ThinkGeoEnergy Media Kit 2011

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MEDIA KIT 2011 Profile Readership Profile Approach & Tools Why advertise?

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This page & front page: Krafla geothermal power plant in the Northeast of Iceland (Picture by Alexander Richter)

Profile ThinkGeoEnergy • Global geothermal energy news • Power and large-scale direct use focus • Industry news, deals, project and international development

ThinkGeoEnergy is a geothermal energy news website created to provide a place to post industry news, e.g. deals, project and international development.

With the limited attention that geothermal energy receives in traditional renewable energy publications and media, the site provides a unique platform for industry news and announcements. The site focuses on the global geothermal power sector, but also looks into large scale direct use projects and applications.

ThinkGeoEnergy also serves as a community network helping to facilitate the exchange of ideas, services and communication between players in the industry globally, and to promote geothermal energy in general.

• Global readership across all sectors of the industry • Industry community and other social media elements offered

ThinkGeoEnergy was founded by Alexander Richter, Director of the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association, who previously was a founding member of the Geothermal Energy Team of Icelandic Íslandsbanki and was responsible for all research and communication issues of the team. He is a regular speaker at various global geothermal energy events and works in a consulting role for a number of clients in the global geothermal energy industry.

The site was initiated in January 2009 and has provided until today in excess of 2,500 news posts, with a global readership from within the geothermal energy industry and beyond.

Drilling Rig Odinn Soilmec HH 220 At Hellisheidi in Iceland (Picture: Courtesy of Iceland Drilling)

Readership Profile The top 20 countries in the right order are: United States, Canada, Australia, Philippines, Iceland, Kenya, UK, Germany, Indonesia, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Israel, France, Chile, Belgium, Turkey, Italy and Switzerland.

ThinkGeoEnergy has a wide readership from today more than 200 countries across the whole industry and beyond.

Key average statistics: • Daily visits: average 600 • Time on site: 2:12 min.

• Average page views: 1.85 • Return visitors: 40% • Average daily number of countries: 167 Samples of regular visitors to the site: Sectors: • Financial & Investment • Organizations • Public offices • Drilling • Engineering • Service & Supply • Utilities • Developers • Oil • Gas & Mining Players • Banking & Finance World: Credit Suisse, Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, CIBC, RBC, Mid-american Energy, Islandsbanki, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, IFC, Asian Development Bank, EBRD, JP Morgan, KfW, Macquarie, Sumitomo Mitsui, ABN Ambro

• Engineering, exploration and technical services: Engineering: Babcock & Wilcox, Mannvit, Hyundai Engineering, SKM, GeothermEx, ISOR, Verkís • Service / technology: Halliburton, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, Turboden, Fuji Power Systems, Pratt & Whitney/ UTC • Developers: Ram Power, Nevada Geothermal Power, Magma Energy, Oski Energy, Ormat Ind. / Techn., Star Energy, Geodynamics, Green Rock Energy, Envent, EDC, Petratherm, Greenearth Energy, KUTh Energy and many others.

• Drilling: ThermaSource, Daldrup & Söhne, Iceland Drilling, Nabors Drilling, Potter Drilling, Hekla Energy, Deutag, EDC • Utility/ Power generation: Constellation, Calpine, Nevada Power Southern California Edison, BC Hydro, Norsk Hydro • Governmental: US DOE, BLM, US Senate, various ministries and agencies in the U.S., South America, Europe, Australia and more.

Protected well head on site at Hellisheidi geothermal power plant, Iceland (Picture: Lydurs@flickr.com)

Approach To o l s News through aggregation, research and directly from industry players • Partnerships with industry players and entities

• Promotion of geothermal energy

• Access free of charge

• Strong social media and community elements

ThinkGeoEnergy is an open news website with free access and will remain freely accessible to readers from all over the world.

We remain an extensive industry network and relationships globally across all sectors of the industry.

The website aggregates news from the industry, news and other sources, but receives increasingly news directly from the industry.

The site primarily provides news services, but additional elements are planned, including an interactive community site, a place for job postings and a bi-weekly e-mail newsletter.

ThinkGeoEnergy maintains partnerships and working relationships with national geothermal energy associations, industry players and related entities and organizations.

Current partnerships:

ThinkGeoEnergy further is constantly working on utilizing promotional and community tools, which are also providing additional value to the readership of the website. Some of the tools utilized:

Strokkur, Geysir’s little brother, Iceland (Picture: Azadam@flickr.com)

W h y a d v e rt i s e ?

Leading news website focused purely on geothermal energy • Reach a unique and focused readership in the geothermal space, globally

• Visibility across all sectors of the geothermal industry and beyond

• Strong reach in the financial community

ThinkGeoEnergy is a uniquely focused geothermal news website.

ThinkGeoEnergy is a uniquely focused geothermal news website with a truly global readership and a particularly strong readership in the major geothermal regions of this world.

The site provides static advertisement banners, which are visible on every page and news item visited on the website.

With the focus on the geothermal power sector and industrial scale direct use, it provides a unique visibility to reach target audiences throughout the value chain of geothermal

development, but also a strong readership among financial institutions interested in the sector.

The site offers the possibility of advertisement on the site, as well as the weekly newsletter, but also featured and non-featured news postings that help communicate corporate messages to this focused readership of THINKGEOENERGY.COM

Entrance to the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant, Iceland (Picture: Ted Drake@flickr.com)

A d v e rt i s i n g Options Website options: Static banner advertisement on ThinkGeoEnergy.com • Visible on each page of the website • 3 sizes available

468 x 60 pixel (Top header banner)

180 x 150 pixel (Side banner)

180 x 75 pixel (Small side banner)

Additional advertisement options avaiable soon: • Weekly newsletter banner ad, various options • Social media advertisement Visibility: • Advertisement is static and visible on every single page of the ThinkGeoEnergy website.

Requirements: • gif or jpg format (static pictures only)

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For further inquiries, contact:

ThinkGeoEnergy ehf.

Hofsvallagata 61 107 Reykjavik Iceland Web: www.ThinkGeoEnergy.com E-mail: alex@thinkgeoenergy.com ThinkGeoEnergy Community Network: thinkgeoenergy.ning.com Media: flickr.com/thinkgeoenergy youtube.com/thinkgeoenergy