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ABOUT THE RAWKUS NETWORK

RAWKUS NETWORK

The Rawkus Network is an online community that connects the top blogs in Hip Hop music, lifestyle, and trends.
Our growing community of blogs will eventually cover all aspects of taste-making urban culture including street fashion, sneakers, celebrities, events, sports, gadgets, trends, and art.

The Rawkus Network homepage is where you can see what's going on across the blog network and community all in one place. You can find information, photos, and videos from your favorite daily blogs or you can search across the network and community by topic.

The blogs and sites represented by the Rawkus Network are award winning and on the cutting edge. They not only monitor the pulse of our culture, but also influence and shape it.


REALTALK NY

RealTalkNY is one of the most popular Hip Hop oriented blogs in the world. The blog provides exclusive video interviews, photos and the latest in breaking entertainment news. RealTalkNY has interviewed today's biggest celebrities including 50 Cent, Swizz Beatz, Young Buck, Sean Kingston, Redman, Mya, Eve and various others. The site has also covered high profile events attended by Jay-Z, Diddy, Fabolous, Young Jeezy, Kanye West and other top musicians.

RealTalkNY has received over 7 million hits in it's first year of existence. The site receives hits from various countries throughout the world and generates over a million page views per months with over 600k visitors in August of 2007. RealTalkNY provides the perfect opportunity for advertisers to promote artists and products to Hip Hop fans around the world.

Recent Awards:

  • Winner: 2007 Black Weblog Awards - Best Music Blog (Popular Vote)
  • Winner: 2007 Black Weblog Awards - Best Hip-Hop Blog (Popular Vote)
  • Winner: 2007 Black Weblog Awards - Blog to Watch (Popular Vote)


  • THE SMOKING SECTION

    The Smoking Section (TSS) provides the hip-hop community with music, information and opinions from the perspective of one fan to another. TSS also conducts artist interviews, called "Smoking Sessions," where they interview various artists & people from within the music industry, but take a novel "Average Joe" approach and ask a wide variety of questions.

    Recent Awards:

  • Winner: 2007 Black Weblog Awards - Best Hip-Hop Blog (Judges' Vote)


  • THE RAP UP

    The Rap Up has been a one-stop joint for extensive hip-hop coverage since 2005. It's frequently updated with bangin' audios, fresh flicks, topical features, and undiluted editorials. The Rap Up not only tells you what's happening in the hip-hop world each day, but why.


    FATLACE MAGAZINE

    The blog from the co-founders of Fat Lace Magazine, Drew Huge, Dan Large and Barrie Bee.


    MY.RAWKUS

    The official online community for all that is Hip-Hop with a user base that is growing at the rate of 40% each month since its launch. Featuring personal member profiles, custom music players, a video collection of over 3200+ videos and 10,000+ photos currated and uploaded from across the internet by its members, lively and relevant forum discussions, groups, in-platform messaging, email notifications, widgets and more.

    Network Statistics (Updated: 9/1/07)
    Pageviews per month: 2.2 million+
    Average time on network: 08:37
    Traffic Sources
    Direct Traffic: 56%
    Search Engines: 23%
    Referring Sites: 20%
    Other: 01%
    Visitors Monthly
    Returning Visitors: 71%
    New Visitors: 29%

    Advertising Specifications
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    160x600 < 60k
    728x90 < 60k
    300x250 < 70k

    No borders. Looping banners must pause 5 seconds before restarting. Must not contain illegal, offensive, or be in bad taste to our visitors.



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