FAQs

What is WhenInManila.com? / What awards have WhenInManila.com won? 

WhenInManila.com is the top online magazine in Manila and the Philippines. We are a community of writers, photographers, videographers, artists, and content creators who share our fun experiences through our website and social media.

WhenInManila.com gets millions of impressions per day based on an audit by a globally leading digital marketing firm. This includes the millions of monthly views on our website, along with our social media pages of more than 3 MILLION+ fans on Facebook, over 900,000+ followers on Tiktok, close to 600,000 followers on Instagram, and more than 68,000+ followers on Twitter. (Stats as of July 2022)

We were ranked among the 100 Most Viewed Sites in the Philippines by Amazon’s Alexa, and among the top blogs in the “100 Pinoy Blogs That Matter” list.

Some site awards:

• #1 Emerging Influential Blog
• “Ultimate Food Blogger” by Unilever / Sooo Pinoy organization
• Best Photo Blog and Microblog in the Philippines at the Globe Tatt Awards
• Rotary’s 10 Tourism Awardees
• Bloggy’s Award for Best Lifestyle Blog

You can find more info on our “About” page.

Sponsorships or media partnerships to promote upcoming events? How can I follow up a media partnership request? Other media partnerships info?

We are open to media partnerships to help promote your event! As a media partner, we can publish your press release and poster on our website or social media pages to help promote your event. In exchange, we ask that you kindly acknowledge “WhenInManila.com” as your media partner and provide us with all media partner privileges including having our logo on your promotional posters, acknowledging us during the event, and other media partner benefits that may apply.

Just send your proposal to our Media Partnerships Head, Nicole Villaluz, at partner.wheninmanila@gmail.com. We will review the details and respond with confirmation if approved.

Please take note that we receive hundreds of media partnership proposals regularly. We appreciate your patience in this matter! In case we don’t get back to you, kindly just follow up. If you want your event prioritized or you need your posts published ASAP, we have sponsorship packages available upon request.

Do we have to sign a contract or memorandum of agreement (MOA) for media partnerships?

For most events, we do not sign contracts or MOAs since there are no monetary values, sponsorships, or money being exchanged. Just follow the guidelines mentioned above and email them to us for confirmation. More info on media partnerships is listed on this page.

If you have a bigger corporate event that needs a contract or requires further discussion, please email our Media Partnerships team at partner.wheninmanila@gmail.com.

After reviewing all instructions above and following WhenInManila.com’s guidelines, I still do not see our event featured. How can I follow up?

We will try our best to feature your event within seven (7) working days of you sending the materials. Our team can get busy with all the features and partnerships they take care of daily. Just in case we don’t get back to you, kindly follow up after a few days. You can email our Media Partnerships team at partner.wheninmanila@gmail.com.

We appreciate your patience in this matter! If you need us to rush the posting, we have sponsorship packages available upon request so we can better prioritize your event.

What do I do if I want to promote my restaurant / product / brand / widget on your site?

For feature requests, please email our VP of Operations, Angeline Rodriguez, at angeline.wheninmanila@gmail.com.

Angeline will let you know if we can find an available writer/photographer/videographer to cover your event or feature your product/service/brand. We’ll try our best to feature you, but please take note that we can’t always guarantee this. We receive hundreds of feature requests regularly and hope you understand that we’re not able to accommodate them all. 

If you want a guaranteed posting or need your feature to be prioritized, we have sponsorship packages available upon request for both one-time posts and long-term partnerships.

There are many benefits to long-term partnerships. We can publish monthly articles about your brand on our website, post regular promotions on our social media pages, and better target multiple keywords for SEO. Moreover, having multiple articles and posts about your brand make it more easily searchable on Google, which is a huge advantage to any business. Many of our past clients reported an upswing in brand recognition and sales due to our partnerships with them.

If you’re not able to allocate a budget, no worries! We’d still love to work with you. Just email our VP of Operations, Angeline Rodriguez, at angeline.wheninmanila@gmail.com and let’s discuss how we can possibly work together.

How much does it cost to get featured?

We can work with all types of brands! Whether you’re a small, medium, or large business, we can craft a package that best fits your needs and budget. Just send an email us at wheninmanila@gmail.com.

What if I want lots of features where you use your SEO techniques and banner ads to really get my brand out there and help bring me lots of great online marketing?

We have a little more info about this here

What brands have you worked with before?

We’ve worked with small local mom-and-pop-shops all the way to giant international brands.

For bigger brands, we’ve worked with Smart, Sun, Acer, PLDT,  Megaword, Unilever, P&G, Nike, Starbucks, Yahoo, YouTube, Adidas, BPI, Jollibee, Globe, SM, McDonalds, Meralco, Sony, Acer, Asus, KFC, Coca Cola, Kia, Visa, Mastercard, Metrobank, Gold’s Gym, Green Cross, Marie France, Facial Care Center, Spinner, Star Mobile, Union Bank, Baskin Robbins, TGIFridays Restaurant Group, Lenovo, Johnnie Walker, Sofitel Hotel, Cebu Pacific, and many more.

Do you have a list of your team members / writers ?

You can get to know more about the WhenInManila.com team on our authors page.

What if I want to send you samples of our products for you to review and write about?

Best to email us first, so we can better see what is needed to properly promote your brand.

Please email our VP of Operations, Angeline Rodriguez, at angeline.wheninmanila@gmail.com for potential product features.

Do you post press releases?

We try not to publish too many press releases on our site to keep our content authentic.

Email our VP of Operations, Angeline Rodriguez, at angeline.wheninmanila@gmail.com for potential features so that we can see how we can best work with you for features or partnerships.

Does online marketing work?

ABSOLUTELY! We’ve had many success stories!

Here’s one of our favorite success stories – “The Power of Online Marketing: A Testimonial about Internet Advertising”

Can you please post my personal blog? Can you please share my video? Can you please post this or that for me? Can you please help share this to help this person? Can you post this to raise funds for this sick person?

We try our best to go through each and every submission we get, but unfortunately, due to volume, we are not able to publish every single article, post, or video sent to us. We are always looking for unique, positive, and fun stories to share, so if your submitted content fits the bill then we’ll reach out to you to talk about possibly sharing it on our site.

We can also only share original articles and posts. If you have a personal story, photo, or video you’d like to share, or interesting groups, businesses, people, or ideas you’d like for us to feature, please email our VP of Operations, Angeline Rodriguez, at angeline.wheninmanila@gmail.com.

Finally, for posts on helping people out, as much as we try to assist everyone who might need it, we get hundreds of requests regularly asking for help. While we do our best to share each one, please note that it can be difficult since we need to verify each one and make sure that all details are correct and legitimate.

If you really need to help someone and you can send a full story with all necessary information, along with proof to verify the story, please send all of that over for review.

I wish you would post more “positive” articles / Why did you publish that one article I don’t agree with? Don’t you have anything better to write about?

Actually, 90%-99% of our articles are positive. We write about the great food finds we taste, we share that little hole in the wall we think our readers might love, we share stories about inspiring people, we spread stories about events that uplift us, we post about things that motivate us, we feature events, places, people, food, blogs and things that we feel are great for Manila, the Philippines and the world.

Once in a while, we do have more controversial articles or features about certain “negative” events where we write about it to warn others or to foster dialogue and communication within our readers. There are times that these more controversial articles tend to get a lot of traction online.

Please know that our intentions are always to share knowledge and to inform. We do not intend to spread negativity. It is out of our hands if readers choose to share the controversial story, rather than our cool new restaurant review. So if an article does go viral that you do not feel should be shared, simply don’t, and then head back to our site and find one of the many more articles we have that is more positive, and share that.

A few (around 20) samples of positive articles are in the links on the text for this answer.

Why do you post clickbait? Why do you have misleading headlines?

Thank you so much for this concern. We can tell you that to a certain extent, everything posted online wants your attention. All our articles want to get you intrigued and read the full story on our site. On the other hand, the extreme negative version of “clickbait” is posting something completely untrue or completely different from the article or destination in hopes of “baiting” you to sites, which would then either sell you something or possibly even install some malware on your computer. We can assure you that we never craft articles or titles in a misleading way just to get you to come to our site. Although we do try to find the interesting angle or the “drama” to a story at times, we will never intentionally mislead or misconstrue a story or headline just to get you to click on it.

Why do you blog about places not in Manila? Aren’t you guys called “When In Manila”?

Although many of our articles are centered around and about Manila, most of our readers and people from Manila also like hearing about other places they can travel to, other global news bits, and international trending articles.

We feel it irrational to say we cannot write about our trip to Japan, our visit to Cebu, our discoveries in New Zealand or our adventures in Davao, especially when most people from Manila also travel and would also want to hear about these wonderful stories. Similar to asking the New York Times to only write about New York, or the Manila Bulletin to only write about Manila, we don’t think it would be wise to do that.

We firmly believe in being a global citizen. We believe that Manila is part of a bigger world.

Can you please stop sending me notifications on Facebook? I commented on one of your articles on your Facebook page and now your page won’t stop sending me updates on Facebook; how do I opt out from that?

We do not directly send you anything on Facebook. For that matter, we cannot send anyone any notifications or updates directly on Facebook. We also did not “tag” you on anything nor can we ever do that. We also do not “put” anything on your page nor can we remove anything from your personal page. What you are getting are most likely Facebook functions, updates, or notifications. We assume it may be notifications from thread where you commented on our page. Updates or notifications you are getting are Facebook functions and we have nothing to do with that. There are options you can click on like the “Stop Notifications” button from that specific thread that will stop notifications. It would be best to read through Facebook’s guidelines and help pages as we are not sure what specific notifications you are getting. What we can assure you is that we do not send you any updates of Facebook notifications even if we wanted to as Facebook does not have those options for us.

Where do you announce your contest winners? I don’t see who won your contest?

We usually announce contest winners on the contest post itself. Most of the time this will be on our website on the actual article with the contest guidelines. Sometimes, we run contests solely on social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. In those cases, we announce the winners there on the post itself.

Sometimes, winner announcements are late, but rest assured that all contests have winners and all contests are legit. Moreover, rest assured that we always announce the winners.

Who can I contact if I have more questions?

General inquiries: wheninmanila@gmail.com

COO: Sky Gavin at sky.wheninmanila@gmail.com

Vice President of Operations: Angeline Rodriguez at angeline.wheninmanila@gmail.com

Media Partnerships Head: Nicole Villaluz at partner.wheninmanila@gmail.com

Partnerships / Sales: www.wheninmanila.com/partnerships/