What is the Chathouse?

The Channel 1® Chathouse is a unique online community and one of the top five chat sites on the World Wide Web and the 232nd largest site on the Net (Alexa). Nearly one-fourth of all online time is spent in chat (Foxmedia).

The Chathouse hosts over 100 different chat rooms on fifteen dedicated internet servers. With a capacity for more than 5000 simultaneous users, the Channel 1 Communications® Chathouse& receives over 2.2 million hits each day from tens of thousands of new visitors, devoted registered members, and loyal subscribers. Users may chat in realtime via the web with anyone anywhere on the Internet for free or may choose to subscribe and use our exclusive features such as Message Center, Chatter Search, Telegraph, or Friend Finder.

Demographics:

Over 2 million page impressions
160,000 visitors/day
750,000 Registered users
Primarily youth-market (12-25): 71%
51% female
Top-5 for teenaged girls

Full demographic data

Who uses the Chathouse?

The Chathouse offers many types of chat environments for many different types of chatters. More than fifty different Public Access chat rooms offering a wide range and variety of themes and topics may be used by anyone on the Internet -- Mardi Gras, Joe's Diner, Mars Colony, The Twister, Cloud 9... Several rooms are specifically designated, as Teen Chat, for example -- Montezuma's Castle, The Rave, New Millennium. Specialty chat rooms include Audio and Video features -- The Screening Room, all Chathouse visitors are invited to become Registered Members and enjoy Membership Benefits: fifty Members Only chat rooms with HTML capability, homepage URL hyperlinks, image Handles (chat names), and more. Over 1500 new Registrations are received on a daily basis and the vast majority of these Chatters fill in our optional demographics survey. Our most loyal fans return again and again, become Subscribers, host Chat Parties and Virtual Celebrations.

Why would I want to Advertise in the Chathouse?

Advertising placement in the Chathouse is tailored to fit your exact specifications for target audience, product profile, exposure rate, and budget. Comments from our Chatters are testimonials to the positive experiences enjoyed by visitors to our chat rooms. Our rates are competitive, ad exposure rates and placements may be selected, and your audience is receptive.

Advertising rates on the Chathouse start out at $10 Net CPM (cost per thousand) for 50,000 impressions per month ($500 minimum purchase).

Please click here to read the terms and conditions of advertising with the Chathouse.

The Second Floor and the Next Level.

The ADs on the Second Floor and the Next Level are being sold and served by ADSmart Corporation. ADSmart can pinpoint the right location for your ad on this site using ADSmart's unique methodology, TrueTargeting. TrueTargeting combines demographic and psychographic criteria with behavior-based targeting to determine the best placement for your AD.

Contact chatads@chathouse.com for information on targeting, rates and inventory availability for advertising on the Channel 1 Chathouse®.

The First Floor, East Wing, Wild West Wing, Flip Side and Downstairs.

Please direct any inquiries concerning advertising on the First Floor, East Wing, Wild West Wing and Downstairs to chatads@chathouse.com