About

OttawaStart is an independent website that mixes community news and events with a directory of great local web sites -- kind of like a big community newspaper.

We offer a free Community News service for local groups to post their news and events. And we're always highlighting cool, useful and informative local web sites on our blog and our Twitter feed.

The original version of this site was launched in September 1998 by owner & editor Glen Gower when he was a student at Carleton University in the Journalism program. Back then the site consisted of a single page with links to a few dozen popular local websites with local news, weather, sports and other essential information. Here's a version of the site from December 1998.

OttawaStart has been evolving for more than a decade to reflect our growing city and the increasing reach of the internet in our daily lives. Thanks to all of our readers and volunteers for all of the feedback, suggestions, help and support!

Capabilities
  • Desktop Display
    • Brand Integrations
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    • Sponsored Posts
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    • Native Ads
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    • High-Impact (Takeovers, Billboards, Overlays, Sliders, Skins)
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    • Rich Media (Expandable & Non-Expandable)
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  • Email
  • Social
  • Mobile Display
    • Mobile Rich Media (Including Interstitials & Expandables)
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    • Tablet Traffic
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    • Native & Custom Mobile Executions
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    • Requires SDK Integration
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  • Desktop Display, Email, Social, Mobile Display
  • CPM
  • Web Publisher
  • Headline:
    Events, Info, More
  • Self / Managed Service:
    Managed Service
  • Industries
    Education, Entertainment, Sports
  • Key Differentiator
    Every month, OttawaStart reaches thousands of Ottawa readers looking for news, events and information about Ottawa. Our focus is on helping local organizations and businesses with a cost-effective way to reach a local audience.
Site Traffic
  • 1587436 Global Rank
  • 55026
    Canada
  • 69.8 K Estimated Visits
Traffic Sources
  • Search
    69.05%
  • Direct
    25.00%
  • Referrals
    3.07%
  • Social
    2.88%
  • Display
    0.00%
  • Mail
    0.00%
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Alexa Traffic Data
Global Rank 1,000,328
74,489
Canada Rank 42,626
10,621
Canada Page Views 90.1%
9.9%
Top Countries
Top Search Keywords
  • Ottawa
Ad Intelligence
  • Native
    0%
  • Standard
    0%
Ads Seen Recently
0
Longest Running Ad
Ottawa Start
Device
Desktop
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other
Ottawa Start advertising reaches 69.8k visitors across desktop and mobile web, in countries such as . Pricing models they offer are CPM on channels such as Display, Email, Social, Mobile Advertising on Ottawa Start will allow you to reach consumers in industries or verticals such as Entertainment, Sports, Education.

They are headquartered at On, Ontario, Canada, and have 1 advertising & marketing contacts listed on Kochava.

Ottawa Start works with Advertising technology companies such as Turn, Evidon, Google Publisher Tag, DoubleClick.Net, Google Ad Partner Services, Google Adsense, Google Adsense for Search, DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science, Yahoo Small Business, PointRoll, The Trade Desk, Open AdStream, Media Innovation Group, RadiumOne, Aggregate Knowledge, AppNexus, Mediaplex, DoubleClick Bid Manager, Openads/OpenX, Atlas, StickyAds TV, SpotXchange, Advertising.com, Adap.TV, Falk Realtime, Walmart, AdBlade Embed, Adblade, Google Adsense Asynchronous, Rubicon Project, Index Exchange, Google AdSense Integrator, Google Direct, Ads.txt, Less than 5 Ads.txt, Less than 5 DIRECT Ads.txt.