Ranked as a Top 100 Music Blog of 1.25 million blog sites by the readers at Technorati, and certified with an award of excellence from the Canadian Web Awards in 2011, RockStar Weekly (RSW) is Canada’s one-stop music website with coverage spanning music, movies, entertainment and fashion.
Started in 2009 as a Canadian specialty rock music website, RSW has grown to join the ranks as one of the Top 1.4% of all websites in the world according to Alexa (July 31, 2011), leading the next generation of popular music, entertainment, fashion and movie coverage across Canada. With more than 3 million visitors and 9 million page views per year, RSW is a solid choice for online messaging.RockStar Weekly offers coverage and advertising opportunities in the following categories:
• Entertainment Headline News
• Concert Reviews Across Canada
• Concert Photography
• CD and Music DVD Reviews
• New and Home Video Movie Reviews
• Fashion News
• Indie Band Profiles
• Music Video of the Week
RockStar Weekly has sponsored several community events around Canada, including charitable fundraisers such as Boobalicious in Toronto and Vancouver, the BC Cancer Foundation’s Underwear Affair in Vancouver and is a proud support of Canadian Guide Dogs For The Blind nationally. RSW was also part of National Underwear Day across North America in 2010, giving away nearly $1,000 in underwear to Canadians.
Additionally, RSW has been a presenter and sponsor of Canadian national tours for Aerosmith and Finger Eleven, as well as presenting local concerts for KISS, ZZ Top, Alexisonfire, Bullet For My Valentine, Meat Loaf and several others. RSW has also been a proud presenter of national tours for indie bands such as One, Omega Crom and Versus The Nothing.
In 2011, RSW started publishing a new digital weekly magazine (free for readers), which can be special ordered from Hewlett Packard’s print-on-demand service MagCloud. The weekly magazines quickly built a regular audience of about 20,000 readers per issue.