Advertise · Illawarra and Southern Highlands
Put your event where the weekend gets planned.
Listing your event is free. When you want more people to see it, we feature it at the top of What's On and run a real Facebook and Instagram campaign for you, with a set amount of your package spent on the ads.
Featured this weekend
Event packages
Prices exclude GST. Each boosted package says exactly how much goes on ads.
Community group? 50% off our part.
Always free
Event listing
$0
Your event in the calendar for its region, with its own page, add to calendar, and a link to tickets.
List it freePlacement only
Featured Event
$39
In the Featured shelf of your region's What's On for the 7 days before, labelled Featured.
Book Featured EventPlacement plus ads
Event Boost
$149
Top of your region's What's On and the homepage for 7 days, a mention in the weekend email, and at least $75 of Facebook and Instagram ads we run for you.
Book Event BoostBigger events
Event Boost Plus
$349
Everything in Event Boost over 14 days, with at least $175 of ads, plus a post on our own Facebook and Instagram.
Book Boost PlusFor local businesses
Monthly, cancel any time. No contracts, no rep.
How a boost works
You book and pay
Pick the package and your dates. Only open slots are offered, so you never share a slot with ten others.
We feature it and run the ads
Your event goes to the top of What's On, and we run the ad campaign to people in your region, pointing to your event.
You get the report
When it ends we send what the ads delivered, straight from Meta's own reporting, and what we spent.
What we promise
- Paid items are always labelled Featured or Sponsored.
- No more than 1 in 8 of anything we show is paid.
- A featured event only appears on the days it is on.
- Our staff Picks cannot be bought.
- The ad spend in each package is a floor, and we show you the receipt.
We guarantee the placement and the ad spend, not the number of people who see or respond. Read the advertising terms.
Questions
We sell what we control: where your event sits, for how long, and how much we spend on ads for it. After the campaign you get Meta's own report of what the ads delivered.
We do, from our own ad account, shown to people in your region. You approve the ad before it goes live.
Yes. Every event in our area can be listed free, and always will be.
Gambling, and political ads without the authorisation the law requires. Alcohol promotions are shown to adults only. The full list is in our advertising terms.
We email you an invoice when you book, and your placement goes live once it is paid. Prices exclude GST.
Community groups and not-for-profits get 50% off our part of any package. The ad spend stays at cost, so it still buys the same ads. Event Boost comes to $112 + GST.
Something bigger in mind?
Festivals, venues and seasons: we'll build a campaign around your budget, from ad spend plus 30% (at least $99 for running it).