Over the years that Blazing Minds has been around there have been many changes and the key changes have been the traffic for the website and its increase in its popularity since starting in 2008. Also with Blazing Minds winning a prestigious National UK Blog Award in April 2015 and several prestigious listings on Top 10 PR sites including being at number 3 in the Top 10 UK Film Blogs from Vuelio from 2015 to 2023, the website has gone from strength to strength.
With Blazing Minds on many social networks and the name becoming so well-known all over the world, it’s no wonder that so many people visit the site and love the work that is produced.
On this page, we will bring you some stats for Blazing Minds as well as some of the companies that we have worked with over the years.
Since starting my blog in 2008 I’ve met many new bloggers, made lots of friends, via other blogs and this one from comments made on posts and I hope to keep going for as long as possible, so please browse the blog and enjoy.
I had the chance to work with the likes of Brian Blessed, Thomas Nicholas, Jimmy Cricket, Jason Donovan and many other great names in the entertainment industry.
Blogging is now a passion that is part of my life, so it’s the best thing I have ever started doing, been able to work with some great brands and people over the years, plus being a big fan of film, theatre and live events has given me the chance to work and play hard on the blog.
Testimonials
Fantastic to work with, great understanding of business and a joy to work with. Karen & Blazing Minds has never complicated anything and never made any mistakes, something rare in media these days. A reputable source recommended Blazing Minds to me and I can honestly say I owe them one.
Blazing Minds is the first UK Blog I contact when wanting to communicate with an active and engaged film audience. The turnaround on creating content is fantastic yet still results in thorough, honest, well informed and passionate articles. You know you are in safe hands with the team at Blazing Minds and it is no surprise to see their awards and nominations
Over the years many news sites have come and gone, but I can always rely on Karen Woodham and the Blazing Minds site for timely, accurate reporting, news, reviews and information on a variety of geeky and music topics. Always interesting, Karen is tireless in keeping the content up to the minute. She's a powerhouse of energy and the site reflects this! Bravo!
An outstanding interviewer, reviewer, blogger and photographer! You know you are in great hands when Karen from Blazing Minds is at a show. Some of our favourite band shots were taken by Karen at the Sci-Fi Weekender events we have performed at. Couldn’t recommend blazingminds.co.uk enough.
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Blazing Minds gets a big HOT DANG from Darth Elvis & The Imperials.
Greig RobertsonDarth Elvis and the Imperials
I've just read my 1st Blog by Karen and you can feel the excitement of the 1st day and how proud the blazing mind team must feel after an amazing weekend of pure cosplay brilliance and fun from the guests, production team and it's followers. Can't wait to read part 2 and look forward to reading more of Karen's work. Thank you Karen and blazing minds.
Tony Crawford
Blazing Minds are one of the finest Blogs on the interwebs. Their coverage of various genre entertainments is second to none with informative articles and they really drill into the DNA of events they attend.
Karen Woodham is an excellent blogger who gives attention to detail to any product or service she reviews. Her blog is has a high volume of traffic and an interactive audience and Karen is one of the bloggers I respect and admire online.
Karen Woodham has always been on top of her game when it comes to movie reviews. Her posts are detailed and insightful. Karen infuses the perfect amount of information with opinion to generate discussions with her readers.
Karen Woodham is an amazing blogger. She is tapped into Social Networking and has a great way of writing that is sure to entertain. Her film reviews are thoughtful and entertaining and her work on Blazing Minds is superior.
Karen Woodham is an awesome writer and easily engages her readers. I often follow the advice of her movie reviews as they are ‘spot on’. Karen has compassion and a willingness to help others, and it shows in all the things she writes and blogs about. I’ve read some of her more compassionate pieces and they show her desire to be a part of inspiring and motivating others with her work
Sally Brown
Karen Woodham is a great blogger. She manages a few very popular blogs and is a great community leader!
Ann Smarty
When I see Karen Woodham has written a new movie review I make sure I take the time to come and investigate. The reviews are not of the critical view or directorial analysis type. I wouldn’t want to read them! instead, they are written by a movie watcher for movie watchers. By the end of the review I can always tell if the film would be a good match for me, Karen has a knack for getting the feel of a movie across in her reviews.
Andy BaileyComment Luv
Karen Woodham channels her passion for films into writing informed entertaining reviews for her website Blazing Minds. Her warm affable style has attracted a loyal readership to her website since 2008. As a long time follower of Blazing Minds, I admire Karen’s passion and ability to inform, inspire and infuse her readers with highly-engaging articles, from blogging and Twitter tips to memes and music reviews. I trust Karen’s opinion and can depend on her to provide an honest review every time.
Karen Woodham from Blazing Minds has always inspired me. I love that she is always kind and thoughtful and she’s also very talented musically. I remember when she would blog about anything and really didn’t have a niche blog so to speak. As time went by she experimented with all sorts of ideas but she always managed to maintain her unique outlook on the blogosphere. She does movie reviews these days but still manages to connect with her audience on a deeper level by sharing personal stories every now and then. She is also a bit of a celebrity these days, but she stays grounded and I think she is an awesome role model.”
Karen is a star blogger. She has managed to build a raving fan bases and is known to have the top entertainment blog in wales. She’s consistently excellent and has been around for a while, so her work ethic is some of the best I have encountered.
Ivin ViljoenIvinViljoen.net
Top blogger and movie reviewer.
Enstine Muki
Karen has always and continues to support the theatre and will happily take time out of her busy schedule to review some of our shows. Nothing is too much trouble. She is a pleasure to work with
You can now advertise on Blazing Minds, there are several options to choose from when it comes to advertising on the website which is the ideal place to be seen.
Option 1 300 x 250 (£250 per month)
This is a very popular slot and is one of the best sizes that is recommended by Google Adsense, you can either go with a static image or video for your advertisement, plus a link to your website etc.
Option 2 300 x 600 (£360 per month)
These side advertisements are ideal for those who need to be seen, ads in this size will have readers certainly wanting to see what is happening over on the site.
Social Network Sharing – Sponsored Tweets
With the power of social media these days, Twitter has become a fantastic way of getting the word out to thousands/millions of people on the internet. Blazing Minds now has over 30K followers and with this comes a weekly reach of around 1.2M (we have had a ReTweet Reach of 23.1M in one week), so getting a tweet from Blazing Minds is a must.
With the reach that Blazing Minds can get, you will only be charged per tweet, which will be timed and scheduled to go out at a key moment for our followers or if you wish it can be tweeted at a time that suits your needs.
Sponsored Posts (£750 – Worked out on our unique visitors per month and DA of 48)
Having a post on Blazing Minds is great for getting the word out to the masses. If we think that your post is suited for our readers then we will go ahead and post about your product/service. The price for a sponsored post is worked out via a rating system that takes the ranking of Blazing Minds and the Domain Authority of the site, plus other factors to work out our rate card.
We set links to NoFollow and/or Sponsored because Google said to do so.
‘Make a reasonable effort to ensure that advertisement links on your pages do not affect search engine rankings. For example, use the robots.txt disallow rule, rel="nofollow", or rel="sponsored" to prevent advertisement links from being followed by a crawler.
All articles are also shared via Social Media including Twitter and Facebook.
Product Reviews (Price Upon Request and is Negotiable)
You may also see that from time to time we do product reviews such as movies before release etc. We get a lot of these through and the pile does get bigger and bigger, for a simple fee we can race your review to the top of the pile, this by no way changes the review of the product and all reviews cannot be swayed by the fee. Please contact us using the form below for details and costs.
You can also find us on Youtube
Paid Competitions (£50 per Day)
With a massive following and reach on the Social Networks that Blazing Minds is on as well as the various competition listing sites, we can gain maximum exposure and reach for the hosted competition, be them for a Blu-ray giveaway to even tech or holidays, our competitions will reach out for maximum effect. Please contact us using the form below for details and the costs to run your competition/giveaway.