Advertise on CapeMarkets

CapeMarkets reaches over 120,000 followers and subscribers across Facebook (75,000), Instagram (29,000) and email (16,000) – an engaged, niche audience of market-goers, shoppers and experience-seekers across Cape Town and the Western Cape. If you’re running a market, fair, festival, pop-up or expo, this is the audience you want to reach.

There are several ways to work with us – from a free directory listing to a full multi-channel campaign.

List Your Market

The CapeMarkets directory is the Western Cape’s most comprehensive market listing resource, and getting your market listed is free.

A free listing puts your market on our directory and calendar, where our audience goes to find out what’s on. If you’d like more, a Featured listing adds priority placement in search results, but the free listing is all most markets need to be found.

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Boost Your Event

For markets and events of all kinds – fairs, festivals, pop-ups and expos – wanting targeted multi-channel promotion, our once-off advertising packages deliver a coordinated campaign across social media, newsletter and website.

Packages range from a single boosted post to a full campaign with dedicated social posts, a CapeMarkets-produced Instagram Reel, and priority newsletter placement. Earlybird discounts apply when booked in advance.

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The Season Pass

Most of our promotion is built around a single date. The Season Pass is built for the rest of the year: steady, dependable promotion for markets running across the season, without booking each push separately.

You choose the dates, we do the rest. Each one gets a dedicated Facebook and Instagram post timed to your market day, a Market Spotlight in the newsletter, and an enhanced profile on our site with a full gallery and live links.

How it works

Four Dates – R4,500 or Eight Dates – R7,800. You pick which months, so it works for any market, however often you run. It’s cheaper per push than booking one at a time, and it keeps your market in front of our audience across the whole season rather than appearing once and going quiet.

December fills up fast over the festive season, so if you’d like a December date in your pass, it’s worth booking early.

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Join a Seasonal Guide

CapeMarkets produces dedicated seasonal guides that reach our full audience at the moments they’re most actively looking for markets. Inclusion in a guide puts your event in front of an already-engaged, high-intent audience at exactly the right time.

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Christmas Market Guide

The Western Cape’s central reference point for Christmas and festive gift markets – our largest annual campaign, running across social media, newsletter and website throughout the festive season.

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Winter Markets Guide

A dedicated guide to the best winter markets, fairs and festivals across Cape Town and the Western Cape – a growing seasonal resource with free and paid placement options.

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MAKERS & TRADERS

Looking for markets to trade at?

Our traders section covers how to find markets that suit you, how to approach organisers, and when applications tend to open through the year. And our Calls for Traders page lists markets currently recruiting, with new calls going out first to our Traders and Makers WhatsApp Community.

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Makers and Traders Directory

We’re also building a dedicated Makers and Traders Directory. If you’d like to hear when it launches, join the trader community and you’ll be the first to know.

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Get in Touch

Not sure which option is right for your event? We’re happy to talk it through. Get in touch and we’ll help you find the best fit.

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