Teesside University Students' Union (TUSU)
Advertising and Sponsorship Rates 2025/26
FRESHERS 2025
TUSU offers unrivalled opportunities to promote products and services to the thousands of students at Teesside University; visit tees-su.org.uk/advertise for details of all of our opportunities and detailed information on the demographics of our student body. We can provide advertising packages to suit any budget and most requirements, with options ranging from exhibition space or distributing promotional material right through to sophisticated digital campaigns.
Freshers can be a particularly fruitful time to advertise with heavily increased footfall in the SU Building and high levels of student engagement with our social media accounts and website tees-su.org.uk. This rate card details the main opportunities available and what to do if you are interested in booking.
PLEASE NOTE: The prices and opportunities that follow will apply to the vast majority of potential clients, but, depending on the specific nature of your business/ service and its proximity to the SU Building, we reserve the right to apply higher charges and different conditions. This is particularly likely to be the case if you run a bar, nightclub, gym, or accommodation provider and is also likely to apply if you are booking on behalf of a national agency.
We also reserve the right to decline advertising and sponsorship opportunities to any individual or organisation if it would be contrary to our policies and general ethos. We will always offer a full written explanation if we decline your advertising request.
EXHIBITION/ PROMO SPACE AT FRESHERS
Go to topTUSU runs one main event (Freshers Monday) for commercial exhibitors to promote their services to students, capture data and even sell products (subject to permission from TUSU). This event regularly attracts 4,000 to 5,000 visits and can include over 30 exhibitors in the venue.
We also hope to offer a limited number of exhibition spaces to commercial partners at other daytime events through the first week of Freshers. However, we are currently prioritising our student groups at them, so if you are interested in attending them, we will add you to our waiting list and advise on spaces available nearer the time.
Premium Stall at Freshers'
Monday on 15th September 2025
£525 + V.A.T
- Very prominent location in the venue (TUSU allocates spaces, clients cannot pick).
- 1 x 6ft table, Wireless connection, 1 x backboard and electricity supplied if required.
- Your organisation have the right to capture student data and sell products.
- Your organisation are listed as one of the "main exhibitors" in social media advertising about the event by TUSU.
Standard Stall at Freshers'
Monday on 15th September 2025
£400 + V.A.T
- Exhibition space in the venue (TUSU allocates spaces, clients cannot pick).
- 1 x 4ft table, Wireless connection, 1 x backboard and electricity supplied if required.
- Your organisation have the right to sell products but may not capture student data.
- Your organisation are listed in social media advertising about the event by TUSU.
Stalls at other daytime events during the first week of Freshers
TBC
We hope to offer some commercial partners space at these events (which each regularly attract over 3,000 visits), but we are currently prioritising bookings from student groups. If you are interested in attending these as well as or instead of Freshers Monday, please let our staff know, and we will register your interest, then come back to you should space become available.
PRINTED MEDIA
Go to topAs well as the direct contact that comes from exhibition space at our fairs, you can also take advantage of a range of physical and digital mediums to promote your services to students. This can be booked as part of a package, also including exhibition space, or separately from/ in place of a space in the SU Building.
Your brand associated with TUSU events planner/ listings
£450 + V.A.T.
- We will include your ad in printed summaries of our major day and evening events.
- Printed copies are distributed in the TUSU Building and to students across campus and in Halls of Residence.
- Large-scale versions are also displayed in high footfall areas of the TUSU Building.
- The planner/ events listing will also be shared across our social media and in monthly email updates sent to all subscribed students (Usually over 40,000).
- A popular and high retention printed publication and digital download with students from a range of backgrounds.
Display of 1 x A3 poster
£20 Per Week + V.A.T.
Display of 1 x A2 poster
£25 Per Week + V.A.T.
Distribution of flyers or promo items by your reps
£20 per 100 + V.A.T.
- We will consider a generous discount on distributions of 500 or more.
Distribution of flyers or promo items by TUSU staff
£30 per 100 + V.A.T.
- We will consider a generous discount on distributions of 500 or more.
The size and position of your ad will be confirmed after expression of interest; we are reworking our events planner/ listings for 2025/26, so past examples will not be applicable.
Digital Media
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Plasma Screen Advertising
From £70 per week + V.A.T.
- Your ad is shown regularly on landscape screens in high footfall areas of the building, with the option to update your message regularly.
- AND ... we are proud to work with Redbus media to offer additional opportunities for advertising on larger portrait screens, ask us about booking with them as well as with us.
Social media Advertising
From £40 per week + V.A.T.
- Contact us to discuss generous discounts for longer-term packages through Semester 2
- We have over 30,000 followers across our various social media accounts, many of whom are prospective or current students. A cheap but often effective way to create viral interest in your service and organisation.
- You'll receive 2 x updates per week (from text and creatives supplied by yourself) throughout your booking on the main TUSU Facebook and Instagram.
Contact us to discuss generous discounts for longer-term packages through Semester 2
Emails and ad in student updates
Go to top The SU can offer limited opportunities for clients to send a stand-alone e-mail to all students on our mail base, and we can also offer you the chance to include an ad in our monthly newsletter. We have a commitment to limit the number of commercial messages our members receive, so we would usually only allow you to send one e-mail a year, but you are welcome to discuss a package to be included in all editions of the newsletter sent out in 2025/26. E-mails go out to all current students, and this can rise to over 22,000 as the academic year progresses. We provide specific details of how many students receive your email afterwards.
Email to all current students
£425 + V.A.T.
- (Very limited availability)
Inclusion of ad in monthly newsletter
From £240 per edition + V.A.T.
- £185+ V.A.T.per edition (if booking all editions).
- TUSU Website tees-su.org.uk
- tees-su.org.uk has space for large scrolling banner ads or fixed tiles linking out to your website. We recommend that your ad is on the home page or other high-traffic sections (we are more than happy to supply detailed analytics).
- These include jobs, events or freshers’ sections, but you are welcome to discuss other sections you may wish to place your ad.
Ads on the TUSU website
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Large or small fixed tile Ad
From £70 per week + V.A.T.
- Your ad will always display on the page you choose and can go back to a link of your choice.
Scrolling banner ad on the home page
From £60 per week + V.A.T.
- Your ad will display for 10 seconds and can link back to a link of your choice. The number of times your ad will display will depend on how many ads are to be shown.
Associate with TUSU Commercial Services
Go to top We have brand new opportunities this year to advertise on items our commercial services, like The Terrace Bar and Restaurant and TUSU Shop, distribute to their customers every day that they are open and trading through the academic year. Selected clients (we would not be able to accept bookings for these from obvious competitors for the same trade but will advise you if the opportunity is not open to you when you enquire.)
COMMERCIAL SERVICES
- You can have your logo and a tagline/ web or social link of your choice included in the TUSU-branded travel mugs we distribute when students purchase hot drinks from our commercial services.
- You can have an ad of your choice (size TBA) included in the printed and digital version of our main food menu, displayed and distributed in The Terrace Bar and Restaurant, which often attracts over 2,000 visitors a day.
- You can have flyers or other printed/ promotional items displayed in the TUSU Shop and The Terrace Bar and Restaurant at a discounted rate to our usual general charges for distribution/ display of flyers and promotional items.
PLEASE NOTE: We would require a 12-month commitment minimum for the opportunities to advertise on travel mugs and food menus, and the booking/ your advertising artwork will need to have been confirmed by the end of July 2025. Prices vary and are negotiable. Contact us to discuss these unique opportunities.
Ad & Sponsorship Packages
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Packages
From as little as £50
We can offer clients with a bigger budget or specific requirements the opportunity to mix, match and enhance their advertising and sponsorship packages. This could include the sponsorship of large ongoing events such as our Monday Night Quiz or big stand-alone occasions such as our end-of-year student awards or Graduation Week. Packages start from as little as £50 and can be tailored to suit your organisation's specific budget and requirements. Please ask for more info on what will be available in 2025/26.
How to find us
Teesside University Students’ Union • Campus Heart • Southfield Road • Middlesbrough • TS1 3BA
