and surrounds. Visitors land here because they’re already looking for someone to call — a builder, a cafe, a plumber, a place to stay. There’s no scroll of sponsored noise above the listings, so a single ad on the page actually gets seen.

Every business gets a free organic listing. Paid ads simply put your brand in the highest-traffic spots: above the category page that matches your service, or on the homepage where everyone lands first.

Packages

Premium listing — $30+gst per update

A one-off fee, not a monthly subscription. You pay $30+gst each time you ask us to set up or change your premium content — initial setup, swapping the image, refreshing the blurb, or updating opening hours. Once we’ve made the change, the premium content stays live on your listing indefinitely at no further cost.

Free listings show your name, address, and contact buttons. The premium tier unlocks:

A square image or logo displayed alongside your name (right of the text on desktop, stacked on mobile).
A short blurb describing what you do, shown under your name.
Your opening hours, listed by day.
Same listing position as the free version — no reordering, no badges.
Bring your own image or we can crop one from your existing branding.
Image spec: square, ideally 800 × 800 px (renders sharp on retina screens), JPG or PNG under 200 KB.
Blurb: up to 25-30 words — shorter usually reads better.

Want to update something later? Just contact us with the new content — another $30+gst per update.

A banner placed at the top of one category page (e.g. Construction, Cafes & Restaurants, Plumbers). Note: This can be any category you like, it doesn’t have to be the one you are in.

Desktop creative: 500 × 250 px
Mobile creative: 500 × 500 px (recommended) — scales to fit the viewport
Highest-intent placement — people on a category page are actively choosing who to call.
Static image plus a click-through to your website, phone or booking link.
One advertiser per category at a time.

Homepage tile — $400+gst / month

A wide tile placed below the hero on the homepage.

Desktop creative: 1152 × 400 px
Mobile creative: 800 px x 800 px (recommended) — scales to fit the viewport
Brand-builder placement — every visitor to the directory passes through here.
Static image plus a click-through.
Limited slots; rotates evenly with other homepage advertisers.

Creative specs

Format: JPG or PNG (under 200 KB compressed). SVG accepted for logos and simple graphics.
Mobile creative is optional but recommended. If you only supply the desktop version we’ll scale it to fit, but a purpose-built mobile crop reads much better on a phone — most of our traffic is mobile.
Responsive scaling. Listed dimensions are the intrinsic creative size — your ad scales proportionally to the visitor’s viewport. On most desktops the homepage tile renders at roughly its full 1152 × 400, but it may scale down a little on narrower screens. Design for the listed size and the scaling will look clean.
Keep the most important text away from the edges (a 12 px safe area inside each ad).

What’s included (monthly placements)

Applies to the Homepage tile and Category page header — both billed per whole calendar month.

1 month run from the first to the last day of your selected month.
Book any month you like, subject to availability — get in early for peak periods (summer, school holidays). We’ll confirm what’s available when you enquire.
One free swap during the month if you want to refresh creative.
Plain invoice. No contracts. No auto-renewal — we’ll ask before continuing.

Cancellations

Plans change — here’s how refunds work, measured from your go-live date (the first day of the first month you’ve booked):

More than 14 days before go-live — full refund.
14 days or less before go-live — 50% refund.
On or after go-live — no refund.

Premium listing

Because the Premium listing fee covers our work updating your listing, it is non-refundable once we’ve started. If you change your mind before we’ve begun, we’ll cancel the invoice in full.

Full details are in our terms & conditions.

How to book

Contact us with the package you want, the category (for category-page ads), and the dates you’d like to run. We’ll confirm availability, send an invoice, and put you live on the first of the month you have booked.

Mangawhai Directory is owned and operated by Sanderson Howe Limited (NZ company number 8196168). All invoices for advertising and Premium Listing Updates are issued by, and payable to, Sanderson Howe Limited.