December 22 , 2009

OurCanada.ca hosts online pancake cook-off
Reader's Digest contest engages audience

Burnbrae Farms is part of an innovative program prepared by Our Canada for the Great Canadian Pancake Recipe Contest. This program allows Burnbrae to benefit from the exposure generated by the contest in Our Canada magazine, online as well as in other Reader’s Digest media platforms.

As fitting as eggs are to pancakes, Burnbrae Farms saw a natural fit with the highly engaged Our Canada community; with over 280,000 subscribers and a reach of more than 1,000,000 readers, Our Canada has actively been connecting Canadians around user-generated content for the last 5 years.

The contest started on the Our Canada website in September with the support of advertising in Our Canada and More of Our Canada magazines. From hundreds of recipes submitted, the jury selected 10 finalists, the public was then asked to vote for the best pancake recipes. The winning recipes will be published online and in the February issue of the magazine, providing further opportunities of exposure for the sponsor.

"Burnbrae Farms is a family company that has operated in Canada for over 100 years. We are proud of our roots as Canadian farmers, and as a company and a family, we are active in our community. The Great Canadian Pancake Recipe Contest is a unique opportunity for us to engage with the Our Canada community, too. We are proud to sponsor this contest online and in a magazine that I personally subscribe to," said Margaret Hudson, President of Burnbrae Farms.

“We are delighted to offer unique propositions to meet the targeting needs of our clients; we have many multi-brand, multi-platform opportunities for their marketing mix. The highly engaged Our Canada community is certainly a natural fit for some of our clients”, says Larry Thomas, Vice President and Publisher Ad Sales, “and we are always delighted when our suggestions for an online/print mix are enthusiastically received.”